TheGoodJoe:


You are forgetting a big factor. We were down to ten men. So you need enough midfield and defense presence.

I am not saying the call to double up with an extra tall striker is wrong but the given circumstance means we needed players with pace to compensate for the loss of a player.

zuchyblink:
I think our ex-internationals should prove themselves elsewhere like Keshi did before taken up the Eagles job.

Karlovych:
Dude it's not even worth it, how many of our ex players at 34/35 were in top clubs like Manchester United before they retired? Sometimes they just make comments to start irrational arguments.

elyte89:


Lol...sincerely I am at a cross road..kinda confused.cos looking at d Tunisian match critically it shows eguavoen has some limitations in his tactical ability. A sound coach could av rescued something out of dt match prior to d red card.however going forward I would suggest a rejig in d t.c

1)maybe get a decent sound foreign T.A while eguavoen takes d role of d head coach in d team(reason is eguavoen presence in d team will maintain d bond we av presently in d team;WC shows he's a very good manager just like rohr / TD in d NFF set up(his former role). shorunmu shld replace our current g.k coach,maintain Dr terry,add imama or any oda decent npfl coach to come replace yobo,salisu goes to 2nd assistance while Paul and yobo leaves d team(dem no kuku useful b4)


2) we add amuneke to d present coaching crew to act as TD while every oda person would maintain deir position..aside yobo and paul .however dis time around,d TD won't work afar from d team like eguavoen does during rohr.he would b present in deir trainings,drillings,team selection.I believe eguavoen is cool headed and will b willing to work with anybody. Both can even b on d touchline dishing out instructions same way we c Sam alardyce and Sammy Lee does

zuchyblink:
anybody can be a coach but what differentiates coaches are their ability to think out of the box. From the first minute to the last minute we were not in control of the game even when we have the possession. We were totally out-classed, out-smarted and out- maneuvered

Odunayaw:
Yes, substitutions can be made at those times...


By a table soccer coach

Odunayaw:
You are describing yourself ogbeni yi

Since na you wan make him sub early. Tell me who he should have sub and for whom.

I still expect you to stutter and dance about

mank1234:


You that is tactically savvy can you point to anywhere you posted what needs to be done and who needs to go in before they scored? Your analysis post-mortem. It's only because we conceded (lost) that's why you are saying all this.

The change in style wasn't late. Changing style in 60th minutes is not late. It was just unfortunate that we conceded before then.

The team played well and for the first time I didn't really see where to blame the team after a lost. Barring injuries, if we qualify for world cup, we will be hot.

lovewins:


Did you watch the same game or another? It's okay to be dissatisfied with the result, but that shouldn't mean rewriting recent history. It was obvious the Tunisians came with a game plan having studied our wing play attack, but Eguavon changed formation, unfortunately it happened after they got the goal. Luck wasn't on outside, simple! But to claim the Tunisians played better or controlled the game would be false

Subzero47:


Uzoho put in big performances in the World Cup qualifiers and the World Cup proper especially against Argentina I don't know why you are putting it in asterisks, Maduka Okoye on the other hand is judged by potential and other keepers we have in the squad and not on what he does in the field, he has never impressed me or proved why he deserves the number 1 shirt na just hype and vibes

forgiveness:


Look at the screenshot. I made that comment on the 36 minutes.!

andrewbaba44:


One of our worst player in this afcon is chukwueze

Was hoping he would turn up against Tunisia ,but for where ,nothing

zuchyblink:
The best way to stop North African teams is one on one marking because they hardly dribble rather they adhere strictly to team work(give me I give you). When you mark them one on one starve of communication. Ikhana Kadiri and Okey Emordi demystified them with Enyimba 2003/2004

BascoVanVeli:


But why do u keep on telling this story There was literally only one man pressing and the rest were in their position. Almost every time the rest were in their own half. U are saying we need enough midfield and defensive presence but at the same time u don't want the coach to bring in a defender who is also a midfielder.

What was the worst that could have happened apart from us losing by 2 or 3 instead of one? That is still losing but at the end of the day u give ur self every shot to win the game. This is why I said I would do it at the 80 minute mark when all was seeming lost.

zuchyblink:
anybody can be a coach but what differentiates coaches are their ability to think out of the box. From the first minute to the last minute we were not in control of the game even when we have the possession. We were totally out-classed, out-smarted and out- maneuvered

Meliforme:


I don't want to call Eguavoen a poor tactician.
He was not just outclassed, he was in want of ideas.

