₦airaland Forum

yinkeys:
Tolu has scored 2 important goals for Nigeria
Especially when we needed it
You cannot bring on Onuachu when we desperately need a goal & expect him to deliver
Thé goals against Russia away & Rwanda at home were vital
I didn’t see Onuachus work in the EPL
Arokodare has caused serious problems for teams like Arsenal
Onuachu missed one decent clear cut chance in the 1st half against Uganda
When has Onuachu scored or come through when we desperately need a goal for Nigeria
Its the same Boniface argument
Looks like Arokodare has too many haters on this thread, I just speak fact
I don’t even know any of these guys
Arokodare has seemed more lethal for Nigeria than Onuachu
They may have better club achievements but Nigeria is a different ball game
Which club achievement does Sunday Mba have to Obi Mikel, but in that tournament Mba played better than Mikel in the KO rounds
Even if you don’t like Tolu’s personality, this is just the fact
Id rank him ahead of Boniface & Onuachu when it comes to making things happen when we desperately need it
Uganda was a friendly match lol
We already qualified
I hope Onuachu can get more goals in the KO rounds now that we need him & other strikers

Remove this line, it just spoilt the whole argument.

Emmy450:
he should be selfish abeg, just 1 AFCOAN goal so far, for our talisman??.

Exactly, he should be selfish and try to get goals himself oh, cos some people will use it to question his world class status in future, just as it's happening to kanu

Kog45:
Awaziem just showed he is no longer needed

was that Awaziem fault or the midfield, that guy ran all the way from the middle with nobody tracking him.

Mujtahida:
I didn't watch the match but omo see that pass Iwobi gave Osimhen. Iwobi saw that the defender had turned his back on him to track Osimhen and quickly laid the pass by that defender for Osimhen. Na kura sense be that.

iwobi was superb today.

lbrichman2:
Same thing he did against Tanzania
Zero reading of the game
Just in a hurry to bring on Simon

no matter what, Simon must play that's his game plan

mostob:
To think Ejuke and Simon didn't do anything of significance when they came in eh. Nnadi, Ebenezer and Onyedika are on the bench if at all you need to sub out Frank. Like what kind of ridiculous decision was that?

At least we saw the nonsense Ejuke played but Moses Simon had no business in this team. He should stop bringing him in.

CornOak:
There's no way in hell that was a penalty. Osayi and the Tunisia were very close and that can't count for a handball.

That way wrong call from the ref.

that was never suppose to be a pk, I was even expecting var to wave it

solonnachi:
I noticed that since Nigeria failed to qualify for World cup, many monikers have gone on recess on this platform especially the Supernerd. AFCON is here but it seems many are not interested. Abeg guys make una no vex. I know how this world cup meant to you all. Lets move forward, hoping that the boys will redeem themselves at this AFCON.

Gracias...

After the Congo game many were disappointed and lost interest in anything Nigeria sport. I've not visited nairaland since that day until today and it was because I was on livescore the result btw mancity and Fulham.

QueenJazz:
The whole of Twitter and Reddit is backing DR Congo to beat Nigeria. Few of them are the usual underdog advocates, but it seems the majority are the usual suspects (Ghana, SA etc) 😂

I'm still not sure what it is about Nigeria that makes practically every nation want to beef us. 😂😂

I'm also seeing people online trying to gaslight us that Gabon is not as good as DRC, like they weren't hyping Aubameyang et al to the highest heavens before we snatched their chain on national television.

Let Super Eagles just lock in and do this for me abeg. I'm going to be insufferable on Twitter for the rest of the year. 🤧

When it comes to this world cup play off, it's a well known fact that it's Nigeria against the rest of Africa. I don't know any African country supporting Nigeria to qualify

BankyGee:
Like for Eric Chelle, share for Finidi George 😏

Our formation is not important in football coach 🤦‍♂️

yinkeys:
Anyhow from who ?
Nwabali ?

the current SE are not showing that hunger and zeal to go to the world cup, safe for few. But I won't blame them cos it's a general problem. Nigerians patriotism spirit is dying.

minfelix:
las las hope dey…even old eagles break our heart in 2006 world and afcon 2012,2015 and 2017

pls don't the 2006 set with this rubbish we are see. That team after the draw with Angola, showed commitment and belief, even went ahead to beat Algeria away. But what we are seeing now is anyhowness from the players and NFF

Goke7:
Once the team fails no player can be excluded and that’s where we are always hypocritical I didn’t even single out iwobi I only asked why can’t we see more but I have noticed here that other players including osihmen, Simon, Ademola etc can be singled out but not Iwobi. Our midfield is still crap and who are the players in there? Nwabali?

You can only keep lying to yourself instead to accept you were wrong, you keep dropping more fallacy. Iwobi who I'll say is one of the most criticize present SE player is who you claim people are not allowed to criticise him

comodo:
He knew that he goofed vs Zimbabwe.

that's a quality of a good tactician, learn from previous games. Ideally with the pedigree of Nigeria in football, we shouldn't be holding on to a goal lead against Zimbabwe or Rwanda.

