Arizoner:
I see all four north african sides qualifying for the worldcup

Only two of them will qualify.

I saw a tweet from yesterday that predicted Nigeria would qualify after being held to a 0-0 draw in the first leg, and then winning 2-1 on the second leg.

So far so good, first prediction came correct.

Na those kind of things I dey like see, no be doom and gloom

Dannyxy:
Meanwhile, Nigeria created the best chances in games yesterday, Nigerian team is class way above the Ghanaians, Nigeria played badly but the class the tiny moment they put things together was obvious.

Ghana is no match for Nigeria right now.

And Nigeria loosing to Ghana on Tuesday, yes it can happen, but that will denying African one of thier most talented team on the world stage, Nigeria just needs to play basic on tuesday.


Ghana's play will be simple, sit back and counter. They will keep a player on ekong and balogun, they will sit back, expect our wingers to keep dribbling thier way from oniitsha to idumota, win the ball, pass to partey, and immediately Jordan and arena pick up pace running at our defense, this will be thier tactics, and they can sneak a goal or two, Abuja pitch is perfect for all kind of football.
Their tactics would over work sef and they will beat us or drags us to penalty if egwaveon doesn't change tactics, and one or two personnel, tweak his style too.

Nigeria will thrash Ghana if we can control play, yes thrash.
What do we do?
Two formation can be adopted.
3 4 3 or a 4 3 3
343 will see us have
Ekong semi balogun as the back 3, with balogun playing a sweeper role and also moving in to midfield when we are in possession, aina rwb and simon lwb.

Aribo and onyeka as cm and d.m collectively, with one of them not moving past the centre circle and the other roaming around the center circle and the box.

Give me me a front 3 of iheanacho Dennis and osimhen. With them interchangeably changing positions through out the game.
Let me see Ghana counter this.

Second formation, a 4 3 3.
This is pretty basic, gives us control of the game
through midfield steel.
Same back line as the game yesterday.

Aribo, onyeka and bonke. Bonke the sitting 4, onyeka c.m, Aribo an 8/10 always close to the strikers and roaming into the box.
Front of simon, osimhen and Dennis, if Simon plays rubbish, yank him off and bring in lookman, also moving osimhen to a wing and bringing in an ighalo can be a lethal.

Enough said, there is a lot we can try with our players without going foo faraway from basic and totally changing philosophy, so much unpredictability in our play can come, and its annoying we are this predictable to read.

Ae should sit up... I like him, he should sit up. The whole coaching team, need to start to thinking in and outside the box pre and during game play biko.

You have the players!

you started a nice right up but u almost messed it up in the end... If u like add messi neymar and mbappe to nigerian line up, if they wont track back to help their midfield and defence, ghana will still run them rugged. Same thing happened yesterday. If we get the first goal then forget it, it will be over for nigeria.

safarigirl:
I saw a tweet from yesterday that predicted Nigeria would qualify after being held to a 0-0 draw in the first leg, and then winning 2-1 on the second leg.

So far so good, first prediction came correct.

Na those kind of things I dey like see, no be doom and gloom

mkrest:
Been following the discussion since yesterday and I had a few laughs , the match for me, shows who the enemies of Nigerian football really are, if they had gone ahead to appoint a foreign coach , we would have avoided some of these things. I don't really know though, probably my pessimistic nature, I have a feeling we will miss the ticket, probably for the best, though that would hurt some players who are deserving . AE just ain't it.

We are going to the world
Cup

Keep your feelings into your back pocket

Bros, granted that he just got the job but there are basic mistakes he keeps making. As I posted on Twitter:

Eguaveon didn’t learn anything from the Tunisian game. To play 4-2-4 in modern game,your midfielders must be excellent ball carriers & excellent passers (else you’ll be overrun in the midfield). Think about Oliseh/Okocha combo or Onazi/Mikel combo. We didn’t have that yesterday in Bonke/Aribo, that’s why Ghana was in total control of the game in the first half. Bonke and Aribo weren’t bad but the system failed them. What was needed was a another man in the middle to create passing lanes for them to release the ball.