Have you forgotten that I said Eguavoen showed the mentality of a loser when he talked about his sleepless nights spent in the effort to draft the 28 man list. I said that it shouldn't be so. Life is predictable, we spot patterns, and we tell.
Eguavoen was clearly in want of ideas.

Coming to tell us the boys tried, is akin to saying i spent sleepless nights drafting the 28 man list. Efforts without intelligence will make excuses and failure. Eguavoen was outclassed.

Dude also knows subconsciously that he will fail and you can tell from his speeches, his excuses etc.

Meliforme:


I don't want to call Eguavoen a poor tactician.
He was not just outclassed, he was in want of ideas.

Have you forgotten that I said Eguavoen showed the mentality of a loser when he talked about his sleepless nights spent in the effort to draft the 28 man list. I said that it shouldn't be so. Life is predictable, we spot patterns, and we tell.
Eguavoen was clearly in want of ideas.

Coming to tell us the boys tried, is akin to saying i spent sleepless nights drafting the 28 man list. Efforts without intelligence will make excuses and failure. Eguavoen was outclassed.

Dude also knows subconsciously that he will fail and you can tell from his speeches, his excuses etc.

forgiveness:


Olodo rabata. Maybe you are better than Mourinho, Guardiola, etc coaches who have made substitutions in the first half and before the second half commenced.

You are surely a pangolo coach.

forgiveness:


Look at the screenshot. I made that comment on the 36 minutes.!

zuchyblink:
When your efforts are fruitless your opponent is in charge. We were neatly out-smarted from the 1st minute to the last minute

zuchyblink:
The best way to stop North African teams is one on one marking because they hardly dribble rather they adhere strictly to team work(give me I give you). When you mark them one on one starve of communication. Ikhana Kadiri and Okey Emordi demystified them with Enyimba 2003/2004

TheGoodJoe:


We are going in circles. I said, due to the lack of presence, everyone injected brought in pace, except Sadiq who was still fairly fast but he played top.

Going with two tall players (the topic was getting an extra tall figure upfront), will hinder the depleted middle and defense.

Unless you are suggesting Semi will come to play midfield, which totally deviates from your earlier point.

Your point was throwing an extra man with height up front.

My point is that we can not throw an extra man up front because of the red card.

Finito.

BascoVanVeli:


Football is not rocket science. The coach could have simply told Semi to drop back when we don't have the ball. When games are on the line u will see Gerrard Pique play as a second striker and also defend. U are trying to overlook the obvious here.

U are about to get sent parking from a tournament and u are talking about being a man down. Even if u are 4 men down u should still try to equalise the game na.

BascoVanVeli:


Football is not rocket science. The coach could have simply told Semi to drop back when we don't have the ball. When games are on the line u will see Gerrard Pique play as a second striker and also defend. U are trying to overlook the obvious here.

U are about to get sent parking from a tournament and u are talking about being a man down. Even if u are 4 men down u should still try to equalise the game na.

mank1234:


This is off. So any player that has yellow is supposed to be substituted?
Is that what you term tactical?

TheGoodJoe:


Early changes before second half happens mostly when you go down a goal in the first half. Hardly ever done when both sides are level.

TheGoodJoe:


You were asking for change for Iheanacho not getting a red card, not for a tactical reason. So your post is totally off point. If Iheanacho had collected a red card, you can bring that up. However, Iheanacho did not collect a red card and you were criticising based on tactics.

As I said, most of you guys criticisms are actually not factual.

TheGoodJoe:


The game Pique played as a second striker towards the end, the team was not down to ten men.

That is the point.

At what point will Semi join the front? When we are in possession right? When he moves up front, you are going to be down to seven men in defense and midfield. When you launch the ball and lose it, it becomes a suicidal scene. Because you must have either Simon or another payer supporting.

So with the red card, no matter what time, you can not send two tall strikers.

All those mostly playing were pact players to cover the lack of a player. So even putting Semi in midfield would have been difficult.

I repeat, the game was well managed tactically given the situation. You can not send in two tall strikers when your team is a man down.

TheGoodJoe:


What kind of talk is this? Why call Okoye a bastard. Na wa for you guys.