PurpleHouse:
When you have a bold coach who uses the right players

nelszx:

Not about coach, Djibouti is to Africa what Tahiti is to Oceania. They have been beaten 17-1, 10-0, 8-1 and the recent 8-0 now. They are ranked 51/54th African team according to FIFA rankings.
Make of that what you will

Ppogbae:
The pitch in Zimbabwe vs South Africa looked so damn good

LoverOfPussy:
Liberia won Djibouti 6 - 0

JohnBullMySon:
Always do proper research before you allow your victim mentality to take over. Enugu stadium has been Astroturf for a very long time. Super Eagles don't play on Astroturf when a workable approved natural pitch is available. Besides, The Enugu Stadium was part of the seven stadiums submitted to and approved by CAF as W/C qualifier grounds.

Now keep quiet sir.

kendrick93:

The AstroTurf at Enugu was laid in the year 2009..
Before then, the National teams still didn't host any of their games there.
The last time a National side held a competitive game in the east was in the 99 u20 world cup hosted by Nigeria.
That was ***** 22 yrs ago...
National matches supposed to be played in all geopolitical zones of the country..
If the eagles could host matches in sub standard facilities like Asaba & Calabar then they have no excuses not coming down to the Eastern part of the country

Meliforme:
Our EPL guys did it for us yesterday.
The quality of that league is very obvious.

kendrick93:

The AstroTurf at Enugu was laid in the year 2009..
Before then, the National teams still didn't host any of their games there.
The last time a National side held a competitive game in the east was in the 99 u20 world cup hosted by Nigeria.
That was ***** 22 yrs ago...
National matches supposed to be played in all geopolitical zones of the country..
If the eagles could host matches in sub standard facilities like Asaba & Calabar then they have no excuses not coming down to the Eastern part of the country

humility33:


Who will fund them; hotel accommodations and others should they play in abuja? Some of this state governors do this things thats why they take this match to this states but I blame the nff for not devising means to make money from ticket sales and tv rights to offset this bills

maidaboi:
A Nigerian defending the field on Leicester forum

Parrot69:
I’m surprised you guys didn’t notice how Yakubu Aiyebeni spirit entered the pitch on the 37th minute

Odunayow:
So mediocrity should continue so as to massage tribal egos?

dozai:

Soon Zulum go fund them and off to Borno we go. Maybe the home game of the 2nd round. Nonsense and Nff

Barryseal:

It was even circumstance beyond their control that brought them to the East in 99. They came runners up in their group in Lagos ,they had to play the group winners Mali, in Enugu. The East have produce some of our best talents over the years but a generation have passed without watching their boys live. The governors should take the blame as well, no way the NFF will refuse to play ball with them if they made an offer. Kano and Kaduna stadium are same generation with Nnamdi Azikiwe stadium. Its not a matter of facility but political will.

PurpleHouse:
Ebuehi is the BEST at his position in the SE, but no. He doesn't gets to always play unless we are losing. Oyekuru is lightning fast, but no, oga Rohr wants defensive wingers and not attacking wingers.

I'm not complaining. It's just that my passion for the eagles is to high to be toyed with by a scared manager.

Oasis001:


Maybe Aina needs to give up his Life on the Pitch, before he's appreciated by some Folks on this Thread.

andrew444:


Nigeria won the game but you must always look for a fault

If you dont like aina say it with your full chest, dude hardly got bad games for the eagles but you guys must look for a way to attack him indirectly, even if naija won liberia 7-0 you will still come and make noise about how ebuehi is not playing , you should be happy we got the 3 points , i am sure ebuehi will start at cape verde so that most of you will keep quiet

The hate for aina who has done nothing wrong is so irritating

andrew444:


Nigeria won the game but you must always look for a fault

If you dont like aina say it with your full chest, dude hardly got bad games for the eagles but you guys must look for a way to attack him indirectly, even if naija won liberia 7-0 you will still come and make noise about how ebuehi is not playing , you should be happy we got the 3 points , i am sure ebuehi will start at cape verde so that most of you will keep quiet

The hate for aina who has done nothing wrong is so irritating

do4luv14:



Who dey diss Aina for here

Ppogbae:
Whatever happens, we need avoid dropping out of top 5 in Africa. This is because it'll allow us to avoid teams like Algeria and Senegal when the seeding is calculated for playoffs in the 3rd round. In other words, staying in the top 5 will allow us to be in the same pot as those two teams when the draw takes place.

andrew444:


No worry

nelszx:

Not so good yet, but it will be the best turf in few months time. The grass are still sprouting and its those type in Europe.

Oasis001:


Maybe Aina needs to give up his Life on the Pitch, before he's appreciated by some Folks on this Thread.

elyte89:



Its now becoming boring...d guy played well yday,so what's d point.. Osimhen dt was below average,nobody gree talk abt am because him na d favourite, yeye dey smell

Thumbs up to iwobi,ndidi,nacho and aina..dey played well

12large1:
I am grateful that we won despite the horrible pitch. but, to be honest, our team doesn't inspire or present me any confidence that we can lift next year ANC with today's performance. There wasn't apparent team cohesion, balance and we just looked like a team saturated with Individual Gifted players rather than teamwork. First of all, Playing a 424 makes the team imbalanced and if the coach wants to utilize a " 2 striker" system, he must changed that formation. 352, 3412, but never 424

Personally, I don't trust Ekong, balogun, Aina and Collins to be instrumental at the world stage, but they're good enough to win domestic title with the right coaching.
In midfield,
Joe aribo hasn't played any decent game for us at the continent and maybe the horrible pitch accounted for it.

At the wings, the Simon Moses, Ahmed Musa hasn't impressed me in a long time for SE and on current form, I will rather Ejuke, onyekuru on the wings.

Upfront: Osimehn was disappointing with his 1st touch, awareness and missed chances but scrutinizing his super eagles stats, he can be forgiven for today's below average performance.

Overall, I was impressed with Ndidi, iheanacho and Iwobi while rest were bang average or Bad.
As for coach Rohr, he needs to shove sentiment aside and select his best Available 11, select a balanced formation and stop compromising "familiarity" with "competence". In football, anything can happen but analyzing super eagles performance in respect to our opponent, we're an Anc semi final contender and another WC group stage exit (assuming we Qualify) except a drastic change occur

femianski:
Patson Daka and Enock Mwepu will not be available for Zambia's next match due to the English FA covid 19 protocol of 10 days quarantine before playing a match in England. Hope our premier league stars won't be affected too

kendrick93:

You must be very slow my niqqa if that's your take from everything i just said..
smh

kendrick93:

Imagine that.
It wasn't even of their will but circumstance.
And you have folks here who still don't get what I'm driving at or they do but rather prefer playing the ostrich...
From Kano to Kaduna, PH, Warri, Lagos,Uyo, Calabar etc....
virtually all these cities have hosted either the male or female national team since 22yrs a national side hosted a game @Enugu..
o wrong nau.
The s/east governors and even the players are partly to blame...

forgiveness:


You have not seen Simon and Musa impressed you in a long time? Is 2018 qualifiers and World Cup part of the long time? Because I don’t understand what your long time means.

jihday:
2018 is too far, Musa was instrumental to us beating Cameroon at the last Afcon

jihday:
most of our epl guys have already gone back to England