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jihday:
because this is just his 5th game as the coach. In club football some coaches spend almost half a season trying to figure out their best team. Y’all should easy on the harsh words

safarigirl:

Only two of them will qualify.

you don't know what you are talking about

Bros, the team can do better with anyone but Egu. The man is so clueless it’s annoying. He has never successfully handled any national team Nigeria but they kept recycling him due to godfatherism.

The last time Egu coached the Super Eagles, he cost us an AFCON qualification. It was after he had messed up against Guinea that Siasia was brought in to cleanup his mess and we didn’t qualify. Let’s hope he doesn’t cost us the World Cup qualification this time.

Think about it, Nigeria has the easiest draw in this final qualifications but Egu might bottle it if care is not taken. This Ghana team we played yesterday was even worse than their AFCON team that lost against Comoros Island!


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benji93:
You think firing Eguaveon and replacing him with Amuneke and Samson Siasia, less than a week before the return leg would be the best decision for us? Please think again.

Eleyi ga gan.

Arizoner:
you don't know what you are talking about

exactly, the only north african team in a lil danger is egypt and even with that kraa, they can get a draw in dakar...

Icon79:
Bros, the team can do better with anyone but Egu. The man is so clueless it’s annoying. He has never successfully handled any national team Nigeria but they kept recycling him due to godfatherism.

The last time Egu coached the Super Eagles, he cost us an AFCON qualification. It was after he had messed up against Guinea that Siasia was brought in to cleanup his mess and we didn’t qualify. Let’s hope he doesn’t cost us the World Cup qualification this time.

Think about it, Nigeria has the easiest draw in this final qualifications but Egu might bottle it if care is not taken. This Ghana team we played yesterday was even worse than their AFCON team that lost against Comoros Island!


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your coach is not good, granted but if u say this ghana team is a downgrade on the afcon one then u are clearly lying.. As bad as you think nigeria played they still got 3 clear chances, that afcon ghana team would have conceive atleast a goal or two !

Arizoner:
you don't know what you are talking about

Neither do you

We are both making guesses considering the game is two legs.

leathalbeast:
your coach is not good, granted but if u say this ghana team is a downgrade on the afcon one then u are clearly lying.. As bad as you think nigeria played they still got 3 clear chances, that afcon ghana team would have conceive atleast a goal or two !

This is the most honest thing you have said on this thread.

The Ghana team that played yesterday is definitely not a downgrade from the AFCON team. That AFCON team was a mess.

What I have found quite amusing is the audacity and confidence of the local fans in Ghana. They expected their team to drub us...they are actually more dissappointed with the result than I expected.

Nna, count me in the camp of anyone but Eguaveon. I can do better with that team than Egu!

Kenneth Omeruo was our best defender at the AFCON, so why leave him on the bench yesterday? Instead he selected a Center Back both of whom don’t have pace and are not good passers of the ball …. against a very fast and energetic Ghanaian team!

How can you play an archaic 424 formation when you don’t have good ball handlers and good passers in midfield?

After watching what Calvin Bassey is doing at Rangers, how can any serious coach starts Sanusi ahead of him?
Furthermore, Kelechi Iheanacho was played out of position yesterday. And it became apparent within the first few minutes that he wasn’t gonna have a good game. So the options are to either change the system or change the player. But coach Egu kept him for 90 mins playing out of position and totally ineffective.

Eguaveon must go!


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Supersunny2:




ThankGod you are not the one making decisions for us o
You own worse abeg!!!
U want sack coach 4 days to a crucial game like this
That Ghana stadium was suppose to hold 40k fans @ maximum, but Ghana FA allowed 70k fans just to create a hostile atmosphere for us!
Take it or leave it, we did well!!!
Italy lost yesterday to a less fancy team!
Even Rohr's team that defied the odds back in 2018 did not win Cameroon away (1:1) and still could not beat Algeria away (1:1) before FIFA awarded 3:0 last, last.
The boys try abeg!!!
And this Amunike you're banking on, I hope it's not based on his under 17 exploits Because we all know that if caf did not increase the nations from 16-24 he will not have qualified his team to nations cup. He did not win his group! He qualified as runners up!!!

safarigirl:


This is the most honest thing you have said on this thread.

