semid4lyfe:
Punch is reporting that Ghana plans to destabilize our team with off-field tactics especially Covid-19.

According to the report they plan to reject the Covid-19 certificates of some of our key players, insist on running their own tests which will return positive results and rule out the players.

Question:

How possible is this? I thought CAF has an independent healthcare company from Europe conducting the covid tests because of this kind of shenanigans from host countries?

There were reports that such underhand dealings happened during some crucial fixtures of the last AFCON qualifiers.

I expect the NFF to take precautionary measures...maybe travel with our food, water and probably an advance party of hotel staff to disinfect the premises before the arrival of the team. Don't want to give in to conspiracy theories though.

I will prefer all the games at this stage to be fair and clean so Africa can send her best reps to Qatar

solonnachi:
Thanks Dr Supernerd for the juicy photos and news from camp.

Amunike is the perfect assistant to Eguavoen. See as his eyes are hovering around the players. See his technical involvement and input.

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Starting Innocent Bonke and Frank Onyeka as DM and CM in such a crucial away game is too risky. I don't think they have ever played together in any competitive game.
Emmanuel Dennis and Ademola Lookman will likely start from the bench.
Simon and Chukwueze are likely to be the starting wingers.

It will be very foolish of the coaches to bench Dennis , lookman, Bonke and onyeka.. they must all start.

Chukwueze must be benched.. Simon/Dennis/Amoo/Ejuke can play chukwueze's wing.. while lookman/dennis/aribo starts in Simon's wing.

Then ihenacho/Awoniyi/Sadiq as AM.. Aribo as AM hasn't been very effective while in Rangers I see him playing as a winger and he plays well in LW..

Bonke and Onyeka or at worse because I know Eguavoen likes a thin midfield then just Onyeka as DM, it's should be an abomination to bench an EPL regular like Onyeka.

4-2-3-1 is good for the type of players S.E has.

3-6-1 disguised as 5-4-1 is also good for the S.E..

My preferred starting 11

GK : Akpeyi

RB: Shehu CB: Balogun CB:Omeruo CB:Ajayi LB:Zaidu


LM: Aina CM:Bonke CM: Onyeka RM: Simon


CF: Osimhen

It’s 5-4-1 or nothing mehn

andrewbaba44:
My preferred starting 11

GK : Akpeyi

RB: Shehu CB: Balogun CB:Omeruo CB:Ajayi LB:Zaidu


LM: Aina CM:Bonke CM: Onyeka RM: Simon


CF: Osimhen

It’s 5-4-1 or nothing mehn

The formation is very defensive.

Osimhen will be isolated up front.

This formation shows too much respect to Ghana. A 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3 will do. We need a shape that gives the team the right balance to attack and defend effectively. Na Ghana I even expect to play 5-4-1

caprikon:


The formation is very defensive.

Osimhen will be isolated up front.

This formation shows too much respect to Ghana. A 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3 will do. We need a shape that gives the team the right balance to attack and defend effectively. Na Ghana I even expect to play 5-4-1

I wish you knew

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andrewbaba44:
My preferred starting 11
GK : Akpeyi
RB: Shehu CB: Balogun CB:Omeruo CB:Ajayi LB:Zaidu

LM: Aina CM:Bonke CM: Onyeka RM: Simon

CF: Osimhen
It’s 5-4-1 or nothing mehn

Thank god you are not our coach

We are playing Ghana tomorrow and the team is still in Nigeria


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they are about to travel

JayromWrites:


This one na small matter na

Na to rule out all their first 11 when dem show Abuja

Life's easy My guy

first 11 ke? Only Partey is enough sef and they will fall yakata

codemaniacs:


It will be very foolish of the coaches to bench Dennis , lookman, Bonke and onyeka.. they must all start.

Chukwueze must be benched.. Simon/Dennis/Amoo/Ejuke can play chukwueze's wing.. while lookman/dennis/aribo starts in Simon's wing.

Then ihenacho/Awoniyi/Sadiq as AM.. Aribo as AM hasn't been very effective while in Rangers I see him playing as a winger and he plays well in LW..

Bonke and Onyeka or at worse because I know Eguavoen likes a thin midfield then just Onyeka as DM, it's should be an abomination to bench an EPL regular like Onyeka.

4-2-3-1 is good for the type of players S.E has.

3-6-1 disguised as 5-4-1 is also good for the S.E..

Dennis and Lookman can not start....you don't just throw in players like that...
And Chuks will always start...

andrewbaba44:
My preferred starting 11

GK : Akpeyi

RB: Shehu CB: Balogun CB:Omeruo CB:Ajayi LB:Zaidu


LM: Aina CM:Bonke CM: Onyeka RM: Simon


CF: Osimhen

It’s 5-4-1 or nothing mehn

you're feeling confident of beating Ghana few pages back .... This your lineup is opposite of what you're preaching
You wan go Mourinho way

After a long hiatus due to the demands of a new position I recently secured, it is great to be back on this thread.

Looking forward to witnessing yet another edition of world cup qualifiers with this thread and I am certain our men will paint Kumasi GREEN!

Much respect to the thread regulars and elders who have been holding down this space since our AFCON exit.

