It's going to take us months to sort out the coach situation. And then when we make a decision it will still be questionable. I hope to be proven wrong.

*This thread will not be closed*

It has a lot of brilliant contributions, analysis, data and is an invaluable resource library / repository on Nigerian football and footballers

Furthermore, this thread has transcended Nigerian football into our personal lives as connections have been made and friendships have been forged here.

The thread will only be renamed to reflect our future aspirations and I welcome suggestions for that.

The thread should be closed and a new one set up to reflect a fresh start for everyone.

Odunayaw:
Not saying Uzoho should receive evil flak just like Okoye but it's amazing how fans just comot eye on the blunder he made

Okoye's blasting was because he is fine and a lady's man.

So, most of the men were just full of envy. Their comments always referred to fine boy ,model, women, instagram,etc.

Instead of them to focus on their attackers and midfielders that refused to score, na Maduka dem face.

Our attackers did not score in open play on the 2 legs. How can go to the world cup without scoring goals? If by chance you land there by a stroke of luck, na disgrace u go carry come from there.

Barryseal:
The thread should be closed and a new one set up to reflect a fresh start for everyone.

Make we see as e dey go but for now we gats run post match analysis for here...

caprikon:


The coach and players showed some a lot of overconfidence or arrogance like it's a birthright for them to win the game. Ghana showed humility, determination and grit and deservedly are through.

I mentioned here earlier that the away goal will hurt us particularly if Ghana score first and they did just that...Simon Moses missing that big chance in Kumasi and the penalty decision rescinded were the key moments of this tie from the Nigerian perspective. I saw a lot of chestbeating here like the Ghanaians wouldn't be able to score in Abuja.

There is a certain killer instinct that this team lacks...which I think is mental. A new coach would have to fix that too.

We are simply not efficient in attack against drilled teams. We create many half chances instead of proper chances due to poor passing, decision making and build up play. When we do create decent chances, our attackers don't communicate well, make the wrong decisions or just outright miss.

We lack organization and efficiency in the way we are set up. We struggle to find ourselves on the pitch. We didn't know how to attack, we struggle to maintain possession in attacking areas and control the tempo of the game because we cannot pass.

We are relying on one lucky ball to Osimhen instead of setting our team up so that we have regular direct balls to him in good positions. It shows our coaches are either lazy tactically or just not knowledgeable enough on the modern game.

Our midfielders cannot shoot to save their lives. Ghana saw that we cannot score from outside 18,they sat back and defended deep. Eguaveon and his crew na empty skull

semid4lyfe:
*This thread will not be closed*

It has a lot of brilliant contributions, analysis, data and is an invaluable resource library / repository on Nigerian football and footballers

Furthermore, this thread has transcended Nigerian football into our personal lives as connections have been made and friendships have been forged here.

The thread will only be renamed to reflect our future aspirations and I welcome suggestions for that.

As seen with Eguavoen's inability to qualify the S.E for the World cup on 2 occasions in 2006 and 2022 means humans are repetitive.

This means that the new thread will have repeated or rehashed comments that are already on this thread especially if some players continue to get call ups..

Our Ex- Internationals and seasoned OAPs have destroyed our football. They should be ashamed of themselves. A lot of them have no business coming on air to talk about something as precious and technical as football.
But their pride won't let them accept the truth.

Nigeria is cursed, cursed with the spirit of self sabotage. We always find a way to destroy ourselves by ourselves. It's always the majority who have the most terrible and destructive opinions. No one wants to listen to people like me who say otherwise but my thoughts always end up coming to pass 99 percent of the time.

I remember when I advised people against voting for Bubu in 2015, none of my colleagues listened. Now a lot of them struggle to eat even twice a day.

I told people that since we failed to sack Rohr after AFCON 2019, sacking him few weeks to an important tournament and important playoffs would be an even bigger mistake. But because they feel they know it all, no one listened.

Now we're going to miss out on the WC. We're back to the days of struggling to qualify for competitions. It's a pity.

achimotan:


What has the picture of the keeper of Guinea at Afcon2015 got do with Ghana

He is In severe pains and seeking for comfort where there is none. He is so blind to his anger that he couldn't notice the Ghana goalie is of lighter complexion. I've told you , avoid these angry Nigerian that have been smacked down to ground level from their place of bragging and talking rubbish

drDoom3:


We are simply not efficient in attack against drilled teams. We create many half chances instead of proper chances due to poor passing, decision making and build up play. When we do create decent chances, our attackers don't communicate well, make the wrong decisions or just outright miss.

We lack organization and efficiency in the way we are set up. We struggle to find ourselves on the pitch. We didn't know how to attack, we struggle to maintain possession in attacking areas and control the tempo of the game because we cannot pass.

We are relying on one lucky ball to Osimhen instead of setting our team up so that we have regular direct balls to him in good positions. It shows our coaches are either lazy tactically or just not knowledgeable enough on the modern game.

