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NFF should do everything possible to make Nigeria vs England a reality abeg.

All through the qualifiers, we were always the first to score, we never really got the chance to come from behind.
In the Afcon qualifier where we went down to SA, we could not recover.

This team showed alot of character and fighting spirit to come from 2goals down today.

Expect big things from this team.

I don't need no FIFA ranking to tell me Nigeria has the best football team in Africa

4goals and still looking for more. That is the hunger

This shows character. From 2goals down

2-4

Balogun out omeruo in

Ebuehi is going to the world Cup mehn

Goal number 3idowu

Goal iwobi

Ebuehi baller. Looks eager to please

The argentines are charging at us, closing us down even before we hold the ball. We are making erratic passes and poor decisions because of their excellent pressing. That's what I was saying earlier in the week.

The solution is to bring in wingers and switch back to a 4-3-3 spread the passes wide. By the time they run from one end of the pitch to the other, they'll wear out.

Nacho

OMANBALA1:
The idea was to choke their flow of passes.

While limiting ours?

Oh lawd!

We need a winger though. As Mickael2 earlier posited, zero width

Poor poor poor decision from Akpeyi, handling the ball outside the box

Argentina scores

Akpeyi WTF?

OMANBALA1:
Aina is erratic. Almost took our best defender out...smh

It was a collision, it happens all the time

Otamendi dey vex for iheanacho

Awaziem and Aina have been impressive so far

Who gave shehu that pass? Nice one

jstbeinhonest:
Abeg which time 9ja-Argie dey play?

5:30

Mickael2:
if he starts with that 3-4-3 formation it might get embarrasing for us.

Let me start from the back, our GKs are not confident, a 3man backline requires an active GK but this is the least of our problems.

In the defence you have Awaziem listed as the RCB and Balogun in the LCB spot. I already pointed out that using inverted wingers is a risky biz, you could see that some clearances Aina made in the last match were less than perfect because he was using his weaker foot just like I predicted, now you are playing Awaziem and Balogun, two right-footed CBs, in the LCB and RCB, they will find it hard to make proper clearances(Awaziem most especially) and when you consider the wingers they are about to face......


That brings us to the fullbacks. Aina I am okay with but playing him the LWB formation is wrong, he is going to have a performance similar to the one he had against Algeria, you can see he is quality but he will still struggle. For us to effectively utilise Aina in that left side we need to reach out to his clubside and convince them to play him there a little more often. Then we come to the guy who would lose the most in this formation, Shehu. There is a reason why Azpilicueta does not play the WB role and when he does he is always below average. Shehu is NOT GOOD offensively and his take-on rate is very very poor, crosses too are very very poor(I doubt if he has had one succesful cross throughout the qualifers bar that cutback for Iwobi) and he also does not have the pace. Argentina will have Dybala running across our backline looking for spaces to exploit and Shehu's lack of pace will expose that space perfectly then you may argue that our DMF will cover and that brings us to the midfield....

Ndidi is not an out-and-out DMF so he can not do the work that will be assigned to him which is covering the fullbacks effectively for 90minutes and then we have Ogu who isn't exactly fast. Bear in mind that their CF is Belotti so our central CB will have his hands full so in most cases Ogu will have to fall back and help out thus making room infront of the defence for Banega and the likes to exploit.

top post.
I think you meant perotti not belotti

Yet people pay hundreds of thousands in runs fee just to wear that uniform. The irony of life.

No need for the whole head transplant, just brain transplant and the world will be a better place.

baybeeboi:
Bros, upon say ur battery ba 1% u still d kill am untop davido and wizkid matter.

Mujtahida:
I'll miss the Azurris. That soft blue color. This Russia 2018 na wa. Thank God Argentina made it cos World Cup without the big names ain't no good jare. I don't want no watery tournament.

More surprises to come at the mundial proper.

Expect to see the underdogs spring surprises.

edi287:
Left Belotti and Insigne on the bench. The guy is a clown.

FT 0-0

There you have it. One less team for the Eagles to worry about

edi287:
Ventura na proper imbe. He should be playing 4-3-3 with the players they have.

He is in search of a goal, he doesn't need an extra man at the back. Maybe 3-4-3, but then again he wanted to accommodate 2 point men. What I don't understand is why he left belotti on the bench

lexyman:
dont be surprise Italy may not qualify

Very likely. Sweden has a very composed back line and their goal keeper has been doing a great job so far.
But I was enjoying the Italian tactical play before power was interrupted.