Going forward, Rohr should be sacked. He has done well no doubt especially in his man management but let the truth be told he has equally been given all the support he needed. Pinnick and the NFF have provided him with atleast 80% support for 3 years which no other coach has enjoyed probably apart from westerhorf.

Rohr should go. His timidity is infectious and cancerous.

In his stead, i am going to propose 3 candidates that i believe are going to give us the style of play that we all deserve and want. Also they come cheap and within our payroll.

I am fortunate to watch almost all the matches of AFCON 2019 and therefore in good stead to make 3 solid suggestions.

1. Mr Nicolas Dupuis (Madagascar/France)

A French man and the current coach of Madagascar team. Madagascar were ranked outside 100 coming into this competition yet their coach was able to make them play fearless with an attacking style to make you grin with envy. Even though they eventually bottled it against Tunisia but they showed the Tunisian's no respect.

They are fit and extremely Athletic, the coach made them so actually. They score freekicks too. They were also composed for the penalty shootouts against Uganda.

Think of what this man did with Madagascar at this tournament and think of what he will do with Nigeria at the World Cup.

If it were Rohr incharge of Madagascar at this tournament, he would have told them they were coming to their first tournament and therefore have no chance against anybody. He would have probably played all 11 players behind the ball against Nigeria. Smh



They benefits of hiring Nicolas Dupuis are immense.

2. Djamel Belmadi (Algeria/Algeria)

He wasn't their coach when we walloped them in Uyo three years ago but he came in after that and improved the team in all aspects. Whereas our coach couldn't do the same for us.

Imagine getting jittery against a team you chewed to threads not too long ago. It only shows your deficiency.

We can hire Belmadi too though with his current stride with Algeria, he will come abit expensive than Nicolas.

3. Muhamed Magassouba (Mali/Mali)

This man used complete rookies and teens at this tournament for Mali yet he played one of the most beautiful, exciting and entertaining football. His squad consisted mainly of Mali's 2013 and 2015 U17 members yet they delivered. It took experience for Ivory Coast to defeat them 1 nil.

While Rohr made us believed that Teens cant play African football, this man proved him otherwise. Attack, Attack and more Attack were the only thing Mali knew, they were only outdone by that solitary Ivory Coast goal by Wilfred Zaha.

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My submission


I will pick French man Nicholas Dupuis anyday anytime as he currently fits perfectly into what we seek, Good man management, ambitious, cheap, style of play, and available.


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Going forward, NFF should stop hiring German coaches as their game play, style are not our way of playing.

Our style of football is the fluid, entertaining and attack minded. The Dutch, French and South American football are what we model after, therefore coaches from there are whom we should seek

komekn:


With your approach we would have been flogged comprehensively.

The best part of our gam was the midfield.

This game was lost from the wing back positions. They
by passed our midfield and almost similar to what we did to Cameroon. And there was no service to our wingers

However, wing play is not just about dribbling but the final quality ball. Chukwueze and Musa thier final balls were far from accurate and precise.

The situation was further compounded because Algeria had studied Chukwueze in depth. On the occasion he tried to dribble past or outpace them he was neutralised and caged.

Musa actually using raw pace had more successful runs but very poor end product.

But they started defence with attack and attacking our RB and LB. I knew that Awaziem was always the weakest link. To play the wing back position you need pace, intelligence and technical ability.

Awaziem has no pace although he is intelligent with limited technical ability. Did anybody see Awaziem go 1 on 1 and beat anybody

Collins is very limited technically but l assumed he had pace. He is fast but not fast enough.

All the Algerian players were beating our fullbacks for fun all the time and anytime. I was afraid that Awaziem would get sent off because he was getting overrun all the time. He eventually got a yellow.

This was the first area we lost the game. Our full backs could not connect with our wingers. From the beginning they were under pressure and that caused our CB'S to be jittery how we survived the first half and conceding only one goal was a miracle.

I would have played Simon and Aina playing as wingbacks they have better football intelligence and Simon has pace to burn. Aina may not have blistering pace but he better football intelligence than Collins.

My view the game was lost mainly from our wingbacks positions IMO.

Why are you contradicting yourself?


You said we lost the game from our wingbacks because they provided no cover for our Fullbacks FB. How is that different from my proposal of 352, playing a 5-man midfield to provide enough cover for the defense?

