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Both tactically and technically that game was an embarrassment.

Our attempts to press high up the pitch was laughable. Not once did we succeed in forcing a turnover from it. You only need one player to not be doing his job and your press is a waste of time. The Cameroonians actually showed us how to do it properly when they could be bothered.

Our build-ups from the back were extremely predictable after only 5 mins of watching. Defender passes the ball through the middle, receiving midfielder feels an opponent nearby and so quickly returns ball to sender and runs 10 yards further up the pitch taking opponent with him. Rinse and repeat until ball is lost in a crowd of legs half way inside the opposition half.

Our only saving grace which seemed to have been our speed on the counter was made pointless due to yet again extremely poor decision making in the final third.

We don't have an identity as a team. This may sound cliche but for a team to be successful every player needs to be fully with a program. In our case, at least today, there wasn't one.

IDENNAA:
Who is wearing jersey number 21 ?

that guy whoever he may be is not ready.

andrewbaba44:
This patson daka must be a very good player

Dude is being linked to Chelsea and Liverpool

Zambia might have a player in a big club soon

He is explosive! If he was European you would have heard his name alongside the usual suspects

Surebaba01:
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Massive coup being plotted there by the black stars!

Beloved3:
Algeria vs Mali friendly

I'm not sure we can beat both teams. This Mali team will definitely beat us with this their intensity.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQJ6eX8_u4

Intensity on top of friendly match abi? You know say no be on top end of season friendlies prick suppose dey charge sha?

chrisooblog:
Ekong was covering for Awaziem who was caught out of position while Okoye was a bit slow to react to Anguissa's shot. Even the midfielders could have reacted faster to Ekong's clearance. Ekong gets full marks from me for trying to avert danger. I can bet if it was someone like kepa that conceded that goal he would have been torn to shreds

In the move for the Cameroon goal:
Ekong's interception was 5/10, a better defender perhaps has the situational awareness to know that a team mate will not be the first onto the loose ball that would result from intercepting that way and dealt with the situation in a different way.

Okoye being beaten on his near side from outside the box is just short of a howler. He is 6ft 5!! It was a decent shot but nothing special so it's 3/10 for me. African keepers like Mendy or Onana I reckon would have pushed that shot around the post for a corner.

andrewbaba44:
Savage

Hahaha true nau, abi na lie I talk?

Okay imagine am say one bobo when get small money con jam two fine babes wen be friends at the same time. He begin toast one dey wax lyrical for her head...small time as he see say she no go gree for am, he con do sharp left begin toast the other one. By that time sef the small money wen he get don reduce.

Abeg brethren no be hot slap the bobo dey find?

charlesemeka85:
Bournemouth star Philip Billing is considering switching his international allegiance to Nigeria after he was omitted from Denmark's 26-man roster for the upcoming European Championship.

Manager Kasper Hjulmand has named seven midfielders in the squad list, picking Christian Eriksen (Inter Milan), Thomas Delaney (Borussia Dortmund), Pierre-Emile Højbjerg (Tottenham), Daniel Wass (Valencia), Mathias Jensen (Brentford), Anders Christiansen (Malmo) and Christian Nørgaard (Brentford) ahead of Billing.

Billing has played only one match for Denmark's senior team, a friendly against Faroe Islands in October 2020 when he was in action for 72 minutes and before then made thirteen appearances combined for Denmark U19 and U21 teams.

The 24-year-old central midfielder , who is a player of interest to Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr, previously stated that it will be strange to represent Nigeria as he feels one hundred percent Danish but is now reconsidering the decision.

Speaking to BT, Billing explained : "My father is from Nigeria, so I have thought about it, and I know that Nigeria would very much like me.

"I have talked to the coach several times, so it is something I have thought about more after I have not been selected for the European Championships.

"There will also soon be a World Cup that I will have to think about. I am almost 25 years old and I have only played one international match. I also have something I would like to achieve in my career."

Billing impressed for Bournemouth in the 2020-2021 campaign, scoring eight goals and providing four assists in 34 appearances in the Championship.

Billing, 23, was snapped up by the Cherries in a £15-million transfer after he suffered relegation with Huddersfield at the end of the 2018/19 season.

Scroll through the gallery above to see 5 recent players Rohr has convinced to represent Nigeria

However, in his third season in the English top-flight, the technically gifted central midfielder has developed into an established performer under manager Eddie Howe.

As a result, Rohr has come knocking for the Super Eagles for a second occasion, with Billing yet to make his senior national team debut despite earning a maiden call-up in March last year.

But the powerful midfielder claims it would be awkward for him to turn his back on Kasper Hjulmand's side to represent the country of his fathers' birth.

"I saw the last time people started to speculate that I didn't mind playing for Denmark and blah, blah, blah," he told Danish news outlet BT.

"It would be strange to stand up for Nigeria when I feel 100 percent Danish. Of course, I have Nigerian roots and am half Nigerian, but I was raised and born in Denmark.

