benji93:
Is there anything a local coach does that's not amateurish? Can they ever do anything right? Even Keshi was amateurish too, even though he actually won. I am still waiting for a coach that would do better than that man.

benji93:
Is there anything a local coach does that's not amateurish? Can they ever do anything right? Even Keshi was amateurish too, even though he actually won. I am still waiting for a coach that would do better than that man.

safarigirl:



Please, dem say Rohr better pass am

fabyom:
Austin's stubbornness to stick with Nacho in that role might cost us the world cup.
This is not club football, it is international football for Christ's sake.

Your midfielders must be able to fight for every damn ball.

Etebo, Bonke/Onyeka, and Aribo should be the ones starting in that midfield triangle.

Two DMs will allow your wing backs to overlap to support your wingers without affecting the shape of the team. Football 101.

Trying to play like Pep was what cost Lampard the Chelsea job. One DM is a risky venture unless you have a great ball carrier like Kevin De Bruyne.

benji93:
Ofcourse we are anywhere bele face analysts. You have mentioned that here several times, haven't you? The first thing that should go into the greatness of a coach is winning. Tactics, whether crude, modern, amateurish, archaic are secondary, and we are all usually divided over such. We may never agree on philosophy. I like this philosophy, you like that. One thing that's definitive is winning. So if a man wins and someone says a winless coach is greater, that person you cannot help.

Philosopher1979:



I bet you Austin will repeat his mistakes on Tuesday. We have a coaching problem.
He should try and invite natural midfieldets to the team but after this qualifiers he won't. Maybe it is a spiritual problem. Our coaches love ignoring out midfield

TheGoodJoe:


The Ghanaian team was more versed in the possessive play, especially in the first half and Addo spent days with them. This is not rocket science, or you must have David Silva or Bernardo Silva in your team.

You train the team in the basics of the philosophy. Then keep building in the understanding of it. We have seen teams like Swansea and some other small teams in England adopt it.

We have teams all over the world adopting it.

Even the Ghanaian team played it to an okay level.

We should stop the excuses and start developing our ideas in the passing game and make just philosophical adjustments.

benji93:
I don't get you people. Some of you here think club football and National team football are the same, so you think things that work in club football automatically work in national team football. The plan of the Ghanaian team was to apply maximum pressure in the first 20/30 minutes or so and perhaps get a goal. You can see they faded out through the last 15 minutes or so. Nigeria has not played Ghana in a long time, and nobody really knows the strategy of the other coach per sey. He assumes the other coach will feature something so he tries to plan for it, in which case in some cases you will plan and still lose. Is Eguaveon a mind reader to know what the other coach is thinking about his plan, and so does something else? If we had lost then perhaps this craze would be warranted. Now, if he cannot properly strategize, now that he has more information, tried different midfield systems, then well calling for his head would be the way to go.

By the way, some were going crazy here about the 4 2 4 formation. We will concede so many goals, we will concede goals. Although they dominated the midfield and stifled our midfield system at least for the first 30 minutes, they were toothless. Then he took Aribo out(even though i would have preferred that he kept him in, as we were doing well in the last 15 minutes, and Aribo was almost always in the thick of it, but i understand) to increase the numbers in the midfield, then the midfield looked much better.

safarigirl:


Rohr won games sha.

No trophies, but he won games, and on that basis, there is an argument he is better than Keshi. Funny stuff still

TheGoodJoe:


4-4-2 is not the problem but our playing style. We are really suffering from poor buildup plays.

benji93:
Great, unfortunately, they are average. So their passing would still suck. Philosophies are nice and indicate you know what you are doing, but they are useless anyway. Your philosophy is only as good as your players.

Philosopher1979:



I bet you Austin will repeat his mistakes on Tuesday. We have a coaching problem.
He should try and invite natural midfieldets to the team but after this qualifiers he won't. Maybe it is a spiritual problem. Our coaches love ignoring out midfield

benji93:
You obviously know what I meant by winning. Is there any local coach that hasn't won any games? If you give a coach more than 1 year, of course, he will accumulate some wins. And the third place he's won, our local coaches have sampled it, even the worst of them. . Do you know how many third and second-place finishes we have had? 12. Even there was a time we placed third back to back to back. So i am not sure we can consider that a standard for winning.

But i want to ask you one question though. What do you think of Uzoho? Any confident? I did not say anything oooo.

benji93:
Stick to your standard of passing. According to your standard of passing they didn't, because the passing didn't continue for long before they lost it. Not good. I am not sure I can follow a fruitless possessive play. Besides, they outnumbered us in the midfield through the first half, so it wasn't unexpected that they did better to keep the ball in the midfield. Besides our players actually were better and more confident with their passing through the midfield and then to the flanks when Eguaveon changed the midfield shape. So on be say we too no dey pass. Unfortunately, your expectations are rather too high.

You say they should teach them the basics of this philosophy? How often does this team meet? They mostly play for their respective clubs which have their own philosophies. So that for these philosophies their reaction becomes instinctual. It won't be easy ramming a different philosophy into them in a week. You may practice within this new philosophy, in fact, you may even do well in training, as far as that philosophy is concerned, but if you are not constantly exposed to that philosophy over a long period of time, you would almost certainly get stuck in your practice of that philosophy. You pass pass pass, then an opposing strategy you probably have faced sets in, and you just crawl back, as in oh wait 'Out training did not cover this one.

It's easy to implement on paper, but incredibly hard in practice. But you know what, I know the passing philosophy to you is the most valuable and it's ok.

But I agree with that part though. We do make excuses. Then maybe you can accept that your expectations may be too high sometimes. . Can we agree on that?

Samueltemi337:
No more away goal

JohnBullMySon:
Abeg you people should cut down on Eguavoen. We didn't score because our attackers were a bit loose and not very physical. We lost a couple of chances sue to this.

However, the Ghana team are not dangerous in front. Once our defence does not make stupid mistakes, we will not concede. The issue is to score like two without wasting time.

charlesemeka85:
we got a point in a hostile situation still una no Dey satisfied

If em easy to score wetin mk Ghana no score?

Tufiakwa!

Icon79:
Like I posted on Twitter, the Super Eagles would have won the game if the team that ended the game had started. That tells you how clueless Eguaveon is, he doesn’t even know his best team yet.


O pari

Icon4s:
After all the talk about Bassey.
He was just running like a headless chicken.
He is no where close to Sanusi in terms of ability.

Meliforme:


I think the bottom line is that Nigeria failed to beat Ghana. The weakest Ghanaian team i have seen in a while. This Ghanaian team has a lot of weaknesses, but our coach can't see it to exploit.

Meliforme:


4-4-2 is somehow the problem, because we have coaches who don't understand it.

We either don't invite the right players for it, or we don't start them, but most importantly, we don't have the luxury of players for it

Ndidi is not creative, neither is Aribo.

We play wingers who are more interested in scoring than help in buildup plays. They simply are not midfielders. Whenever i see Iwobi, Onayinka on the bench, and players like Moses and Chukwueze starting ahead of them in our preferred lineup of 4-4-2 , i see coaches who are bent on ideologies they don't even understand.