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.

TheLoneCitizen:

Koln have made an official bid for Obinna Nwobodo.

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.

BascoVanVeli:


Even if Barca have 6 men on the Pique will bump forward. U will never see Pique staying back when the team is losing so stop with the cap.

komekn:


The NFF contracts hungry coaches with dubious CV's that will play game with them.

That means a big % of their salary will go to someone that's in the NFF in the first instance. He will be amiable to them NFF putting in their favoured player's in his team selection.

Finally, a coach that they can manipulate and or enforce their decisions upon.

TheGoodJoe:


What you are typing is perception. Judge Eguavoen for his on field performance. He was voted best coach of he group stage. He gave us the fear factor. United the team and brought back belief.

And those guys over tried. I am proud of them.

So spending sleepless nights because of little to know time is a fact.

Not worth criticising but praising.

Oasis001:




Blood still dey boil..... this ain't right to discuss any subject objectively.

Meliforme:


Yes, what i typed is my perception, because i have seen failure and success to identify when someone is on the wrong route or on the right one, although my learning is progressive.

How splendid was his on field performance judging from the calibre of players he is coordinating and the quality of the opposition he faced.
We are talking about Egypt, Sudan, and Guinea Bissau, not Belgium, France nor England Against Egypt we were Just lucky to win with a lone goal. Our wins were also partly due to what i term the new coach syndrome. We faced a well coached Tunisia who were quicker at making decisions and lost.

Mr TheGoodJoe, this is a coaching problem. Individual brilliances got us far. How do you see our passes and coordination as a team. Little wonder no player of ours made the team of the group stages, emphasis is on teamwork. Forget about the thrills, we were a poorly coached side. When i saw our lineup against Egypt, especially the tactical setup, I knew we wont go far, but i said maybe it's just against Egypt, then i saw the lineup again and again.

You are a football analyst, and a sound analyst at that. Please tell me how appropriate is a 4 2 2 2, 4 4 1 1 or 4 4 2 tactical formation given the kind of players we have. How suitable is it? How good is our composition of play, our long balls from defense to the wings, and the concomitant off tangent crosses? We are a poorly coached side.

There is no fear factor with us. Tunisians outsmarted us with a depleted squad and showed us how deficient and rigid we are in tactics.

Eguavoen is part of the technical crew, the players are not new to him. Telling us he spent sleepless nights to pick his players shows a deficiency. To me it might be political, and a way to excuse a future failure. I said it is a loser mentality. A loser starts making excuses with his efforts even before he finally meets with failure.

Barryseal:

Afcon is our only chance of a silverware at senior men's football and also a decent shot at FIFA confederations Cup. Cameroun got to the finals when they lost Foe back in 2003.
The world cup is simply above our level. Infact the last memorable match we played at the world cup was Spain in France 98.
Quite perplexing people saying they liked being kicked out at Afcon 2nd round so as to focus on world Cup qualification. Very queer thinking there.

Mujtahida:

If that match had entered penalties (which was Tunisia's desire cos they deliberately snuffed out some of the counter attacking opportunities they had), it would have been less painful.

But my God, what kind of keeper is Maduka. As in straight direct ball (which I believe was the first time they had a shot on target) played by Tunisia ended inside our net. That means if the defense had not been solid through all the other 3 matches we would have been conceding goals?

Where I began to have profound doubt about Maduka is the match against Sierra Leone. Every goal bound ball Sierra Leone directed at him ended inside the net. No saves, nada!

It's a mystery to me how such a well built guy who is the first choice GK at his club, cannot evoke confidence when he's manning the sticks for us.

Danielnino00:

On this occasion,I agree with you... Nearly all the top guns in the glass house are politicians who know little about football...
One thing is for sure, Pinnick will do all he can to make sure we qualify for Qatar...There's a lot of financial benefits that await the NFF just for qualifying.. ... Arab money will go round...

forgiveness:


Why did I request he be substituted before he gets a red?