"I have a Danish mother, Danish little brother and Danish little sister and a Nigerian father. But this is Denmark I want to stand for. That's my big dream.

"I've talked to the coach, but I know where I want to play. I want to play for Denmark, so it is no longer than that.

"He [Rohr] just said he really wanted me to play for Nigeria because the upcoming World Cup and Africa Cup of Nations will be played soon. I made it pretty clear to him that I wanted to play for Denmark. That's my big dream."

Billing has featured 29 times for the South Coast outfit this season, scoring three goals and registering a solitary assist.

Even if Phillip Anyawu Billing becomes a balon dor contender tomorrow as a matter of principle we must not invite him.

Doing this will help further enhance the super eagles brand and accord it the respect it deserves.

Even as an ordinary bottom of the table premier League player he disowned us in front of the media because everyone was giving him hype. Fast forward 3 years and reality has slapped him in the face, he is now a 25 year old championship player with no premier League or international options he now has amnesia and remembers his dad is from Nigeria.

I agree with him his dad is from Nigeria no doubt but he is from Denmark.

Rohr and Pinnick must respect themselves!

seankafor:
any price on this

Bragging rights perhaps?

Na me create this league O but only came 11th place. I won last season sha

femianski:
Hope Iheanacho reaches the 20 goal-mark before the season ends

Just one more goal....

what about Tesla in 1926...

isan:
Why will Germany capped a division 4 goalkeeper ? even if we didn't cap him the he can get is u23 call up but i can see a lot bundesliga team trying to sign him

Thats the thing, if we didnt cap him he will probably still be in Division 4!!

Don't forget his first cap was against Brazil facing Neymar, Firmino and Coutinho dem ....just checked on transfermrkt and the league match he missed whilst away on international duty was against SC Verl. He made it back in time to face Vfb Homberg hahaha

Now after facing Neymar which kain eye he go take dey look those division 4 players?

He grew up after that first cap...

isan:
Germany would have take notice by now and make it very difficult for us to cap him

Of course! But this time last year he was in Division 4...and we capped him regardless and it has ended up in a in-win situation for both parties. A win for the Super Eagles and win for him!

No loss to Germany....because if they valued him as much as we did and still do they should have capped him whilst he was in Division 4! abi no be so?

BascoVanVeli:
Enyimba's highlights vs pyramids of Egypt. Filled with mistake after mistake.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz-g-DTYuvE

I watched this game live on TV and Enyimba looked like a team from division 10. Even poorer than in these highlights...and if you think they're bad just watch when other Nigerian clubs play against proper teams. It is an embarrassment.

TheSuperNerd:
Maduka Okoye makes Netherlands's Voetbalzone.nl's Eredivisie Team of the Season (TOTS) 20/21.

Translated from their site below is their review of the lad:


Maduka Okoye (Sparta Rotterdam):

With competitors such as Remko Pasveer from Vitesse and Sergio Padt from FC Groningen, the choice was not easy, but Okoye had a wonderful season at Sparta in the shadows.
The only 21-year-old Nigerian was only passed 35 times in 28 games and kept the zero 10 times, impressive figures for a goalkeeper from Sparta. Earlier this week, he kept his team going at FC Utrecht (0-0) with a few nice saves, which turned out to be crucial for reaching the play-offs. Robert Maaskant called the 1.97 meters tall lad last week at RTV Rijnmond a 'crazy athlete', while Kees Kwakman put him at the top of his top three revelations in the Eredivisie on Sunday.

"He is very interesting. He came over from Fortuna Düsseldorf for zero euros! Really a great keeper."


Source: https://m.voetbalzone.nl/doc.asp?uid=388458

Imagine us trying to cap him now. He will say he is thinking!
Shout out goes to Rohr for correctly having the belief in inviting him to join the Super Eagles team whilst playing in division 3 or was it even division 4. Shout out too goes to the fans for not crucifying the young man when he was called up. We have seen what can happen when players are called up and not believed to have earned it on merit. Ask Viv Solomon Otabor for example.

Finally even the Okoye himself will also be thankful to Rohr for the show of faith and support to help get him where the is today!

Did this exact same trip in 2012 using my naija passport and they embraced me at the airport. Guess times have changed.

zoboizee:
Well, football is never played on paper. And our defeats in the hands Ghana by far pre-date the generation you mentioned above. History always tell a long tale. Respect to whom it's due.

Of course, everyone knows that!


The upper hand in football rivalry mostly occurs in cycles. In any one generation one team may have the upper hand.

Since I started watching football (circa late 1980's) my summary of our rivalry goes like this, after losing to Ghana 0-1 in Kumasi, in the 1992 AFCON qualifiers, in fact that was the game in which Alloy Agu lost a tooth and then losing to them again 2-1 in the 1992 AFCON Semifinal, Ghana did not beat Nigeria again until 2008!!

