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I don't know what potter was thinking but he just made another foolish mistake...loftus is a player that shouldn't be starting for Chelsea at all ..in that right side he has been wasteful...of James won't be playing at Right back or right wing back then put him on bench...and again wat is this rubbish of playing cucurella as moving center back. Someone who is a so poor on one on one situation...his aerial duels are always a loss

Again if this team won't fire then let potter just leave...this guy's ave been playing for only God knows wen and they still can't create chances in the final third of the pitch...

And this guy's will still get a clear chance and still loose it...

This team is just a disaster...we know villa is good but u collect high wages and have the best of equipment bro train and I come every week to play like a fool

pleroma:
You were making sense but as soon as you mentioned we should start using home based players, you lost all credibility. You know nothing about football. Joker! Have you seen the rubbish they play in the local league? It amazes me that after all these years, even with how far foreign based players have brought Nigeria in football, some people still want to take us back. When you watch European football, e no dey sweet to see Nigerians competing at the highest level? I'm pretty sure when in your personal life, you try to advance your career by getting certifications and trying to get better in your profession. Then why do you suggest that when it comes to soccer, we should overlook our best professionals and settle for mediocrity all in the name of playing "our own"? It's people like you that are enemies of Nigeria's progress!

...Lol u ave a point but let me enlighten u....Firstly we don't need to throw away all the foreign based players....NO....wat am emphasizing is we need to go back to the root and start pulling out players ...it will require alot but that's the only solution that will give us long term result ..I don't have much problems with the players we are using presently the major issue i have with them is that they tend to play together ones in a 3 months and this in turn is not making them click as quick as we need ..the quality on paper is there but there is no structure and style...now if it's about coaching how do u teach a style of play with one week of international break...how do u build a formidable team wen u only see them and have them to urself ones in 3 months...

Nations like Germany.....Italy ..Spain find it easier simply because they have a strong academy and football is been taught and instilled from kiddies .and most importantly all this nation in years have built a way and style of play....Spain for example have many midfielders and They play almost the same way ..have u ever asked urself why .( Cos they have a system that teaches a style from grass root)...that's why even when they come together in the national side .they still look good cos they have a style...it will take Africa a while to get here ...but i think Nigeria needs to start building a team within Nigeria that trains atleast twice in a week...if they can then they can mash up with foreign players then get a rythmn of play......Today the quality was there but the structure . rythmn and style was no where to be found ....

Country football is good but can u compare the understanding club football has to country football....if Madrid plays Brazil today Brazil will be beaten with ease ..why cos one team spend time and work more together far more often....i respect ur opinion but i hope u get my point...

ProblemChild1:
Abouth oshimen case, you won't blame oshimen at all. They don't feed him good ball like the way they use to feed him in Napoli. Oshimen is a good striker. What he need, he need someone that will be feeding him good passes.

....One of the reasons why he will do himself a trailer load of good staying put in Napoli ...his strength is getting the ball to him every 2 minutes in the box and his also very hungry but that shit won't work outside Italy ...He has been speculated to be join man utd...Chelsea ...Madrid...PSG...non of this teams will give him the satisfaction he sees in Napoli ..at napoli...the team is seemingly built for him to function ...in man utd for example Rashford won't cross the ball for u ....Antony will always come in to bend the ball more ..his only hope is Fernández ...this will only reduce his tally..in PSG it will even be worse cause they don't really cross ball ..with his feet osimhen is totally average and might struggle to keep up with fast pace football in some leagues like EPL....he will need to drop more and get into spaces that some dribbling and ball playing skills will be required a skillset victors doesn't really have ...this in turn will affect his tally ...at Napoli his the main man upfront...in this top leagues they already have so main men doing it...

My take from the match

1) Nigeria doesn't have a sound coach yet ....paseiro isn't really the standard we should be coughing hard currency on...

