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HAS RASHIDI YEKINI EVER MISSED A PENALTY KICK FOR NIGERIA OR HIS CLUB SIDE? NO.

HIS PENALTY KICKS ARE HIT HARD, FIRM AND DECISIVE LEAVING THE GOALKEEPER NO OPTION TO SAVE IT.

HIT IT FIRM, HARD AND DECISIVELY.

DIRECT, ASSERTIVE EXECUTION OVER FINESSE OR PLACEMENT.

GOING FORWARD, NIGERIA MUST ADOPT THIS APPROACH.

PRIORITISE POWER AND CONVICTION OVER DECEPTION.

RIP 9JA GANGLING STRIKER ...

lbrichman2:
This guy needs a big move soon

Lol

The glazing of this mediocre Nwabali on this thread amuses me.

Pray tell,what serious club will buy a goalkeeper who is always in no-man's land when crosses are put in the box?

TheSuperNerd:
From outside the box. Please can the NFF sort out this guy's nationality confusion and get him into my next Afcon Squad abeg!!! Chelle needs bombers like this.

I thought he was called upon once upon a time

Sarsaparilla524:
HAS RASHIDI YEKINI EVER MISSED A PENALTY KICK FOR NIGERIA OR HIS CLUB SIDE? NO.

HIS PENALTY KICKS ARE HIT HARD, FIRM AND DECISIVE LEAVING THE GOALKEEPER NO OPTION TO SAVE IT.

HIT IT FIRM, HARD AND DECISIVELY...

DIRECT, ASSERTIVE EXECUTION OVER FINESSE OR PLACEMENT...

GOING FORWARD, NIGERIA MUST ADOPT THIS APPROACH...

RIP 9JA GANGLING STRIKER ...

What!?

You don't want these our swag-boys eagles to score a panenka so that the clip will go viral!?

Balderdash!

Ojagun:
What!?

You don't want these our swag-boys eagles to score a panenka so that the clip will go viral!?

Balderdash!

hahaha

forgiveness:
Please, don't drag CAF President and CAF. We still get appeal for FIFA ooooo.

CAF did very well in the organization of this tournament. The officiating was superb.

Drag him o, don't drag him oo

It won't go our way.

Would've made a stronger case for ourselves had we won

Blueelf:
Bro, it will be hard for any of them to play for us

They don't rate us at all

Can you blame them, who would wanna rate us with the way our football is being run by those people in glass house

Respect ✊ that’s what am talking about

do4luv14:
Can you blame them, who would wanna rate us with the way our football is being run by those people in glass house

You're right. It's a pity

kingphilip:
You're right about that sha especially at club level with that monstrous record he held at Lille or which club was that again?

Lille and one Israeli club like that

@ thesupernerd, do you know this guy?

minfelix:
if he had scored evem with that non chalant attitude, we would have won this match🤣🤣….bro if SA keeper had caught that Omeruo penalty, we go cook Omeruo for life…have you gone back to watch that Omeruo own again…very childish penalty…he was so lucky Williams went the wrong way…that Omeruo penalty too whack and be like secondary school penalty

Omeruo penalty was not wack. He plays it only after keeper has fallen. Take time and watch. That's how he always plays.

Blueelf:
I didn't know this semid

No be fight na bro. Chill 😁

On a more serious note, I heard about this but wasn't so sure about the news because I doubted it's veracity

But if true, he should stay where he is

Baba, it is true.

I was on Oma Akatugba TikTok live session after the squad release and I asked this question, and Oma confirmed it, and even justified Maduka decision saying based on club and form, Maduka should be #1 and shouldn't be chopping bench for a goalkeeper in the South African league.

Blueelf:
I didn't know this semid

No be fight na bro. Chill 😁

On a more serious note, I heard about this but wasn't so sure about the news because I doubted it's veracity

But if true, he should stay where he is

Not true, he was just returning from ban,since he might not start, he needs to focus on his club and build match fitness, something he might not get siting on the bench

Oh boy @pargelenis
A World Cup throw-in is far better than Afcon semi finalist.

