₦airaland Forum

Ragingthunder:
hope they can at least restrict sundowns to score below 5 in South Africa............. chai

Goke7:
He listened to the so called proponents of tiki taka whereas even right now a whole Oliseh is advocating for just scoring one or two goals during the playoffs and lock shop! Hope you can see how humans are? Dem go push you enter inside well if you no borrow sense

lloydtruth:
Falconets 1:4 Canada 17
TribaIism and nep0tism don finish this country football kpatakpata.

Cocony:
1)Uche Agbo left Enyimba for Udinese in Italy before being loaned out to Granada B
2) Godfrey Oboabona left Sunshine Stars for Caykur Rizespor in Turkey.
3) Abduljelil Ajagun left Dolphins for Panathinaikos in Greece
4) Reuben Gabriel left Kano Pillars for Kilmarnock in Scotland and all happened in 2013 & 2014 period(your 12years ago limit)

lloydtruth:
Falconets 1:4 Canada 17
TribaIism and nep0tism don finish this country football kpatakpata.

TheSuperNerd:
Morocco leads 1-0 vs Argentina in the FIFA U20 WC Final 2025.

Main Striker, Zabiri strikes!!

14mins played so far

Argentina go sweat now! Lol

Go My Maroc Boys! Frustrate them

lloydtruth:
Falconets 1:4 Canada 17
TribaIism and nep0tism don finish this country football kpatakpata.

TheSuperNerd:
Morocco 2-0 Argentina!!! Zabiri again!!! 6 goals for the Maroc Top Striker. This team's counter attack is lethal. Dem no dey miss chance to punish u. Lol

lloydtruth:
Falconets 1:4 Canada 17
TribaIism and nep0tism don finish this country football kpatakpata.

TheSuperNerd:
Morocco's #7 Maama is such a dangerous counter attack machine. A great attacking outlet that knows how to eat space and take advantage. Morrocco have a fine generation to build on with these lads.

Yassine Gessime, Maama, Byar, Baouf, and Zabiri.

TheSuperNerd:
I will drop 4 names. Coach Aliyu should ensure they dont get so much time on the ball especially in critical game phases.

#7 Carrizo (RW), #4 Gorosito (RWB/RB), #3 Soler (LB, LWB and their captain), & #5 Milton Delgado (CDM).

These 4 guys are more dangerous than their top scorer, #9 Sarco. Everything runs through them.

Coach Aliyu must limit their influence and cut out their passing channels.

Maigana should keep Soler engaged when off the ball with Ochoche in support. He loves to overlap and come inside.

For Carrizo and Gorosito... Okoro will need big help from Haruna Aliyu or Ahmed Akinyele (if Ahmed's head is back in the game) - The LCB. Daniel Daga as the team's defence screen will also be needed to truncate the Argentine influence down that right.

Daga has to be on Carrizo most especially. He is their major creative outlet and the right channel or right half space is his habitation. Can also venture centrally.

Gorosito should be eagle watched by Okoro with help from the LCB (Ahmed/Haruna/Alatan).

Note: Whichever of these two (Gorosito or Carrizo) gets on the ball down the right, watch the other one not on the ball, making the run and block them both. Ensure they dont see progressive passing or running channels so they are forced to recycle back or lose possession when we press.

Then midfielder, Delgado should not be afforded too much time in the middle, on the ball to think or pick out progressive passing lanes. He is their creative passer from deep.

Getting in the face of these Argentines and pressing them cloesly will frustrate their plays. Be compact and explode on the counter when we get the ball.



On our attack, among other things, Coach Aliyu should keep employing the crossing tactics that finds Nasiru Salihu in space in the box. Ochoche on the right and Okoro via this left (this time coz of Sani's absence) should spam crosses when we get forward down the channels and have enough numbers overloading the Argentine box. The Argentines cant handle chaos in their box. Saw it against Cuba and Australia.
But the crossers should also employ Cutbacks for late runners like Ayuma or Daga from deep who can hit those belters. I have noticed we dont employ cutbacks.
Alternate these two crossing tactics and we could have more than a chance via the channels.