2) We need to start working with home grown players.....a team i see today is a team that doesn't really understand each other ...the quality is fine but the connection isn't there...and again where is the fight..we were leading 1-0 and we started smoothering the ball aimlessly

3) Is Osimhen really as good as the media and Napoli makes him look ..a player that isnt good in possession ....can interchange play well ..can't link up perfectly and today he even wasted chances ..with his leg is he really that potent ...Omo am NT sure o...if he goals to a top team i fear for him...his best bet is to stay in Napoli

4) Coaching a national team and building a strong football philosophy to worsen it in an African country where a standard pattern of play is already registered in every young player is not really easy...this players only come to play together ones in 3 months...how will they get to know each other's strength and where to put the ball. ...how will they form an attacking chemistry....that's why I said if i should have my way i will revert back to using home based players more ..then bring a teacher coach to build a team ..

This guy's don't event have a fight in them ...seeing there body language shows if they had lost again today they wouldn't have been moved...this isn't the super eagles who grew up watching

Ad funny and as crazy as it sounds if i should be the coach in this game...i will hack out Osimhen in the second half....we need a better connection in the finally third and Osimhen won't give us that .....this team is NT ready to put every ball in the plate for Osmhen...play the guy supporting him as a supporting striker ..bring in lookman and run Dem rags....they can mark down a points striker but they won't match up with 4 attackers interchanging positions...


The defence needs to be focused ..

A win today is totally unnegotiable....today Nigerians wants to see a statement been made fiercely...this is the only thing the players can use to redeem their image and the pride of Nigeria especially in football...Tactical


Bassey should be dropped and the other joke of a defender that paired him on Friday

4-3-3 should be deployed to earn more solidity and balance ...

The Nigerian go keeper will better have sense and learn how to kick the ball out smoothly and stop forcing errors ..(if no be ment i don't think a goalkeeper who is a disaster with his feet should still be in post for a nation like Nigeria)

All balls shouldn't just go to Osimhen wen u know his been tightly marked ..this is Africa no Napoli ....passes should be interchanged without him as a focus but rather as a decoy ..that costed them the first leg...this team will learn to play with Osimhen ass focal point but it won't be instant ..for now everyone should be a part and take their chances well

I wish them best of luck

There are levels to coaching ...and there is a kind of Grading to it...some coaches has the Acumen to impose a style and they are so brilliant to the level where they have a peculiar style which they can teach ...me awhile in doing this ...they try so hard the team they are going to has the quality and players with characteristics that will favour there style

The Grade B coaches has a style and pattern of play too but they don't really teach football...in the abscence of that they try and impose their style on the team in the long run

The Grade C coach only work with what is on ground ..they don't really have the brilliance to work on players and get them better than they can ever hope to...they also stick to the basics...they are NT over ambitious and they maintain a level u can neither call poor or good. .

Pasero falls into the Grade C category ...he isn't really in that top level...imagine yesterday u ave your team NT just lucking to score but threatening...all was needed was patience then Boom...u threw away every form of patience and showed ur opponent ur last card even wen the match was still open...bringing in Onachu was something any top coach wouldn't have done at that time ..the all bissau had to do was put more men on them and nullify every Aeriel threat....playing African teams u need to more technicality than physicality..every African team is physical ....so u need many movements in attack that cant be stop...the combination of the attack isn't cliqing yet but u don't go for long balls against a team having many players on 6+ height

Personally I think when you have a player like Osimhen you have to options

1) Build a team that works for him
2) Build a team that can work without him

I will rather go for the later!!!!...cos it's working in Napoli doesn't mean it will work in Nigeria...the opponents are different...the environment is different...the player quality/style and team formation is different...

Common sense

The Nigerian coach should be sacked immediately ....personally NT cos we loss but cos he gambled foolishly bringing in Onachu ...in wat idea will u expect to overturn 2 goals throwing ball into the box forgeting u have like 5 tall players ready to nullify any threat coming in that box...btw.. any coach that wants to succeed with this Nigerian team must work more on tactics and combinations than all this crap...Osimhen is hungry ...he wants to score but all balls shouldn't be going to him...this is Africa not Napoli....this players still don't enjoy playing with each other ..they only come and train together barely ones in 3 months and just NT a enough to tap out the best and make them click in that attack especially...it's obvious they don't still enjoy playing with each other...this quality is more than enough to be a menace to any team but they need to build a bond first...and work needs to be done by the coach to make them understand each other more...this coach isn't doing that and it showed in the first half...the combinations were coming but cos it hasn't produced a golf doesn't mean it won't then next thing u truncated the flow and went for the direct approach..with our pedigree in African football it's a slap to see us playing long balls and all ball to the box from 50 minute aaginst a guinea bissau that isint up to South east