That Ghanian generation of the early 90's with Abedi Pele, Tony Yeboah, Prince Polly Opoku etc were slightly stronger than our generation of super eagles at the time and it showed how they edged games against us even when we played better on the day.

In the generations following that from the mid 90's to the late 2000's, we undoubtedly had the upper hand. Apart from 2 goalless draws, one in Lagos (1994 Friendly) and one in Accra (2002 World cup qual) we beat them every single time! They dreaded being drawn against us, this is fact. We Kicked them out of AFCONs and World Cup qualifiers.....until 2008 and then they regained the upper hand. I think the fact that they qualified for their first world cup in 2006 and we didn't already indicated they were now stronger than us again.

Now it is back to our turn. You can disagree, no problem but the cycle continues...lets play them!

zoboizee:
Funny how some people on this thread under-rate Ghana. I have watched Nigeria-Ghana rivalry over the years, close to 40 years precisely. Only a yesterday's child will talk cheaply about Ghana even if they assembled a first eleven of local players. Please, let give respect to whom respect is due.

My guy leave matter, it is not disrespect it is a sign of respect that we want to play them now we have a better team on paper at least.

When they had a midfield of Appiah, Muntari and Essien and we were managing them Kaita, Ajilore, Etuhu etc and they were beating us upandan we didnt complain....bring them please.

One from the archives....the internet never forgets

To those that are too young to have watched the Super Eagles under Westerhof, I sincerely sympathize with you...

That team in particular between 1991 and 1994 are the reason I still have high hopes for Naija football. Surely we can play like that again one day.

The National Stadium Surulere was a confirmed slaughter house.
I remember these games on TV like yesterday!
World Cup Qualifier in 1993: Nigeria 4 - Algeria 1 (coming from behind to do them, Okocha's debut and scored the equaliser with a direct freekick)
World Cup Qualifier in 1993: Nigeria 4 - Ivory Coast 1 (hard game but that result against reigning African champions was sweet!)
AFCON Qualifier in 1993: Nigeria 6 - Ethiopia 0 (Yekini scored3/4 goals cant remember now, it was Oliseh's debut.)
AFCON Qualifier in 1991: Nigeria 7 - Burkina Faso 1 (Finidi's debuted as a Sharks of Port hacourt player and he scored! Another good home based player that day was Dotun Alatise. Yekini scored 4 lol)

Ah man we will be good again

samwriter:
abeg I need the training. How can we meet?

Do not be stupid. Sure you have taken a beaten and now have that desperate desire to revenge asap in hand to hand combat. But you clearly are not ready for that. If you even manage to beat this thug tomorrow then what next? What's your plan?

Listen....the most important consideration when planning revenge is timing.

My own personal policy is ..the longer i have to wait to revenge the harder I will f*uck you up when I do! Nuff said

drDoom3:
Not true.

I have watched all his matches so far. Last goal was Insigne assist. Before that was Lozano assist. And so on.

Correct. My mistake.

TheSuperNerd:
Victor Osimhen's Last 7 games for Napoli

Total Goals Contribution: 5 goals + 1 assist.

Breakdown:
▶️Goal vs Crotone
▶️Assist vs Juventus
▶️Goal vs Sampdoria
▶️❌ vs Inter Milan
▶️Goal vs SS Lazio
▶️Goal vs Torino
▶️Goal vs Cagliari


Despite battling episodes of Shoulder Injury, Covid and Head Trauma injury all this season, The Monster Machine is back and in fine form. Next season will be even more lit for the lad known as the Prince of Naples. Watch out!

He's finally getting settled. Very pleased for him.

What I find bizarre is that none of his 8 league goals this season have an assist registered against. That backs the evidence that the team as currently set up does not look to utilise him as they ought to....hope the fans can see that before passing judgement.

Onuachu to Arsenal?

https://www.justarsenal.com/video-who-is-potential-arsenal-signing-paul-onuachu-goals-assists/280239/amp

Samueltemi337:
Iheanacho is better than Messi

Our senior man Kels is even better than Pele!

lloydtruth:
Any serious side can see his huge potential without being in the National team, but then sooner than later he will be in the National team.

Rumors claim he is Dortmund bound in the summer...this might just sweeten the deal for Lorient, especially if he keeps them up in the process.

When I saw on Livescore Moffi had scored a hat trick, Samu had scored against Barca and even Simon Moses had chipped in with an assist for Nantes the winning goal I knew this page will be buzzing!

Add that to Senior Aman Kels winning souls in England and Simy's 18th and 19th goals of the season yesterday I'm here wishing Afcon was starting tomorrow!

12large1:
Are you not the one that insulted and called me names first? Respect my friend is reciprocal. Don't go calling people Stupid or throw bottle on them for having a different opinion

Okay I have read all your arguements and you were indeed the first to insult in this matter....just apologize and move on.

Subzero047:
How reputable is this website?

I'll say it is quite reliable in Scotland..