Mujtahida:

The overwhelming majority have or are required to have pace. I never said players without pace will not succeed in football. I am talking about the general trend.

Danycrusoe:
Akwa fall my hand losing 2-1 at home to hawks of Gambia, seems the Hawks are a good side, unbeaten in 6 straight matches now. today's win makes it their first away win in 4 matches the other 3 have been score draws. unless a miracle happens in the second leg Akwa maybe just out of the Continental football. even a 0-1 away win in Gambia won't be enough, they will need a scoreline like 2-0 or 2-1 to push the game into extra time.

Plateau United, well they are showing why they are truly the champions of the NPFL, their league win wasn't a fluke 3-0 winners against Eding who are also champions of the Cameroonian league is not a small feat but is their league that strong, is it stronger than the NPFL? Anyways we might need to wait for the 2nd leg to see if they would move into the next round, lest we see a performance like Rangers last season (was it Rangers?) who wn 3-0 at home only go away and lose 4-0 to crash out. let's just wait and see.

Mfm currently holding Real Bamako 1-1 and guess what they scored in tge 15th minute only to concede 2 minutes later game is still on in the first half

Mujtahida:

Goodjoe let me know your opinion on this.

Recently I read that the Dutch team that lost in the 1974 finals to Germany is remembered more today for their beautiful brand of total football than the Germans who defeated them.

And remember also that the Brazilian squad to Spain 82 WC is described universally as the most complete football squad ever(arguably the greatest collection of individual talents ever to grace a tournament pitch-from a website.) and people still remember their swashbuckling, frenzied, free and pacy beautiful football. In fact Zico described their loss to Italy in the quarter finals as the day football died.

So back to the poser. Let me know what you think.

komekn:
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But pace has become the deal breaker the divider of excellence.

TheSuperNerd:
My last reply to you still stands. I am sure of what I said. It doesn't matter if anyone calls my positivity nonsense... any body can talk... afterall even Jesus was called Beelzubub. lol....

And I read Elder Kog45's comments... I easily understood where he stood. I know where he came from so I never saw it as criticising Chief Icon4s' post. So minus the Kog45 mention... who else plss?

Look... I will keep doing what I do and like I said... you cannot accommodate them all no matter how hard you try. This is the way of the human nature. Everyone just wanna abuse that freedom.

And we have elders here... we have Super OPs here... if that does not suggest an unwritten code of respect and authority here I'm this thread then I suppose you just want us to have it free for all with no one being accountable for what he or she says or drops as "Facts"

And you don't see Nacho as Special.. or even Neymar as special? Well that explains it ... that is your Cup of tea. For the Glories of Nigerian Football... I see Nacho as special and it would remain that way. I followed Mikel as a kid right from his 2003 debut in the U-17s... I saw his potentials and I believed in him. Mikel was villified from all sides just like Nacho. But today he stands a legend among men, a true leader and a born genuine article that had greatness written all over him right from the time I spotted him and began following his career rise. Before Mikel, it was KANU and the rest of that first golden era... no it is the turn of Nacho, Iwobi, Ndidi, and more...


I focus on propagating the right thing about our football and shutting down anything that wanna propagate negativity and lies....

I have had a few bold monikers come out of their silence and thank me for being here because they see and understand what I do here... so Sir Mujtahida... walk your path and I will walk mine. If you choose to not take negativity down but always playing the diplomat... then fine.. stick to it. But me... I choose the way of standing in the gap for our young generation of footballers that have the great potentials to be golden. And I am most vocal about it.

So my previous post stands as response alongside this little addition. You all will hace your interpretation but I won't stop Saying it as it is.... lol... I am here to please no one... I am here to preach the Beauty and great potentials of Nigerian Soccer... so it is also expected that I have my sword sharpened to cut out negativity. That I am not afraid to do. Thank you

Joebie:
You will be remembered for playing nonsense. And you would remembered also on a negative note for loosing badly in the final. I’d rather lose in the second round and be remembered for something positive.

soetanoreoluwa:
Who is the this man at the middle? An ex international...

tbaba1234:


No result of any Nigerian team on the continent should shock anyone especially after their perfomances in the last few years.

Icon4s:


Thumbs up for this update Danny.

realpoacher:


At the Bolded, God bless you immensely for that statement

You see, it is said that "evil thrive because good men stood and did nothing"

There is also a saying that, "there is how you repeat a lie overtime, it begins to sound like the truth"

Just as negative words attract failure, destruction,... So also does positive words brings about elevation, promotion and good luck.

Bro, people like us - the pro Iheanacho must always stand up for him anyday anytime against negative vibes, jibes from his haters who are hell bent on killing his career. Iheanacho is our "starboy" and he must be protected at all costs from any negative influence, vilification or victimization.

I will not allow him to be castigated into abyss just because he is experiencing a rough patch... No!..that won't happen, not on my watch

I watched both Isaac Success and Iheanacho at the African U-17 in 2013 and I fell in love with both of them. I love attacking football, watching them play then gave me hope for our future Super Eagles. They were in the molds of two Rashidi Yekini's.

