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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by jihday(m): 9:01am On Aug 18, 2021 |
maidaboi:I swear, both teams are on same level |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by jihday(m): 9:04am On Aug 18, 2021 |
elyte89:will be a very risky thing to do, he should have been fired since the beginning of this year |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by joelsteron: 9:22am On Aug 18, 2021 |
Any team playing possessive style of football and discipline can beat super eagles with ease. Eagles style of play is very predictable. My opinion 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by BascoVanVeli(m): 10:07am On Aug 18, 2021 |
Finidi George rumoured for the Enyimba coaching job. 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Curtisaxel10: 10:37am On Aug 18, 2021 |
Samueltemi337: Lol. Will Osimhen be picking the ball up from our 18 yard box, dribbling through all opposing players and scoring all our goals?. No matter how good a striker is, he is next to useless without good service from the midfield. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 10:43am On Aug 18, 2021 |
Samueltemi337: Ndidi, Ejuke, Ahassan Yusuf, Onyekuru. It is very difficult to cage players like Ejuke and Onyekuru because of the speed and intelligence involved in their movements. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by charlesemeka85(m): 10:44am On Aug 18, 2021 |
One of the two Nigerian footballers left at the Istanbul giants may be on his way out of the club in the coming days to make room for a new signing Galatasaray desperately want to send out Nigerian defender Valentine Ozornwafor on loan within the next few days. The Turkish Super Lig side signed Danish defender Victor Nelsson from Copenhagen for a reported €7 million but could not register the 22-year-old. This is because the Yellow-Reds have filled up their available quota for foreign players and need to quickly sell at least one before the authorities slap them with a ban. And according to the Milliyet, former Enyimba centre-back Ozornwafor is the foreigner Galatasaray have decided to move on, with Denizlispor looking like the possible destination for the 22-year-old. Ozornwafor has been on the books of Galatasaray since 2019 but has struggled to break into the first-team picture, making just one league appearance in that time. The defender spent the 2019/20 season on loan at Almeria, but he didn’t enjoy much game time, spending just 214 minutes on the pitch, spread across four league matches. Ozornwafor represented Nigeria at the under-20 level in the 2019 Africa U-20 Cup of Nations and the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup. The Super Eagles hopeful made his unofficial debut for the Nigerian national team in a 1-0 friendly defeat to Cameroon on 4 June 2021. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by charlesemeka85(m): 10:48am On Aug 18, 2021 |
Reading have just one win from their first four games of the new season after losing 3-2 to Bristol City at the Select Car Leasing Stadium on Tuesday night. On a personal level, Femi, elder brother of Arsenal wonderkid Miguel Azeez, repaid the faith shown in him by manager Veljko Paunovic with an impressive display against Bristol City. Femi Azeez was rewarded for his fine performances for Reading U23s last season that saw him muster ten goals in seventeen Premier League 2 games with a call-up to the first team in pre-season. Paunovic decided to retain him in the first team squad after he caught the eye in preparatory games and it is paying dividends. The 2001-born winger netted his first senior goal for the Royals in their 2-1 home win against Preston North End last weekend and made it two goals in two games when he hammered the ball into the net from six yards out in the 19th minute against Bristol City. Watford loanee Tom Dele-Bashiru got his first minutes as a Reading player last night, hopping off the bench at half-time to replace replacing Ethan Bristow and the Nigeria U23 international looked lively after his introduction. Andreas Weimann (2) and Chris Martin got on the scoresheet for Bristol City, while Liam Moore netted Reading's second goal nine minutes from time. 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Barryseal: 11:33am On Aug 18, 2021 |
Truidstar: Last time we played them, Salah did us strong thing in Kaduna. Generally speaking we have never had an upper hand against Egypt , except maybe the Super Falcons, so what's feeding your confidence? |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by chrisooblog: 11:59am On Aug 18, 2021 |
To be fair both teams have come a fair way since then. The SE were relatively not as stacked as we are now even at that we almost beat them that day if not for poor finishing and loss on concentration when it mattered most. Nowadays we have a better strength in depth in our attack, midfield not perfect but ok, defense decent and more experienced, goalkeeper relatively stable. Egypt is still rebuilding to the strength of their 2010s squad and they are quite heavily reliant on Salah. The advantage they will have is that most of them play domestically in their league so they should be able to blend better. Don't get me wrong I'm not implying that facing them will be easy but I'm reasonably confident that based on the current quality of players in the SE we should be able to defeat the Egyptians if we play to our full potential. Barryseal: |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by PurpleHouse(m): 12:16pm On Aug 18, 2021 |
