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safarigirl:
Martins getting better for a club does not mean he will be better for us.

Stop equating club performances to National teams first of all. Only then can you understand football.

Aguero that scores on a daily for City, what does his performance for Argentina look like? How many goals does Mikel have in China? And in that period, how many did he get for Nigeria? Musa that has barely kicked a ball for Leicester, did he not get an assist in minutes?

The sooner you realise that club football and performances are not a reflection of national team, the sooner we can have a proper conversation.

Martins has never been prolific for Nigeria.

Taliban:
I think his goals helped us qualify for SA 2010 WC the never prolific might be a bit exaggerated Ma.

safarigirl:
how many goals was it?

Goals that were scored eight years ago, when Forlan was still an Uruguay International?

Okay, that's all for tonight. Kachifuo

EEGA:
Ha ha ha, it's not like Argentina used to dash us 3-0 and above in our previous meetings.

They have been lucky, the last two times we met them, always escaping with just a goal.

In 2010 WC,it was 1-0 and In 2014 WC, it was 3-2.

We should admit that we have a very weak left-side for the 3-5-2 formation.

Did you not say "most of our goals came from the right?"

What if a team decides to pay special attention to our right side,shutting down our attacks and attacking our right just to stop us from attacking?

What then will be the reaction of our weak left-side if they decide to "defend" at the left and wait for the right to initiate both attacks and counter-attacks?

We should work on our left-side starting from the LCB.Balogun is slow and right-footed(I stand to be corrected) and shouldn't have played in that position.

I've already talked about that of Idowu.

If we could get a good left-footed player.We can play him in the LCB and probably draft V.Moses to the LWB.

Doing the above means bossing the both flanks.The opposing team might have no choice but to try the middle where they will meet both Onazi and Ndidi.



With this, even Germany go confirm say Nigeria sabi ball.

We can now say go!!! Super Eagles.

And who says we no fit win world cup with this formation and the right players?

safarigirl:
Martins getting better for a club does not mean he will be better for us.

Stop equating club performances to National teams first of all. Only then can you understand football.

Aguero that scores on a daily for City, what does his performance for Argentina look like? How many goals does Mikel have in China? And in that period, how many did he get for Nigeria? Musa that has barely kicked a ball for Leicester, did he not get an assist in minutes?

The sooner you realise that club football and performances are not a reflection of national team, the sooner we can have a proper conversation.

Martins has never been prolific for Nigeria.

femianski:
Moses was match rusty today

Taliban:
Correct man!!!!!!!You deserve a big calabash of Palmi!!!!!

But on a serious note if anyone will jeopardize team chemistry and team bonding, let them stay away.

Joebie:
That’s Rohr’s call

Abi are we the ones that helped him build the chemistry in the first place? He knows what he is still looking for.

edi287:
As long as Leicester are playing a 4-2-3-1 / 4-4-2 with Mahrez behind Vardy, Nacho is going to have a very difficult time breaking into the first 11. When it was Okazaki playing as a second striker, I wasn't too worried as i felt Nacho could bench him as the season progressed but now Puel has decided to play Mahrez as a 10, tell me how/who is he going to bench?? People are easily writing Vardy off like he's Heskey or something...look at his numbers and tell me any sane would just drop him like that for Nacho?

goldfish80:
I didn't want to get drawn into the "experience debate" but most times, one just have to take a stand.

Arguing for experience is not a bad thing but sometimes one should be suspicious of " experience because it sometimes lives door to narrow-mindedness, conservatism and complacency.


For instance, the more experienced Wayne Rooney got, the worse he became and this could be said about many in the game.
Now, when it comes to Obafemi Martins, it appears he has actually got better with experience. When he was a youngster, he was difficult to play with but an absolute nightmare to play against.
Nowadays, he has modified his game and appeared to become a better team player. His partnership with Clint Dempsey was the best ever partnership witnessed in the MLS.

I saw his goal Last weekend, it was pure gold. A great fussion of everything you want in a striker, captured within 8 seconds. The speed, ball control, dribble, shot from outside the box was vintage.

At this point, I must be honest and say he deserves a look in. Let's not forget Russia used to be his play ground when he turned out for Rubin Kazan.
That guy could be an asset.

goldfish80:
Exclusive: Rohr opens World Cup door to Martins


Obafemi Martins could have a chance to play at another World Cup if he keeps maintains his scoring form, Nigeria coach Gernot Rohr has told KweséESPN.
The 33-year-old, who plays in China for Shanghai Shenhua, has scored 16 goals in 39 appearances, with his last goal coming in Sunday's 3-2 second leg win over SIPG to lead his team to the Chinese FA Cup title.
The Nigerian also scored the only goal of the first leg, which saw Shenhua progress on the away-goal rule.
Martins also boasts a respectable goalscoring record at international level, netting 18 in 41 appearances, but has only played for the Super Eagles four times since 2010, with his last two appearances coming in 2015, despite impressive showings with Seattle Sounders in the MLS and now Shanghai Shenhua.
However, Rohr says he is willing to chat to the Martins to increase his options up-front.
"Yes, the door is open to all our best players, including Martins. He is scoring a lot of goals and we need to get competition for all the positions, especially centre-forward.
"For now, we have Kelechi [Iheanacho] who is playing not all the time. [But ] we played with Kelechi against Argentina and he did well.
Then Anthony [Nwakaeme] also did well against Algeria and [Odion] Ighalo, who is injured now, did very well against Cameroon. But we have also other players, like the young boy [Victor] Osimhen, and we have to look everywhere.
"We have a lot of opportunities for the strikers, and so Martins, if he is scoring goals, will be welcome."

