₦airaland Forum

Meliforme:
I commended Eric Chelle for the kind of wingers he invited, but i wasn't swayed by the results.

The goals we conceded were down to positioning.
The CB's kept a highline, and will not recover easily. Eric Chelle should have corrected this.

Alhassan Yusuf is a genuine central midfielder, why was he not featured.

9JAMac10:
I blame me for having irrational confidence and self belief in this new era of super chickens. After all my keep hope alive. Hahaha let me just laugh my anger out

Meliforme:
Stanley Nwabali's ball distribution has improved tremendously.

His goalkeeper reflexes is one of the best in the world.

codemaniacs:
The ones we produce don't play for top teams so they don't get call ups invitation.

Goke7:
Looks like CAF was doing everything for us to qualify

We just lack quality; let's stop all the hype. If Osihmen doesn't come to the party, we are doomed

That former Sierra Leonean player who said Osihmen was the only leader in this team was right after all. No Osihmen, no party!

Meliforme:
I said this regarding Nwabali, but many wants him dropped.

codemaniacs:
SE does not train on how to transit the ball from defense to midfield to attack.

If they trained, then SE won't be having a back 4 or back 6 most of the time they would have a back 2 because the fullbacks and DMs would move to midfield as ball transits but SE just sits and let's the opponents pressed them.

TheGoodJoe:
Nwabali's ball distribution is sound. But he needs to tone down with his risky ball holding decisions under pressure. He needs to scan and distribute the ball faster.

Goke7:
We need more quality in our team, especially in the midfield, all these names we keep brandishing here abeg make we forget am. The day we see quality, it will be too obvious, and you don't need to beg any coach to feature such players; we just don't have the materials

How we miss out on players like Eze is a shame. Quality doesn't hide, it's too visible!

joelsteron:
Superman sorry SuperNerd i enjoy your writeups alot but you see this one abeg leave Iwobi and the fans alone... Regardless of his f*cking position or roles, abah! That guy sees himself as one small boy in that team. Iwobi should be taking charge, carrying the team for head like Gala but no it must be Osimhen.

Win us games, No
Oya mark , No
Oya come collect ball, No
Shoot Noo, take on, Noo
Only to pass... Finish

Samueltemi337:
I just dey laugh


The person way talk say drc nor go score us 😂


The ones way dey hype Chelle 😂


The ones way don already dey dream of winning world cup 😂

Tinneh:
Tolu was poor YES.... but subbing him OFF at that point in the game was a wrong decision, Tolu has a very good penalty record in his career, and could've easily been a better option than Bassey,
Also of what use was the awaziem substitution when you have your designated penalty taker (EKONG) on the bench....
To be honest chelle got his substitutions all wrong today, this was a game screaming for control and he left Onyedika on the bench all through 120, while we were being dominated
I'm so pissed off right now

Tinneh:
Tolu was poor YES.... but subbing him OFF at that point in the game was a wrong decision, Tolu has a very good penalty record in his career, and could've easily been a better option than Bassey,
Also of what use was the awaziem substitution when you have your designated penalty taker (EKONG) on the bench....
To be honest chelle got his substitutions all wrong today, this was a game screaming for control and he left Onyedika on the bench all through 120, while we were being dominated
I'm so pissed off right now

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.

hatakekakashi:
NFF can't take all the blames. We all know they're bunch of incompetent frauds running NFF but today's performance is on these players. How do you get outplayed in that manner? And they call themselves pro players? Some of them can't even do basic things🤦‍♂️

Tinneh:
Tolu was poor YES.... but subbing him OFF at that point in the game was a wrong decision, Tolu has a very good penalty record in his career, and could've easily been a better option than Bassey,
Also of what use was the awaziem substitution when you have your designated penalty taker (EKONG) on the bench....
To be honest chelle got his substitutions all wrong today, this was a game screaming for control and he left Onyedika on the bench all through 120, while we were being dominated
I'm so pissed off right now

Odunayaw:
Yeh griefff

Nwabali even handed us life line.

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[b] DRC played us like they are Germany/Spain[/b]….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

Goke7:
There is no point blaming anybody; we don't have leaders in that team. The only guy who gingers that team is Osihmen, and when he's having an off day, it's finished. Coaches can only work with what they have. Folks like Ekong na still management, even if we went through tonight, what else would we have offered in subsequent matches? At a time during the game, I was asking myself Is this what we will go and play at the Intercontinental Play-offs in Mexico?

Thank God we were not disgraced, and we still managed to bow out honourably via penalty shootout instead of a straight loss. See how DRC was putting in their leg for every ball that led to even two cancelled goals, only Osihmen plays like that for us. The other folks we parade as attackers are a complete joke, as the disparity btw them and our top man is too wide. We don't have enough quality, and there is a limit to which Osihmen as a striker can continue to carry us if we like to change coaches again with the same players, nothing much will change.

TheGoodJoe:

I have said it before why wait for foreigners to work for us. Can't we train and build ours? When they do well bigger clubs will come for them.

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.

TheGoodJoe:
When the midfield set up is wrong the players can't force a good performance.

It is just sad our football is run in secret, if not I would have loved to see Eric Chelle's report on this playoff and see his proposed solution. That will give us a chance to know if we should be optimistic with him.

mank1234:
Stop it. I'm mourning.