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charlesemeka85:
Did aribo my boy play well?

The guy looks so young and cute

Has Nigeria been jinxed?

charlesemeka85:
Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr has strongly hinted that as many as six young players are in contention to be named in the starting line-up when his side tackle Benin in an Africa Cup of Nations qualifier on Wednesday evening.

Leganes' Chidozie Awaziem is battling Ola Aina for a starting spot at right-back, while Samuel Chukwueze, Joe Aribo, Samuel Kalu and Victor Osimhen will be given a chance against the Squirrels provided they prove their fitness in the last training session on Tuesday evening.

Quizzed about the young players likely to start vs Benin, Rohr told reporters including allnigeriasoccer.com : ''I don't know how many young players will start because I have to see how they are after the traveling yesterday.

''What is sure is that we will have at least Awaziem or Ola, we will have Aribo if he is ready but he is not U23, we will have Osimhen who played on Saturday night, yesterday he was okay so I think he'll be ready.

''We have Chukwueze, he played only 45 minutes in his club so it is possible to start the game. Kalu played on Friday which is good so he has a chance to start.''

As for Nantes' Moses Simon, Rohr suggested that the winger may be rested as he has played too many games for his French club this season.

''Simon Moses played a lot, all the games for Nantes, but losing all of the them, the four last games. Perhaps he needs a little bit rest and play the second game, it is possible.

''We will check in the training how many of them will be ready, but I like to play with young and fresh players, this is our football - go forward to attack, to score the goals and to be all the time able to play our football with one, two, three touches with quick strikers.

''The young people are able to recover quickly, that's why I am not afraid of the fitness for tomorrow''.

But this Gernot Rohr dey try sha. He keeps track record of the club form and minutes played by our foreign players in their different leagues. He even knows players that are fit and not fit to play against Benin. If he can just do the same for our league in discovering good talents, he for don turn world class.

gamaliel9:
The team played better than what we saw against CIV....

Our midfield came out tops....

Confession time

Icon4s:
Can Imama win his first game outside of Nigerian Soil today?

My blooda. Help me ask ooo

Joebie:
Oya nwakali Na ur free kick

When you said this, I knew Nwakali would score

tbaba1234:
Nwakali has depreciated considerably

Qualifying for Olympics 2020 is by God's grace ooo

charlesemeka85:
Nigeria boss Gernot Rohr will make a late decision on whether to include Joe Aribo in his starting line-up for Wednesday's Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Benin in Uyo.

Aribo reported for international duty on Tuesday morning after a long trip from the United Kingdom and Rohr has suggested that it will be difficult for the Glasgow Rangers midfielder to make his full competitive international debut as he could be suffering from tiredness.

Speaking at Tuesday's press conference, Rohr told reporters including allnigeriasoccer.com : ''Aribo traveled all night long from London to Lagos to Abuja and then arriving now, I have not even seen him yet. It will be very difficult for him to start the game.

''I want to see in the training session how he is physically, our training session is late at 6pm to give them opportunity to sleep this afternoon.''

London-born Aribo has emerged as one of the influential players in the Super Eagles team after the Africa Cup of Nations, scoring in back-to-back matches against Ukraine and Brazil.

''If Aribo is fit, of course now he is one of our key players, if he is not fit I don't want to take any risk for injury and we will decide in the last moment tomorrow if he can start the game or not

''We see that he's doing well in his club, even in the Europa League but this is a special situation now and we have to manage it,'' Rohr added.

Should he step out onto the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium turf against the Squirrels, even for one second, the former Charlton Athletic star will become cap-tied to Nigeria for life.

Cap-tie him before he changes his mind ooo.

TheSuperNerd:
True. I'm just looking at it more broadly.

Anyway, the Zambian XI is out and seeing Fashion Sakala, Patson Daka and Enoch Nwepu starting already makes this harder than envisaged.

