jihday:
England would have beaten Spain, Spain aren't defensively solid plus they make a lot of mistakes

Exactly. Spanish defenders aren't as disciplined like those old guards of Italy. After England scored early, if it was Spain, England will score more.

JohnBullMySon:
England will not pass quarter final in the world cup. Their attack is still very disjointed.

Just say you preferred England to win because you are sounding as if you didn't watch this game.

They have good individual players but not a good team. Individual brilliance of Sterling brought them out of group stage. Even against Denmark, it was an huff and puff everywhere.

Look at the Italian and Spanish team, look at the way they play and the technical quality they posses, from the coach to the smallest players. Look at the level of coordination in the play compared to England. Even the likes of Austria and Switzerland play good football with their low quality players.

England still has a long way to go when it comes to playing proper football. Fortunately for them, they have individual talents to help them do tournament shithousery by getting into latter stages of competition

BascoVanVeli:



Jordan Nwora's father did good ooo. The man won afrobasket and also did well at FIBA.

Yea. I know the man.

He started the Renaissance of the basketball team. Coach Mike brown is just following it up and continue were he stopped because let's be fair, he's the more experienced and high profile one to take over. Basically the NBBF upgraded the team's coach.

This is what the NFF should have done after the Afcon. Hire someone better to continue from where he stopped because Rohr has reached his ceiling.

Danielnino00:


Absolute truth...the fact that they went all out to hire a coach with a CV like Mike Brown shows how serious they are..

I keep saying it, African teams are shortchanging themselves by hiring mediocre coaches to their national teams...

Exactly.
100% The big African nations in west and North Africa has the players to be making at least Quarter finals in Every world cup we play, at least 2 African teams should be getting to quarterfinals . But the various useless FAs will be hiring European reject coaches because they have white skin, or hire a local inexperienced coach who doesn't have the knowledge of the modern game. If they want to hire a foreign coach, let them hire the best ones or let them send some of their local coaches to these European coaching schools to aquire the best of knowledge of they want to stay local. The resources are there for these things but most of the FAs just choose to be unfortunate.

BascoVanVeli:
This one hurts some people

You're just setting this innocent guy up for future banters, it's not necessary.

Just hope he does well, then you can pepper the afterwards.
He didn't show promise in his last two loan moves, always becoming bench warmer there, let's calm down first na

daveP:
My elder bro brought this up during the 2010 WC and it made sense to me ever since. Now you've brought it up here and i can't but agree its unfair to the GK who is already tied to his lucky of picking only one side and with all their zeal and breath in that.

With his teammates rooted to outside the box again,the pk taker has more chance to change his fate which isnt fair to the Gk. Of course there are few good gks that recover to deny such a rebound like Kane's yesternight, but since its still IN GAME, the rule should tilt to fairness. The PK shoot outs own is okay for now.

PK during a game is meant as punishment. The attacking team should rightly have the advantage not the goalkeeper defending it

mostob:
I know. My comment is based on the clip. I agree we need to watch her full game over and over.


Then, Oshoala must be really fast.

@,Bolded, Oshoala against Man City was just dusting Lucy Bronze like nothing. And Bronze is England's fastest fullback . She's very fast.
Just like Rashford of Man united, her speed and ability to make run in behind defenders creates a lot of goal scoring opportunities for her because those Barca women midfielders are good and always spot her runs with good passes, but her average finishing ability is why she always miss a lot of those chances, just like Rashford too.

But I bet you , when you put another player in that position or she's playing with midfielders that can't spot a run, those 1v1 chances won't happen.

andrewbaba44:


Moreno is being played out of position

Moreno is a very average CF. He scored so much last season because he was on Penalty duty. There is reason why no team is falling over each other to sign him. Not even athletico. He's just a stat padding penalty merchant


Him and Morata lost the most big chances in the competition.

Being played out of position does not diminish your finishing ability when you get a big chance to score.

BascoVanVeli:


Then why is it that American players don't destroy everyone when they go to Europe Listen carefully, the reason the USWNT is so good is that they take time off from club football to have long camps from time to time. This is a league that has shut down multiple times. Nobody watches it. So don't come and start telling stories.

We just entered July and the US national team has played up to 12 games. Some of their players don't even have up to that amount of game time for club. E.g Rapinoe.