The Ghana team that played yesterday is definitely not a downgrade from the AFCON team. That AFCON team was a mess.

lol, well ghanaians know our team isnt good and we wouldnt want to go to the world cup and lose to spain or germany 5-0 so we werent that enthused about it until we met nigeria in the play offs.. The rivalry alone is motivation enough... At the moment if nigerian qualifies they need a stop guard coach can really make good use of the team at the world cup. As for my nation if we do qualify we have alot of work to do. Both teams will struggle at the world cup.

Icon79:
Bros, granted that he just got the job but there are basic mistakes he keeps making. As I posted on Twitter:

Eguaveon didn’t learn anything from the Tunisian game. To play 4-2-4 in modern game,your midfielders must be excellent ball carriers & excellent passers (else you’ll be overrun in the midfield). Think about Oliseh/Okocha combo or Onazi/Mikel combo. We didn’t have that yesterday in Bonke/Aribo, that’s why Ghana was in total control of the game in the first half. Bonke and Aribo weren’t bad but the system failed them. What was needed was a another man in the middle to create passing lanes for them to release the ball.


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you expect somebody who is being sucked in 1994 to learn something in 2022,

all his interviews, had been heaped on that 94 squard , how then can he learnt something?

TheGoodJoe:
Whoever decided to drop Uzoho from the number one spot deserves to be dragged to the National stadium in Abuja, stripped naked and thrashed a hundred strokes.

Men, that guy is a solid Goalkeeper. Not running Okoye down. I have never felt so much at ease during corners.

What is happening to Alampasu and by the way, who was the Goalkeeper trainer for Iheanacho's U17 team?

If that corner kick at the 2ndhalf that bounced off reflex from 2Ghanaian players standing on the rear end of the post, I’m not sure you would have made this comment.

leathalbeast:
lol, well ghanaians know our team isnt good and we wouldnt want to go to the world cup and lose to spain or germany 5-0 so we werent that enthused about it until we met nigeria in the play offs.. The rivalry alone is motivation enough... At the moment if nigerian qualifies they need a stop guard coach can really make good use of the team at the world cup. As for my nation if we do qualify we have alot of work to do. Both teams will struggle at the world cup.

we got fooled with that win against Egypt, and a 100% group record, to retain AE, now it seems we are in for it, a Jose Peseiro would had make good use of those players, if he had been appointed,

anyways let's see what the return leg had in store

Parrot69:


If that corner kick at the 2ndhalf that bounced off reflex from 2Ghanaian players standing on the rear end of the post, I’m not sure you would have made this comment.

they had started praising Uzoho and rightly so, just wait and see how they had been secretly bashing Okoye,

Smh

safarigirl:



Neither do you

We are both making guesses considering the game is two legs.

so you expect mali, congo, cameroon minus senegal (god help them) to perform magic in north africa. You are funny. You think the north africans are super eagles.

Seriously hope Eguavoen doesn't bungle this qualification with it in our grasp already.

I usually defend Austin but how can you go into an away match against a team like Ghana with a threadbare midfield in an area that is the black star's strongest weapon? He should please in the name of God come with a better formation on Tuesday.

Plus what is it with our wingers and unnecessary dribbling? Even Dennis that came would almost always dribble himself into a cul-de-sac when players are available for a quick one too.

If we qualify (seriously praying we do!) this team will need a whole lot of work even at that only a stroke of luck and a less complex group would see us make it to the second round.

I second Goodjoe's submission that however dropped Uzoho to the bench doesn't mean well for Nigeria.

Still backing the team to secure qualification.

Let's go Super Eagles!

do4luv14:



we got fooled with that win against Egypt, and a 100% group record, to retain AE, now it seems we are in for it, a Jose Peseiro would had make good use of those players, if he had been appointed,

anyways let's see what the return leg had in store

On what basis are you making the claim in bold?

leathalbeast:
exactly, the only north african team in a lil danger is egypt and even with that kraa, they can get a draw in dakar...

dont mind her. The same senegal that always struggle against north african teams

kingphilip:

On what basis are you making the claim in bold?

he would had change formation to suit the guys, and switch tactics, to contain the opponents,

not the way AE had been going

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fabyom:
Nigerians don't give a damn about your country but you guys are obsessed with Nigeria. You know everything going on in our dear nation.
There are many foreigners, especially your citizen all over Nigeria but you know what, Nigerians have high self-esteem we see foreigners as visitors meant to be cared for, unlike other Africans.
The more reason most are now speaking, dressing and behaving like us.
In Ghana, we have banks, churches, and industries. Your upcoming musician can't blow up unless they sing or speak like us. Our music and movies are topping charts in your country and there's of Africa.
Without our gas which your government is taking on credit (Too poor to pay for it), you won't even have that electricity in your country that can't even power all the companies at Agbara, Ogun State.
Still, most of your cities don't have adequate electricity (dumsor) and water.
Is that not a shame for a country with a population of Lagos?