.This game will be tough oo

Imama should be added to the English dictionary. For example : The U23 eagles played CIV and were imamad

[quote author=Abusule007 post=83966608]RSA 1 - 0 CIV FT
Our chance to qualify just got slimmed down [/quote
RSA top the group with 4pts 2 CIV 3pts 2 Zambia 1pt 1 Nigeria 0pt 1
Imama should be banned from coaching for life if he loses our next two matches.

Eartquake1:
The U23 coach is incept, we will miss a lot if we don't qualify for this Olympics

True Sir.
We have good players in that U23 team but I am very scared about the technical input of our coaches.

Meanwhile, Mali has been knocked out after they lost their second game to Cameroon 0-1.

Any info on Egypt v Ghana?

ChrisKels:
This(pic bellow) looked more assuring, yet...we all know how it ended. Pinnick is making same mistake again. Why say this now? That was so insensitive and myopic of him, Bkus Boothroyd is now gonna give Eze an undeserved competitive minutes just to complicate the whole issue. Be like Pinnick get wide mouth

My brother, Pinnick get leaking mouth. Why didn't he keep us informed with his corruption case?

I THINK OUR NATIONAL TEAMS HAVE BEEN JINXED
First the Falcons were knocked out by Cote d'Ivoire in the race to the Olympics now our U23 eagles lost 0-1 to the same CIV.

Golden Eaglets with all the individual talents were knocked out in the 2nd round.

God show mercy!!!

What of Nigeria v Cote d ivoire? Any update?

charlesemeka85:
Eze is yet to decide while Ejuke is still been monitored. Was suppose to be with the u23 team but it seem his club didn't release him for the competition.

Ejuke is a lovely and skillful player who can also play from the number 10 position

NFF please give this guy a look in.

Icon4s:
Captainstephen, solonnachi, Certitude, KevinDein, semiife, Zuchyblinks, opes, Friday03. Have you guys sent in your nominations. If not please do.

I nominate TheSupernerd



Cc: icon4s and Andrewbaba44

TheSuperNerd:
It is confirmed.

Nigeria's Golden Eaglets vs Netherlands....

Round of 16 on Tuesday (7pm local time in Brazil: 12midnight Naija time).


Angola take on Korea Republic

Senegal take on Spain.

Aaah... Can the Cardiac Eaglets survive Netherlands with that shaky defence and wasteful attack seeing how the Orange boys whitewashed USA by 4-0? Senegal may not find it funny with Spain ooo. Angola and Korea is dicey too.

In other fixtures :
Brazil v Chile
Japan v Mexico
France v Australia
Ecuador v Italy
Paraguay v Argentina

Mouth-watering round of 16

BascoVanVeli:
Akpeyi's performances are really inspiring. This could be another football comeback story.

Sometimes it's good to make some crazy actions like Rohr did. Now Akpeyi don vex and he is seriously performing

DrLikita12:
FT in Enugu Rangers 1-0 ASCK (Agg 2-2) Rangers go through on the away goal rule
Both Enyimba and Rangers reach the CAFCC group stage

ASCK accuse Rangers of planting juju in their goal post.

Sportilitica:
This team don't play together. Rushed shots, unecessary passes. No striker instinct, no defence. Decision making today has been piss poor. The Segun dude needs to sit the next game out

What of Jabbar for God sake. Can't he play as 9

I couldn't watch the match due to epileptic power supply, please were the regular players fielded?

TheSuperNerd:
Enobakhare, Awoniyi, Dele-Bashiru, Okechukwu, 17 Others Included In Nigeria U23 AFCON Squad

https://www.allnigeriasoccer.com/football_pics/37622Awoniyi.png

On Thursday afternoon, the Nigeria Football Federation named a 21-man squad that will defend the colours of the country at the 2019 U23 Africa Cup of Nations.

The squad contains three goalkeepers, seven defenders, eight midfielders and three attackers.

Nigeria U23s coach Imama Amapakabo can count on the services of Watford's Tom Dele-Bashiru, Liverpool-owned striker Taiwo Awoniyi, Wolverhampton Wanderers product Bright Enobakhare and former Arsenal starlet Kelechi Nwakali during the tournament in Egypt.