All in all, it's great to be back!

drDoom3:


Not true, I watch Sadiq every matchweek, he cannot play just to set up another striker. He IS the striker.

Sadiq is very good with his feet. That does not mean he will drop so deep in the midfield to literally win tackles and recover possession. Nacho can do that. Anyhow you want to look at it, Nacho is our best player behind the striker, the only reason I would play with a front 2 would be to use him. If the game is not going well in that direction, you can bring on the extra midfielder and switch to a regular front 3, that was the mistake Eguavoen made during the AFCON. He had an excellent strategy, but didn't know when to abandon it in favor of a more conventional approach that may have yielded better results.

I'll disagree on this...
Why do you think our Midfield was scanty in AFCON? Kelechi was too rigid. The work of an SS is more than playing behind the man striker.
Anytime your team is with the ball, you drop deep to add more body to midfield, an SS will create a passing option for the wingers. Though,I'm not sure if he was playing to instruction.
Sadiq will be best suited to that SS more than Kelechi
Kelechi didn't do all these at AFCON

Samueltemi337:
Thank god you are not our coach

Una self no Dey know when person Dey joke self ,many people know me here and they know the type of formation I can put up

Thank God I am not our coach because of this kind conservative formation like the one wey rohr dey give una

semid4lyfe:
It's an away game and Austin Eguavoen needs to be pragmatic in his approach. He needs numbers in midfield as Ghana will definitely adopt Tunisia's template.

I hope he does not play 4-4-2. He must also not start Iheanacho as that will leave us thin in mdfield, distort the shape & affect the solidity of the team.

That being said, I hope he opts for a 4-3-3 or a variation of it.

My preferred starting line-up is

Goalkeeper - Francis Uzoho

Defenders - Ola Aina (Right back), Leon Balogun (Central Defence), Semi Ajayi (Central Defence), Zaidu Sanusi (Left back)

Midfielders - Innocent Bonke (Defensive Midfield), Frank Onyeka (Central Defensive Midfield/Box-to-Box Midfielder), Joe Aribo (Attacking Midfielder/Support Striker)

Forwards - Bonaventure Dennis (Right Wing Forward), Moses Simon (Left Wing Forward), Victor Osimhen (Centre Forward).

Like someone posited earlier, the future of our indigenous coaches as Super Eagles coaches will be determined by the outcome of this WCQ.

If we don't qualify, indigenous coaches should not be appointed to coach the team for the next 10 years.

it's not about adopting the Tunisian approach, it's how we respond to it,

one major reason we lost, is not just cause of that goal scores, it's our one dimensional apporoach to the game, since Simon wing had been choked, the wingers, are supposed to interchange at will to confuse and scattered their plans,

even Awo and Sodiq were attacking tro that same wing, and with Chuks not in his element, we were always bond to loss that game,

when you look at it, you will see they attacked, and scored thru Chuks wing

mostob:
I'll disagree on this...
Why do you think our Midfield was scanty in AFCON? Kelechi was too rigid. The work of an SS is more than playing behind the man striker.
Anytime your team is with the ball, you drop deep to add more body to midfield, an SS will create a passing option for the wingers. Though,I'm not sure if he was playing to instruction.
Sadiq will be best suited to that SS more than Kelechi
Kelechi didn't do all these at AFCON

Sadiq is not suited to any ss role ogbeni

mostob:
you're feeling confident of beating Ghana few pages back .... This your lineup is opposite of what you're preaching
You wan go Mourinho way

You suppose know say na cruise I Dey

andrewbaba44:


You suppose know say na cruise I Dey

I thought as much

andrewbaba44:


Sadiq is not suited to any ss role ogbeni

He is....
Unfortunately,he may not get to play there.
Kelechi is best suited as a Forward not an SS

mostob:
Dennis and Lookman can not start....you don't just throw in players like that...
And Chuks will always start...

Klopp threw in Jota and Diaz like that... Dennis , Lookman and Onyeka must start...

S.E has to start pressuring and pressing Ghana's defense from the start of the 1st half. I don't want to see a "low block" or defensive game from the S.E and I don't want to see the 1st half performance they played against Tunisia ever again..


It's because of people with your type of mentality players like Dessers, Yira sor, tijani, Nwakwame, Akpoguma e.t.c are been called up..

do4luv14:




it's not about adopting the Tunisian approach, it's how we respond to it,

one major reason we lost, is not just cause of that goal scores, it's our one dimensional apporoach to the game, since Simon wing had been choked, the wingers, are supposed to interchange at will to confuse and scattered their plans,

even Awo and Sodiq were attacking tro that same wing, and with Chuks not in his element, we were always bond to loss that game,

when you look at it, you will see they attacked, and scored thru Chuks wing

They don't even have to exchange. It's more easier marking wingers that hug touchline.

semid4lyfe:
It's an away game and Austin Eguavoen needs to be pragmatic in his approach. He needs numbers in midfield as Ghana will definitely adopt Tunisia's template.

I hope he does not play 4-4-2. He must also not start Iheanacho as that will leave us thin in mdfield, distort the shape & affect the solidity of the team.

