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I am hearing rumors (Goal) that Flick says he's leaving by end of this season.

It's unlikely he'll want to use the remaining time to experiment another approach.

High line no dey go anywhere be dat.

Chai.

pu7pl3:
Sometimes you dey talk like say everybody else blind.
Lounged and kicked him from where to where? Something everyone saw? The guy won the ball cleanly. Szcezny made a meal out of it and the ref and VAR were doing birdbox challenge together.
Just admit the truth for once

Someone whose leg did not make contact with the ball at all won the ball "cleanly" you say??

Egbon, the only thing the guy won was Sceczeny's legs. Na you suppose talk true.

AirBere:
Could be a case of laziness and low football IQ. I mean if a dead team like United under a wack coach like Amorim is telling you to leave and find another club, then there's definitely something wrong with your ability to understand and play football.

He could do something about the laziness but unfortunately IQ is pretty static.

Let him go and find his level elsewhere. At best, he should be an impact sub here. Definitely not a 90 min player.

Your assertion about United and Amorim/Hag doesn't really hold all the time. Case in point is Antony that's currently bombing at Betis.

Debroslink:
We're suffering from the poor quality of La Liga teams. Our quality has dropped from last season due to the fact that the quality of opposition we face in La liga isn't competitive. There's this feeling that no matter how poorly we play, we'll always end up in top 2 on the league table. It's either Barca or Madrid.

Take a look at Madrid strolling past every team in La Liga, but played like underbridge boys last night in UCL. Also look at the fact that La Liga teams are dominating the bottom side of UCL table. This is appalling to say the least.

Another valid angle.

AirBere:

Lol. Nah cruise we dey sha. Everybody, including United fans know say Rashford no be am. Utter lazy player!!!

I'm not really sure whether it's laziness per se. My grouse with him is that his general play is too much of hit and miss in ratio of about 1 to 99 respectively.

He doesn't take that extra step of carefulness to ensure that his passes, crosses or flicks are accurate. And for a Barcelona player, that is a deal breaker.

He'll wake up in Manchester before he knows it.

jpmoriarti:
No single human being can make a tackle in the midfield. Once a ball is launched, it's like parting the red sea.

Tueehhh.

We're unrecognisable from last season.

The levels have obviously dropped.

Pedri missing plus Inigo's exit compounded our situation.

Even that last season, we were the team that gave opposing strikers the most to eat. About 5 or 6 players scored hat tricks against us. Mbappe ate 8 goals against us in one season.

The difference was that we always outscored them at the other end. Unfortunately those goals from Raph, Lewy and Yamal have been largely missing this season.

Osebanjo:
Bro na rubbish dem defenders Dey do. I nor see GK blame

See Scezny now. He dey gba se.

Meanwhile, since Yamal broke up with that pedophile, his fortunes have changed for good.

3 goals and counting in only 2 matches. She wan kill my boy with Pubalgia. Thank God he received sense .

Osebanjo:
Na only Yamal Dey front with some small small assistance from Fermin. Na only Garcia Dey back too. Na so we Dey manage am.

Yeah the only 3 players that I can say earned their pay today. Even Scezny dey gba. But he was exposed too much anyway.

Looks like I spoke too soon.

Lucky escape.

Osebanjo:
Overlapping isn’t coming easy for both Kounde and Balde I think. Araujo all body no brain. God help me ship Ferran Torres and Rashford our of this club abeg.

Kounde has just been a disaster this past one month.

Rashford thinks he's won the clubs trust already. E go shock am.

Yamal thanks once again.

If our backline likes make dem do giveaway again.

And Rashford has just been a passenger all game long. Forming plenty activity with zero output.

It's annoying that only Lamine is showing some top quality stuff.

abduleez1:
Balde no do anything. The player dived.

Not talking of the penalty claim.

Balde kept Forbs onside by ball watching for the 3rd goal.

Our defenders are so frustrating! Kounde blunders in the first half and now Balde in the second.

Is this all due to the departure of Inigo Martinez?

Whether its Araujo or Cubarsi, the leak keeps gapping.

Conceding 3 every game is not sustainable o Flick.

brain54:
I thought okoye had an illness one time...

Reason he was dropped?

That should be Carl Ikeme you are referring to. He resigned from the SE due to cancer treatment or so.

Kounde playing as if he's on a Runway show really frustrated me. His bum should be on the bench till he buckles down.

The entire team bar Pedri has dropped a level compared to last season. I think the turning point was the PSG loss which affected their psyche.

I could already smell the clasico defeat a week ago and I'm actually relieved it ended up a close one. Happy that the renowned thieves didnt get the satisfaction of humiliation they so much craved but not good enough to dish out.

Anyway, Madrid were 10 points clear at one point last season, so 5points is not unassailable.

Trevor012:
Too many mumu excuses for your dirty Yamal.

Bragged against Portugal,flogged.

Bragged against Psg, flogged.

Bragged against Madrid, flogged.

The world already sees him as a clown

Flogging must have another meaning that I'm not aware of.

The real flogging was the 16 - 6 Yamal pummeled Madrid last season.

Hyping a penalty shootout loss and a couple of close 2-1 losses as flogging is clownish.

