charlesemeka85:
12 epl goals since 2 seasons ago?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Una no Dey shame here oo 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

charlesemeka85:
12 epl goals since 2 seasons ago?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Una no Dey shame here oo 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

jihday:
this is the only title Porto have never won in their history, they changed that today

TheSuperNerd:
Zaidu Sanusi at FC Porto since he joined in 2020/21 season


🏆1x Portuguese League Champion (21/22).

🏆🏆2x Portuguese Super Cup Winner (2021, 2023).

🏆1x Portuguese Cup Winner (2022).

🆕️🏆 1x Portuguese League Cup Winner (2022/23).

Dude has won it all in Portugal. 💥😎🥇

do4luv14:



E neva complete, ramain, Conquering Europe

TheGoodJoe:
cc: TheSuperNerd

Watching Roberto De Zerbi's Brighton gives me joy and highlights how I want to see the Super Eagles play.

No matter the team you are meeting, play with bravery and intensity.

Tidy build up plays from the back. Gross and McAllister have been insane with their build up plays working with the defense and keeper.

Lamptey clearly the best player on the pitch. Been just insane.

If we play the modern way, it will be hard to make weak selections and pick players without fitting attributes.

I hope we get it right soon.

Some people are still talking out dated Rohr. May God deliver us from backward thinking ancestors.

oloriooko:
Ajax leading 3-1 but not seeeing Bassey on the pitch
What happened?

TheSuperNerd:
You are in the Zone My Top Man GoodJoe. Why do you think I highly rate and have talked about RDZ (Roberto De Zerbi) Football a couple times on this thread? It is partly because of what you are currently witnessing them exhibit vs Liverpool.

And the thing is with the right personnel, replicating it isn't that hard.

De Zerbi's Positional play system is kinda similar to Pep's but not entirely all the way down to tactics but the central ideas are similar.

In De Zerbi's system, he goes for Defenders who know their defensive duties but are also quite comfortable on the ball in the first phase of buildup plays and midfielders who are comfortable both in the first and second phases of buildup plays. He also plays with a "find the free man" concept. At each buildup phase, when the ball moves vertically, there is always that one player who takes up a position behind the opposition player who leads the press against the current ball holder.

This free man isn't paid attention to because he doesn't have the ball yet but why he is vital is because he is the guy who stays free to receive the ball after 2 passes from the current ball holder to his nearest teammate who then finds this "free man" in space who in turn transits the next phase of play Vertically. So much I can say on this. Been studying the man's system.


In the Super Eagles, we need bonafide 1st and 2nd phase midfielders but we mostly just have 1st phase midfielders with limited technical quality in the ball and in the vertical angle of buildups.

It is possible but we only have to pick the right personnel and Fortunately enough, we actually have them.

P.S: Brighton have signed another midfield talent that suits the RDZ system. Yasin Ayari from AIK, Sweden. Just 19. Keep an eye on him too.

TheGoodJoe:
Roberto De Zerbi

Don't forget the name.

TheSuperNerd:
De Zerbi is one of the finest young Italian tacticians in football today. His Positional plays strategy with Brighton was always gonna be too much for Lampard. The result was painful but unsurprising. I saw a Brighton win coming.

In all, I hope Lampard, Iwobi and Everton survive the drop.

TheSuperNerd:
Omo... Roberto De Zerbi is already showing the EPL why exactly he is highly rated among Italian coaches.
Always liked his tactical set-ups and approaches while he was in Serie A with Sassuolo before he moved to Shahktar Donetsk.

What a debut he is having in the EPL. Knocking Liverpool for 2 already?? No Joy from this Man.

TheSuperNerd:


'Has owned Klopp thrice this season already. Technically it is twice but that 3-3 was where it all began and I gave that tactical bout to RDZ.

Like I said before.... as seen below...

From... Jan.04



And from... October 1, 2022...



RDZ is up there among my favorite tactical managerial minds in the beautiful game today alongside Pep, Nagelsmann, Ancelotti, Sarri, Simone Inzaghi, Spalletti and even as recently as Mikel Arteta, since 2 yrs now. Xavi is also catching my eyes. I also have for a long time held huge respect for Mourinho and Klopp till now. I still look at their works.

See I cannot list them all. I have a list of my favourite tacticos in the game coz there is at least a concept I learn from each which can be brought together into a central idea of ideas to forge a truly unstoppable team.

It is beautiful to see beautiful football thrive. 🥰😍😎

Nice submission but delete Mourinho.

TheGoodJoe:


De Zerbi's system is built on a fusion of Pep Guardiola and Marcelo Bielsa's system. I must say, he has fused them into something lethal.

However, his build up plays are insane. Watched some of his games at Sassuolo and was so impressed with his intensity.

That sharp intensity in the final phase of the plays is where we can excel. However, we must get our defensive and midfield set-up right. Also a manager with the right philosophy.

Roberto De Zerbi gave us a brilliant display today. The referee literally allowed Liverpool to go violent on them. Like we witnessed the referee blatantly write off three red card scenarios.

The Konate foul on MacAllister, Fabinho's studs to Ferguson's Achilles and Robertson's stamp on MacAllister. Yet, Brighton still finished them.

Mitoma is also brilliant and fun to watch. Who scouts these players.

Scouting is a big part of success in football.

Philosophy + Scouting = Genuine success.

TheGoodJoe:


Nice submission but delete Mourinho.

TheGoodJoe:
cc: TheSuperNerd

Quote of the day.

TheSuperNerd:
Meanwhile My Top Man, TheGoodJoe... Ofcos you must have noticed time after time the quality of young CF, Evan Ferguson. Only 18 yrs old but already making his mark for Brighton this season.

Looks like Republic of Ireland finally have a Striker they can look forward to since Robbie Keane departed the playing scenes.

Top young talent, this one.