9JAMac10:
If I were coach of the national team. Awaziem should pair Calvin bassey in the heart of our defense. Troost ekong inexcusable error against Zimbabwe is still fresh on our minds. Troost ekong is a light skinned Kenneth omeruo. If Nigeria ends up not qualifying just note we lost it in the home game vs Zimbabwe no thanks Troost ekong

people dey talk oh 🤦‍♂️

MKPUOGALIGA:
Jackson is a player loaded with many skills and tricks.....things just didn't workout at Chelsea FC.

which skills and trick, I've always said it that the Jackson I watch at villareal is not a player ill rate as a top top stricker, an OK stricker, yes

lbrichman2:
Which bank exactly?

savannah bank plc 😂

minfelix:
WCQ
Sychelles 0-3 Gabon
CIV must beat burundi on friday to recover the driving seat of power from Gabon in group F who currently top the table on 18points.

make we kuku dey update other countries wey serious to go WC as our SE no wan show seriousness…

serious countries have gotten to 18 points, we still dy drag 7points dy find how to remove 3points from South Africa 🤦‍♂️

AndSunGorilla:
For me, it's Chrisantus. This was an unknown player just a couple of years ago. He charted his own course, except for the brief cameo with the SE, he had no national team platform to propel him. He was played out of position in the LA Liga, yet, he still excelled.

Big KUNDUS to Chrisantus Uche!!!!

A very promising playing and it took Nigeria time to call him up. If he was a foreign born na to begin drag leg to play for SE.

Campaign to trash Sane, they say he refuse to pass ball to Osimhen. 😂 How true is this

TheGoodJoe:
Reread Arsene Wenger's quote again. It is not by chatting. Give me one source that supports your argument.


Read Zidane:
Football today, physically it has changed a lot. In my time you can be less well physically it was not a big deal you could get out of it with your technique. Today, physically, it might have played tricks on me.

i quote your comment where you say they were a wide gap in respect to skills, techniques between the attack and the defence in old era, that you even refer to the defenders as grassroots. So my question is, in this modern era did the defenders improve significantly and the attack remains stagnant without any improvement that closed this wide gap

TheGoodJoe:
You are saying hogwash because you have not sat down to understand the tactical gap between the past and modern football. The understanding is totally changed. Do research study and understand.

oga your argument is baseless.,saying defenders of today has improved and close the gap blah blah blah. Which gap? Did the modern day training improve just defenders and kept other departments stagnant? Or were attackers of old had a different training session that made them more fit or tactical than defenders of their time? 🙄

TheGoodJoe:
There is a height.

Back then, the likes of Theirry Henry, Nedved and co. were close to the top. The defenders were grassroots. Today many from defenders to attackers, even goalkeepers have pushed the limit close to the ceiling.

So the gap has reduced.

Gerrit?

FIFA World best winner Canavaro, Nesta, ferdinard, lemme even bring it home, Taribo West, Uche Okechukwu are who you call grassroot footballers. Which of your current SE defenders are better tactically than the aforementioned.

TheGoodJoe:

I have told you before. Today, the defenders aare faster, more skillful, more brilliant, better passers. Defenders and defensive midfielders are more tactically sound than before. So you are not getting Zidane, Recoba, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo skipping and dancing over players like before.

So the old players can say it is boring but they know they are not fitter, tactical, faster than players today.

so today midfielders or attackers remain stagnant, shouldn't they be more skillful, more tactically sound than players of old or the modern football improve just the defenders.

chrisooblog:
Lookman really put himself in a no-win situation. Should have made sure Inter were all in for him before taking that drastic action.

Same thing that happened to Osaze

Napoleon55:
Personally I rate La Liga higher than premier league,but truth be told,Osimhen playing in any of the top 10 clubs in premier league is better than playing for Galatasaray, not that all the top 10 clubs in PL are necessarily better than Galatasaray as a team per say,but a top class performance in any of those teams like Isak did would put him up for bigger clubs, and they can confidently trigger any clause he might have with the club in PL unlike his performance in Turkey could do for him.

But anything is possible, I still believe Osimhen is going to spend only two seasons in Turkey.

Bro I disagree with you. Osimhen playing for anything team outside the top six in the EPL is a downgrade for me. Isak moving from real sociedad to Newcastle and probably Liverpool shows progression

Samueltemi337:
He should have waited for Everton too

EPL boys no go kill us 😂

Amedino99:
yes. Playing in the premier league is far better than the turkish league. I can accept his move to turkey, its his decision i cant decide for him. What we should'nt do is behave as if clamouring for his move to epl is out of place. Its unfortunate the move couldn’t work due to to the unwillingness of these clubs to meet his demands but a 26 years old player who won APOTY 2 years ago has no business in the turkish league at this stage in his career.

So he should force his way to EPL, or settle for any club because he wants to play in the EPL. Osimhen is playing for the best club in Turkey. He went to where he's wanted and not where he'll be tolerated. For me signing for Gala is better than waiting for an average club like Newcastle.

Amedino99:
If only osimhen waited, newcastle would have pushed for him, they are looking for every avaliable striker.

Are you guys that desperate for him to play in the EPL?

charlesemeka85:
🟡🔴✈️ Victor Osimhen will land in Istanbul on Wednesday, all documents are counter-signed!

Medical on Thursday for Osimhen, back to Galatasaray.

sounds funny but lemme still say it, why is Galatasaray conducting medicals for for a player that spent the whole of last season with them.

charlesemeka85:
the man don tell dem mk dem no Dey worry am say him no do again 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

their talk dy give am headache 😂 😂 😂

Papi85:
Current info now is that ADL have notified middlemen to inform Gala reps that he doesn’t want to sale to them 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

that guy na case 😂