Senegalese midfield has been non-existent, why bench Kouyate for Badou?

chrisooblog:
exactly nobody has pointed the tactical threat he offers.

Your point about francis always hoofing the ball upfield to me that shows he is taking the option of safety first if we had midfielders who could easily beat the high press I'm sure he would prefer to use such passing channels

That's absolutely correct, he is young, expectedly nervous and inexperienced.

He takes the safest option for a goalkeeper not confident in the players in front of him. This will be a continous theme with Uzoho.

That means you must to create an aerial option for him. Against Iceland that happened too many times. Against a better Argentina we can concede possession so cheaply.

Ighalo is our best option with regards to aerial ability hold-up play and a threatening physical presence. This means Musa can feed off Ighalo. I am certain Ighalo will bully the Argentine defence.

This is something that Iwobi or KC simply can not do.

tbaba1234:
Mikel fractured one of his Metacarpal bones. He will still play the match with a cast.

Is DT not d same injury DT kept Rooney out for almost a month

tbaba1234:
Mikel fractured one of his Metacarpal bones. He will still play the match with a cast.

So that was a real injury? Mehn the guy is a warrior.

KevinDein:

African teams beat Iceland and Poland not long ago.

Hahahahahaha..... African teams have lost to Uruguay, Portugal, Croatia, Russia, England, Belgium and wait for it Iran. Well I know these are better oppositions, but Panama!!!. No way near that.

ChrisKels:
Senegalese midfield has been non-existent, why bench Kouyate for Badou?

una must always find fault in anything
Nawaoo

elyte89:




Sir chriskels abeg,bookmark dis man for future reference

Lol but he said the right thing, only a wapped brain would say he was begging. Begging for what exactly??

krattoss:
una must always find fault in anything
Nawaoo

Try to be reasonable sometimes, everything no be something wey person go dey throw lame jibes.

Is that midfield working? Does Badou of Stoke have the hustle of West Ham's Kouyate?

olapluto:
Ighalo DID NOT BEG ROHR TO COME IN.
After rewatching our win against Iceland many times, especially FIFA.com highlight, I can safely say Ighalo was not begging to come on. He was already warming up before the goal. After the goal, he asked if he was still NEEDED or if the coach wanted to defend the 2 goals, in which case he wouldnt need to increase his warm up tempo.

nd u can swear at u heard him say dat

olapluto:
Ighalo DID NOT BEG ROHR TO COME IN.
After rewatching our win against Iceland many times, especially FIFA.com highlight, I can safely say Ighalo was not begging to come on. He was already warming up before the goal. After the goal, he asked if he was still NEEDED or if the coach wanted to defend the 2 goals, in which case he wouldnt need to increase his warm up tempo.

The camera only flashes through.How did u manage to observe that long conversation between Rohr and Ighalo

komekn:


Not even in the starting line up.

For now? The lad is not ready to make the bench or 2nd team.

Maybe e can in the future.

komekn:
England flogged Panama 6-1

It's on this forum that it was stated Kane is over hyped by quite a few.

The England team is rubbish, English players are not good just media hype .

Well I wonder what they will say now.

o as nigeria flog Tahiti for confed cup dat year we come turn world class team abi... Bros Abeg u go leave nairaland to poundland

MetalJigsaw:
Against Corsica in a friendly.

Ok thanks

Kalapizim:
yes oh

Hmmmmm!

Senegal's right flank combo of Wague and Sarr has been more potent than the left flank that has Sabaly and Mane.

Wague is a good crosser of the ball but he and Sarr are guilty in that goal.

That said, Salif is a beautiful Centre back. Who saw how he collected that ball in the air with a thrown out right foot?

komekn:


That's absolutely correct, he is young, expectedly nervous and inexperienced.

He takes the safest option for a goalkeeper not confident in the players in front of him. This will be a continous theme with Uzoho.

That means you must to create an aerial option for him. Against Iceland that happened too many times. Against a better Argentina we can concede possession so cheaply.

Ighalo is our best option with regards to aerial ability hold-up play and a threatening physical presence. This means Musa can feed off Ighalo. I am certain Ighalo will bully the Argentine defence.

This is something that Iwobi or KC simply can not do.

we will find a way to manage without him... D way we did in d Nov friendly... God helping us.... Striker wen net never shake Weneva e de pitch since cameroun friendly.... Tufiakwa.
Ighalo no b striker abeg

Lucque:
o as nigeria flog Tahiti for confed cup dat year we come turn world class team abi... Bros Abeg u go leave nairaland to poundland

Lucque:
nd u can swear at u heard him say dat

Can u also swear that u heard him begging? The remarks he made during the incident was a questioning remark not a begging one, if u know sign language

tbaba1234:
We need a draw because i can't see Iceland beating Croatia 3:0. We can not play for a draw though. We need to try to get a goal or two.