As a Chelsea fan i must say the odds are against us...Madrid look the favorite side and people will fancy them more ..meanwhile am more focused on our next match tomorrow against Everton ...been supporting this team for more than a decade and regardless of what anyone feels ."Chelsea can beat any fucking team" on their day...someone will say it's Madrid ',well ..and i will say we knocked them out to carry the trophy in 2021 and we destroyed them within 45 minutes in front of thousnds of their fans last season.. before their die minutes heroic performance..i don't think any team have ever done dose 2 things consecutively in Europe in decades...but ofcourse to achieve that insane level again Chelsea needs momentum ..so once again,let's see wat they do against everton tomorrow...cos i can bet if there is one team Madrid don't really Wana play yet...."Chelsea is one"!!!

Buddha3:
Wait, have you even watched any Napoli games this season? Do you see how they boss midfields? Do you see the pace with which they open up defences? How many goals have they conceded in the UCL so far? .

This team is compact, organised and deliberate with their overall delivery. And you're putting a ragtag Chelsea side by side with them? Come on na!

Make una dey try argue football with open minds sometimes abeg.

....Against there fellow Italian sides mostly...against a EPL side it won't be business as usual....Chelsea is NT a team that will give u all that satisfaction and u won't boss them around like they will boss the likes of inter or Ac Milan and mind u ..i don't rate Italian leagues that much.....someone might say this current chelsea is poor but am sorry a chelsea team in the league is diff from a Chelsea team in the champions league..and again most of the players they have in this team wen they won it are still there ...maybe just rudiger and Jorginho isn't.....Napoli won't boss the game..Chelsea will play and cause havoc too. Am a Napoli fan and i can tell u they aren't special ..city will starve them the ball and tear them apart ...Osimhen might be hot but he will have 3 center backs to contend with...kavateshlia will have James to battle with and wen out of possession they will have a lot of defending to do too .if the meet Chelsea it won't be easy but Chelsea with dump then out with solidity and strength..kante is still waiting to make the midfiled a menace

As funny as it may sound ...his carrier might get back on track of he comes back to this present Chelsea.especially with their 3-4-3 formation....wen he was with Chelsea they didn't really have some crop of players they have now..then they had Jorginho had doesn't play much passes upfront like Enzo does...Enzo will find him more with long pass that he loves something Jorginho scarcely does...now he has a much more skillful and refined player he can play with in attack ...joao Felix (that'd if he stays)....if they can play to his strength he might NT score heavy load of goals but he will give then the goal they need to be up there ... lukaku might be wobbly few times but wen in form he can be very unplayable

Looking at Osinhmen style of play closely and how he operates tactical...i can body say the only place where he will keep been a menace is the Italian league....let's be truthful to ourselves Victor will flip if he tries going to city...he will flop if he tries going to man united too...

I want to believe Victor is a very good box striker and the intensity and hunger he plays with is one of the best have ever seen but all round quality ,he isn't as good as Halland....

Playing in city requires so level of technicality and skill ... something victor don't really have ..Halland drops into many pockets of space to create overload and build up in few instances...Halland is good with the ball at his feet and can manovre around defence ..that's one thing Victor don't really have ..

Victors strength is to kill with final ball....he won't drop into some areas strikers like Halland... Vhlahovic or Kane will...

This in turn unbalance the teams rhythm..and before u know he will start to struggle

If he can stay in Napoli then he will keep firing or he can go inter Incase lukaku leaves...if he is thinking of going to any team in England then it should be maybe Tottenham....cos the play the direct old skool ball in the box style a little more...but of course they have Kane already...PSG is a no ...he will struggle

Who ever wrote this sham is a fool...and the the coach of PSG is even a bigger fool..messi is great and has done more than enough for world football but is like this foolish coaching staff of PSG don't realize this young man is 35...his attacking threat isn't like what it use to be...playing him behind or next to just of attacker (Mbappe) won't the enough....Messi use to be a menace in attack but that was then ..his strength now is playing him behind fast players ... he needs many movement around and in front of him...even with his age he can still take people on but not as good as he use to.....but he still posseses a weapon and that's his passing ability...therefore he becomesa better menace wen he has atleast 2 people in front of him...he could get that luxury last night

I call it calming the ship.....