Down the line, Isaac Success is gradually fading out but Iheanacho is still hanging out there... And I hope, and believe that he will come good soon enough. What he is experiencing right now is a rough patch, almost all footballers experienced it too.

Therefore, it is nauseating to read craps about him here whether or not he is playing. Imagine fellas vilifying a player that has proven himself in a big club like Manchester city. Just because Pep Guardiola didn't like his height and sold him off. His height, that was his only undoing.

Pep Guardiola has a negative history with tall players, eto, ibrahimovic (Barcelona), Manzukic (Bayern Munich), and more recently Edin Dzeko and Kelechi Iheanacho (Man city)

Kelechi Iheanacho has proven himself over and over again to be a top performer in the SE, Puel is only doing himself limiting his team by playing negative football. With the type of players he has at his disposal, he has no business thinking defensive. He has in his hands what I call "the three musketeers" diabate, Iheanacho, Gray, three young lady full of runnings, hungry and very skillful. Besides them are Vardy and Mahrez. Those 5 will destroy many teams if you set them up on a mass attack - mass defense, counter attacking team.

Rather, he decides to take the coward way out in parking the bus.

komekn:


Actually I haven't said he is good or bad. I certainly have not hyped him. He has a great advantage there is zero expectation anything he does is surprising he came from nowhere. Nonetheless he is getting a lot of media attention and accolades that's not Mr hyping him.

He fits the needs of Leicester in finding someone to complement Vardy's main attribute pace.

I haven't said he is better or comparable to KC just one thing he clearly hawd over him. Blistering pace
that suits the team strategy of Leicester.

So can you tell me what's emotive sentiment that leads to me hyping him plus ➕ bias. Please tell me beeco?

TheSuperNerd:


Much better from you now... I can see the prayers are working small small...

Oya make we chop knuckle on this....

tbaba1234:
As long as Plateau United don't do a Rangers, they should be through to the next round 3:0 at home

MFM drawing 1:1 away

soetanoreoluwa:
Who is the this man at the middle? An ex international...

TheSuperNerd:
I believe in respect but I also believe respect is earned. When I walked in here on NL, I began a culture and made it a strong habit of addressing guys as Sir without knowing whether I am older or younger than said person. I even addressed ladies as Miss or Ma'am. Till today it is so... And it will never change with me.

When talking respect you must recall that this is the same thread my mom was insulted and one of the so-called elders later exposed himself as one who actually supported what happened. It justified what i said months back when it happened that some monikers here loved hoe my mom was insulted. Goldfish80 just happened to expose himself carelessly... He couldn't keep it inside anymore. I told that to Elder Sir Kog45 and he said I should let it go. But do you think I will ever have respect for such an oldie who reduced himself to a tout and first attacked my personality and intelligence and even said the guy that insulted my mom was right to do so.... Tell me how such a person can earn my respect? Or even the respect of some out of many who saw what happened? Respect is earned... My real life is out there but it gives me fine smiles and beautiful Joy when a few mimonikers can actually bone the publicity here and call out my moniker saying thank you supernerd for what yoy are doing for Nigerian football and standing up for what is right about our soccer and spreading the message of hope and truth on the potentials thus current generation of Super Eagles have.

Before you came here, I have been singing it like a song and then Sir TheGoodJoe caught the fire in a newer dynamic way... Some come here to condemn and criticise and criticise but I come to give both criticism and also show oir strengths... And I will rather focus on the good than the bad.... While we harp and profer solutions to work on our shortcomings, we also shout out the strengths and great potentials of this young Super Eagles generation.

Listen Sir Mujtahida.... You have not been hated or attacked on this thread like me. I am about the most vocal when it comes to defending our young and rising generation of Footballers with such great potentials and being that consistently positive and vocal will come with a price..... There are the negative sayers (naysayers) and pessimists who hide behind the curtains of "Constructive criticism" to repeatedly air their doubts and negative thoughts on our team and certain key players of our team.

When criticism keeps coming in such repeated waves like a broken record with no break to even acknowledge that our team did well in this or that instance.... Or that this player did well in this or that instance... Then such criticism is no longer construcyuvey, but totally malicious and destructive.


Egbon Forgiveness still get attacked.... Yes... But that is because of what he sowed in some manners of arguments in the past.... I believe with time, a few more will come to understand the mystery behind why TheSupernerd indulges and even rates Egbon Forgiveness' stands even when still in opposition.

I know a lot are still silently watching and maybe surprised at how TheSupernerd and Egbon Forgiveness can actually roll despite being on two different sides of the table on certain major issues on our football.


Like I said... I know what I am here for and it gives me great Joy when I see the monikers that come out times and times again to say, "Hey TheSupernerd, thanks for that... O hey supernerd, it is great to have you here..."

You have no idea how that makes me feel... We all have our lives and things we do offline but it is also awesome to come online and to see that despite all the attempts at twistings tales against me or trying to make me the bad guy just for speaking the balanced truth on our players (because I believe so much in being holistic in analysis) that I still get good reviews from random monikers some of whom hardly even talk much on this thread. They just come in and return to ghostmode... I am here for them and for much more and I appreciate all their wonderful and kind feedbacks plus compliments...