… A Ghanaian proverb 😅
Hahahahahahahahah

I'm

semid4lyfe:
Baba, it is true.

I was on Oma Akatugba TikTok live session after the squad release and I asked this question, and Oma confirmed it, and even justified Maduka decision saying based on club and form, Maduka should be #1 and shouldn't be chopping bench for a goalkeeper in the South African league.

I no too trust that Oma Guy,
The report about Maduka exclusion was based on agreement between the player his club, the coach and NFF,

That was the News then, so what was Oma trying to paint with that his Reply,
I doubt him thought

This generation of Super eagles do not yet have a winning mentality. The collective mentality in the team is still very low. Hence, they will always be almost there but never win. Cause these current generation of players are weak mentally, they do not yet have the capacity to withstand the pressure of the cold nights. And how you know a team is very weak mentally is how they perform in penalty shootouts. Penalty shootouts are the litmus test of a team's mentality

@pargelenis I beg u fit show me where I go get Eagle meat I Dey road they come Lagos abeg help a brother the meat is delicious

Every Afcon looks like we will win but we never win. It's even better we drop out early than to be sailing on this dream only to fail at the critical stage.

This set of Super Eagles players don't have luck.

Goke7:
Respect ✊ that’s what am talking about

I wish he could play for my club I support which is Barça cause we are badly in need of center backs especially a left footer but we might be poorer than NFF at the moment

Sarsaparilla524:
HAS RASHIDI YEKINI EVER MISSED A PENALTY KICK FOR NIGERIA OR HIS CLUB SIDE? NO.

HIS PENALTY KICKS ARE HIT HARD, FIRM AND DECISIVE LEAVING THE GOALKEEPER NO OPTION TO SAVE IT.

HIT IT FIRM, HARD AND DECISIVELY.

DIRECT, ASSERTIVE EXECUTION OVER FINESSE OR PLACEMENT.

GOING FORWARD, NIGERIA MUST ADOPT THIS APPROACH.

PRIORITISE POWER AND CONVICTION OVER DECEPTION.

RIP 9JA GANGLING STRIKER ...

So much power can take the ball over the cross bar lol

Mujtahida:
Every Afcon looks like we will win but we never win. It's even better we drop out early than to be sailing on this dream only to fail at the critical stage.

This set of Super Eagles players don't have luck.

We'll keep on trying till we get the fourth star. It was over a decade before we won in 2013. African football is so tough atm that's it hard to dominate like that Egyptian side of old. NFF just have to run their administrative side with a serious approach

realpoacher:
As a Coach, you always have one job to do.


Find a way to play your game.


In this Match, we did not play our game, infact, we couldn't play our normal free flowing football we were used to, why?

Morocco did not allow us to do that, they had 3 players on us whenever we tried to move the ball to their half, Pass to Osimehn, 3 people on him, pass to Akor, or Lookman or Iwobi, same story, 3 players on them. Towards the end of the match, Iwobi had to drop deep to the defense line to collect the ball and have a little freedom


As a Coach, what should you do? You don't stand for 90 minutes watch your team struggle to play their normal game, NO! ... You look for a way to fix it - think while on your feet and fix it.


Your opponent should not be running riots on you all night and you stand by doing nothing.

Algeria did that nonsense and got punished, Egypt did the same nonsense against Senegal and lost, Nigeria did the same nonsense against Congo and now Against Morocco.

I also see many coaches do this nonsense too but Pep doesn't, Arteta doesn't, Anceloti doesn't


As a Coach, learn try multiple formations, try your players in multiple positions, understand how they fare in uneven grounds so that when push comes to shove, instead of being clueless, you fix it on the field instantaneously.


From the first blast of the whistle, you could see that Morocco had studied your team to the very minute details, they figured that if they close the holes from the midfield down to the final third, your midfielders and attackers will be useless I.E it simply means that once they can cut off supply to midfielders and strikers,... Forget
.. Otilo.

