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Blueelf:
I have an unpopular opinion that may ruffle feathers but i will say it nonetheless

If we want a thriving midfield, with good ball carriers and excellent passers with a keen mind for the game, we need to only go for players with proper academy background in European countries. The likes of Iwobi, Iroegbunam etc

These your naija boys learnt football via trial and error - playing on the streets and just mastering physicality and dribbling. They lack a proper football education and it shows when they have to play a tactically disciplined side or a top side

Things like:
When to pass
Mastering space and timing
How to go for tackles rightly
How to use the "third eye"
Properly playing with your back to the defense as a DM
How to correctly interpret the coach's instructions
ETC..

These boys don't know these things. It was pure talent and grace that brought them to Europe but now, they are failing. They lack proper football Education

If you think i am lying, how many CMs have we produced from Nigeria in the last 10 years that has gone on to be world renowned since Mikel Obi? And that's because Mikel at least is a product of a football academy which is pepsi football academy

The other ones you can't really trace their roots to proper education. So they lack intelligence and just play "anywhere belle face" footballe

You can blame Chelle all you want but these players can't give what they don't have. Personally, I'll say leave Iwobi and drop everybody else from that midfield entirely from the team. They have nothing to offer. The same goes for Bruno Onyeamechi whose head is big but his mind is little like that of a mentally-challenged kid

The average Nigerian football fan doesn't care about football technicality. All they know is physicality and pace. That's all they care about. Always coming up with the cliche excuse of "This is Africa. Football is played differently in Africa".

Like I keep saying, when it comes to football, technicality will always defeat physicality at least 99% of the time.


Run as fast as you want and foul as many players as you want. If you don't know what to do with the ball before and when you eventually receive it, you're not doing much more than a headless chicken.

EElopa:
Dude, I agree with you on Ndidi, but I completely disagree with you on Iwobi. Alex Iwobi is the least of Nigeria's problems. Wilfred Ndidi, even in his prime, was neither a ball-playing nor a ball-carrying midfielder. He hides from the ball due to his limited ability with the ball at his feet. In his prime he made up these shortcomings with his V12 engine heart, world-class athleticism, and Jelaff legs that allowed him to intercept balls and win aerial duels and one-on-one battles in the midfield. It made him one of the top 10 defensive midfielders in the world back then. That leg and the V12 engine heart are gone, and he is now a complete liability for this team. Eric Chelle needs to develop the balls and let Ndidi simply concentrate on his club career. I don't see what he brings to the table now. His presence limits our ability to dominate the midfield due to his lack of ball-playing skills. When you have Ajayi and Ndidi on a team, it makes it very difficult to play smooth football due to the fact that both of these players simply cannot manipulate the football.

I am also still shocked that nobody on this message board has said anything about the stinker Ademola Lookman has dropped this window. Ademola Lookman was as bad as any player on the field in Uyo and in today's game. I cannot wait for the arrival of Femi Azeez, Yohanna, and the young German kid, Onyeka. Ademola Lookman needs to earn his place in the supereagles. Performances from him like he did this window should have him warming the bench next to Eric Chelle for a while. I have never seen or spoken to any African out here in the states that really see Lookman as an elite player. Most of them simply view him as a good player, and I am beginning to see why. How can I really view you as a world-class player when you are a NO SHOW for Nigeria on games that involved world powers like Losotho, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Benin, Rwanda, Madagascar, and Guinea-Bissau

Finally, If you have a high IQ and you can logically think, it will make absolutely zero sense to you why a goalkeeper who could not find a club even in Tanzania should be benching a goalkeeper who is a starter for a mid-table Serie A team, and Juventus and Inter Milan made an inquiry on him this offseason.

Good post but your last paragraph...Okoye came to camp when?see there are things we just need to be factual of,not always being emotional

If Okoye want eagles number one he should man up,giving excuses when it was cleared for him to be number one.

He excused himself from Afcon,again was doing fashion shows when we have two important matches despite being our number one keeper but you expected Chelle to give him number one just like that over Nwabali and Okonkwo who are in camp already sweating abi, it's not done.

Pls tell Okoye to be serious with eagles job.Yes he is playing in seria A which is plus for us.

Pls can he do that with German national team,telling them he has promotional club photo shoot during international games.

Sincerely Okoye not at fault but Chelle,you don't agree to such arrangements.Dueing Afcon Chelle agreed to Okoye demands and left him out of his squad,your top European club goalkeeper.

