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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by maidaboi(m): 9:33am On Apr 18, 2023
Revealed- How Pinnick, Rohr
Messed Up Chance To Cap
Crystal Palace Star Eze For
Super Eagles


https://www.owngoalnigeria.com/2023/04/17/revealed-how-pinnick-rohr-messed-up-chance-to-cap-crystal-palace-star-eze-for-super-eagles/
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 10:02am On Apr 18, 2023
The pitch talk continues to deflect from the true major issues, some of which I raised in the post and you chose to ignore.

Quoting where I listed our chances creators for the 2nd leg also shows it wasn't up to 20 chances for either legs and doesn't answer the questions as regards the first leg.

You conveniently chose to ignore those questions and quote a post of mine as if I say chances were not created when I clearly said we didn't have consistent penetrative buildups to those chances. Most came by scatter gun approaches from the channels.

So you switching to now say "the 20" refers to both legs is funny. In Abuja, how many chances did Osimhen get? You refused to answer this.


So we were not expected to bury Bissau? We were not expected to create chances against such weak opposition especially seeing how easily we dispatched same side at the Afcon with a weaker team (compared to the one that played Bissau recently)?

And yes, even Ndidi was found in front of goal and we should blame the pitch for his missed 1 on 1 right? Is that it? Yeah, blame it all on the pitch meanwhile Bissau scored from open play on the same Abuja pitch.


BascoVanVeli:


How can the excuse be weak when we all saw the matches. The pitch was definitely an issue in both games.

Did we get Victor Osimhen big chances in front of goal or not? Even big Wilf was found in front of goal. Those chances did not fall out of the sky.

I was obviously talking about 20 chances in both matches.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Amedino99(m): 10:06am On Apr 18, 2023
maidaboi:
Revealed- How Pinnick, Rohr
Messed Up Chance To Cap
Crystal Palace Star Eze For
Super Eagles


https://www.owngoalnigeria.com/2023/04/17/revealed-how-pinnick-rohr-messed-up-chance-to-cap-crystal-palace-star-eze-for-super-eagles/
so basically, nothing different from what has been said in this thread. He preferred an u20 call up over a super eagles call up due to fears over his place in the team. Can't blame him tho. Highly unlikely his decision would change now that he is in a better place and form. Wish him well.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by elyte89: 10:19am On Apr 18, 2023
TheSuperNerd:
The pitch talk continues to deflect from the true major issues, some of which I raised in the post and you chose to ignore.

Quoting where I listed our chances creators for the 2nd leg also shows it wasn't up to 20 chances for either legs and doesn't answer the questions as regards the first leg.

You conveniently chose to ignore those questions and quote a post of mine as if I say chances were not created when I clearly said we didn't have consistent penetrative buildups to those chances. Most came by scatter gun approaches from the channels.

So you switching to now say "the 20" refers to both legs is funny. In Abuja, how many chances did Osimhen get? You refused to answer this.


So we were not expected to bury Bissau? We were not expected to create chances against such weak opposition especially seeing how easily we dispatched same side at the Afcon with a weaker team (compared to the one that played Bissau recently)?

And yes, even Ndidi was found in front of goal and we should blame the pitch for his missed 1 on 1 right? Is that it? Yeah, blame it all on the pitch meanwhile Bissau scored from open play on the same Abuja pitch.




For a very long time I av seen dis kind of unbiased balance comment from you. I like ur new self,most especially on d aspect of critically analyzing eagles performance after a match..No more sugar coating ,continue dis way..so u all can now start tagging Nerdie “hater” Abi wetin una Dey call us den 😊😊 for saying it d way it is
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by BascoVanVeli(m): 10:50am On Apr 18, 2023
TheSuperNerd:
The pitch talk continues to deflect from the true major issues, some of which I raised in the post and you chose to ignore.

Quoting where I listed our chances creators for the 2nd leg also shows it wasn't up to 20 chances for either legs and doesn't answer the questions as regards the first leg.

You conveniently chose to ignore those questions and quote a post of mine as if I say chances were not created when I clearly said we didn't have consistent penetrative buildups to those chances. Most came by scatter gun approaches from the channels.

So you switching to now say "the 20" refers to both legs is funny. In Abuja, how many chances did Osimhen get? You refused to answer this.


So we were not expected to bury Bissau? We were not expected to create chances against such weak opposition especially seeing how easily we dispatched same side at the Afcon with a weaker team (compared to the one that played Bissau recently)?

And yes, even Ndidi was found in front of goal and we should blame the pitch for his missed 1 on 1 right? Is that it? Yeah, blame it all on the pitch meanwhile Bissau scored from open play on the same Abuja pitch.



