England baptising Panama with goals like John the Baptist.

Next time Panama hear England again.

safarigirl:
in your mind now, you and that ode are intelligent.

I hope you are a Professor yourself with the way you come here to feel important.

This is humour for me and stress relief. Nothing beyond that.

If I really want to make a point about players and or coach there are better channels to do that.

OMANBALA1:


Iheanacho was scoring , Simmy is also in form. Enough of this nonsense with Ighalo and his ball holding abilities. I was one of his ardent supporters here but its obvious he is out of ideas. After getting many chances to prove himself Ighalo has failed and continue to fail,time to take a bow

I don’t agree with you sorry

asha80:
someone said fifa banned drums in the stadium but just now after lingaard scored they showed an english guy rejoicing by beating a drum on tv right now

Our own drums are too big, you can literally hide two adults in it.

Panama shouldn't be at the World Cup. See goal massacre.

Joebie:
Argentina does not present a threat in the midfield.

To make that statement I wonder if you are in a dream.

Argentina no get midfield.

Is it just me or VAR decisions seem to favour European teams more? Officiating generally has favoured European teams.

isan:
1994 squad will still be regarded as the best

Ogbeni,forget all dis 94 set stuff

If dis present squad qualifies and go beyond 2nd round

Maybe to quarter or semifinals... Dey would b regarded as d best

LieDetector:
My line up to take us to the next round

Uzoho

Balogun Ekong Omeruo

Moses Mikel Etebo Ndidi Ebuehi

Iwobi Musa

Ebuehi will commit alot of fouls and even PK playing as a LWB. If we are wise, we bench him or use him as RWB.

He cant use a makeshift right legged player as Left back against a team like Argentina looking all out for goals.

I repeat we will chop goals if Ehuehi is used as LWB.

Shukusheka:
Our own drums are too big, you can literally hide two adults in it.

This cracked me up.

olapluto:
Is it just me or VAR decisions seem to favour European teams more? Officiating generally has favoured European teams.

No be only you. I don talk am since. The Video refs are biased with their decisions. This won't be the first. Prior to the first penalty, Lingard was in an offside position. He even used style dress the ball before he went down under that challenge. But na the Pk interest them.

Mtcheew

komekn:


To make that statement I wonder if you are in a dream.

Argentina no get midfield.

Argentina no get midfield. Unless Name their world class midfielder? Their only edge is in attack.

Dannyxy:
Kai Argentina have so beaten us, over and over again, that we, are so scared, of them, even when, they are so poor... Especially messi, he has been dealing with us since 2005, under 20, 2008 Olympics, 2010 world cup, 2014 world cup... Anndddd

Now we are here again, messi again, Argentina again.. Our, nemesis, we all are so scared, some people are even suggesting 10-0-0 formation, lolz.. But what have we being doing wrong over the years?, have we asked ourselves?... Is it that we are cursed?, or they are just so much better?..

And i came to the conclusion, that the problem is mentality, we always fidget and get scared when playing argentina, we need to start seeing ourselves as winners, the players need to enter the pitch, not thinking of maradona, bastituta or our present nemesis messi, but the should enter the pitch , thinking of winning , they must have the intention of winning, not just hoping to winning .. They should not wait for argentina to bring the game to us, like we always do, and then try to react later. We must be proactive, not reactive .. We can't be doing same thing and expect change...

After all, what has been scared of Argentina and their big names given us over the Years?, yes we have been beating, beating over and over again.. So let's damn being timid

Time for mikel to take a sweet revenge from that messi

And who knows, if the reason we are always been grouped with Argentina, is nature telling us to grow some balls, grab the bull by the horn, and go into the field wanting and intending to win, not going into the match hoping and trying to manage the game like we always do..

Ask the 1996 Atlanta team, they had balls, and intent.. That's what we need!!!

this one is not about balls, its about how we defend. See the criminal spaces we were giving to the Iceland midfield, we were well aware that Sirgudsson is a set piece master yet we kept on dashing them over and again, thankfully they kept on missing and since we won we are going to leave those spaces again against Argentina. Now if you leave that kinda space against teams who have a player that deals with small small pockets of space like Argentina or Brazil or Belgium it will not work because their best player will keep on getting on the ball allowing him more time to do damage. If we leave half as much space as we did against Iceland for Messi and co we will regret it that's for sure

ChrisKels:


What is this?

That's why I said "on a lighter note"

somehow:


Ebuehi will commit alot of fouls and even PK playing as a LWB. If we are wise, we bench him or use him as RWB.

He cant use a makeshift right legged player as Left back against a team like Argentina looking all out for goals.