Did you check their formation at all? They played a 442. Which translates to a 4-man midfield and that explained why they outplayed us in the middle because we played with a 3-man midfield. That is we played a man less. Etebo and Ndidi were completely overworked and by extension our fullbacks too in Awaziem and Collins.

How else do you intend to curtail such lapse if not by crowding the midfield to provide a fighting chance for players?

Switching to a 352 will give us 3 important advantage.

1. Naturally a 352 formation is a mass-attack, mass-defending formation without all the players particularly running the length and bredth of the field.

2. Your right wing backs and left wing backs will provide excellent support to your defense, midfield and attack at the same time. Aina is perfect for RWB, while either of Musa/Moses is perfect for LWB.

3. The midfield of Etebo and Ndidi will not be overworked and also our attack will have two potent people to disturb their 4-man defense rather than having only Ighalo upfront.



Rohr bottled this match last night.

He should go, and taking Mikel, Ogu, Akpeyi, Ezenwa with him

Algeria won this game from the midfield. They simply overran our trio of Iwobi, Etebo and Ndidi from start to finish.

Rohr in his usual self was too rigid and slow to tactics change.

If were him, in the second half i would have crowded my midfield by switching to 442 or 352 formation but purposely for this game 352 is perfect.

At the start of the second half, i would have brought in Ola Aina for Collins. Omerouh, Ekong, Awaziem will be in defense. Musa LWB, Aina RWB, both of them will support Iwobi, Etebo and Ndidi making 5-man midfield.

Ighalo and Chukwuese as two front man.

At the 70th minute, remove Chukwuese for Osimehen, and 80th minute bring in either simon or onauchu for Musa depending on whether we chasing the game or not.


Honestly, it cost nothing to play with a bravery at all times.

I detest timid people

mostob:
the ball touched his hand unexpectedly. And the position of his arm before the ball struck him doesn't in anyway out of position

If you say his hand are in position, what will you call the coulibaly penalty?

Someone trying to block his face and the ball struck his elbow

Abeg, all these refs are just confusing someone

This match na wa o!.... Abeg somebody has to explain this handball of a thing to me.


How can you cancel a clear handball and penalty you have blown after consulting VAR?

nairalandankrah:
I didn't quite watch the women's world cup that much but from the much I watched, I think the quality of games at this AFCON has been worse when compared to the women's world cup...technically Very very low..

I have listened to many football ignoramuses making these statements all AFCON. Only for you too, a well versed analyst in football make the same comment.

Player to player, man to women, team to team,... Bring the women World Champions USA to play against Burundi, Zimbabwe or Tanzania and see them get the ass whooping of their lives.

There is no contest.

minfelix:
Some how we have manage to beat two north african teams with the dark green jersey
Libya 2-3 Nigeria
Nigeria 1-0 Egypt.
Prediction
Algeria 1-3 Nigeria(semifinal)
Tunisia 0-2 Nigeria (final)

Tunisia can not beat Senegal, its almost impossible.

Bookmark this

soetanoreoluwa:
Some of your predictions after round of 16

Lol... See how all the predictions enter bush









No wonder Alabi always gets richer

Focus on Cameroon... No! You guys won't hear


Instead you are concerned about Egypt... Oya na, go and play Egypt.

You can't give what you don't.

Tactical acumen to break down defence is what we don't have. Sadly no amount of 'red eyes' will give it.

Sportilitica:
To be honest, I don't care who plays at this point, all I want is a win. Morocco played nice and fanciful football but they are on their way home. If he like he should use Akpeyi to strike and Ighalo to play left back. Just win!!

Hahahaha

African football is coming Home

Danielnino00:
West African Derby in the quarter final...

Senegal vs Benin republic...


We still run this turf...

Loud it sire

krattoss:
pray south Africa doesn't kick Egypt out tomorrow.

Else rest of the games I'll be behind closed doors

O lawd

North Africa vs West Africa after 4 Games

NA 2 wins
WA 1 win
1 draw

You guys should stop all this talks about Egypt when you haven't played Cameroon.

What is wrong with all of you?... You are sidelined Cameroon like they don't exist yet focusing on Egypt.

Did France '98 teach you guys anything? ...

Have we been particularly impressive at this tournament?

Have we been scoring goals?

Have we been breaking down defences?

Have we been playing scintillating football?

What's wrong with y'all?