Osimhen had about 3.5 chances in Abuja, the team had at least 15. We are not even talking about time they got in good positions and made wrong decisions.

Scatter gun or organised gun, the team created too many chances to only come out with one goal in 2 matches.

I never said we created 20 chances in one match. Instead of clarifying wat I meant u are running with the narrative that suits you. This is what I said.

BascoVanVeli:


Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If we leave the pitch excuse we would end up at why did we miss all those chances. U can't create 20 chances for some of the best forwards in the world and still shade the coach.


U literally stole my point and tried to switch it up in ur last statement grin

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by maidaboi(m): 11:38am On Apr 18, 2023
There’s an 18 year old defender named Kayode at Fiorentina that we should keep an eye on. Saw him listed on the bench in their last game…
copied cc thesupernerd
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 11:44am On Apr 18, 2023
Osimhen had only one big chance in Abuja which he squandered. He practically only had one shot all game in Abuja.
For all the chances we created in Abuja, the midfield practically created just 1 chance. A poor return to tell you how clueless we looked through the middle.

These are some of the issues.

The Highest we created in Abuja came via Bright Osayi Samuel (3) on the right and almost none was coordinated buildup but scatter gun.

Also, For all the chances we created in Abuja, Bissau created more big chances (2) than us (1).

I remember you said we might score 5 in the second leg. Pray tell, weren't you gravely disappointed seeing the team couldn't even score one open play goal?

Creating chances was not the issue vs Bissau in both legs. The issue was the approach and balance of plays on our end either in offensive and defensive transitions. The lack of or poor synchronisation between our defensive build up and midfield buildup, the disconnect between the midfield and attack. It was mostly scatter-gun and superior 1v1 player quality. We have the quality but lack team coordination in attacking transitions.

We looked uncoordinated getting forward and that partly explains why we kept mixing things up in the final third with bunches of poor finishing and flat decision makings with everyone just trying to do the best they can with the uncoordinated tactical approaches we applied and against such a weak side on the continent.


BascoVanVeli:


Osimhen had about 3.5 chances in Abuja, the team had at least 15. We are not even talking about time they got in good positions and made wrong decisions.

Scatter gun or organised gun, the team created too many chances to only come out with one goal in 2 matches.

I never said we created 20 chances in one match. Instead of clarifying wat I meant u are running with the narrative that suits you. This is what I said.




U literally stole my point and tried to switch it up in ur last statement grin

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 11:45am On Apr 18, 2023
maidaboi:
There’s an 18 year old defender named Kayode at Fiorentina
that we should keep an eye on. Saw him listed on the bench
in their last game…

copied
cc thesupernerd
The issue here is NFF are they monitoring these guys..imagine Salisu don’t know much about Gift Orban.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 11:48am On Apr 18, 2023
TheSuperNerd:
Naija Talents Watch: Michael Kayode, 17

Michael Kayode, born July 10 2004, is a Fullback talent in the Fiorentina Youth Setup. Majorly a left back but he is right footed and can also play as a RB. Idolises Cafu

My Italian source(s) quote an Italian youth teamer who knows Kayode saying he commands a potential similar to the ceiling of Wilfried Gnonto of Italy. That is some interesting comparison.

Born in Italy to Nigerian parents.

Another one to be on the lookout for.



21/22 stats:

Primavera1 - 27 games, 1 assist

Coppa Primavera - 4 games, 1 assist (Led his side to a cup win defeating Atalanta U19 in the final 1-0. Featured from the right in the final).

Viareggio Cup - 2 games, 1 assist.


Yes. Way ahead of you My Good man... I already mentioned him since last year☝️☝️ and on my former twitter acct (still suspended for now due to clips copyright palava so I have a new one).

I remember he was brought to my attention by an Italian buddy of mine last year. A neapolitan based in Bologna back then. He has since moved for other engagements.



maidaboi:
There’s an 18 year old defender named Kayode at Fiorentina
that we should keep an eye on. Saw him listed on the bench
in their last game…

copied
cc thesupernerd

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by gatecrash123: 11:51am On Apr 18, 2023
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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by maidaboi(m): 11:51am On Apr 18, 2023
TheSuperNerd:


Yes. Way ahead of you My Good man... I already mentioned him since last year☝️☝️ and on my former twitter acct (still suspended for now due to clips copyright palava so I have a new one).

