gustav25 we are ready . Don't keep us waiting!!

komekn:
I really don't know how we can win this game now

5 minutes left

CHEI over confidence is not good

I said it boss

Overconfidence will kill this boys

I said "curb your enthusiasm"

PurpleHouse:
Don't know what happened. I'm shocked and not too shocked.

But everything happening now was what I warned about.

The referee, poor defending and poor goalkeeping.

Ppogbae:
gustav25 we are ready . Don't keep us waiting!!

Our buckets are ready Sir

Weldone boys! Keep pushing!

Anyway, I am still for Eguaveon to continue as coach

Sadiq is far better than Awoniyi.

codemaniacs:


It's not over confidence.. it's poor goalkeeping and poor defending.. and not attacking from the beginning.

We lost this game from the first minute.

ATTITUDE we were lethargic, languid and felt we had won the game by just turning on up.

Coach didn't do enough .on getting them the right mentality

safarigirl:
Anyway, I am still for Eguaveon to continue as coach

Nigeria, damn. This is painful

Tunisia one shot to our GK and it’s a goal

Maduka Okoye nice one

Na me come be the Mumu wey dey defend you for here

Joebie:
no wahala.. I would trade this for the World Cup

You think world cup sure for you?

One of those games...
We move

andrewbaba44:


Osimhen will not do anything in this game oga

Osimhen absence didn’t hurt us

You Dey watch ball so ?

Osihmen wouldn't have been as woeful as Awoniyi.

See my initial post.

codemaniacs:


The referee, poor defending and poor goalkeeping.

First in the list is too much confidence from the boys in the first half. They played like the game was assured for them.

It's Too PAINFUL TO WATCH

Tunisia is already celebrating

For the goalkeeping error, we would have won this match.

andrewbaba44:
Tunisia one shot to our GK and it’s a goal

We were just not the better team on the day

Forget one shot on goal. It was a moment of brilliance.

We did not have a moment of brilliance

We did not score

If you lose by a goal, you deserved to lose on the day

It is what it is

safarigirl:
Anyway, I am still for Eguaveon to continue as coach

. So on point . I still want him as the coach

Dannyxy:
One of those games...
We move

Exactly

unbelievable.. Eguavoen continues.. Next, Ghana

Modified
Add Finidi and Amuneke

komekn:


We lost this game from the first minute.

ATTITUDE we were lethargic, languid and felt we had won the game by just turning on up.

Coach didn't do enough .on getting them the right mentality

We weren't lethargic. Awoniyi was non existent..

the referee was against Nigeria.

somehow:
For the goalkeeping error, we would have won this match.

We played too relaxed. But maybe yes.

The way people dey vex for my side now hen, if anybody go mistakenly match anybody for leg, na world war straight.

Today is strange.

Rohr will be rolling on the floor somewhere like this. Lol. Can’t come and die jere.

Whatever your stance,i prefer the beast to the beauty.

Sadiq is officially our #2 striker

We move

There is no need for us to bother. We need a reliable goal keeper. We have been done in two afcons now due to these baby keepers we are parading

So much for not changing a "Winning team"

My patriotism and support for this team is undeniable and it is even clear in my message before this game but I did warn us that sticking to the same tactical approach will not be good for us if we must progress in this tournament especially seeing that our tactical approach denies us better Midfield control and only offers us a threat via The Simon route via the CBs' long balls.

I was concerned about our predictability. A midfield 3 of tactically balanced players would have offered us something different and widened our tactical threat in offensive transitions taking the burden off the Simon route.

It is not rocket science...

I did say, When it is technically and tactically helpful, you can indeed change a winning team.

This 442(sometimes called 4231) approach when applied right with a Gen gen press is workable against certain teams but today, even our pressing game dropped and is a far cry from the intensity we saw in the Egypt game.
Added to the fact that this approach of ours doesn't give us the kind of Midfield control we need especially in terms of chances creation and play switches.


I cried out that we need to find a way to have all our weapons on the pitch together to offer us better tactical balance but nooooooo.... Some weren't seeing the big picture. They would rather have this player or that player because he has done well in the EPL or whatever league even when he doesn't bring what we need to be better.


Well, I wrote about learning from Algeria's mistakes. Their decision to stick to the same thing that was clearly not working or that could be found out with time.

You don't change a winning team, they said.

If it ain't broken, don't fix it, they said.

But what most of you never realised is that even when we were winning, we still showed marked signs of weakness in our Middle game dynamics and in our predictable approach using the CBs' long balls to Simon (especially) which was always gonna be neutralised by a tacticallly good team.


I hope this teaches a lesson. Judge football with the big picture in mind and not with mere sense of likes or dislikes for players.

See you all in March.