Yamal na their father.

Derumklala12:
Barcelona fans protecting yamal

Omo pour me water guyy.. e dey vex me

If you're going to say " real Madrid players talk trash also"

Real Madrid fans wouldn't spare a player who talked crap and didn't back it up

Them almost fry kombo yesterday 😂

In the end, Kombo was proven right.

Yamal should pipe down small.

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
Meanwhile, the polish🇵🇱 keeper performed well today.
Can someone tell me any match that Fdj won the man of the match award?

This is why I was against Cancelo leaving, for all his shortcoming in defense, he's a proper baller offensively. He will fit in perfectly with Flick Highline, combine with Yamal. There's no way he's not scoring that Kounde chance.

And he can also play LB, Balde has not picked form yet, afraid to take on a player.

Meanwhile, getting a world class striker next season should be priority. Either Haaland or Alvarez.

Cancelo bawo??

Abeg don't stretch it. Yeah FDJ was poor today, but so were Kounde (even poorer), Rashford, Ferran and Yamal.

Only Pedri, Scezcny and maybe Fermin held their own today.

So they want to give this penalty that the distance is so close but denied Barca a penalty last season when whoever blocked a goal bound shot from Ferran with his hand.

Vardrid the thieves.

Rashford has been getting dispossessed too easily since the first half.

He's part of those putting the team under pressure from Madrid's counterattacks.

Barca's body language in this first half has been shocking.

Its like Kounde has already given up on this match since he's just giving Vini free Futsal dribbling highlights.

Flick needs to do something fast before this turns ugly.

In terms of defending (70% weight)

Timber
Hakimi
Reece James
TAA

Offensively (30% weight)

Hakimi
TAA
Reece James
Timber

Overall combined ranking

Hakimi
Timber
Reece James
TAA

This ranking is based on current form over the past one - two years. Overall career ranking till date will be like this:

Hakimi
TAA
Reece James
Timber

achorladey:
They will deduct points each team gets from the particular team that is lowest in their respective group.

For example Nigeria end with 17 points but 2 points was removed from 17 points because Nigeria only get 2 points from the lowest team in Nigeria group Zimbabwe.

So others that are having 22 points, 19 points, those teams got 6 points from the lowest team in their group therefore a team that has 19 points after removing 6 points they go back to 13 points. Nigeria own 15 points is higher.

Thanks. Clear

chinchum:
We got lucky bro.. CAF is deducting points earned against the worst team in the group from 2nd placed team, For most of the 2nd placed teams they earned 4-6 points against the weakest team in the group, we only earned 2 points against Zimbabwe. This rule came in to effect because one of the 9 groups , a team dropped (Erithrea) out of the qualifiers.

Ah okay, thanks bro. Very clear and we got real lucky indeed. Now I hope we can exploit this lifeline. I need Osibobo on steroids.

Still a long way though.

Someone should please enlighten me biko. Nigeria's total of 17 points is only the seventh best out of the nine groups as all the others second placed teams have at least nineteen points except for Niger and Madagascar.

So how have we qualified to the African playoffs when we are not among the 4 highest 2nd placed teams?

shortgun:
Don't get me angry this morning. How will a state government register and give approval to a business entity without doing business address verification?

Oga stop using emotion to reason. Do all state government agencies have the same mandate?

Lagos State Ministry of transport issued a certificate of approval as a registered auto dealer at a confirmed address/location. They already verified that the business is located at the address stated on the certificate.

Does this mean they are the ones saddled with verifying whether the confirmed location has the necessary building approvals? That's obviously beyond their mandate as this would fall under that of LABSSCA which is the authorized agency.

What Skyewise should have shared is the building approval from LABSSCA. Then we can talk about the lack of integrity from the LASG.

sweetkev:
I knew the story has k-leg. Ola of Lagos can not even afford one of the cars displayed in that place. Don’t believe everything you see on social media.

I always knew that he leased the place. But even at that he is also a stakeholder that was negatively impacted by the demolition.

If a tenant's apartment gets burnt, the tenant will tell others our house got burnt, while the landlord will also say my house got burnt.

Both are valid claims.

shortgun:
Lagos state government and rascality
You gave approval in 2024 and you are demolishing in 2025.

Look at the document well. Its an approval issued for registering with the ministry of transport as an auto dealer and not for location of the property.

Its funny how people are reacting over a fake AI generated picture.

Can't you guys see the Gemini watermark on the second pic which shows the AI tool used to generate it?

Wahala dey o.

Centwizzy13:
No matter how u explain to them Dey will never understand. Very simple

Lol thanks. Hopefully they've gotten it now.

Chelseafan1:
Why would u say 2 to 5 percentage won't change?

I was even playing devil's advocate for Imisi by assuming that at the very least, only all the people that voted for Dede to Kola currently will still vote for them in a 5 man line up.

In reality, Dede, Koyin and Kola will get some additional votes from fans of the 6th to 9th that didnt make it to the final making their votes slightly higher than it is currently. This would mean that Imisi cannot even get all the additional 12% votes belonging to Jason J all the way to Kaybobo.

So that statement was based on assummption that Imisi gets all the extra votes just to determine the highest level she could get in a 5 man line up.