Mujtahida:

We drew first blood. Argentina are coming with vengeance especially. The Messi factor is huge. Rohr said it's a physical challenge against Iceland, a tactical challenge against Croatia and a challenge against Argentina. I don't know what a challenge against Argentina meant to him ooo but I dare say that against Argentina it would be a physical, tactical and psychological challenge all rolled into one. We should prepare to meet a different beast.

Kog45:
Do not worry we are winning the World Cup

elunico:
I have a question to ask. Is this the time to go about "looking for the best?" or is this the time for us to "bring out the best in what we already have?"

Kratoss, Kog45, Safarigirl, Mujtahida, TheGoodJoe, Komekn, Jihady, Icon4s, Icon79, Soetanoreoluwa, elyte89, Goke7, Jobie, Forgiveness, Somehow, goldfish80, Tbaba1234 + others who's got a thing to say.

Magink:


Peterside said on the radio which I listened to on Lagos talks that the conversation he had with Enyeama was actually after that Oliseh incident occurred, so this report isn't recent but around last year.

goldfish80:


Moses was dire in the game against Iran. He touched he ball just 13 times in his time on the pitch. He deservedly lost his place in the team afterwards.
I even forgot to add Mikel Obi himself didn't exactly cover himself in glory @ that world cup. He was as average as others, you may not want to admit it, but you can't prove me wrong.

Magink:


Peterside said on the radio which I listened to on Lagos talks that the conversation he had with Enyeama was actually after that Oliseh incident occurred, so this report isn't recent but around last year.

Icon4s:


And we are down playing the goal keeping position.

Even Rohr has said he has a goal keeping crisis and is making all efforts to get back Enyeama.

Uzoho ba wo?

Mujtahida:

We have a crisis. If Enyeama doesn't return Uzoho will be the number one.

Icon4s:


Experience!

That is one word some pretend is not important.

You want to make a 19years old inexperienced goalie your first choice to the FIFA world cup and feel cool with that?

We laboured hard to get this world cup ticket abeg.

Icon4s:


Mark my word Rohr would rather make Ezenwa number one in Enyeama's absence.

Humility017:

so happy for him...
alhassan featured today too....for his club.
good to see good exports of this kind from npfl....

g0tze:
Super eagles sports fans, i am here to report to the house the childish and irresponsible behaviour of one of your own TheGoodJoe or Cityjoe. I have been his fan on this thread till he dabbled into some threads in the political section. His posts portrayed him as a full blown tribalist.
Anybody that knows TheGoodJoe should warned him to refrain from posting tribal comments on the political thread otherwise this once peaceful thread will become a theatre of war.

Mujtahida:

My earlier statement has been modified. Not Ezenwa but Uzoho. Read his statements on Ezenwa even when Ezenwa performed well against Cameroon. He said Ezenwa is the second gk.

Mujtahida:

It still makes the point that Keshi's team was average to say that Mikel and Moses were average. Only three players distinguished themselves a bit: Onazi, Babatunde and Enyeama.

safarigirl:
Nogeruans are their own biggest enemies in these things

Anytime they say public vote, I just know Nigerians will not win

Icon4s:


Second to Akpeyi

Goke7:


truth be told we have a goal keeping crisis that we can't do much about. Ikeme's illness has truly opened our yansh wella. No wonder great sides always make they have at least two solid keepers any day any time which we normally do before as we have never had this too bad before.

For me I can't even bank on any keeper now even with Enyeama. I hope we would learn our lesson going forward cos it looks as if we retired some of our former keepers too early despite the fact that some of them are still active even signing up for clubs in recent times. We over relied on Ikeme and see what it has cost us.

Goke7:


so all the blame can't go to keshi alone then, we Nigerians piled up pressure on him to select some players which is what we are also doing now. This is what I keep saying, when things go wrong, we blame the coach forgetting that we also made input into the team selection.

This is why am too cautious on the way we are throwing up names of players who were never in the radar before. God help us o!

Goke7:


for me, it's time for us to actually bring out the best in what we already have. For me compared to 2014, we have a stronger bench now. You can't call a bench that will have musa, etebo, ogu, ebuehi, aina even ihenacho [if Ighalo is used], simon [cos iwobi is ahead] a weak bench. Though we have very few areas of weakness but am too careful in looking for new players now. All in the name of looking for the best in 2014, players like azeez, uzoenyi, nwofor, ameobi, uchebo made the world cup team and still it looks as if we had no bench.

Rohr has done well in having a current pool of players I think he has not even finished exhausted. All I can say is we should be very careful and learn from our past mistakes.

Mujtahida:

And the dynamics have since become dire for both of them:Akpeyi's howler against Argentina, Ezenwa is very erratic. Uzoho has come into the frame and will take the first place. It's a crisis. That's what it does. Nigerians will not cry if Rohr fields Uzoho as number but they will panic if it's Ezenwa.

Kog45:
The problem is guys don't rate this WAFU or CHAN of a thing cos nobody ever talked about four goals Ezenwa conceded against Ghana at WAFU so do not worry if the guy didn't mentioned the penalty he saved in CHAN qualifier.

Icon4s:


Kunle Odunlami, and Shehu Abdullahi were two major revelations from the 2014 CHAN.

Going into that WC Keshi already had his backline settled. Odunlami was a CB. But we already had Omeruo, Obaobona, Egwekwe and Yobo in the team, all CBs, carried over from the 2013 AFCON winning squad.
Odunlami's exceptional abilities could not be put aside an so a space was created for him at RB instead where we already had Efe Ambrose. He couldnt have displaced Ambrose and so was a back up RB.

Omeruo and Obaobona were in a form of their lives and they had built a very solid partnership right from the AFCON and no way Odunlami could have broken that partnership. Coaches rarely break a CB pairing especially if it is a partnership that has achieved results.

Just like it is not likely for any player to break the current Ekong-Balogun partnership baring any injuries.

Mujtahida:

We drew first blood. Argentina are coming with vengeance especially. The Messi factor is huge. Rohr said it's a physical challenge against Iceland, a tactical challenge against Croatia and a challenge against Argentina. I don't know what a challenge against Argentina meant to him ooo but I dare say that against Argentina it would be a physical, tactical and psychological challenge all rolled into one. We should prepare to meet a different beast.

Odunayaw:
At the WAFU final 2 out of his conceded goals were penalties. The defence that day was a goddamn banana

kentebemoney:


Bros i can tell you what a challenge means,

(Physical + psychological +tactical) challenge =Jumbo size challenge.
If you smoke am, nobody go tell you, na instant messaging.
Na match where the big masquerades go come out to dance, small men blokus go run enter.

Icon4s:


But you made reference to after the Cameroon game.

tbaba1234:


I watched him in CHAN and he was decent. I did not mean to single him out but he was not WC level.

Mujtahida:

Yes. I am trying to make you see that if Rohr could say that Ezenwa is second after the Cameroun game when he did well, he'd still say Ezenwa is second not to Akpeyi this time but to Uzoho. Rohr has never trusted Ezenwa. If the situation forces him, he will choose Uzoho. That's how I see it though.

Kog45:
OK what of Egwueke cos i watched both at CHAN,Odunlami was the real man at back and made the tournament XI.