It's both.

The coaches are lazy tactically and not knowledgeable enough on the modern game.

They rely too much on luck and religion.

drDoom3:


We are simply not efficient in attack against drilled teams. We create many half chances instead of proper chances due to poor passing, decision making and build up play. When we do create decent chances, our attackers don't communicate well, make the wrong decisions or just outright miss.

We lack organization and efficiency in the way we are set up. We struggle to find ourselves on the pitch. We didn't know how to attack, we struggle to maintain possession in attacking areas and control the tempo of the game because we cannot pass.

We are relying on one lucky ball to Osimhen instead of setting our team up so that we have regular direct balls to him in good positions. It shows our coaches are either lazy tactically or just not knowledgeable enough on the modern game.

Brilliant. We simply don't have an organised way to attack. This was not emphasized enough on this thread after the painful AFCON exit. All we heard was Okoye dis, Okoye that.

Teams practise how to get the ball from their goalkeeper to the opponent's net. Teams practice how to score from set-pieces; how players are to be placed, the different angles the player could play into, the movement after the freekick is taken, but our team lacked all of this. I wonder what they do in training....... na to they jog on the field and crack jokes during the training, na im they know pass.

NFF should please get a team of committed home-based players that will play together more, learn basics of the modern game, learn how to string accurate passes together, learn how to shoot balls from outside the box. We should have a sound home- based team.

TheGoodJoe:


He is right. The thread is over. Read the title.

We've always changed the title.

If terzurum5 comes around, he'll adjust it to AFCON 2023 and we will move on.

Time no de.

komekn:
It's really sad we are not going to the World cup.

I looked at the conceited contributions and how we dismissed the challenge of Ghana.

I don't think we prepared enough and our team selection was very questionable.

Am I shocked, absolutely not.

Gutted and sad painfully YES.

What may seem strange is l think Rohr would have done better.

Your UK players failed us and that's my take home from not watching the match.

Barryseal:
The thread should be closed and a new one set up to reflect a fresh start for everyone.

I feel there is no need for a new thread if it will still be composed of the old users. Given the history of the thread right from when we failed to make afcon due to the loss against Egypt, we have won games, lost games, insulted each other, made friends, formed cliques and all. This thread is a memory that should never be deleted. It is a place we have come to call home. As tradition, we should just change the name of the thread to reflect current situation. We still have afcon qualifiers to look forward to. Hopefully this would allow us to be realistic in our expectations of the team

RaymondJohnson1:


Brilliant. We simply don't have an organised way to attack. This was not emphasized enough on this thread after the painful AFCON exit. All we heard was Okoye dis, Okoye that.

Teams practise how to get the ball from their goalkeeper to the opponent's net. Teams practice how to score from set-pieces; how players are to be placed, the different angles the player could play into, the movement after the freekick is taken, but our team lacked all of this. I wonder what they do in training....... na to they jog on the field and crack jokes during the training, na im they know pass.

NFF should please get a team of committed home-based players that will play together more, learn basics of the modern game, learn how to string accurate passes together, learn how to shoot balls from outside the box. We should have a sound home- based team.

What really baffles me most about dis our foreign players is d inability to hold d ball for more dan 2/3minutes wout losing it to d opponent,forget abt d formation deployed,dis guys are professional fgs, and I av been noticing dis trend since d reigns of rohr...what's so special in maintaining possession for just 2/3minutes wout losing it. I can't just phantom it and it seems nobody is looking at it from dt angle..even wout a coach or training.. A group of professional footballers shld b able to hold possession for at least 2mins cos dis re football basics...


If dis is d best we can get from foreign/professional players,den it doesn't worth it..let's kukuma face our home base players,open periodical camps with d invited local players and harness deir talents well,maybe it will pay off cos me I no just understand dis katikati way our so called professional footballers dey play,wey dem no fit string like 5 successful passes wout losing it. Its an eyesore

Danielnino00:
If the NFF is serious,now is the time to rebuild the team...
Get rid of the coaching crew, especially Eguavon and that clown Agu...
Also, some players in the team need to be retired... Musa, Ighalo and Shehu have no business being there anymore... The goalkeeping department needs urgent attention...

What I'm also thinking.

Get the coach sorted out now not few days to AFCON qualifier they'll now appoint someone and give him list of players to call up.

RaymondJohnson1:


Brilliant. We simply don't have an organised way to attack. This was not emphasized enough on this thread after the painful AFCON exit. All we heard was Okoye dis, Okoye that.

Teams practise how to get the ball from their goalkeeper to the opponent's net. Teams practice how to score from set-pieces; how players are to be placed, the different angles the player could play into, the movement after the freekick is taken, but our team lacked all of this. I wonder what they do in training....... na to they jog on the field and crack jokes during the training, na im they know pass.