They play too much games together. It's like their national team is their club side.

andrewbaba44:


Harry Kane self is too big

If Spain can have a good striker they will be among favorites to win the next World Cup

A Calvert Lewin or Danny ings Decent level of striker is enough for Spain, and they will clear every team out. Morata, and his brother Moreno , no be am at all.

marvin906:




I hope she's not using us as a decoy to get to the England team

She can't currently get close to the England team even if she wishes , decoy or not.

Her case is just a matter of wanting to make an international career for herself because time dey go. So she might be legit

JorgedeToledo:


Thanks PDPGuy.

Nneka and Chinney Ogwumike have played for the senior team of the USA including the world cup.
How can they be eligible to play for the d'tigress?

It seems FIBA is more flexible when it comes to nationality change. Compared to FIFA that ties down players destiny whenever they get cap tied to another country

nitrogen:


Hmmmm, this table you are shaking, they are coming for you o

He's shaking a pointless table that will only result into multiple pages of Argument , which is what the guy probably wants, so please don't give him the pleasure by giving him what he wants.

Because both sides will be right in whatever point that they will raise. So don't get tempted by giving him what he wants.

People like the engrelvis guy just like raising pointless debates in threads for engagement

Schemerkhiz:


At least someone is Speaking the truth, Comparing Asisat Oshoala to Megan Rapinoe is an insult to Women Football as a whole...

If I'm to even rate Asisat Oshoala she's just 60% of Megan Rapinoe..

Rapinoe dey try and she's acheived more than oshoala for sure. But make una calm down with her hype. Rapinoe is grossly overated and wasn't even the best player in that USA team itself. Her last world best award win was purely political and she herself knows it. Someone that only played 11 games in a whole year then, like how? No be juju be that Her being the face of LGBTQ+ also helped her.

cc12:
It's not about training together for 2 weeks, if they even trained together for 3 months,the result will be the same, mediocre footballers will always be mediocres no matter how long they train together.

Yea, that was my point. 2 weeks is more than enough time for a group of decent players to train together and play even if it's an average game

humility33:


Should they play same nonsense against panama then i will give up completely

What is paining me in all these nonsense is that these idiots will just spoil Rohrs work of all these years concerning our FIFA rankings by dragging us down with these results.

humility33:


And also to market the NPFL players to eastern europe and obsecure leagues.... but now the players can't even market themselves to Rwandan league....

sh*t blew out in all their faces

4-0 not surprised.

I see some NFF and NPFL apologist giving nonsense excuses that those guys haven't played together bla bla bla. But they won't tell us how these guys have been training twice a day for two weeks straight. Yet they can't even string passes to each other comfortably or trap a simple ball. Wonder what they've been doing in training all these days.

See super falcons. Only trained for like 2 to 3 days, yet played well and didn't disgrace the country. They were more coordinated, do the basics right and played without fear even against the best women's team in the world and lost by a respectable scoreline.

Some of the players are a joke, Aigbogun their coach is a clown, and Amaju and his NFF goons that decided to prosecute this match with home based just to prove a baseless point or whatever are a complete circus

handelex:
It's like Matt Judge and co are getting sense small small. Also Brozović has only a year remaining in his contract.

I guess, it came with experience. You can only fail so much and it will get to a point that you'll start getting the hang of things after multiple experiences. Even Outgoing Woodward was beginning to make good decisions at the tail end of his stay in the club.

Expert17:


Degea who can't start for club and country on 350 - 375K, and no plans to dispose him

VDB on 120k

Ice Cold Flop on 250K

Pogba pushing for 400K

Leave De Gea out of the Convo. Regardless of his present predicament, he earned that money, as at when he signed that extension.

It's just unfortunate that he regressed shortly after.
The rest of the guys you mentioned used juju on Ed

Jodera:
Lol... How Liverpool is able to still give some of their top stars average salary is a world wonder.
Check out mane, jota, fabinho and even captain Henderson's salary. All are below £150k per week. In fact the highest is £200k per week and sometimes I wonder weda na the same England all of them dey with other clubs
It's really amazing tbh

That is because most of them came in as average/above average players and not world class. The likes of Mane, Salah Henderson etc didn't come as super star signings.

However, none of this guys are even talking about contract renewal except Liverpool gives them a bumper deal, they will all run down their contracts like Wjinaldum to go for bigger pay elsewhere.