That being said, I hope he opts for a 4-3-3 or a variation of it.

My preferred starting line-up is

Goalkeeper - Francis Uzoho

Defenders - Ola Aina (Right back), Leon Balogun (Central Defence), Semi Ajayi (Central Defence), Zaidu Sanusi (Left back)

Midfielders - Innocent Bonke (Defensive Midfield), Frank Onyeka (Central Defensive Midfield/Box-to-Box Midfielder), Joe Aribo (Attacking Midfielder/Support Striker)

Forwards - Bonaventure Dennis (Right Wing Forward), Moses Simon (Left Wing Forward), Victor Osimhen (Centre Forward).

Like someone posited earlier, the future of our indigenous coaches as Super Eagles coaches will be determined by the outcome of this WCQ.

If we don't qualify, indigenous coaches should not be appointed to coach the team for the next 10 years.

Eguavoen still thinks this is 1994. He might play the 442 wingplay (unless Amuneke is forceful) considering the small amount of midfielders he invited..

He is looking for a mutiu Adepoju like player…
We play 442, the ghanaians might sit back in a low block, shut down the wings and force us to go down the middle.. Same thing the Tunisians did.

mostob:
Dennis and Lookman can not start....you don't just throw in players like that...
And Chuks will always start...

Nigeria mentality

What rules states that any new player cannot start immediately ? I am sure this rules doesn’t apply to you guys favorite players

Chuks will always start as per who him be abeg ??

Maybe the best players that impress the coaching crew start

codemaniacs:


Klopp threw in Jota and Diaz like that... Dennis , Lookman and Onyeka must start...

S.E has to start pressuring and pressing Ghana's defense from the start of the 1st half. I don't want to see a "low block" or defensive game from the S.E and I don't want to see the 1st half performance they played against Tunisia ever again..


It's because of people with your type of mentality players like Dessers, Yira sor, tijani, Nwakwame, Akpoguma e.t.c are been called up..

Calm down about yira sor ,he is new in the game okay ,he started impressing recently and there are even better players in his Position

codemaniacs:


Klopp threw in Jota and Diaz like that... Dennis , Lookman and Onyeka must start...

S.E has to start pressuring and pressing Ghana's defense from the start of the 1st half. I don't want to see a "low block" or defensive game from the S.E and I don't want to see the 1st half performance they played against Tunisia ever again..


It's because of people with your type of mentality players like Dessers, Yira sor, tijani, Nwakwame, Akpoguma e.t.c are been called up..

So because Klopp threw in Jota and Diaz, we should throw in Lookman and Dennis too?
Diaz and Jota were threw in immediately because the team structure of the Liverpool team was in place.
Could the same be said of the super eagles? Ndidi is missing, we don't even know our starting CBs and we're still testing formations.
And na people like you will berate them if they didn't meet your expectations...you will even go as far as going against their future invitation.
The bolded ws not necessary but I really hope you're OK

codemaniacs:


It will be very foolish of the coaches to bench Dennis , lookman, Bonke and onyeka.. they must all start.

Chukwueze must be benched.. Simon/Dennis/Amoo/Ejuke can play chukwueze's wing.. while lookman/dennis/aribo starts in Simon's wing.

Then ihenacho/Awoniyi/Sadiq as AM.. Aribo as AM hasn't been very effective while in Rangers I see him playing as a winger and he plays well in LW..

Bonke and Onyeka or at worse because I know Eguavoen likes a thin midfield then just Onyeka as DM, it's should be an abomination to bench an EPL regular like Onyeka.

4-2-3-1 is good for the type of players S.E has.

3-6-1 disguised as 5-4-1 is also good for the S.E..

Rather, it is only a foolish coach that will start all of Dennis, Lookman, Onyeka and Bonke

andrewbaba44:


Omo Salisu no Dey Ghana squad ,the guy no send that country at all

andrewbaba44:


Nigeria mentality

What rules states that any new player cannot start immediately ? I am sure this rules doesn’t apply to you guys favorite players

Chuks will always start as per who him be abeg ??

Maybe the best players that impress the coaching crew start

Oga...go start them then.
You wan start person wey dey play in Africa for the first time and with just 2 training sessions.
Like I said, Chuk should start, Lookman and Dennis will come in as sub.

mostob:
first 11 ke? Only Partey is enough sef and they will fall yakata

U dey lenient


We go rule out the whole squad sef.. dem go enter Kumasi go carry players from Kotoko FC to play the match

The build up to the match Don tire me sef


As if na World cup final

JayromWrites:


U dey lenient


We go rule out the whole squad sef.. dem go enter Kumasi go carry players from Kotoko FC to play the match

The build up to the match Don tire me sef


As if na World cup final

I no just want them to bring in excuse ni
Victory against a full strength opponent is way sweeter

So FIFA TV on YouTube will broadcast all the matches live

For those that doesn't have DSTv

mostob:
Oga...go start them then.
You wan start person wey dey play in Africa for the first time and with just 2 training sessions.
Like I said, Chuk should start, Lookman and Dennis will come in as sub.

Leave that thing oga

If I begin give you players wey start for Africa soil for their first cap you go run