Sani Suleiman will be a huge miss and I dont trust Orseer Achichi to deliver enough threat on the LW. I see him starting vs Argentina on the left and I hope he brings his A game but I would risk playing Charles Adah Agada there on the left as a way of providing an outlet like Sani does and also acting in strong physical threat support of Kparobo Arierhi.
With Charles starting, I expect Okoro to bomb forward and provide those cutbacks like he did at the U20 Afcon and to hit dangerous crosses.
Charles knows how to track back and defend too so that is part of my decision to risk him in Sani's absence.

If Achichi starts, he must be tasked with finding Kparobo or Salihu whenever the slightest critical moment arrives, with crosses, passes, layoffs etc. And must defend like hell to not overburden Okoro.

I dont know much about Shittu Ele in attack. So cant speak of what he can bring.

Tahir Maigana on the right could be our match winner if he can hit target with one or two of his trademark Robben-esque feint-and-run dribbles while cutting inside. We will need a huge A-game from this talented kid.

Finally on our LCB issue, Haruna Aliyu will need to be more alert defensively and tidier with his passing. Ahmed Akinyele should be playing but being dropped for the Colombia game says a lot.
In any case, Alatan Azuka who came in for Okoro for the last 10mins+ vs Colombia can also capably play LCB but shaa... I have to admit Haruna have recorded more clearances per 90 than all our defenders since he stepped into the 2nd game vs Saudi Arabia.

So much to say Kog45 but I want to believe Coach Aliyu will employ same general approach as Ladan Bosso did 2 yrs ago against the technical argentines. But he must not let those 4 lads I name dropped out of his tactical sights. Their influence must be reduced to minimal in this game.

How we stop/neutralise the effects of those 4 lads is just as important as how we attack and stun the Argentines.

You welcome.

TheSuperNerd:
Morocco 2-0 Argentina!!! Zabiri again!!! 6 goals for the Maroc Top Striker. This team's counter attack is lethal. Dem no dey miss chance to punish u. Lol

Modified: Be like say Zabiri get 5 goals. Na wa. Dem don chop my guy goals tire no thanks to Own goals.

Spainever:
The coach appears clueless

BascoVanVeli:
Benjamin Fredrick vs Benin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTeEnIxJ32Q

TheSuperNerd:
This is the first time Morocco will emerge winners/champions of any FIFA Organized World Tournament at any level, men or women.

Congrats for a first, Morocco.

Morocco joins Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroun as African nations who have won FIFA Organized World tournaments at any level.

U23 - Nigeria (1996), Cameroun (2000)

U20 - Ghana (2009), 🆕️Morocco (2025)

U17 - Nigeria (1985, 1993, 2007, 2013, 2015), Ghana (1991, 1995)

Senior level - None for now.

Morocco is also the only North African football nation to achieve this.

lovewins:
This is proof again you've missed the point and quite frankly grasping at straws. First, of the names you listed, only Godfrey Oboabona meets the mark. Uche never kicked a ball for Udinese, and Greece and Scotland aren't top 10 leagues in Europe, but that's even besides the point. The overarching point is that the talent pool in the NPFL had so largely depleted there was very little movement of players from the league to top leagues in Europe compared to what was apparent 2 decades plus ago. Citing exceptions (liie you attempted to do without success) wouldn't change this fact even if you could name 4 names.

Why limit the timeline to 12 years?

1. Because I was comparing 2 different periods of the NPFL. I thought that was obvious.

2. More importantly, this covers the period where making the group stage of the champions League became almost impossible. In 12 years we made the group stage just twice.

It makes sense to limit the timeline to this period since the conversation was about drawing parallels between our shoddy performance on the continent and how the talent pool In the NPFL contributes to that.

TheGoodJoe:
Oliseh has always talked like this. Despite me thinking he is a brilliant tactician, I think this plays a part in his draw back as a coach.

A team should always be built towards achieving greatness. If not, we are not ready for the World Cup.

That kind of thinking is short term.

lloydtruth:
Falconets 1:4 Canada 17
TribaIism and nep0tism don finish this country football kpatakpata.