Other foreign-based professionals included in the squad list are Azubuike Okechukwu (Istanbul Basaksehir), Valentine Ozornwafor (Galatasaray, on loan to Almeria), Sincere Seth (Boluspor), Muyiwa Olabiran (FC Tambov), Orji Okonkwo (Bologna), Sunday Faleye (FC Wacker Innsbruck) and Samuel Atavti (Esperance).

Nigeria, who are defending champions of the AFCON, will open group play on November 9 against Ivory Coast, they then face Zambia on November 12 and wrap up group play against South Africa on November 15.

The U23 AFCON will determine which three African teams will compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics men's football tournament in Japan.


Nigeria U23 AFCON Squad

Goalkeepers (3) : Adamu Abubakar (Wikki Tourists); Mohammed Galadima (Nasarawa United); Kingdom Osayi (Giant Brillers)

Defenders (7) : Olisah Ndah (Remo Stars); Samuel Atavti (Esperance FC, Tunisia); Valentine Ozornwafor (UD Almeria, Spain); Sincere Seth (Boluspor FC, Turkey); Josiah Chukwudi (Spartak Tranava, Slovakia); Anthony Izuchukwu (Nest Sotra, Norway); Bitok Stephen (FC Isloch, Belarus)

Midfielders (8.): Sunusi Ibrahim (Nasarawa United); Aliyu Yau Adam (Spartak Jurmala, Latvia); Muyiwa Olabiran (Tambov FC, Russia); Kelechi Nwakali (FC Huesca, Spain); Ndifreke Effiong (Akwa United); Sunday Faleye (Wacker FC, Austria); Tom Dele-Bashiru (Watford FC, England); Azubuike Okechukwu (Basaksehir FC, Turkey)

Forwards (3): Orji Okwonkwo (Bologna FC, Italy); Taiwo Awoniyi (FSV Mainz 05, Germany); Bright Enobakhare (Wolverhampton Wanderers, England)

**Ifeanyi Emmanuel



Source: ANS

Imama has no reason to mess up this opportunity with the crop of players he has at his disposal. But wait o, it seems Azubuike and Awoniyi will miss the first match. This is not funny ooo

BascoVanVeli:
The list

So Ebere Eze just kept Rohr waiting in vain. No problem. We have an upcoming generation of footballers from the U17s like Akinkumi Amoo.

TheSuperNerd:
I agree. This set have now been nicknamed the "Comeback Eaglets"
Expect most of their goals within the 70-90mins window.
Jabaar, Sa'id, Amoo and Tijani... Real ballers they are.

No Sir. Call them the 'Cardiac and Comeback Eaglets'

BascoVanVeli:
Manu Garba deserves more respect than he has been getting. Ibrahim Sai'd could be the next big thing!!

Manu Garba should be coaching Super Eagles in the near future

Abeg what time is the U17 match between Nigeria and Ecuador

charlesemeka85:
heard pinnick recently made contact with the lad and his representatives and the discussion so far have been positive. with the look of things he is likely to turn out for us but everything is still open at this moment

That's great. Pinnick has learnt his lesson after the Tammy wahala and he won't want to make any noise about it and cause any trouble with England. Once bitten twice shy

Eartquake1:
Saka is already playing for Arsenal first team, he should be invited for Benin match

I want to see something

Has he been cleared by FIFA?

u23 camp news latest

Tom Dele Bashiru and Orji Okonkwo have both arrived the Olympic Eagles camp. Hope Imama can make this work. Now we have 3 professional players

I think we should start looking at Manu Garba as a prospective Super Eagles coach in future after Gernot Rohr bows out. The guy is good and read games well. He will also help to breed young footballers to become professional stars. All we need to do is create the right environment for him and pay him on time to avoid.... If you know what I mean...

chukwunedum150:
Osimhen is injured

OMG. is it serious?