Danjuma to Villarreal. Done deal. Is Chukwueze up to something ![]() Nice to be here once again. e don tey 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Barryseal: 12:25pm On Aug 18, 2021 |
chrisooblog: So Afcon have not thought you not to rate a teams chance based on the strength of their European contingent? Its not even like our European players are playing for champions league clubs, mostly mid table clubs an in most cases not the overall best players in said teams. If it was all about European base players, Nigeria would have 7 Afons while Egypt 3, but its the other way round. Respect those Ahly boys, a team that can beat an opponent 3-0 in the finals in addition to Salah, Al Mohamedi will be a 50-50 match, not sure 3 points like you put it. 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by charlesemeka85(m): 12:32pm On Aug 18, 2021 |
Villarael signs arnaut danjuma for 20m pounds from bournemouth |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 12:35pm On Aug 18, 2021 |
Barryseal: The bolded is fallacy. 8 Likes 1 Share
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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by jihday(m): 12:38pm On Aug 18, 2021 |
TheSuperNerd:1 win in last 6, very poor. I think we can get a result against them sha 3 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 12:45pm On Aug 18, 2021 |
I have even extensively explained times upon times here how good Ndidi is and how improved he has become in the last 3 seasons. Even in the Partey vs Ndidi debate, I did enough justice. Dude is no more just an elite tackling machine. He is much more now... a much improved well rounded Midfield player. It's a pity some still don't rate him. Especially my good man, Idennaa. The thing tire me no be small. You rate Nwakali but you don't rate Ndidi. E get as e be. I rate both players but it is also a fact that Ndidi is levels above Nwakali. Nwakali is just making his way back strongly after 3-4 generally average/mediocre seasons (+ an inactive year) whereas Ndidi has been doing this super consistently and madly improving in the last 5 years!!! Even Elyte89 wey you quote no too rate Ndidi like that. Ask am. I believe he won't deny it. ![]() I am Pro-Nwakali and also Pro-Ndidi but slandering Ndidi while hyping Nwakali is a big no for me. Both are ballers but one has been a baller for a much longer and super consistent period and deserves respect in here. JohnBullMySon: 6 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 12:47pm On Aug 18, 2021 |
Last time we played, we won. And like the saying some of you here love to bring up, "you are as good as your last game" abi. So yeah ![]() Besides the focus was on our general record against them and we edge them. jihday: 2 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 12:53pm On Aug 18, 2021 |
Heiiiii.... woah. What a signing this would be. Wanna see Finidi's coaching style in the league abeg. Would be highly interesting. BascoVanVeli: 4 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by fabyom: 12:53pm On Aug 18, 2021 |
Clint02:What's so special about the Algerian team? They only won through an own goal and a last minute freekick. Kalu and Mikel unavailability really affected us. Also Ighalo was our only experience striker in that team. Now we have all the needed arsenal in every department! No excuse will be tolerated from Rohr this time! |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Barryseal: 12:56pm On Aug 18, 2021 |
TheSuperNerd:intersting |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Nobody: 1:02pm On Aug 18, 2021 |
Barryseal: Egypt is weak presently...salah is all they got. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by chrisooblog: 1:07pm On Aug 18, 2021 |
Some of our players are beginning to come into their own too. Last season Ndidi and Iheanacho's contributions helped Leicester win the English FA Cup, Chukwueze contributed to Villarreal winning the Europa league, Onuachu helped his club win the Belgium cup, Aribo and Balogun helped Rangers win the Scottish premier league so it's not as if our players are complete bums. They know what it is to win a trophy too. Agreed reputations do not play on the field but when you have better talent more often than not you will prevail. Respect to the Egyptians but they are not the team that dominated Africa in the mid to late 2000s. They will give us a game no doubt but I'm optimistic we can handle them. If they do defeat us when we meet which is a possibility it won't be because they have superior talent to us now speaking generally. Barryseal: 4 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by fabyom: 1:09pm On Aug 18, 2021 |