Potter is still a mediocre coach to me ...but he will do himself a load of good by going back to factory reset...wen tuchel came to Chelsea he vowed to make a team no one wants to play against....that team isn't structured to play sweet football .NO....they are NT really really structured to play perfect...but they are structured to be efficient....potter has been foolish disembling the team ...any one who know tactics and knows how things work in soccer knows this team is fashioned to play one formation ...and that is (3-4-3)....most of the players in this team were there in 2021..this formation corrects the inbalance Chelsea has defensively..with jams slotting into the back line and chilwell doubling on the left Chelsea will always be a hard NT to crack...potter i know would have other ideas and would one to field many of the new players into the side to fire it..but that synergy will only come starting for pre season and with really work...for now the main job is to stop loosing matches and (3-4--3) is the solution ..the only missing puzzle is kante and his tireless energy...wen kante gets back into the first 11 Chelsea will need some work to push out in the champions league ....

The connection between a team and the fan is quite simple "raise your game then we will raise our shouts and hails"...you can't be playing sluggishly without intent and expect fans to raise the roof for you ...you have thousands of fans at your beckon ..use it to your advantage ..get into the face of ur opponent and bully them...it's your ground after all...be a man and build some fucking balls!!!😡😡

Am a bonafide obidient....but an sorry Seyi has done so well in Oyo state that it will be hard for any one pitched against him to see 20% ....the labour party candidate should come back in 4 years cos for now there won't be any contest ...setup has won already

One thing now looks sure to me...this team can only fire under a coach that demands soooo much...there body language has been showing it..is Potter that kind of coach that will push a team to give 110% ...am still not sure...anyone looking at Chelsea when they went a goal up will think they have scored up to 4 in the match...they preferred passing the ball around with no intent ....the forwards stop pressing and sat back .and even wen the got the ball they were doing nothing to make the final kill ...that's the work of a coach...NT just doing subs but staying on the neck of your players to put in even more work wen u leading...the body language of "playing with intensity for only a quarter minutes of a whole game" won't get Chelsea in Europa....

The first 5minutes to were everywhere winning ball after ball and pressing hard ..created many chances and missed them...but 30 minutes into the game u stopped ...gave up the challenge ..then sat back to defend cos u are maybe tired of pressing....a totally shitty team

That's his standard.... Benin republic standard...Grade C coach

Make una rest abeg...wats the total population of Ekiti...check the result well...APC isn't leading with a big main...we all know APC will get votes from Ekiti but PDp is even close ..can u compare with the load of votes that will come from bigger southwest states like Oyo and lagos?...it's clear APC did poorly in Lagos...Oyo is NT sure...i learnt PDP took osun...so u agbadorian needs to fear more cos I doubt if tinubu will beat Atiku in the north and If he doesn't .,...then PDP will dust APC

Mean while EKITI is just like a state in south east and u need to see how LP is getting 90% all over there ..ur APC didn't even get 60% in Ekiti...make una reat

Topmaike007:
yes like last season Madrid beat them to advance to the later stage of the competition.the season Chelsea collected the UCL Madrid was hit with multiple injuries

Can u stop giving flimsy excuses ....Chelsea defeated Madrid team to lift the champions league 2 seasons ago...a game Modric and Kroos and Casemiro played....a midfilder that won multiply champions blague In a role...and any other player that day were wearing Madrid shirt....please rest

Seunfretty:
This Arindrin potter has one option to turn this shit over but his inexperience wont let him take the option and the option is (revert to a 4-4-3 formationl)...in the process of rebuilding a team i believe you need to take it a step at a time and take the pragmatic approach ....you need to be difficult to beat first then all other work can come in gradually...that's why tuchel did well at Chelsea ...this team won't beat Akwa united of Nigeria....cos the are easy to beat...in the first half they couldn't even won second balls and was so light in midfield

Today every of the attacker Chelsea has played and still no goal..that's not bad luck alone that's cos they arent playing the right tactics...

Potter will do well coach a mid table team....i was asking myself ..... where was that intensity Chelsea played with in the second half when the game started in the first half...a team having so many young players but can even press the opponent ..