Now as a Coach, what you should have done, seeing that for almost 60 minutes, you had no forward press nor shots on Target,... Then you switch the formation to 4-3-1-2


Remove Akor for Onauchu
Remove Onyedika for Chucks

Take Lookman to the left wing and Chuks to the right wing... Make them stay on the same line with Onyeka which is immediately after the back 4. Their job is to always go take the ball from the defenders and build from the back. Mind you, they are to both join in attack and defense (kind of mass-attack, mass defense just like it is on a 3-5-2 formation).

-------- Onauchu -------- Osimehn

------------------------- Iwobi -----------------


Lookman ---------- Onyeka ----------------- Chucks


Bruno ------- Bassey ---------- Ajayi ----- Osayi


With this setup, the Moroccans will certainly be deceived and run at you


Lookman and chucks are runners of the ball and will widen the field for Iwobi to operate


Onyeka has two oxygen packs glued to his heart and can handle the pressure with chuks and lookman supporting both Bruno and Osayi


The goal is to use both chuks and lookman on the wings and playing deep in our half to spread out the Morocco for Iwobi to play and for Osimehn to Pounce.


But what did Chelle do,... He stood there on the sidelines for 90 minutes watching helplessly like he did against Congo.

He might be a great pre-game tactician but very poor in-game manager..... Something Anceloti is a genius at


Frankly, as a Coach.... Ability to read games and change the tempo to your terms is very very important else you might not go far in becoming great

Lolz. With this your formation, it will be free passage for Morocco through the middle. And hey they would have won by 2:0 before end of 120minute.

Immediately I cited the white jersey, I knew we were gonna lose.

I think at this juncture, it's safe to say that the white jersey of the Super Eagles is jinxed.

Kilishihunter:
We'll keep on trying till we get the fourth star. It was over a decade before we won in 2013. African football is so tough atm that's it hard to dominate like that Egyptian side of old. NFF just have to run their administrative side with a serious approach

Egypt last won it in 2010 and since then e blur for them. The rise of nations like Ivory Coast, Senegal, Morocco and other mid level nations has made Afcon more difficult. And with the influx of foreign born talents for the francophone and North African countries omo Afcon will continue to get harder just like Euro where the bigger soccer nations now finds it difficult to win.

Kilishihunter:
I wish he could play for my club I support which is Barça cause we are badly in need of center backs especially a left footer but we might be poorer than NFF at the moment

Make Una borrow more money 😂

Even if host AFCON we no go win, NFF no get money to bribe CAF and referee.
They may even be happy to exit at the group stage so that left over money will be plenty for them.

Heard of the Gen Z protest in that country?

Dannyxy:
The government literally does nothing to make us happy in this country.

So unlike other serious countries, developing and revamping stadiums, hosting big tournaments will bring smiles and security to those environments.

Can they at least take part of the money that’s being looted and pour into proper football infrastructures? Please?

Coventry City hope to secure Brentford midfielder Frank Onyeka on loan, while Birmingham City are making their own proposal.

Laliga side Valencia also interested

minfelix:
na this particular moniker admonished me to have respect for OG’s of Nairaland o…just imagine the last line here…i just need to beg whosoever blocks or ban people to pls stop doing it…nairaland don dey enter level of wey dis place go turn ajegunle street and harsh insulting war of words….cos what will warrant someone regarding a fellow fan with this kinda remark…wetin d person talk wey warrant this kind insult

Boy listen. Don't ever NEVER quote me here again. Don't.

TheSuperNerd:
I already knew he was trouble when I saw he was VAR Ref for Morocco vs Cameroon. I made mention of it.

Knowing our football rivalry with Ghana who get uncomfortable with our attempt at equaling their four Afcon titles, it was a real oversight.

Strangely enough, Nigeria likes playing big brother on the continent.