I repeat we will chop goals if Ehuehi is used as LWB.

he appears to have luck, as in serious luck following him sha

diadem10:


2 proper forwards that can give us the presence upfront is the key. One is Musa. The other could be Simy, Nacho or Ighalo. Not Ogu nor Iwobi.

Ogu is better off as a substitute for Mikel or one of the centreback trio while Iwobi could come in for Etebo. But Etebo is more defensively sound than Iwobi and that will be needed against the Argentines eventhough he's not as creative as Iwobi..

Back to the forwards, it has to be one of Simy Nwankwo, Ighalo odion and Iheanacho to play alongside Musa as our 2 forwards. A pity we haven't seen more of Simy hence we can't guage how good he will be in the role. All with different skillset as forwards.

Our young inexperienced goalkeeper is not comfortable rolling it out from the back.

He will most often kick it out, particularly as I suspect Argentina will play a HIGH PRESSING game against us. When a ball is kicked out its mostly 50/50. However, with Ighalo you have physicality and aerial ability that ball against Argentina's defenders will become a 70/30 in our favour. Add hold up play with Musa operating either from behind or ahead of him.

That creates many options particularly when you add the pace of Musa.

KC represents no Aerial threat, no physicality and as a result he can be buzzing around with no end product or impact.

Etebo is ESSENTIAL he is the only player in my opinion that can do a man marking job on Messi and succeed.

I haven't seen much of Simi and can't say much about him. His little cameo when he came on for about 8 minutes didn't show anything outstanding.

So my first preference is Ighalo without question.

See as the Panamanian coach dey beg for mercy

somehow:


Ebuehi will commit alot of fouls and even PK playing as a LWB. If we are wise, we bench him or use him as RWB.

He cant use a makeshift right legged player as Left back against a team like Argentina looking all out for goals.

I repeat we will chop goals if Ehuehi is used as LWB.

Do u now agree with me that Aina wasn't given a just appraisal?

I doubt he was worst than Ebuehi on the the left wing back position. If only Aina was also tried out on the right(his primary position) like Ebuehi but, I doubt he would have been as bad as Shehu.

Na this kind match dey make average player carry golden boot

Eleniyan15:
Someone said Argentina Defenders, would man mark musa

How is it possible to man mark someone with speed It never possible except if the player is not in form.

The players doing the man marking will commit blunder one way or the other, you think say e dey easy to run with moving ball enter the box 18 Nawa oooo.(if you notice that the way musa entered the box 18 the iceland defender wasn't able to get musa, the defender was also trying to hold his hand but it never easy to catch someone with speed & running with ball, one kain morale dey always dey sha ni)


VicMoses , you can't man mark him no matter the position because he would still find way to dazzle.



Anyone playing on the wing let always give kudos, it never easy the day i played 2 facing one of the best dribbler on campus i was frustrated because you won't have time to catch your breathe at all.
Where god go punish you dem go use one two finish you .

Musa first name on the team sheet.

Ask any defender what's your greatest fear and it's BLISTERING PACE you simply can not defend against it.

Look at the Argentines Otamendi will be left for dead by Musa. I actually expect Musa to score.

With Ighalo holding up play or nodding it on for Musa to run on to it, expect GOALS.

Mickael2:


he appears to have luck, as in serious luck following him sha

Luck won't stop PK, yellow, freekick or red card o.

olapluto:
Is it just me or VAR decisions seem to favour European teams more? Officiating generally has favoured European teams.

Naaah, VAR didn't favour England against Tunisia, they had many blatant penalty decisions not given.
Ronaldo didn't get a penalty against Morocco, and Denmark been penalised for an handball that wasn't deliberate.

krattoss:
Na this kind match dey make average player carry golden boot

In fact, the thing is vexing me ehn....

Just look at Taprry Kane has 2 goals via penalty

And John stones too...chai

The English media will not let any one rest... Na so Dem go hype player till the kingdom come.

My consolation is that they may not go past second round.

ChrisKels:


Do u now agree with me that Aina wasn't given a just appraisal?

I doubt he was worst than Ebuehi on the the left wing back position. If only Aina was also tried out on the right(his primary position) like Ebuehi but, I doubt he would have been as bad as Shehu.

Aina plays as LB for his club unlike Ebuehi so i wouldn't say such.

Aina wouldnt have faired better. Not like Ebuehi is totally bad in that Iceland game but against a team like Argentina with wicked wingers. Its best we don't take that risk.

Shehu was never bad, was just attack minded enough.

komekn:


Our young inexperienced goalkeeper is not comfortable rolling it out from the back.