He most likely wont dive for that poland last minute goal in the first place.

jihday:
People here told me that Nwabali will save the goal Okoye conceded against Poland, God will judge you people

They other day here I said Nigeria players are mostly playing in weak leagues Una say it doesn't mean that one is not the issue

How many matches has our full squad players played for their club this season
How many of them are starters in their club?
I don't even wanna dig in deep on Nwabali
There's no way He playing in SOUTH AFRICA and he was out of football for while now and he's benching Maduka and Arthur Okwonko who are playing regularly in top leagues

Check our best players in the team this last two games check their minutes in club side
80% of the Nigeria super eagles players are bench warmers in Their clubs

We CAN'T win the afcon with such players
We CAN NEVER

This picture is Nigeria's CAPTAIN matches for club this season just imagine

Do you all think Bassey will be this good if he was sitting on the bench for his club

Did Victor Osimhen travel to Guinea Bissau with the team ?
Chances of qualifying not so high because of the goal difference
Guinea Bissau will be motivated to win their remaining games after what they did to Nigeria on that potato farm

minsfelix2:
See ehhn abeg if Teslim Balogun in surulere has a good and excellent playing turf let them take Tanzania match to Lagos abeg..
If na to borrow all the LED display board in neighboring Ogun state(Remo stadium) and come install, no wahala🤣....na 5k capacity Uyo take pass Teslim Balogun and maybe the beautiful exterior stadium design of Uyo....But as for pitch/turf excellence I really don't like that Uyo's turf...maybe it's cos of the 1960 NFF streaming camera I may be wrong though...this new newly renovated Teslim looks cool abeg and I'm sure the 25k capacity will be filled to the brim

I love the colourful design of this stadium. It will be excellent for hosting secondary school inter-house sports

Franktom247:
What happened to the Nigerian assistant coaches to Chelle?

I still woke up pissed with yesterday's game Guinea Bissau beating Nigeria like Malawi beating Super Falcons

Football is going into comatose in this country

The former or chased Nff President will just be laughing at home

I wanted to ask this same question, because we did not look tactically drilled.

EElopa:
Dude, I agree with you on Ndidi, but I completely disagree with you on Iwobi. Alex Iwobi is the least of Nigeria's problems. Wilfred Ndidi, even in his prime, was neither a ball-playing nor a ball-carrying midfielder. He hides from the ball due to his limited ability with the ball at his feet. In his prime he made up these shortcomings with his V12 engine heart, world-class athleticism, and Jelaff legs that allowed him to intercept balls and win aerial duels and one-on-one battles in the midfield. It made him one of the top 10 defensive midfielders in the world back then. That leg and the V12 engine heart are gone, and he is now a complete liability for this team. Eric Chelle needs to develop the balls and let Ndidi simply concentrate on his club career. I don't see what he brings to the table now. His presence limits our ability to dominate the midfield due to his lack of ball-playing skills. When you have Ajayi and Ndidi on a team, it makes it very difficult to play smooth football due to the fact that both of these players simply cannot manipulate the football.

I am also still shocked that nobody on this message board has said anything about the stinker Ademola Lookman has dropped this window. Ademola Lookman was as bad as any player on the field in Uyo and in today's game. I cannot wait for the arrival of Femi Azeez, Yohanna, and the young German kid, Onyeka. Ademola Lookman needs to earn his place in the supereagles. Performances from him like he did this window should have him warming the bench next to Eric Chelle for a while. I have never seen or spoken to any African out here in the states that really see Lookman as an elite player. Most of them simply view him as a good player, and I am beginning to see why. How can I really view you as a world-class player when you are a NO SHOW for Nigeria on games that involved world powers like Losotho, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Benin, Rwanda, Madagascar, and Guinea-Bissau

Finally, If you have a high IQ and you can logically think, it will make absolutely zero sense to you why a goalkeeper who could not find a club even in Tanzania should be benching a goalkeeper who is a starter for a mid-table Serie A team, and Juventus and Inter Milan made an inquiry on him this offseason.

Iwobi has his faults too
How many times have you seen Iwobi recovering balls from the opponent
It’s a team sport at the end of the day
I believe these European based players didn’t want to get injured that’s why they didn’t put in 1st class performance on that potato farm

With head to head, even if we win our 3 other matches, we’d need to beat Guinea-Bissau by four clear goals to qualify ahead of them. Except they drop points elsewhere. Two matches in and we are already in a precarious position.