I remember he was brought to my attention by an Italian buddy of mine last year. A neapolitan based in Bologna back then. He has since moved for other engagements.



wow nice
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 11:51am On Apr 18, 2023
Not a boast. Not a talk up. But I clearly do a better job monitoring Nigerian talents than the whole band of NFF departments put together. Even the so called media officers and scouts of the Super Eagles and the NFF don't do a quarter of this.

It is that bad.

Kog45:
The issue here is NFF are they monitoring these guys..imagine Salisu don’t know much about Gift Orban.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 11:58am On Apr 18, 2023
Today is the Day. 🔥🔥💯👌🏽

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 12:09pm On Apr 18, 2023
Omo Elyte. You know me... Come rain, come sunshine, I am Super Eagles through and through. Arguably their biggest fan but you see it is because I know what we are capable of as a team (and with the pool of players we have got) that makes me open to seeing the flaws that keep bedevilling our team plays.

If anyone, after all my years of passionately showing just how much this team means to me and all my years of constantly keeping tabs on Naija players all because of the love for the Super Eagles and Nigerian football in general, tag me a hater all of a sudden due to my critical analyses of the team in recent times then it shows they don't understand that what one loves he also must truthfully and constructively criticise in a bid to build up.


I mean... it has gone beyond even wanting an Amunike for the team. To hell with him if someone that can do just as well or even better comes along. That's me. I am not that guy who will die on one angle if I see a better angle. All I want is the right pegs in the right holes in the Super Eagles from the technical crew to the first XI selections and bench selections.

Every time we draw up a list, we must do so keeping in mind what we really want from these players and the tactical idea they are coming to execute in sync with their actual tactical/technical values and characteristics.


elyte89:



For a very long time I av seen dis kind of unbiased balance comment from you. I like ur new self,most especially on d aspect of critically analyzing eagles performance after a match..No more sugar coating ,continue dis way..so u all can now start tagging Nerdie “hater” Abi wetin una Dey call us den 😊😊 for saying it d way it is

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by mostob(m): 12:12pm On Apr 18, 2023
FIFA confirms Argentina as host nation for FIFA U-20 World Cup 2023.
• Tournament to take place from 20 May to 11 June • Official Draw to be held in Zurich on 21 April

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Philosopher1979: 12:22pm On Apr 18, 2023
TheSuperNerd:
Not a boast. Not a talk up. But I clearly do a better job monitoring Nigerian talents than the whole band of NFF departments put together. Even the so called media officers and scouts of the Super Eagles and the NFF don't do a quarter of this.

It is that bad.


I dont even think the NFF knows the best players in our local leagues and academies.
I highly doubt it.
I think even BascoVanvelli is better at that.
NFF is just a government parastatal dedicated to stealing money.
Politics and leadership in Nigeria is based on two ideologies.
1. Making Money or corruption
2. Shortermism or poor attitude to long term development. Our politicians cant think of the next
2 years or even 3 weeks. They are after what will make money now.
NFF is just part of the Nigerian society and so it is like that.
I'm sure our scouting department is not doing anything.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by BascoVanVeli(m): 12:28pm On Apr 18, 2023
TheSuperNerd:
Osimhen had only one big chance in Abuja which he squandered. He practically only had one shot all game in Abuja.
For all the chances we created in Abuja, the midfield practically created just 1 chance. A poor return to tell you how clueless we looked through the middle.

These are some of the issues.

The Highest we created in Abuja came via Bright Osayi Samuel (3) on the right and almost none was coordinated buildup but scatter gun.

Also, For all the chances we created in Abuja, Bissau created more big chances (2) than us (1).

I remember you said we might score 5 in the second leg. Pray tell, weren't you gravely disappointed seeing the team couldn't even score one open play goal?

Creating chances was not the issue vs Bissau in both legs. The issue was the approach and balance of plays on our end either in offensive and defensive transitions. The lack of or poor synchronisation between our defensive build up and midfield buildup, the disconnect between the midfield and attack. It was mostly scatter-gun and superior 1v1 player quality. We have the quality but lack team coordination in attacking transitions.

We looked uncoordinated getting forward and that partly explains why we kept mixing things up in the final third with bunches of poor finishing and flat decision makings with everyone just trying to do the best they can with the uncoordinated tactical approaches we applied and against such a weak side on the continent.



15:32 Kelechi Iheanacho's ball found him in 1 on 1 with the keeper.
30:23 Ball fell kindly for him in the box but he slips as he is about to turn and shoot.
36:15 Iheanacho heads the ball to him and instead of shooting first time he went for a cut back.
48:26 This one is the 0.5. He pounced on a loose ball but his shot got blocked. I can be persuaded that was a pass though.