TheSuperNerd:That 2016 1-1 draw at Kaduna is still painful. Victor Moses goal bound effort that was cleared on the line and the Egyptian blatantly going against the fair play rule to score the equaliser in the last minute when they should have pass the ball to us. I was shocked and disappointed when the referee gave the goal. For me, it's 2 wins and a loss to the SE in the last 3 matches played. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by chrisooblog: 1:12pm On Aug 18, 2021 |
I share your sentiment. An in-form fit Mikel would really have propelled us. Also agree about the bold Rohr has no excuse not to really try and deliver the trophy. fabyom: 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by andrew444(m): 1:21pm On Aug 18, 2021 |
Barryseal: You know the last time we played them our team was very poor . |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 1:22pm On Aug 18, 2021 |
Amoo's got huge potentials but I still see some inexperience in his game at Hammarby. With a little more time he will step up. Eze is unavailable due to injury and the fact that he still prefers England for now. He actually was meant to make the English Provisional squad for the Euros but injury stopped him. Onomah... we saw him in the EPL and he was unimpressive. Poor even in most games. He is back to his level in the Championship and doing okay again and I don't think he has been cleared to play for us even. Still watching his side. Focus should rather shift to the "actually available" ball playing Midfield lieutenants we have like Alhassan Yusuf and Kelechi Nwakali. These two guys would naturally dictate the tempo of a game. It is in them. They don't struggle to show that on the field. Watched more than enough of them last season and have began again this season and I tell you, they will uplift our Midfield quality if used right. A bit about both: -Nwakali: Ball carrier, Midfield dictator, excellent vision for long and short range passing, Deep lying playmaker, offensive contributions, ability to break defensive lines with a pass, improved defensive contributions, decent workrate (Compared to Alhassan, Nwakali is on level 3... lol), Excellent dribbler. -Alhassan: Ball carrier, Midfield dictator, excellent vision for long and short range passing and crosses, ability to break defensive lines with a pass, Insane workrate (we talking level 10), mad defensive contributions, excellent offensive contributions, the perfect CM for me, covers every blade of grass. Little wonder he is called "Kante with a high cerebral touch", Good dribbler. Other mentions: Abbas Ibrahim of Pacos de Ferreira (A CM with top workrate and very decent passing)?, Lesley Ugochukwu of Rennes (strong ball playing CDM) In the end, truly our Midfield quality in terms of players who can actually dictate plays and control a game with exquisite passing/ball distribution-transition ability, needs to be improved. You are so right. Curtisaxel10: 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by andrew444(m): 1:22pm On Aug 18, 2021 |
charlesemeka85: Chineke |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 1:25pm On Aug 18, 2021 |
andrew444: Chineke as per you no think say Villarreal go spend that kain money for Danjuma or that you are thinking he will displace Chukwueze in the team? ![]() ![]() 3 Likes
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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by andrew444(m): 1:27pm On Aug 18, 2021 |
TheSuperNerd: ![]() ![]() Villareal can afford such money I didn’t see the move comming in anyway ,was only expecting an epl move for Danjuma then suddenly they shock me with Villareal He will have to fight for his place there ,they have so many wingers now . |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by charlesemeka85(m): 1:29pm On Aug 18, 2021 |
TheSuperNerd: Nwakali get all this qualities and em never dey paly for Madrid? ![]() ![]() ![]() Nawaooooo |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Barryseal: 1:31pm On Aug 18, 2021 |
chrisooblog: I dont think they went into any of those Afcon championships they dominated as clear favourites because they mostly came to town with unsexy Zamalek and AHly players. The last time they got to the finals of the competition, nobody gave them a chance. They probably could have won if they had another coach apart from the cursed Hector Cuper. Algeria went into the last afcon as the underdogs. Senegal were the favourites but atlast what happened? Afcon is strange tournament. Even when Keshi won, his team was not the most talented. Zambia before that weren't the favorites, same can be said of Cameroon. Only Ivory coast have gone in as favourites and this was after several heartbreaks an the retirement of their biggest player. Teams like Egypt will be dangerous next year. They have a local coach, their local coaches know how to maneuver the competition. Remember this monicker next year when the competition starts. 2 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Subzero047: 1:32pm On Aug 18, 2021 |
Villarreal has signed Danjuma |
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