Trevor012:

Already confirmed Starboy number 7

That reporter is just capping, Sancho won't get that shirt number until Cavani leaves

hensben:
I think the ball was hit a bit hard with a projectile move/curve.

Also the pass failed the number one basic rule of a back pass, which is; never pass the ball back to the goal keeper directly to the center of the goal post.

A good back pass is always sideways away from the center of the post.

That is why you see most goalkeepers move away from the center of the post to receive a back pass to prevent something like this incase they miss the ball

BikeMan:
How old is Ronaldo? Isn’t he spearheading Portugal’s attack in this competition? Was he not playing game in game out for Juve last season?

Your player has been terrible for a while now, you say he too dey play games. Every other player in the world competing in the Euros noh dey play games Na.

Portugal plays through Ronaldo. Every attacking moves goes through him

afrodoc2:

Bruno had better recalibrate himself. It’s not only by spamming passes into the box.

Maybe he has been listening to his fan boys here who believe there is nothing to criticise in his game.

BTW, his job description as an AM is to spam passes into the box. That is what creates chances.

afrodoc2:

Bruno had better recalibrate himself. It’s not only by spamming passes into the box.

Maybe he has been listening to his fan boys here who believe there is nothing to criticise in his game.

Nothing wrong with him though. Club football and international football are not the same. Him flopping at euros doesn't count for much . As good as Rooney was, he was always shit at international competitions for England aside for his debut Euro tournament in 2004.

Also, the guy needed some break. Cos he's obviously fatigued from too much games. The fact that he wasn't even running around and pressing hard for the national team the way he used to do for man utd says a lot

Ibime:


Why not Dele Alli stats at that age.

Expectations were different back then in terms of goal output from wingers but any man and his dog could see Messi was already in the top 3 players in 2006.

Messi came 2nd in Balon d'Or in 2008 at 21 years old BTW and won it at 22 in 2009. Havertz is already 22.

Even Ronaldo was a midfielder in a 4-4-2 then, whose assigned job by sir Alex job was to make crosses for strikers to score. And played majorly from the RW then under sir Alex.

jihday:
Euro 2008, Netherlands beat France and Italy convincingly I was sure they'll win that tournament only to end up loosing to Russia in the quarterfinals

Cup competitions are unpredictable, I swear down

A useless team can manage to qualify into knock out round and go all the way, beating a supposedly good team along the way with just 120 minutes of bokoHaram football

kenzysmith:
So this guy carry 153 million naira go appeal just like that money wey go reach am build two world class hotel, or he feel used the money build 10 plazas at once they collect him rent jejely.
My question is must he be a coach? Worst still na still the same under 20 or Olympic job highest super eagles job he go lobby for to continue collecting bribe in 5 years time he will be close to 60 na people wey donate the 153 million I blame cause my one naira no dey the money

His reputation was at stake bro.

BascoVanVeli:


I don't care about him not coming back when he should have never been forced out in the first place. And let's stop this nonsense about enyeama not trying such at his club. No club would strip u off the captain band a few days after you bury your mother. No European club would do that.


Oliseh didn't give Mikel the band. Siasia gave it to Mikel. That also was also a ridiculous decision. They gave him the job to beat Egypt and qualify for the nations cup but he started with politics. Then we were playing in Kaduna and that made the decision risky because there was the initial threat of a riot because Musa was stripped.

@Bolded , no one forced him out. He forced himself out. Even during the fiasco, he was still Oliseh no.1 goal keeper. The NFF even persuaded him to come back after Oliseh left but man felt he was doing the team a favour. I'm not a fan of Oliseh but I'll not accept the narrative of being forced out that you want to be pushing.

do4luv14:



Vincent would had been topping this list, if not for Oliseh shitty man management, and Iron V pride

All dsame LEGEND.......!!!!!!!

Stop blaming Oliseh for the decision of a grown adult na. The last time I checked they were both complicit in the situation. Oliseh was a crazy manager, Enyeama with his own dose of ego decided to retire out of anger without thinking things through, it's not as if Oliseh sent him out if the team. Even after the fiasco, and when Oliseh was no more the coach, the NFF made an effort to bring him back but my guy's ego did not allow him to listen.

Pls don't let us be revising history abeg. In as much as Oliseh head no correct, Enyeama himself no act like a proper professional during the incident. Something that they can't try in their club side even if coach is wrong

symbuul:
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