NFF should please get a team of committed home-based players that will play together more, learn basics of the modern game, learn how to string accurate passes together, learn how to shoot balls from outside the box. We should have a sound home- based team.

It was emphasized on this thread and why a lot people on this thread clamored for more midfielders..

what you're explaining is the job of midfielders and can never be played with a thin midfield like A.E super eagles.

In A.E team, most of the time the strikers , wingers and attacking midfielders are all by the box waiting for the ball to magically come to them instead of dropping deep and helping the midfield.

Most of them are too attack and offensively minded. That's why anytime S.E played 3 midfielders their gameplay was better..

Now imagine if S.E played 4 midfielders or the wingers drop to midfield often to make it 5 midfielders.

zuchyblink:
Our midfielders cannot shoot to save their lives. Ghana saw that we cannot score from outside 18,they sat back and defended deep. Eguaveon and his crew na empty skull

The lovely U-17 set of Nwakali, Iheanacho, Musa Muhammad , and so on comes to mind.

One of the numerous strengths of that team was they could score from outside the box. In fact, a number of their goals came from shots outside the box. They were phenomenal.

How can we study what we did right about that set and apply it to a set of home- based players? How can we study the skills set of those players at that time and use it as a criteria to choosing new home- based players?

Karlovych:
Iheanacho played 90 minutes in the first leg, he didn't hit any shot on target neither did he drop deep or give any passes to lead to anything that was meaningful

The team has shown us that they don't deserve to be in the tournament.

Strikers missing sitters, selfish showboating wingers.

They've been squandering chances since the Afcon and Eguavoen refused to address it.

Our local coaches have done it again.

At the bold, let me assume you forgot.

The pass he gave to Moses Simon that he Moses couldn't convert is one pass that would have led to something meaningful if it was converted.

semid4lyfe:
*This thread will not be closed*

It has a lot of brilliant contributions, analysis, data and is an invaluable resource library / repository on Nigerian football and footballers

Furthermore, this thread has transcended Nigerian football into our personal lives as connections have been made and friendships have been forged here.

The thread will only be renamed to reflect our future aspirations and I welcome suggestions for that.

Supported.

Lookman impressed me

Ekong is a leader ,e sure me say many of our wingers and strikers Dey fear to take that pk

TheGoodJoe:
To Eguavoen, I hope you can see your handwork. I refused o write about this until after the playoffs. You want to satisfy big men. I hope you have satisfied them.

How someone of your Calibre can stop so low to allow politicians dictate your list is embarrassing.

I couldn't ignore this... But, please, stop this! Where's your evidence? Aren't you already trying to exonerate him from the blames? Or you mean to say you have not realized he is a bad coach, even at this point?

TheGoodJoe:
To Eguavoen, I hope you can see your handwork. I refused o write about this until after the playoffs. You want to satisfy big men. I hope you have satisfied them.

How someone of your Calibre can stop so low to allow politicians dictate your list is embarrassing.

Dem don hack this one account ?

andrewbaba44:


Even Ghanaians will agree with you

Partey is the only Ghanian that would make our team

Even many players from Mali and Congo will bench almost all of them apart from Party and maybe 2 others

Andrew now

gustav25:


Andrew now

It doesn’t change anything nah

Eguavoen shld av resign now.....he shldnt wait b4 getting booted,Algeria and Egypt coaches have resigned honourably ,what's he waiting for?....once he's sacked or resign, let's just go 4 tom sainfet (dt Gambia coach)

We can rename the thread as simply “The Super Eagles Thread”

Icon79:
KPOM! Forget what happened in Kumasi, I know we’ll flog the ghananese tomorrow.

Coach Eguaveon is not my favorite technician but I think he’s still got what it takes to soundly beat this mediocre Black Stars at home.


O pari

mediocre Ghana team showed you pepper

From Ghana with Love , good morning

elyte89:
Eguavoen shld av resign now.....he shldnt wait b4 getting booted,Algeria and Egypt coaches have resigned honourably ,what's he waiting for?....once he's sacked or resign, let's just go 4 tom sainfet (dt Gambia coach)

Egypt coach Wey dem no want make e go don resign Na eguavoen still Dey wait

JohnBullMySon:
You're very funny. Keep on dodging the reason we lost.

Which player should be invited that wasn't invited?

Or was Eguavoen being remote controlled by politicians to make substitutions

You and Komekn are just the same kind of people. You'll look for everything to support your point no matter how unreasonable it is. The only difference is that Komekn is for foreign based while you rep Naija based.

Now you're blaming politicians. Very soon you'll blame Putin. Keep it up. You're doing well.

TheGoodJoe is fixated with particular players who he believes meet and exceed the standards.

I have a bias for Nigerian origin players in the UK , but it's both emotive and objective. But that bias is knowledge ,it is participative and it's involvement based. That means l know a lot more about European and particularly English football.

Bias in this context means specialist and specific knowledge not prejudicial preference.