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SIRcumalot:
Una dey see world class finishing ?
I hope Morata is somewhere taking notes and no just dey drink him pain away.

I'm not taking anything away from the world-class finish of Ukaku, but you're missing an important factor - Ukaku's supporting casts.

Just imagine Mourinho plays attacking football and we have a supporting cast of Hazard and KDB behind Ukaku. Mehn!! Ukaku go miss and score tire. No wonder Aguero and City players were just scoring and seeing chances like say na ABC.

afrodoc2:
There is no perspective in this issue, people should educate themselves. George Best and Bobby Charlton were greater players than Ronaldo for United and it is not even close. Whatever Ronaldo did later in his career does not count in his United resume.

Bobby Charlton won the champions league/european cup, scored 2 goals in the final, was in 3 consecutive Ballon d'Or podiums, won the Ballon d'Or, was world class for almost TEN YEARS at United and you think Ronaldo's 3 years is near him. 199 league goals from midfield including 8 double digit seasons.

George Best also won the Ballon d'Or, was on 2 podiums, scored in the champs/european cup final and had about 6 world class years scoring double league figures and countless assists. 137 league goals including 7 double digit seasons.

Denis Law won the Ballon d'Or, 3rd top scorer in United history, won the European cup, champs league, about 7 world class seasons.

They all played longer for United, were great for United for more years, and scored more goals for United than Lord Ororo.

Overall Ronaldo is obviously the better player but for United those 3 were greater.

Raul is a greater Madrid player than Zidane and Ronaldo de Lima though we know Zidane and Ronaldo were better players overall.

Del Piero is a greater Juventus player than Zidane.

Xavi and Eto'o are greater Barca players than Maradona.

I don't even understand why United fans are debating this. This is the first time I'm seeing a United fan placing Ororo over our Holy Trinity. It's preposterous to say the least. Ororo never created the impact or legacy those three did for us. It's not about winning the Balon D'or. The impact and legacy over many years are important criteria to consider.

slimghost:
Honestly, it's a matter of opinion or perspective. I have come across Liverpool fans who rate Owen ahead of Gerrard and it's quite understandable. Gerrard never achieved what Owen did as a Liverpool player.

No, it is not. Any Liverpool fan that rates Owen ahead of Gerrard in "Liverpool greatest player" category needs a lobotomy ASAP.

slimghost:
Well, me I have tapped into your optimism. lol. We are beating Argentina!

eph12:
We just need a draw to qualify irrespective of result elsewhere

I'm not sure about drawing or winning Argentina o. We have to avoid the various lapses in concentration in our game that was evident for many moments in today's match, against Argentina to stand a chance of qualifying.

slimghost:
Mikel did just ok today, I don't have much criticism for him but you see that Plonker called Moses eeh, Dude was a waste.
He should thank his stars he got an assist, useless player.

The worst be say the coach has deemed him untouchable.

sinizia:
Same here. Let him be magnificent for England, but let Mourinho not be deceived into settling for Young as first choice.



Weird as this might sound, I think we can win Iceland. Iceland players are always in defensive beast mode when they see any top team, but they may consider us as no threat and come out to attack us, leaving a room for us to shock them.

Just like I predicted, Slimghost, still doubting the Nostradamus in me?

Our coach can never remove Mikel or Moses no matter how awful they may be.

We need about 2 more goals to stand a good chance of qualifying.

Best goal of the tournament so far

Musa for the World best

SIRcumalot:
I like as Moses They attack this their fullback.

Imagine if we actually had a full-back that attacks, that their full-back for don suffer

Moses is officially an idiöt. Nobody in football has a worser cross than him. What a tool.

diadem10:
When will Iwobi replace the useless Mikel? Abi wetin?

After we sack our coach which is not happening any time today.

codedguy1:
Those are the spaces I expect moses to exploit but he will either fall while running or end up crossing a useless ball. Thank God for his contribution to the goal though.