Potter knows himself that his NT taking this team anywhere

I mean reverting back to the 3-4-3 formation rather

This Arindrin potter has one option to turn this shit over but his inexperience wont let him take the option and the option is (revert to a 4-4-3 formationl)...in the process of rebuilding a team i believe you need to take it a step at a time and take the pragmatic approach ....you need to be difficult to beat first then all other work can come in gradually...that's why tuchel did well at Chelsea ...this team won't beat Akwa united of Nigeria....cos the are easy to beat...in the first half they couldn't even won second balls and was so light in midfield

Today every of the attacker Chelsea has played and still no goal..that's not bad luck alone that's cos they arent playing the right tactics...

Potter will do well coach a mid table team....i was asking myself ..... where was that intensity Chelsea played with in the second half when the game started in the first half...a team having so many young players but can even press the opponent ..

Potter knows himself that his NT taking this team anywhere

Well...nice pictures but i lve in ibadan and i can boldly tell u tinubu can't win here...that crowd is NT true representation of what will happen on the election day...a large chunk of Ibadan people won't vote APC


Believe it or not...but that's just the simple truth...the people went to try and have a taste of APC money...

Buddha3:
A hundred thousand naira says Chelsea won't win a single trophy next season!

I know it's a long term bet but I'll be here to redeem cause I'm a man of my words. Are you down for the bet?

...i wonder how people like u reason footballl...the same arsenL that took many teams to the cleaners is the same team some of you said they wont make top 4 this season cos they didn't the last...isn't it the same arsenal now contending for a league title...am sure someone like u will still say Liverpool can never win a trophy for now ..we are talking about teams that has won European cup in the last 5 years and still have most players that did it in the team...would you have believed chelsea will go all the way to win champions league when tuchel came in

This teams has quality and cos they ain't getting it right at the moment does mean they can wake up and beat any team on their day...cos they ain't doing it now doesn't mean they can't do it next season of they do the right thing cos like I said "they have done it before"

Chelsea don't really have much problem....the only problem they have is solvable but will be difficult...(SACK POTTER)....it's now so glaring for even a blind to see that potter is nt a world class coach...so many things goes with a game if football ...and one of the things is rhythm....Chelsea don't have a rhythm yet ...well to me most of Chelsea problem is nt personel ish anymore...they have a good squad ..they didn't have this quality wen they won the champions league...but then they had a good coach...someone who knows how to look tough to beat....potter can't produce that kind of team...btw i noticed few things in the match

Zyech is NT a winger....i still don't know why a sane coach will play him in that role ..his strength is NT even the crosses he whips in cos today he tried close to 10 and none reached a reasonable player...the only place he can play with his stature and physique is a no10 role

Felix is a baller....but he needs to be more potent...loosing chances will only hurt the team...i guess that's one of the reasons simeone stopped using him

I think Chelsea should rather play 3-4-3 more and play a 2 4 man center back only when kante is fit ..Dortmund kept playing through them in the middle in the first half ..and loftus cheek has nothing doing in chelseas first team...his a confused midfield

Lastly looking at the kind of team Chelsea has at the front u will expect them to press better and more but they just seem to sit flat and wait for opponent to play through them...and i just have to wonder what style of football potter intends playing with this team is they are NT pressing...and where is the fast movement in attack .where is the bite ....u don't spend almost 500million pounds to cross the ball for 90mins...potter isn't breathing confidence and fire into this team and it just looks like his ok with any rubbish played...i Eden doubt if he correct this players on the pitch....his NT the crop of coach u get to a team to a war...

So some of you believe Chelsea will loose cos of there form in the league...wow!!!!...smart kids ...it's like u forget Chelsea is always a different animal in the champions league...they will be playing against a Dortmund that will try to open up the game which could lead to their destruction...

Parrot69:
Just see the beer palour stupid talk this mumu is saying?? Una don carry una useless and unethical rants from your Sports section come this side?
We don't have H-Midfeilders? The likes of Nwakali, Etebo, Frank Onyeka, Ramon Azeez and partially Iwobi are waiting??
Someone will just have access to the internet and be vomiting rubbish!!
Carry your empty coconut head enter pitch and become a Technical Adviser nah??
Easy to say, hard to conceive.