We are here for a purpose and that is why I fight to keep that purpose intact.... We have a dawn coming... A dawn that will be possibly and super potentially brighter than any seen before in our football history.... I just wanna open the eyes of as many as possible and do so consistently because the price to pay is people calking you names subtly and attacking your person only to turn around and say noooo supernerd attacked me first... Looolll... Such lame minds. Lol

This is my path on this thread online.... It comes with being all sorts of things to different people after all the sun is not the same to the clay ground as it is to the plants.... But it remains the sun.


I will continue to stand in the gap of our young Nigerian footballers and continue to shoot down absurd and pessimistic comments with respect of course... With no foul language... But certainly with a hammer of facts and truth. There will be time to pass on this baton... But for now, the baton stays with me.... Looolll... So y'all deal with it Thank you.

LieDetector:
I hadn't imagined that the incident yesterday would wear on up to this moment; even becoming a subject of discussion for the day. Let me also make it clear that I'm no Nacho hater. In the same vein, I'm not an attention seeker. I'm only a concerned fan who wants the best for these players.

With a copious number of young Nigerians plying their trades across various levels of English football, Nacho, Iwobi, Ndidi and Moses are the few I follow very closely because I believe they've got what it takes to compete at the highest level. I would be lying if I say I was happy seeing Nacho starting from the bench with a quite unknown Diabate preferred over the mercurial Nigerian. This made me to intuitively rate him higher than Nacho yesterday. To those always looking for facts, it's quite preposterous how you forgot knowlegde could be intuitive. I said yesterday Diabate must have put in a good shift at that position during training for him to have displaced Nacho. It's just common sense. Pray tell, if you were a manager of some sort with two distinct players vying for a particular spot, you would pick the less effective over the more effective.

Nacho is someone I would love to see spearheading our attack in Russia come june. Him being on the bench means he seriously needs to improve in certain deficient areas of his game.

And like I said yesterday, "I will rate those that deserve to be rated and slate those that deserve to be slated". If you're his relative and find my objective criticisms about him quite harsh, sorry cos the truth they say is bitter. If you choose to attack my person, oh well I'm equally lethal.

soetanoreoluwa:
Super eagles camp in Russia

BascoVanVeli:


it was Rivers

maidaboi:
if you did not bring out the post that somebody celebrated okazaki injury here then you are a HATER
lets the house judge this please

BascoVanVeli:
Victor Osimhen looks on his way to another 90 minutes.

Joebie:
You will be remembered for playing nonsense. And you would remembered also on a negative note for loosing badly in the final. I’d rather lose in the second round and be remembered for something positive.

MetalJigsaw:
Ben Iroha

soetanoreoluwa:
Who is the this man at the middle? An ex international...

tbaba1234:


No, Rangers was the one that had a good win at home and capitulated away

realpoacher:


At the Bolded, God bless you immensely for that statement

You see, it is said that "evil thrive because good men stood and did nothing"

There is also a saying that, "there is how you repeat a lie overtime, it begins to sound like the truth"

Just as negative words attract failure, destruction,... So also does positive words brings about elevation, promotion and good luck.

Bro, people like us - the pro Iheanacho must always stand up for him anyday anytime against negative vibes, jibes from his haters who are hell bent on killing his career. Iheanacho is our "starboy" and he must be protected at all costs from any negative influence, vilification or victimization.

I will not allow him to be castigated into abyss just because he is experiencing a rough patch... No!..that won't happen, not on my watch

I watched both Isaac Success and Iheanacho at the African U-17 in 2013 and I fell in love with both of them. I love attacking football, watching them play then gave me hope for our future Super Eagles. They were in the molds of two Rashidi Yekini's.

Down the line, Isaac Success is gradually fading out but Iheanacho is still hanging out there... And I hope, and believe that he will come good soon enough. What he is experiencing right now is a rough patch, almost all footballers experienced it too.

Therefore, it is nauseating to read craps about him here whether or not he is playing. Imagine fellas vilifying a player that has proven himself in a big club like Manchester city. Just because Pep Guardiola didn't like his height and sold him off. His height, that was his only undoing.

Pep Guardiola has a negative history with tall players, Eto, ibrahimovic (Barcelona), Manzukic (Bayern Munich), and more recently Edin Dzeko and Kelechi Iheanacho (Man city)

Kelechi Iheanacho has proven himself over and over again to be a top performer in the SE, Puel is only doing himself limiting his team by playing negative football. With the type of players he has at his disposal, he has no business thinking defensive. He has in his hands what I call "the three musketeers" diabate, Iheanacho, Gray, three young lads full of runnings, hungry and very skillful. Besides them are Vardy and Mahrez. Those 5 will destroy many teams if you set them up on a mass attack - mass defense, counter attacking team.

Rather, he decides to take the coward way out by parking the bus.

SMH

TheGoodJoe:


He resembles one giant that was gentle while wearing the Green white green.

Mujtahida:

Looks like Uche Okechukwu.

Mujtahida:

Where did you get those pics from?