We also need to have bodies in the box expectant of crosses.

We're lucky we're not playing Croatia or Russia. They for don use crosses equalise since. Iceland no sabi ball that's why we're leading them.

What a cracker from Ndidi.

Iceland players are going to troop en masse to equalise, this is the best time to hurt them and exploit the spaces they leave behind. But do we have that sense? I very much doubt.

Nice one Musa. See what good counter does. We'd be countering and creating enough chances against this team because they aren't defending in packs.

diadem10:
No creativity. Mikel and our wingbacks have been so useless thereby making Nacho and Musa to be feeding on scraps. I've loved Musa tenacity though. How I wished Ogu started in defence. His long passes would have helped to release our players into space on the wings since Mikel has been so useless but then our wingbacks are useless as well. Where's Ebuehi? Yeye.

I didn't even read your post before I posted but we observed the same thing. This team has no single coach input. Very clueless players with a dumb coach.


The foolish coach chooses his squad based on name power not actually by what a player can do for a team.

Against Argentina, Iceland were busy defending. They weren't attacking Argentina like they're doing to us. Yet, with all the spaces for counter or to exploit, we've gone through out the first-half without a shot on or off target. And this is the team some people are arguing will beat Argentina? Beat which Argentina? With which plan or players?

The kain beating wey Argentina go give us, even if we park skyscrapers that day, they go press us like bobbi and still win at the end. Don't ever be deceived by last night's scores. Argentina were under enormous pressure to win, and they met a brute force in Croatia who exploited their desperation. Against Croatia, we weren't under any added pressure and yet ended up beaten easily. In a balanced setting against Iceland and we are repeating the same mistake of ist match - forming activity all over the pitch without penetrating our opponents' defence.

Imagine our Full-backs don't even overlap at all. In modern football, a full-back doesn't even know they're secondary outlets when it comes to attacking? Modric, old man Modric covers more ground and runs more than 98% of our players. Useless team of models without an iota of football sense. Tueh!!

weedtaker:
we don sign players finish?

Yes. Fred will cover the whole pitch and other positions like Kante.

Lana1:
Azzin. Dzyuba na mad man. Chest....toe poke past the defender......R2 to the bottom corner.

Best goal so far. Yes better than C.Ro's freekick!!

Ororo's freekick is 3rd on my list, number 1 is Mertens' goal for Belgium, better than Dzyuba's.

MRTA7:
might be clearer what I meant if you read the subsequent posts.

I understand where you're coming from now. You'd have made it clear about initio.

MRTA7:
He probably is.

How can you say Ronaldo is probably our greatest player? He's not "probably" our greatest player abeg, and never will be. You need to dust up United's history books before typing this heretic statement.

See wetin this Egypt player miss FFS. Are you mad?!!

larride:
Your friend Elneny is out. Them sef wan chop their own like the Arabians

My friend ke? Free of charge, as a coach I wouldn't touch him with a 10 foot pole.

See the way that giant of a striker bullied that Egypt defence and scored easily. SMH.

larride:
Egypt are in Cairo already bro.

Them go chop like 5 for this match sef. That second goal dampened their resolve

Mtcheeeeeeeeeew!! Rubbish match.

Egypt's display was much better than their previous one. They've played well so far and created few good chances.

This is a balanced tough match. Hopefully, Egypt gets the 3 points at the end. Elneny has been struggling in that midfield though. He looked shaky sometimes.

larride:
Make una pity England joor

I wish them the best but not against Portugal or Naija.

As Senegal score that second goal, see as I dey jubiliate like say na Naija score goal. Senegal wiping away Africa's shame since WC started.

Egypt try make me proud abeg, before thanda fia all of una.

GloryIsaac:
Honestly, I was so pained that I involuntarily shouted "kick the ball out!" ..... The mofo knew that his team couldn't defend any set piece all night long but still guided the ball to a corner kick ....

He's be declared a persona non grata by their President and told to stay back in Russia and naturalise there.