Parrot69:

This is a man who was short of Strikers who would have made a very big impact in this tournament.
This is also a man who had to assemble a makeshift team within a few days prior to the tournament.
Looking at the game against Tunisia;
Quite alright he was outsmarted, had it been we had scored an early goal like we did against Egypt, that game would have gone in our favor. But the Tunisians knowing our point man, caged him well.
On the otherside, Chukwueze wasn’t helpful.
Things got worse when point man no:2 who would have really changed the game got red carded few minutes into the game.
We had to rely on luck.
Had it been we had an AM, a good playmaker the story would have been different.

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:


He was short of strikers, but he has Iheanacho, Sadiq, Taiwo, These players are prolific, or do you think they are not?

He has been part of the technical crew and shouldn't be short of ideas.

The man at the sidelines for the Tunisians, was the Tunisian assistant coach, not even the main coach and the Tunisians still carried the day.

Concerning Chukwueze. Playing an inverted winger as a midfielder shows how poor their understanding of personnel deployment is, and the way he was used is just funny.

otokx:
All this talk, what is Nigeria doing in preparation for the world cup qualifiers against Ghana?

Mujtahida:

I really don't know what to say about the bolded but it's such ridiculous nonsense. So if a man says that he's spent sleepless night to arrive at a decision, it is an indicator of failure? I've never heard such inanity in my life!

Amidst this loss, all sorts of witless criticisms find expression like a dam letting out water from a muddy river.

"Efforts without intelligence will make excuses and failure"

What is the meaning of this word salad bro? Just because Eguavoen said he had sleepless night to determine who would be picked out of an already submitted 40 man list, now amounts to effort without intelligence?

If we do not interrogate some of the things some of you say here, the tag that this place is for ogogoro analysts will stick. Na wa.

chrisooblog:
The away tie against Cape Verde sealed it for me where he conceded on his near post that he should ordinarily have covered.

He can still come good but we needed someone with tournament experience like Uzoho or even Akpeyi sef anyway no use gripping what has happened has happened

Mujtahida:

We don't have GK. Simpliciter.
I feel for the young man though and I feel that it is in bad taste, to hurl insults at him and wish him death the way many people did on his Instagram page.

I don't understand how our GKs would be doing great at their clubs yet in the GWG they'd flounder. Look Akpeyi. In the PSA he's a good GK but in the GWG, he'd be shaking like a leaf.

Look at the other GKs like that of Sierra Leone, Comoros and Gabon who made saves after saves. They are low division GKs. Are we jinxed?

elyte89:


Dt excuse is one of d dumbest I av ever heard..it doesn't even correlate at all ...I av been waiting for someone to tackle dt notion..but everyone kept quiet since he had been making dt notion...very dumb statement

chrisooblog:
To be fair it takes a while to build confidence as a national team GK. Even the great Enyeama struggled in the beginning. Vincent dropped the odd clangers here and there but his numerous saves made us overlook and forget.

TheGoodJoe:


Chidera was not exceptional in the competition. What guarantee do we have that Chidera would have had a good game?

comodo:

Adrenalin things. When the thing don pump, the person go dey play like say he is on drugs. Our right side of the pitch was weak, attack wise.

Mujtahida:

That's the kernel of it. Saves! Maduka doesn't make saves!
Imagine if he had saved that ball? The defenders have been doing great. Just the first time they made an error, fiam goal don enter.

I've been asking myself the question:what is the essence of a goalkeeper if he can't make saves?

TheGoodJoe:


Make the team look good.

chrisooblog:
Bro Piqué going forward not going forward didn't barca still chop cricket scorelines like 8-2, 4-0, 7-0 from Bayern and PSG?

comodo:

U wan start another world war

TheGoodJoe:


Make the team look good.

Joezinho:


No sane person picks Paul Aigbogun if he wants to succeed ... Aigbogun's under 20 teams were really poor. Suprised he is still anywhere near our national teams... And he's NFF's chief scout..

I also think it's wrong for a country fighting endemic corruption to have an assistant coach that was busted for collecting bribe have a real job coaching as assistant coach of the SE..

It goes to show Amaju and his cohorts are bunch of corrupt mofos ..

TheGoodJoe:


You posted this yourself. Or you did not read what you posted? Was that a tactical reason?