The Argentine team is low on confidence. If we get the first goal, they will take more risks and leave more spaces at the back... We need to stay organized and counter with purpose. Iceland caused their defence plenty of trouble with the counter.

if Iceland should win 2 nill and we play goalless draw with Argentina (God forbid), we are out..

komekn:


That's absolutely correct, he is young, expectedly nervous and inexperienced.

He takes the safest option for a goalkeeper not confident in the players in front of him. This will be a continous theme with Uzoho.

That means you must to create an aerial option for him. Against Iceland that happened too many times. Against a better Argentina we can concede possession so cheaply.

Ighalo is our best option with regards to aerial ability hold-up play and a threatening physical presence. This means Musa can feed off Ighalo. I am certain Ighalo will bully the Argentine defence.

This is something that Iwobi or KC simply can not do.

I understand why you suggest ighalo yes he has decent hold up play but my concern about him like everyone else is his potency and dynamism front of goal.

I wouldn't have a problem with him if he made up for his lack of goals with ability to assist his strike partner or at least bring his fellow players into play unfortunately he does none of those

opes:

if Iceland should win 2 nill and we play goalless draw with Argentina (God forbid), we are out..

Is it not goal difference, head to head and goals scored in that order?

opes:



if Iceland should win 2 nill and we play goalless draw with Argentina (God forbid), we are out..

Wrong.....its head to head first before goals difference

tbaba1234:


Is it not goal difference, head to head and goals scored in that order?

Goals scored comes before head to head. I think FIFA want to encourage teams to play positive football and score lots of goals.

BascoVanVeli:
Why someone would make such a stupid foul is crazy af

That guy just came on and he don tire already.

Besides, our players should learn from that freekick. The Swedish players ought to have rushed the Germans as soon as he passed the ball but they they gave them luxury of time to execute their plan.

Lesson learnt.

Anybody wey dey for Nigerian camp dey read dis, abeg help me tell them to rush any freekick leg touch once because once a player touches the ball, that tantamount to freekick taken. Thank you.

Mickael2:



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

Bros you have been shouting since that we leave behind spaces and i wonder whether you have taken your time to truly watch our iceland game again?....

I have re-watch the match severally especially the second half and what was so glaring in the game was the fact that iceland left so many spaces between them.

We had our half and the entire field properly covered. In the second half in particular, iceland players bombed forward at every slight opportunity leaving behind several gaps in the middle for us to exploit

If we were a more ruthless team, they should have conceded 5 goals from us..

Go and watch the second half again, every time iceland launched a long ball forward and our back 3 nodded back the ball to the middle, it always fell back to our on rushing midfielder.

I REPEAT, this happened every time.

3-5-2 is a blessing to us

I'm loving how organized Senegal is

tbaba1234:
Mikel fractured one of his Metacarpal bones. He will still play the match with a cast.

I thought he feigned the pain to "waste" time. Get better soon Captain

goldfish80:

Goals scored comes before head to head. I think FIFA want to encourage teams to play positive football and score lots of goals.

That is interesting. I do not see Iceland beating Croatia with 2 unreplied goals. In the Qualifiers, they defended and scored the odd goal.

Good thing, it is in our own hands.

tbaba1234:


That is interesting. I do not see Iceland beating Croatia with 2 unreplied goals. In the Qualifiers, they defended and scored the odd goal.

Good thing, it is in our own hands.

Croatia is planning to rest their key players..

Cisse should plz sub in Kouyate. That midfield is so bad.

Modified; he just did and it's yeilding result already.

I actually thought Badou would be the one going out instead of badou among the two Ndiayes



Sweet goal from my boy Wague

I am not saying Ighalo is exceptional. However, Iheanacho that you clamouring for has also done next to nothing this year in the National Jersey. All the games he has played for us he had just one shot on target, that tame shot against DRC. Against Iceland he had no shot on target, no assist, one shot ridiculously off target, no area ball won, he did practically nothing better than Ighalo in that match. However, when Ighalo came in, he had One shot on target, won two area balls yet you are clamouring for someone who was begging for a tap in to start ahead of Ighalo. #Sentiment

safarigirl:
you people should stop yarning dust

Please, what are all these good things Ighalo has done?

See as you just dey talk like say Ighalo don score six goals this year alone and he just made one mistake yesterday.

Please, tell us all the good things Ighalo has done that should make us overlook his errors.

I see some saying that there are some players who play badly and excuses are made for them, yes, because we know that they don't play badly normally, so, it is easy to make excuses for them. We cannot say the same for Ighalo

Please, give me just five good things Ighalo has done in the past year to exonerate himself from constant blames.

The amount of balls that Senegal has lost to Japan in the air is appalling.