U add other big misses from Ndidi, Simon and Onuachu. Score could have been 5-1 easily.

The excuses are completely bogus on your part. How can our build ups be so poor when the forwards got the ball in glorious positions time and time again? Their decision making and finishing let them down its simple as that.

This makes me even more confident in the team because we know these players have quality and they will come good. We all saw Samu Chukwueze against Madrid. The 2nd goal he scored was harder than the chances he missed time abd time again vs Bissau.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 12:41pm On Apr 18, 2023
In the end, Osimhen had only one true chance. That's on period. You make it sound like he missed tons in Abuja.

Nothing bogus about how we struggled to build up plays through the middle. Nothing bogus about that.
If our Midfield-attack plays and Defence-midfield plays aren't so disjointed, we would have created more coordinated chances of note through the middle & still bag goals despite missing the ones we did.

And the quality and xG of Bissau's big chances clearly trumped ours in Abuja. We didn't just do enough in the Capital added to our disjointed plays.

So yes, our build ups were poor and unsynchronised. Ignoring that only because we created chances never minding how scatter-gun they were means you aren't exactly paying attention to our team plays.

You should not be talking up our Scatter-gun approach when it's obvious we look so disjointed in transitions.

Which team wouldn't have at least one chance of reaching the opposition final third no matter how bad they are? Lol

And ofcos the players are quality. Do I say otherwise? The fact is the team isn't living up to that spread of quality yet you want to defend Peseiro despite my mentioning the areas he is clearly not addressing strongly.

Samu vs Real Madrid. Yes, we saw his goals. In the same La Liga, Samu also missed sitters and especially one in his last game vs Valladolid. And on a good pitch as well.

Misses are meant to happen but the issue here with Samu is how he is utilised in the Super Eagles setup. Peseiro isn't setting the team up to get the best of what Samu brings and worse, he doesn't even fix the midfield issues that can help in executing the tactical ways Samu can be best used in the final third.






BascoVanVeli:


15:32 Kelechi Iheanacho's ball found him in 1 on 1 with the keeper.
30:23 Ball fell kindly for him in the box but he slips as he is about to turn and shoot.
36:15 Iheanacho heads the ball to him and instead of shooting first time he went for a cut back.
48:26 This one is the 0.5. He pounced on a loose ball but his shot got blocked. I can be persuaded that was a pass though.

U add other big misses from Ndidi, Simon and Onuachu. Score could have been 5-1 easily.

The excuses are completely bogus on your part. How can our build ups be so poor when the forwards got the ball in glorious positions time and time again? Their decision making and finishing let them down its simple as that.

This makes me even more confident in the team because we know these players have quality and they will come good. We all saw Samu Chukwueze against Madrid. The 2nd goal he scored was harder than the chances he missed time abd time again vs Bissau.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 12:43pm On Apr 18, 2023
@Bolded... that's if they even exist by function truly or by tag alone.

Philosopher1979:


I dont even think the NFF knows the best players in our local leagues and academies.
I highly doubt it.
I think even BascoVanvelli is better at that.
NFF is just a government parastatal dedicated to stealing money.
Politics and leadership in Nigeria is based on two ideologies.
1. Making Money or corruption
2. Shortermism or poor attitude to long term development. Our politicians cant think of the next
2 years or even 3 weeks. They are after what will make money now.
NFF is just part of the Nigerian society and so it is like that.
I'm sure our scouting department is not doing anything.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by IDENNAA(m): 12:56pm On Apr 18, 2023
elyte89:



For a very long time I av seen dis kind of unbiased balance comment from you. I like ur new self,most especially on d aspect of critically analyzing eagles performance after a match..No more sugar coating ,continue dis way..so u all can now start tagging Nerdie “hater” Abi wetin una Dey call us den 😊😊 for saying it d way it is

Because there is nothing to sugarcoat about SE anymore because they are playing so badly and everyone is fed up. Wotowoto activated!

Presently, SE doesn't inspire hope no confidence. Its depressing watching them play.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 1:03pm On Apr 18, 2023
Whenever they play together... Hell, fire, thunder and brimstones are unleashed upon the opponents. Let's hope same continues today in favour of the Neapolitans.

The Dynamic Duo back together.

Osimhen x Kvaratskhelia

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 1:08pm On Apr 18, 2023
Vawulence Edition: Which kain wahala choice question be this?

Osimhen is my man for all times but.... this table 433 is shaking... they will be hearing from my lawyers soon 😂😂😂

Ofcos most commenters will say Sell Osimhen...😂😂

Kaaiii... The Monster Machine has suffered. Milan must fall at his feet tonight to put more respect on his name and qualities. Habamana🤣🤣

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by maidaboi(m): 1:45pm On Apr 18, 2023
TheSuperNerd:
Vawulence Edition: Which kain wahala choice question be this?

