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Mujtahida:
20 minutes in even with our goal, I observed that they were playing better than us. They are truly a well drilled side.

junnyjake:
Ekong is our designated penalty taker, yet he was ignored for an Awaziem who wasn't trusted enough to take a kick.

I don't just know..

joelsteron:
He yanked off our "Aje butter fine boy striker". If Eric Chelle remains I don't think you will see Tolu in that team again.

Samueltemi337:
The Chelle y'all was saying plays Iwobi out of position
Today Iwobi played as an attacking midfielder yet nothing changed
Is time we stop putting all the blame on the coach when things like this happens

TheGoodJoe:
@TheSuperNerd, why was Sanusi starting ahead of Bruno Onyemachi? Pardon my lapses, I have not been following our football for a while.

Mujtahida:
We win, we no see you. We lose, everywhere blur with blue font

TheGoodJoe:
A sweet win but I still see the Eric Chelle is still sorting out his set up. We still have lots of work to do with our transition from midfield to attack, especially when dealing with a compact midfield.

I give him props with what he is doing with Ndidi but he needs to really work hard in building a more fluid midfield players.

I hope with time he switches to a more rich midfield set up.

joelsteron:
He yanked off our "Aje butter fine boy striker",the same way he relegated our captain Ekong to permanent bench. If he remains as Super Eagles coach, I'm sure you will see Tolu in that team except by miracle.

Mujtahida:
Change to 4-3-3 change, change, change. Shey we see that it's often not the way we think that really is the right approach to these things

minfelix:
omo forget oo, with the way we played…ahh i must confess, we no sabi play ball oo…ahan aside the penalty loss….wait wait wait sef, see the way DRC played us like they are Germany/Spain….haaa no no no this man performance should go down as one of super eagles poorest performances ever….like immediately osimhen left we just suddenly became Eswatini……kai kai kai toooooo bad, we are not supposed to be on that top 5 abeg abeg abeg

TheGoodJoe:
We are not yet ready to build a sound tactical playing side. When we are ready, NFF will seat up.

Ragingthunder:
una don start,so Chelle should be experimenting in the playoffs final?

TheGoodJoe:
Honestly, I don't want to meet Ghana now.

Ppogbae:
No world class stadia.
No youth academies.
No national training centre.
No match day wages paid.
No long term planning.
Archaic domestic league.

Mujtahida:
Change to 4-3-3 change, change, change. Shey we see that it's often not the way we think that really is the right approach to these things

Goke7:
Who will transit the ball from the midfield to the attack? Who? I'm asking

TheGoodJoe:
That is because we are still not properly screened and coached.

If DR Congo can hold and move the ball, transition in phases from defense to midfield to attack why can't we just do it?

opes:
At a point, I blamed CAF for clearing Ndidi for the match. Onyedika could have replaced him and might have done better.
I faulted Iwobi largely for the equaliser

minfelix:
omo forget oo, with the way we played…ahh i must confess, we no sabi play ball oo…ahan aside the penalty loss….wait wait wait sef, see the way DRC played us like they are Germany/Spain….haaa no no no this man performance should go down as one of super eagles poorest performances ever….like immediately osimhen left we just suddenly became Eswatini……kai kai kai toooooo bad, we are not supposed to be on that top 5 abeg abeg abeg

TheSuperNerd:
Chelle called up Uche and Onyedika. Did he not? He also played them vs Russia, did he not? He had his chances to blood in the right personnel but stuck with whatever he stuck with.

For example, Ndidi was not great game after game until against Gabon wherr he finally shone. And it was same Ndidi who cost us today as well.

TheSuperNerd:
Iwobi's best role is not even as an AM. At Fulham, he delivers best as a wingfielder or false winger but positionally looks like he plays LW or RW. We have said this over and over and made calls for it so that another talent takes up the CAM role fully.

So your defence for Chelle is not cogent especially as Chukwueze started as the AM today. Not Iwobi.

An out of sorts Iwobi was shifted into the role later on with a midfield dynamics of zero. So Chelle never truly played Iwobi in his best role nor with the best personnel.

Dannyxy:
We need to actually design youth programs to develop ball playing midfielders, like scout them young, profile them, train them and the gifted ones push them into our cadet teams…

Like selective breeding since we don’t naturally produce proper ball playing midfielders, we must be intentional about it.

Enough of the nonsense and mediocrity, if we have just two proper midfielders, we will be dispatching teams and qualifying with ease…

QueenJazz:
Setting aside the fact that the players were godawful themselves, we had two full days to train and work tactics, and somehow we couldn't plan in the event of penalties? Did Chelle seriously think the game was sure to be wrapped in regular time?

You couldn't bring in Ekong in the dying seconds to prepare for the shootout?

I get that he's still somewhat inexperienced with the squad, but really?!

Also, you're monitoring 5000+ players, and somehow you can't identify anyone to solve a midfield problem we've been having for almost decades now?

Like I said, Eric Chelle stays, but my oh my was he thoroughly exposed in this game.

JohnBullMySon:
Valid point though but Ghana wouldn't dominate us as DRC did. That one wouldn't happen.

Openair:
You guys here are really funny ooo... The team has been having lots of lapses all this while (especially without Osimhen) una no talk...now they lost in penalties.... all of a sudden all the problems u guys were padding abi na ignoring has suddenly come to light...
Now na Afcon the team wan win abi...I hope we're given tougher countries in our group...so we can tell if the team has actually improved not the like walkover countries we had in the world cup qualifiers

TheGoodJoe:
A sweet win but I still see the Eric Chelle is still sorting out his set up. We still have lots of work to do with our transition from midfield to attack, especially when dealing with a compact midfield.

I give him props with what he is doing with Ndidi but he needs to really work hard in building a more fluid midfield players.

I hope with time he switches to a more rich midfield set up.

Ragingthunder:
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