UncleHaba22:
They other day here I said Nigeria players are mostly playing in weak leagues Una say it doesn't mean that one is not the issue

How many matches has our full squad players played for their club this season
How many of them are starters in their club?
I don't even wanna dig in deep on Nwabali
There's no way He playing in SOUTH AFRICA and he was out of football for while now and he's benching Maduka and Arthur Okwonko who are playing regularly in top leagues

Check our best players in the team this last two games check their minutes in club side
80% of the Nigeria super eagles players are bench warmers in Their clubs

We CAN'T win the afcon with such players
We CAN NEVER

This picture is Nigeria's CAPTAIN matches for club this season just imagine

Do you all think Bassey will be this good if he was sitting on the bench for his club

On goalkeeper,pls blame Maduka Okoye and Chelle not Stanley Nwabali,if he made to camp early as agreed between him and Chelle he would have been in goalposts,reason why I said Chelle lacks discipline,he play with these boys too much...eagles camp full of ladies journalists with skimping dresses interviewing our boys,using eagles camp for contents.....and to we fans it seems we are overrating our boys cuz it's cleared now something serious is wrong with our team

COOL10:
The average Nigerian football fan doesn't care about football technicality. All they know is physicality and pace. That's all they care about. Always coming up with the cliche excuse of "This is Africa. Football is played differently in Africa".

Like I keep saying, when it comes to football, technicality will always defeat physicality at least 99% of the time.


Run as fast as you want and foul as many players as you want. If you don't know what to do with the ball before and when you eventually receive it, you're not doing much more than a headless chicken.

Some of them are busy criticising me.here

But the truth still remains that technique and tactics beats raw physicality 99%

It's no wonder that Morocco who is the top african team ranked 5th worldwide have european-educated stars who learned the game well early on

Chelle is always obsessed with committing too much attack wise in his preferred diamond setup, even in few instances where he switches to a flat 4-4-2 game plan, we are left with Wilfred Ndidi as the only defensive minded player in midfield and we know ndidi is way beyond his prime years...
I'm worried about his lack of plan B ,he seems hellbent on playing 2 strikers up front, while ignoring midfield solidity.. notice the ease at which Madagascar cut through our central areas..
I hope moving on he learns from this, if not we'll always struggle against good tactical sides

yinkeys:
Iwobi has his faults too
How many times have you seen Iwobi recovering balls from the opponent
It’s a team sport at the end of the day
I believe these European based players didn’t want to get injured that’s why they didn’t put in 1st class performance on that potato farm

When a player have 100 caps for a national team and you can't pinpoint his real moments for the team then that 100 caps need to be questioned...Iwobi and Simon Moses are 100 caps players but what can we really say about them?very recently Iwobi came alive with eagles all this while...I don tire,it was eyesore watching eagles against Guinea Bissau though the pitch was bad but unacceptable match

Kog45:
Good post but your last paragraph...Okoye came to camp when?see there are things we just need to be factual of,not always being emotional and pls tell me how Nwabali cost us yesterday? and from Okoye profile so far any of those goals would beat him hands down.Okoye don chop 10 goals so far this season.

If Okoye want eagles number one he should man up,giving excuses when it was cleared for him to be number one.

He excused himself from Afcon,again was doing fashion shows when we have two important matches and he is our number one keeper but you expected Chelle to give him number one just like that over Nwabali and Okonkwo who are in camp already sweating abi, it's not done.

Pls tell Okoye to be serious with eagles job

Take a seat sir, your eyes are clouded with dislike and sentiments yourself. You look at that third goal with how slow the ball was and you see nothing wrong it.

If na Okoye now, your and your group including mr mod for don feast ontop the guy and tell everyone why Okoye should never be allowed near the post.

Now una don shift to 'Okoye would've done the same thing'

Okoye was held by his club for a promotional shoot, you don blame am already. A club that has him under contract oh. Journalists close to the team had to put a disclaimer cos una don carry the yeye news around.

Joebie:
yen yen yen, same boys are midfielders in their clubs. Guinea-Bissau midfielders learned thier own from where now. usual mentality. oyibo praise worshipers.