http://kwese.espn.com/football/nigeria/story/3289155/exclusive-rohr-opens-world-cup-door-to-martins?device=featurephone

goldfish80:
Exclusive: Rohr opens World Cup door to Martins


Obafemi Martins could have a chance to play at another World Cup if he keeps maintains his scoring form, Nigeria coach Gernot Rohr has told KweséESPN.
The 33-year-old, who plays in China for Shanghai Shenhua, has scored 16 goals in 39 appearances, with his last goal coming in Sunday's 3-2 second leg win over SIPG to lead his team to the Chinese FA Cup title.
The Nigerian also scored the only goal of the first leg, which saw Shenhua progress on the away-goal rule.
Martins also boasts a respectable goalscoring record at international level, netting 18 in 41 appearances, but has only played for the Super Eagles four times since 2010, with his last two appearances coming in 2015, despite impressive showings with Seattle Sounders in the MLS and now Shanghai Shenhua.
However, Rohr says he is willing to chat to the Martins to increase his options up-front.
"Yes, the door is open to all our best players, including Martins. He is scoring a lot of goals and we need to get competition for all the positions, especially centre-forward.
"For now, we have Kelechi [Iheanacho] who is playing not all the time. [But ] we played with Kelechi against Argentina and he did well.
Then Anthony [Nwakaeme] also did well against Algeria and [Odion] Ighalo, who is injured now, did very well against Cameroon. But we have also other players, like the young boy [Victor] Osimhen, and we have to look everywhere.
"We have a lot of opportunities for the strikers, and so Martins, if he is scoring goals, will be welcome."

http://kwese.espn.com/football/nigeria/story/3289155/exclusive-rohr-opens-world-cup-door-to-martins?device=featurephone

Icon79:
You're asking me to prove a negative here, bro. We simply don't know what we don't know.

I mean, we can only make a fair assessment of both players if Kelechi has played 14 matches this season. Unfortunately, he hasn't. So is Vardy better? No one knows


O pari

BascoVanVeli:
U keep on running with this notion that for it to be racism everyone in the race must be affected but that will not always be the case. Good for Ndidi and Moses but the sudden halt of the development of our other players in most especially England is just too open to see. These are good players that are being given bad raps for no reason. The players u mentioned don't play in the top leagues like, England, Spain and Germany and IMO our players should think really hard before going to any of these leagues. Italy and France have better track records when it comes to grooming African players.

Danielnino00:
Nobody is denying that Obagoal is proven goalscorer...he bang goals everywhere he goes... But you seem to have forgotten that he has been frozen out of the national team since the 2010 world cup... in fact he has made just 4 appearance for the super eagles since 2011..
If his quality was needed so badly in the team why did the likes of Keshi,Siasia and Oliseh ignore him??


Its now that our crops of youngsters have worker hard to secured the world cup ticket that you want Martins to join the train to Russia abi??

Abeg,we made it this far without him and the oldies.. We can go further still without them...

Joebie:
Nacho is not that kind of player yet. No coach is going to build the team around him. He will have to adapt wherever he goes.

Modified
Where did Mahrez play yesterday?

Taliban:
Gbam!!!! Besides the match fixing post , I honestly enjoy reading your posts man!!!!!

lexyman:
Raheem Sterling is now a match winner . 2matches consecutively . Gurdiola has turned this guy into a beast

komekn:
You earn the right to play you by putting in top performances.

Unfortunately, KC has not earned the right to play because he has not performed that's why he is warming the bench and playing with the U23s. The EPL, is a very impatient league you get 2 maybe 3 games to perform if you don't, someone who is performing will take your position.

Two different managers have found him wanting that's the hard cold truth.

What we do not want to face up to is that our golden boy may not be so golden after all. No doubt KC is a very good player that was made to look excellent at City surrounded by top quality players that supported him and played to his limited strengths.

Now those limitations are being exposed and some are crying wolf.

komekn:
You earn the right to play you by putting in top performances.

Unfortunately, KC has not earned the right to play because he has not performed that's why he is warming the bench and playing with the U23s. The EPL, is a very impatient league you get 2 maybe 3 games to perform if you don't, someone who is performing will take your position.

Two different managers have found him wanting that's the hard cold truth.

What we do not want to face up to is that our golden boy may not be so golden after all. No doubt KC is a very good player that was made to look excellent at City surrounded by top quality players that supported him and played to his limited strengths.

Now those limitations are being exposed and some are crying wolf.

TheGoodJoe:
Add Sterling's goal against Feyenoord in the Champions League which was another late winner. That makes it three consecutive late winners.

He earlier scored a late equalizer against Everton in our only draw this season.

Edopesin:
Were you expecting him to score? dude played his first game in weeks

hardwerk:
i feel like slapping all of you shouting Ihenacho like he is a messique player ...the guy no good walahi and for that reason him seat belt for leicester bench will be casted in iron ....useless overhyped player with mouth like gutter looking like a garden hoe