He will most often kick it out, particularly as I suspect Argentina will play a HIGH PRESSING game against us. When a ball is kicked out its mostly 50/50. However, with Ighalo you have physicality and aerial ability that ball against Argentina's defenders will become a 70/30 in our favour. Add hold up play with Musa operating either from behind or ahead of him.

That creates many options particularly when you add the pace of Musa.

KC represents no Aerial threat, no physicality and as a result he can be buzzing around with no end product or impact.

Etebo is ESSENTIAL he is the only player in my opinion that can do a man marking job on Messi and succeed.

I haven't seen much of Simi and can't say much about him. His little cameo when he came on for about 8 minutes didn't show anything outstanding.

So my first preference is Ighalo without question.

I would love Ighalo to patner Musa as well. He has all the spec to complement Musa's skill set. His holdup play is top notch as well as his anticipation. His drawback is his decision making and laziness. His finishing is less desirable also.

Spell P-A-N-A-M-A

Oasis007:




As many Peeps have suggested, 3 - 5 - 2 Formation can easily morph to 5 - 4 - 1 Formation which I believe, tactically, gonna be handy for counter-attack.

However, I wouldn't mind us man-marking Messi with either Etebo or Ndidi. We can't allow the short Devil to breathe for a second at all in the Match.

It's very difficult for a tall player to mark and or tackle a short player. This is Messi we are talking about, I can see Ndidi getting yellow cards and perish the thought a Red.

Etebo is short and has better mobility and a bit more guile. He is the best man for the job.

komekn:


Our young inexperienced goalkeeper is not comfortable rolling it out from the back.

He will most often kick it out, particularly as I suspect Argentina will play a HIGH PRESSING game against us. When a ball is kicked out its mostly 50/50. However, with Ighalo you have physicality and aerial ability that ball against Argentina's defenders will become a 70/30 in our favour. Add hold up play with Musa operating either from behind or ahead of him.

That creates many options particularly when you add the pace of Musa.

KC represents no Aerial threat, no physicality and as a result he can be buzzing around with no end product or impact.

Etebo is ESSENTIAL he is the only player in my opinion that can do a man marking job on Messi and succeed.

I haven't seen much of Simi and can't say much about him. His little cameo when he came on for about 8 minutes didn't show anything outstanding.

So my first preference is Ighalo without question.

When did Ighalo have aerial treat ??, how many goals have he scored with his head for us ??, does it mean hold up play is equal to goals ?.

If we use ighalo and musa on tuesday, i pity us cos they will be isolated as hell and u will come back here to blame mikel for not supplying him balls.

LieDetector:
My line up to take us to the next round

Uzoho

Balogun Ekong Omeruo

Moses Mikel Etebo Ndidi Ebuehi

Iwobi Musa

In this formation we have Zero AERIAL THREAT and no Physicality up front which means no HOLD UP PLAY.

You have a very young inexperienced goalkeeper who his first option is to kick the ball out. Who will pick up the ball and hold it up?

It's a pity we will be seeing more of scorelines like this with the new expansion.

Supported! Ighalo and Musa should lead our attack. Then second half when they are tired bring Iheanacho and Iwobi to finish them with movement. Chikena!!

komekn:


Our young inexperienced goalkeeper is not comfortable rolling it out from the back.

He will most often kick it out, particularly as I suspect Argentina will play a HIGH PRESSING game against us. When a ball is kicked out its mostly 50/50. However, with Ighalo you have physicality and aerial ability that ball against Argentina's defenders will become a 70/30 in our favour. Add hold up play with Musa operating either from behind or ahead of him.

That creates many options particularly when you add the pace of Musa.

KC represents no Aerial threat, no physicality and as a result he can be buzzing around with no end product or impact.

Etebo is ESSENTIAL he is the only player in my opinion that can do a man marking job on Messi and succeed.

I haven't seen much of Simi and can't say much about him. His little cameo when he came on for about 8 minutes didn't show anything outstanding.

So my first preference is Ighalo without question.

BascoVanVeli:


Argentina no get midfield. Unless Name their world class midfielder? Their only edge is in attack.

Banega, Lo celso are good midfielders. Dimaria is also a good boxbox CM.
I think the best way Argentina can utilise their best players is to deploy a 442 diamond with Messi at the tip of the diamond behind Dybala and Aguero as the forwards. Get in Dimaria and Banega behind Messi with either Lo Celso or Mascherano anchoring the base of the midfield. If I were the coach, I would pick Lo Celso and move Mascherano to the CB position or even bench him.