Morocco is ranked no 5 worldwide

Most of their players (if not all) were educated in European football academies or in standard Moroccan academies

You can talk about Guinea bissau all you like b7t I don't think Morocco is getting beaten 3:0 on whatever kind of pitch they play on

Your boys are wack. Except for iwobi. Calvin and osimhen, the other have to start earning their place in that team henceforth

benji93:
Unpopular reaction to your unpopular opinion. The players you mentioned are just a tad above average by European standards. Unfortunately, we can't do better. The best of them will choose the other countries. Nigeria is currently merely a dumping ground. Besides, the world is fast becoming a global village in all facets, which means we can bring the fundamental technical training programs home. The NFF should be looking to support the domestic academies in this capacity. If your focus is to bring back foreign-born players, at the very least you will lose to the Europeans because the best in those technical abilities you mention play for them. Besides we were whooped by a team nowhere as talented. Clearly, technical ability is the least of our problems. No excuses. There's no reason to lose this badly.

Bros, Morocco isn't getting whopped by Guinea bissau on that pitch

What characterised Morocco is what I said there - a very good understanding of the fundamentals which one can only get by being educated properly in a proper academy wither home or abroad

Your onyeka, onyedika and other carpenters lack this

I'll take a team of above average European stars over local champions anytime, anyday

JohnBullMySon:
Take a seat sir, your eyes are clouded with dislike and sentiments yourself. You look at that third goal with how slow the ball was and you see nothing wrong it.

If na Okoye now, your and your group including mr mod for don feast ontop the guy and tell everyone why Okoye should never be allowed near the post.

Now una don shift to 'Okoye would've done the same thing'

Okoye was held by his club for a promotional shoot, you don blame am already. A club that has him under contract oh. Journalists close to the team had to put a disclaimer cos una don carry the yeye news around.

Feast on Okoye for conceding those goals?Oga don't bully me here😁 even Argentina and Portugal would never allowed Messi and Ronaldo to do a shitty promotional shoot during international games....am not blaming Okoye but Chelle.

We can blame NFF all we like

B7t please what exactly is Austin Eguaveon's role in that sports setup

As technical adviser. the national teams have performed poorly.

A honorable man would've resigned but Austin isn't I guess

His only role is the rinse repeat cycle of caretaker manager for any team without a coach using outdated tactics and shady players

We have to start holding him accountable too

SymphonyRad:
Players that need to phased out:

Ndidi
Onyeka
Akor
Osayi-Samuel
Ajayi
Simon Moses
Awoniyi

Players that should be on probation:

Lookman
Chukwueze
Iwobi

Players that should be introduced:
Any of the U23 players that impress against Russia
Gift Orban
Tim Iroegbunam
Akinsanmiro
(Feel free to add more)

Ozoh

Erharon - I heard it'll be difficult to get him

Dapo afolayan to give lookman a competition for his shirt

Alebiosu but I worry about his fitness record

Tinneh:
Chelle is always obsessed with committing too much attack wise in his preferred diamond setup, even in few instances where he switches to a flat 4-4-2 game plan, we are left with Wilfred Ndidi as the only defensive minded player in midfield and we know ndidi is way beyond his prime years...
I'm worried about his lack of plan B ,he seems hellbent on playing 2 strikers up front, while ignoring midfield solidity.. notice the ease at which Madagascar cut through our central areas..
I hope moving on he learns from this, if not we'll always struggle against good tactical sides

If not making it to Afcon would made it cleared to us that we're truly down,no wahala,going to next world cup should be our serious agenda...time for Nnadi and all these young players especially the midfielders to make it...Oyenka and Ndidi still starting in that middle na wahala...Ajayi and Simon too should be phased out with ease.. Nwaiwu would have done better on that pitch

Franktom247:
What happened to the Nigerian assistant coaches to Chelle?

I still woke up pissed with yesterday's game Guinea Bissau beating Nigeria like Malawi beating Super Falcons

Football is going into comatose in this country

The former or chased Nff President will just be laughing at home

Those Nigerian assistant coaches are crap

Those positions given to them were purely political and to probably suit aggrieved parties because Those guys are very poor mentally and tactically

Anything Nigerian and local just pisses me off at this point

minsfelix2:
I wanna see that Bewene,Naiwu,Benjamin Frederick pairing with Bassey at the defense...we need young boys that wanna make name abeg...all those Ajayi should be retiring alongside with Ekong, even Osayi...Since after Afcon 2023 Ola Aina has been playing rubbish for super eagles, since after Lookman won the AFPOTY he has been playing rubbish in super eagles, nobody should come and bug me with "Lookman is a tournament player" baba Lookman and Akor thrived at Afcon simply because of Osimhen's presence...go and watch all our Afcon from 2023 to 2025, Osimhen's darting runs and bullying runs draws defense to him leaving space for Akor/Lookman to have a good Afcon campaign...abeg bring in Femi Azeez,Zadok Yohana let's young hungry boys come and show themselves biko.