What can be associated with a Ghanaian if not inferiority complex and loudmouth?
Your cedis is 8400 to a dollar. Are you not ashamed of your country and yourself?

Yes, Nigeria is not where it suppose to be but don't ever compare us to your shithole country.
The number of people working in Nigeria civil service alone is twice your total population.

You don't even have one standard stadium, you are here shitting on our page.

Almost all the good things in your country are owned by Nigerians and you are here ranting.
The energy you are using to hate on people who don't give a f.. about you, use it to save your country's falling economy.
We are using ours to save our own, we won't help you as we did 40 years ago and still doing!

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Bros, do you remember that common South Africa played Ghana out of the park in the same Kumasi. In fact, South Africa should’ve won that game if not for the shananigans by the referee. The officiating was so poor that South African FA lodged a formal protest.

Bottom line, this Ghanaian team is piss poor and we should’ve won that game easily if coach Egu had a game plan. God has given us the World Cup on a platter but Egu wants to bottle it for us. We’ll never forgive him or Pinnick if we fail to qualify for Qatar 2022.


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Beloved03:


Lol baba Icon, you no give credit to Ghana at all. They are no push-over either. They have one of the best midfielders in Partey and a solid No. 10 in Kudus. Even Afena Gyan troubled our attack.

Beating them in Kumasi was never going to come easy. We look forward to the Abuja encounter. I really do hope Eguavon starts a midfield trio of Etebo, Onyeka and Aribo. Onyeka came in and did more in few minutes than Iheanacho did the 90 minutes.

Cheers.

Arizoner:
so you expect mali, congo, cameroon minus senegal (god help them) to perform magic in north africa. You are funny. You think the north africans are super eagles.

I don't know what to expect.

But a game is two legs for a reason.

You said 4, I said 2. We're both most likely wrong, but Tuesday will tell. I no get strength to argue.

Make we wait till Tuesday.

Word! The man is definitely stuck in the’90s football, for sure. I mean, who still uses wing plays in modern game? You use wingbacks and converts your wingers to a midfielder and a third striker.


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do4luv14:




you expect somebody who is being sucked in 1994 to learn something in 2022,

all his interviews, had been heaped on that 94 squard , how then can he learnt something?

121large:
The so called 1994 team that this foolish coach is trying to emulate were defeated the moment that, they faced world class teams. The only person that can stop us from qualifying is Eguavoen. Rohr initially was a good coach until iheanacho started scoring. All of a sudden, he became horrible.

over hyped 94 team. When eguavoen Dey talk tactics for one video wey dem post here making reference to how they played during westahof’s era na wey I knw say he is outdated as a coach

No serious minded team plus 442 anymore when in this current time and age teams are even playing false nines just to shook the midfield

I bet you guys that if aribo played as a 10 with Onyeka as b2b midfielder while etebo or bonke screens the back 4 we would have gotten a goal against Ghana in Kumasi

So, Chukwueze came back from Kumasi with a limp

He might get better before Tuesday, but if he doesn't, who should start in his place?

do4luv14:



we got fooled with that win against Egypt, and a 100% group record, to retain AE, now it seems we are in for it, a Jose Peseiro would had make good use of those players, if he had been appointed,

anyways let's see what the return leg had in store

when i see the nigerian, i wonder why the nff wont go for a portuguese, spanish or dutch coach, these type of coaches can transform nigerian team into super teams, i really liked what the former portuguese coach of cameroon did with the team before he was sacked by arrogant etoo.

Arizoner:
dont mind her. The same senegal that always struggle against north african teams

Yes that's why they struggled to come second in the 2021 AFCON