...Lol....you know what have got to understand about life......arguing is a waste of time..well in few cases it will be worth it if you doing it with someone who is on the same wavelength with u but in your own situation i will just laugh and mock u cos u are still in the basic level of football .....you know we'll in your level ..but dare sir "you still know nothing "...if you are categorizing nwakali ...eye or onyeka in the categories of players that can execute a modern day la pause and la pelicola football then you need to go and have a good lesson or course about footballers and their characterizes...most especially categories of midfielders and how they are used in the game of soccer due to their characteristics...a basic knowledge of this would have saved u how much u just make a joke of yourself here ..well the good part is the few people who knows what i mean here already get the his while likes like u can go visit google

Btw...Am a football Analyst and radio pundit....please try and learn before jumping into argument .no be everybody be ur mate

Reference:
Absolutely. We don't have them.
And our technical department isn't bothered about that.
Whereas it is their responsibility to develop the technical play of the team whether building the team around a player or adapting the players to a specific technical qualities.

All we do in Nigeria is mash together Mercedes engine, Toyota gearbox, Chevrolet suspension and expect miracles.

....What u don't understand u can't make best out of it ...We need to start learning and getting coaches to learn too...football is a study on its own and cos ones. Played and know formation doesn make u a coach... that's while we o well sometimes in tournaments but wen we played a detailed team we loose....we need to start building and bring in experts to teach us how football is bee done ..coaches especially...the quality we have in Europe is good enough to give any nation an headache but we need a good home made tactician...even the talents we have playing grassroot football all around the nation is crazy but they need to learn how football works ..ur skill won't be enough in the world football but ur technical know how will win u matches ...u will see people saying why don't we pick skillfully player around the nation and take them to world cup and i use to reply...please try it ..pick the most skillful attackers in each region and strongest defenders and mash them up for the world cup ..you won't get out of your group....football is much of tactics and technique than skill

Reference:
So are you saying Osimen creates and scores for himself such that the team around his is irrelevant.
My man, Napoli plays Cremonense this evening, pls watch.
The team Napoli is built to get the best out of him.
Once they understood his play they made wholesale changes to their forward line with older, established players leaving.
Napoli is a solid team, there are no individual superstars and lone rangers there.

As for whether he will outscore Haaland has to do with Pep's tactics.
Pep has never been big on traditional number 9's since his Barca days and Osimen will not get the kind of consistent service he enjoys at Napoli. Pep will not build the team around him (to serve him). Pep does not build teams around players.

No am NT saying he creates himself...and infact we seen to be on the same page here...what am saying is the team was built it let m say reformed to play to his strength and ofcourse that means leaving out some players that will NT work with the project ...like u also mentioned ... Players like Mertens and insigne seem NT to work well with the project....the only thing i am trying to hammer on is ..the kinda players they have playing behind osinhmen isn't a quality u won't find in any other team in Europe ...just that wen the combination clicks in football it looks like a wild wire...

Talking about city ...ofcourse Guardiola isn't really know to form a team around a striker but he did that this season which i believe was effective to a point but later became less effective...his team has always been know to play triangular jogo bonito around the pitch and picking the right time to pick attackers movement ...but also what am saying is ..if it was osinhmen they got and NT Halland...he would have scored in numbers too

Reference:
The SE presently does not have the kind of midfield that will support the quality of his play AT THE MOMENT. Even Napoli had to adjust the team and tactics over the past two seasons to suit his style of play. Osimen is not a ball, holder, just a pure striker so he needs ball holders behind and on the flanks.

There is not a single player in the present SE team that can hold the ball for more than 10 seconds or move it more that 30 yards at pace without losing it, even the more cultured players such as Iwobi, whereas Napoli has them in numbers.

....They call them the la pausa ensique kinda players...players than can play short passes around the pitch well ..players that can keep the ball in tight positions...players that can do the triangle pasees all over the pitch ...players than can switch positions and give fast incisive passes ...they have few in the team and also there wingers has the "la pausa " trait too... Zieniliski...lobokta ...anguissa also has this little traits...those players are the ideas combination...there midfield interchange frees kwaratvesheila and poilitano on the wings to feed osimhen..we don't have such quality in midfield in the super eagles