You guys should be come down to earth and analyze each game as it comes.

To me Mali is the most entertaining team of this tournament.

Egypt is Second.

I mean, This Malians play an exciting football coupled with great attacking instincts.

Rohr should be watching them to learn or he should go understudy under their Coach Magassouba

Regardless of what happens going forward, Rorh should be sacked.

He lacks ambition, he is clueless and his team doesn't know how to score.

From Leon Balogun tweet this morning

You can love me or either leave me, but I'm only human & I make mistakes. Try not to hold that against me tho. I accept full responsibility for my actions, so if ya'll expect me to be perfect, I apologize for being human. No mistake's too great to recover and bounce back �����

Leon Balogun finally came out on twitter as at 8:00 am this morning to pour out his apology to Nigerians football fans for his defensive error that led to Madagascar first Goal.

Nigeria went on to lose the match 2:0.


Here are screenshots of his tweet and replies from Nigerians

"You can love me or either leave me, but I'm only human & I make mistakes. Try not to hold that against me tho. I accept full responsibility for my actions, so if ya'll expect me to be perfect, I apologize for being human. No mistake's too great to recover and bounce back" �����

https://mobile.twitter.com/LeonBalogun/status/1145953165453484032

jihday:
Mikel is injured and very likely to miss the next game

Good riddance

ChrisKels:
Make una enjoy our boys gyrating with Toni OneWeek's ever sumptuous super eagles gyration.


Modified: sorry the video no gree upload, nairaland say e too large

Please drop the link biko, make i watch

andrew444:
Argentina off to semi final of the copa America

That should be their last bustop

Surely, especially when you are playing Brazil at Home

ChrisKels:


Do u know Nigeria hasn't played any top team in this tourney, neither did we win convincingly against any of the lowly rated teams we have played against? Do not over rate our achievement so far. Be mindful of ur choice of words, until we play a team as good as those teams u trynna mock

Story! Story!! Story!!!

With what I have seen so far, we will beat any of your big boys or pre-tournament favorites should we meet later on. EOD

And i know the well prepared excuse will be that they were poor or didn't play well on that day

andrew444:


Ivory Coast have players in bigger clubs than the eagles according to me

If you can post where I said Ivory Coast will beat naija I will apologize

And besides it's no news Ivory Coast lost as Morocco is better than them ,stop making look they lost to Mauritania or one farmers country

If you check my post this afternoon I quote jidhay or so that Morocco will beat Ivory Coast

Nothing to be worried of ok

Up super eagles

Oga leave talk... Tournament don start... Fowl yansh don dey open small small

I repeat, what is the essence of big name players when their play is crappy?


This your prediction for Morocco to win was just to save face.

I bet u. Nigeria (Your so called team of Carpenters) wouldn't have lost to Morocco, and believe me, if they lost, they won't hear the last of it from the Nigerian fans... You know why?

We wont tolerate that "they have better set of players than us" excuse

tbaba1234:
This Percy Tau is overrated. Not that good.

Person wey na passenger e be for this tournament since

SMH

Abeg make una go drag @chriskels come here

Who are the real carpenters now?... Imagine fa, after burning my data to watch these subcontinental derbies only Mali stood up to be counted.

Senegal and Ivory Coast went AWOL. No coordination, no crisp movement, no penetrating or deadly attacking intent.


Yet christkels will not let us rest on this thread. Face it man, your adopted countries flopped when real men were called up to be counted.

@Addrew44, even you too.

What is the essence of big name players yet no quality play?


The coaches of these countries too are classic examples of what we call "Mutulas"

CC christkels
CC andrew44

Out of 3 meetings.

North Africa won 2, West Africa only managed a draw.

So football dwells squarely in North Africa.

Case closed.



But these francophone West Africans dey fall hands sha... I trust Nigeria and Ghana would have done better

Damn it mehn... Amunike really needs to learn defending or go get a God damn defensive coach


U don't open up the game all in the name of playing free flowing attacking football , you will get punished.

Twice you went ahead, twice they equalize and beat you. This is atrocious

Tanzania vs Kenya

Very good match going on here

Very exciting to say the least, no wonder its three goals in first half

I trust Amunike with his attacking instincts... Give this our current SE squad and we will be beating teams 3:0, and 4:0 .

Tanzania vs Kenya and Mali vs Mauritania are my best matches of the tournament so far