breezy047:

It is a huge difference between.

When you face a highly technical team (not necessarily a talented team) that will absorb all your pressure neatly, arrangedly choke their midfield, play cohesively and block off all your meaningful passes in their own half, working together as a team (attacking and defending as a team). . .then you realise that you have played almost 90 mins on the pitch, sweating profusely, pressing hard and yet not no single goal to show for it. . .

Such teams are a hard (tough) nut to crack. . .

And what's dangeroous about them is that they know exactly when the time is right (maybe the last 10 mins of the game) to come out of the shell and dangerously attempt a goal which could stun you.

Such technical teams don't rely on open play only to get their goal. . .

They know how to counter attack effectively, they rely on set-pieces, corner-kicks, crosses from the wings and sometimes long balls from the midfield.

They could play defensively for 90mins while you huff and puff around the pitch and still beat you 1-0 by scoring only from a well organized corner-kick.

Some of what Bonfere said up there should be thrown into the dustbin. . .but he's right when he says Nigeria is not there yet technically.

Improve on your organisation when take a free-kick, corrner kick or when you launch crosses from the wings. When last did Naija score from a neat header?

Some games ahead will be very tight where all our samba-samba passing might seem unproductive. . .

In such cases we could still manage a slim win from a set-piece if we are technical enough. . .most especially with a BIG MAN like Emenike or Amoebi upfront.

go watch Nigeria Vs catalonia game again, den u'll see how we soaked up pressure 4 full 90minutes, we scored from d only chance we got, and they(catalonia) got there goal from d penalty spot. D only missing link in our team now is in dead ball situations. free kicks and corner kicks daz all

SuyaEater: Spain go use tiki taka kill us for confederations cup....i see a 6-0 drubbing of naija later this month....na only tahiti we go beat

...na so una talk before afcon especially after d friendly against cape verde. U guyz should jst watch out

Na wa o, is it ur money? wetin concern u with who i carry?...clueless people

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i think phenom sounds more like iceprince,but his lyrics and delivery is better,compared to dat of iceprince.