Just watch as all of them will go back to their clubs now and start scoring mumu goals especially that girl striker with pink lips...

I don't even wanna talk about the Russia friendly.. Iheanacho has been scoring for Bursapors, just put him vs Russia, na so he go dey open mouth like elede

Tolu arokodare

A very useless player

minsfelix2:
I know our boys might not win all the matches..in the remaining 4games I see a 3win and 1 draw or worst still 2wins, 2draws....in same vein GNB will not win all their matches, those guys are not SA, they will goof some where, either away to Madagascar or even home to Tanzania..they will drop point las las drawing Tanzania in their home and drawing or losing to Madagascar away..make we dey watch

Una don open this una rubbish calculator

Guess what, not every team has a poor mentality like the SE

It's also possible the guineas wikln the remainder of all their games too, abi you think that those boys haven't been energised by what happened

EElopa:
Eric Chelle i beg you in jesus name can you please move away from Ndidi and Onyeka. There is nothing of any substantial we can achieve on the global stage with Ndidi and Onyeka playing midfield for Nigeria. Emotions are high today but like i said earlier this could actually be a disguise in the sky. Going forard

Goalkeepers
Maduka Okoye
Author Okoronkwo
Stanley Nwabili
First choice should be a fight between Okoye and Maduka. If a good prospect emerges or become available, drop Nwabali. Staley Nwabali is old and is not really getting any better.

Defenders

Right Backs
Starter - Ola Aina
Back up - He will need to get a backup for Ola Aina.
Candidates Bewene Abdullahi, Christian Akpan and Ryan Alebiosu

Left Backs
Starter - Bruno Onyemachi: I don't really rate him highly, but he is the best we currently have.
Back up - Zaidu Sanusi: If he is on form, I don't really mind him starting.
- I will watch the new left back Issac James to see what he brings to the table. I am completely open for him to become a starter if he impresses.

Center backs
Starters : Benjamin Fedricks and Calvin Bassey
Back ups Emmanuel Fernandez Chibuike Nwaiwu and Victory Akpe

Midfielders
Eric Chelle needs to fix this midfield: Alex Iwobi, Dele Bashiru, Tochukwu Nnadi, Ebenezer Akinsamiro, Alhassan Yusuf, Rafael Onyedika. If we can get Francis Onyeka and Lesley Ugochukwu then I will drop Rafael Onyedika and Yusuf.

Wingers
Ademola Lookman, Samuel Chukwueze, Yohanna Zadok, and Femi Aziz

Strikers
Victor Oshimhen
George Illenikhena
Gift Orban

I agree with you almost 100%

Zaidu is a taboo please. With all due respect, never mention that guys name again among professionals

Ebenezer akinsanmiro isn't as good as you guys tout him to be. I'm not seeing the hype honestly

Al hassan yusuf in 2026?? Haba na giy!!!!!!

Kog45:
Oga with Chelle diamond formation yesterday,Ilenikhena would do nothing and only Osimehn would have tried..... very porous midfield that gave nothing to the attack and opened the defenders to costly mistakes...Ndidi,Oyenka and Iwobi messed things up and tactically Chelle was exposed,nothing stopped Uzor from starting since Chuckwueze wasn't available, removing Awo instead of Akor?Ajayi shouldn't have started second half,Nwaiwu a local boy would have done the needful on that bad pitch,very terrible match from eagles

Bro did you see the cameo appearance Ilenikhena had yesterday...imagine him starting that match, we would have lost but George would have registered 1 or 2goals...Awoniyi,Tolu,Akor are just toothless strikers them no sabi

Blueelf:
Those Nigerian assistant coaches are crap

Those positions given to them were purely political and to probably suit aggrieved parties because Those guys are very poor mentally and tactically

Anything Nigerian and local just pisses me off at this point

I got your point but are they truly assisting,Chelle has his own assistants... it's just a pity,Segun Odegbami said eagles declined started many years ago but now manifesting,not about the players but the system.He said the system determines the success of any national team...Italy failed to make it twice to WC despite having good leagues but administratively Italian FA was poor in the area of player invitations,trying to correct it now...

A lot need to be done and with what am seeing it will take time,some players needed to be phased out and the system needs people who really care about game

Nigerians are playing in weak leagues...GNB wey beat us yesterday dey play for Barca,Madrid,Mancity abi?
This crop of eagles are just too lazy, toothless, cowards, and lacks character abeg.
If everyone can add that aggression we see in defense like Bassey and in attack like Osimhen we won't be losing 3-0 to GNB...if it were CIV or Senegal beating us 3-0 I will agree it's due to them having players playing in top leagues against our boys playing in weak leagues

I was really worried, when I saw the list of players call, with only 4 midfielders. The coach is still relying on onyeka, ndidi,and iwobi midfield trio, because they somehow exceed in Afcon.
It needs to start injecting new players in the midfield.
I will always start frank onyeka instead of ndidi in DM.
Onyeka cover more ground, and tackle very well.
Anyway, let's keep our fingers cross, and hope we somehow get the ticket from this group.

Meliforme:
I love the colourful design of this stadium. It will be excellent for hosting secondary school inter-house sports

Baba leave color abeg...at this point we are particular about the turf/pitch standard, what we need now is for the boys to play on standard and well trimmed lush green grass...
If Teslim have it abeg make dem go their

minsfelix2:
Bro did you see the cameo appearance Ilenikhena had yesterday...imagine him starting that match, we would have lost but George would have registered 1 or 2goals...Awoniyi,Tolu,Akor are just toothless strikers them no sabi

Thank God the young boy didn't started,some would said "Oh, sincerely am not really blaming the players cuz looking at the team tactically yesterday we need someone like Chuckwueze to hold on to ball drawing players to himself and reason why I don't know why Chelle failed to start Uzor.

In the first half Ajayi wasn't and our local boy Nwaiwu who started from sanding ground would have done better in the second half.....Ndidi and Oyenka were just busy doing nothing and Iwobi cannot be doing passes alone..our midfielders were off.

TheSuperNerd:
From the Russia Friendly List....

In Goal, I hope Chelle will be brave here and risk dropping Nwabali. Let us see Atata or James. I dont get what Nwabali's problem is with "diving" all of a sudden.

Okoye was the plan for this AfconQs window obviously with Nwabali to play the friendly. The list reveals that much but then the Club Media Duty of Maduka and the "wait to see Cardi B" again happened... and Chelle switched from Okoye to Nwabali for the qualifiers.


With Bruno's mess at LB vs GNB, Isaac James just made his audition a must watch. He will likely start vs Russia ahead of Kenneth Igboke. Will he fail or will he shine? Time will tell.

At RB, Bright struggled all game vs GNB so it would be nice to see Abdullahi Bewene again. Bewene's debut went very well vs Poland and he was also solid when he replaced Christian Akpan vs Portugal in the 2nd 45. A chance to further reinforce his place as a solid RB option.

At CB, Bassey's best partner remains Benjamin Frederick who is just returning from a troubling knee problem. So in Bassey's absence, it is either Frederick starts here alongside Fernandez OR Fernandez pairs Akpe Victory with Frederick to come in later.

In midfield, may Chelle spare us the Ndidi/Onyedika show and unleash the new guys. Already spoken on this earlier.

We need to see these lads in action.

Wilfried and Ridwan are CDM profiles.

Chibuzo Nwoko is a left footed versatile midfielder who can play DM, CM/Box-to-box.

Stephen Fumen Michael is a CM.

Mubarak is a CAM/Box-to-Box CM. Top workrate too.

Aderemi Adeoye is a local talent playing in the NPFL and bound to form the core of the U23 Eagles midfield due to availability. He is a CDM with setpiece ability.


In attack, bench Akor. I no wan see am. Blend the young lads like Edokpolor (a forward who can play centrally and on the channels) and Umar Abubakar with Simon Moses and let us see.

Abdullahi Umar... I have seen him but I dont exactly rate him bigger than Stanley Iheanacho and other U23 forwards but we will see.

Kelechi Iheanacho? Well, with the nonsense shown by Lookman and Akor lately, it makes you wonder. Lol

In all, this Russia game is a game to properly assess the new guys most especially at LB and in midfield. Really dont care about the result at this point.

Burst my head bro

I don't always agree with you but his breakdown was a masterpiece!!!

I'm highly pained but we move

Also, what formation would you prefer chelle uses. That diamond formation is archaic, you know

minsfelix2:
Baba leave color abeg...at this point we are particular about the turf/pitch standard, what we need now is for the boys to play on standard and well trimmed lush green grass...
If Teslim have it abeg make dem go their

The issue now is our away games?South Africa took us to terrible pitch the same thing Guinea Bissau.