Osimhen is my man for all times but.... this table 433 is shaking... they will be hearing from my lawyers soon

Ofcos most commenters will say Sell Osimhen...

Kaaiii... The Monster Machine has suffered. Milan must fall at his feet tonight to put more respect on his name and qualities. Habamana
facts
Start Benzema
Bench Haaland
Sell Osimhen

me
Start Osimhen
Bench Haaland
Sell Benzema

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Curtisaxel10: 1:50pm On Apr 18, 2023
maidaboi:
WATCH: ‘I can walk to Super
Eagles camp if called up’ –
Europa League leading scorer
Victor Boniface



https://soccernet.ng/2023/04/watch-i-can-walk-to-super-eagles-camp-if-called-up-europa-league-leading-scorer-victor-boniface.html

It's just sad to see the number of quality strikers who would never get a look in for the SE just because of the excess number of excellent strikers on our hands now.

Boniface, Orban, Dessers, Sadiq, Awoniyi.......all decent strikers who would be starting games back-to-back if they were belonged to virtually any other country around our level.

Osimhen and Moffi have nailed them permanently to the bench or outside the squad sef🙂
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Marjoribanks: 2:59pm On Apr 18, 2023
Basco, the guy always finds ways to condemn Paserio but find ways to exonerate his favorite coach Amuneke, even when he gets sacked for poor team performance. Let's move on from this topic as it seems like a waste of time
BascoVanVeli:


15:32 Kelechi Iheanacho's ball found him in 1 on 1 with the keeper.
30:23 Ball fell kindly for him in the box but he slips as he is about to turn and shoot.
36:15 Iheanacho heads the ball to him and instead of shooting first time he went for a cut back.
48:26 This one is the 0.5. He pounced on a loose ball but his shot got blocked. I can be persuaded that was a pass though.

U add other big misses from Ndidi, Simon and Onuachu. Score could have been 5-1 easily.

The excuses are completely bogus on your part. How can our build ups be so poor when the forwards got the ball in glorious positions time and time again? Their decision making and finishing let them down its simple as that.

This makes me even more confident in the team because we know these players have quality and they will come good. We all saw Samu Chukwueze against Madrid. The 2nd goal he scored was harder than the chances he missed time abd time again vs Bissau.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Marjoribanks: 3:02pm On Apr 18, 2023
Don't watch them if they get you depress. Na by force! Guy go sleep!
IDENNAA:


Because there is nothing to sugarcoat about SE anymore because they are playing so badly and everyone is fed up. Wotowoto activated!

Presently, SE doesn't inspire hope no confidence. Its depressing watching them play.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 3:29pm On Apr 18, 2023
Gabriel Nwankwo of Enyimba U15s.

The current leading goalscorer of the 2023 NPFL La Liga U15 promises with 5 goals in 2 games.

He bagged a hattrick for Enyimba U15 in their 4-1 win over Dakkada FC U15.

One to watch hopefully.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by BascoVanVeli(m): 3:36pm On Apr 18, 2023
TheSuperNerd:
In the end, Osimhen had only one true chance. That's on period. You make it sound like he missed tons in Abuja.

Nothing bogus about how we struggled to build up plays through the middle. Nothing bogus about that.
If our Midfield-attack plays and Defence-midfield plays aren't so disjointed, we would have created more coordinated chances of note through the middle & still bag goals despite missing the ones we did.

And the quality and xG of Bissau's big chances clearly trumped ours in Abuja. We didn't just do enough in the Capital added to our disjointed plays.

So yes, our build ups were poor and unsynchronised. Ignoring that only because we created chances never minding how scatter-gun they were means you aren't exactly paying attention to our team plays.

You should not be talking up our Scatter-gun approach when it's obvious we look so disjointed in transitions.

Which team wouldn't have at least one chance of reaching the opposition final third no matter how bad they are? Lol

And ofcos the players are quality. Do I say otherwise? The fact is the team isn't living up to that spread of quality yet you want to defend Peseiro despite my mentioning the areas he is clearly not addressing strongly.

Samu vs Real Madrid. Yes, we saw his goals. In the same La Liga, Samu also missed sitters and especially one in his last game vs Valladolid. And on a good pitch as well.

Misses are meant to happen but the issue here with Samu is how he is utilised in the Super Eagles setup. Peseiro isn't setting the team up to get the best of what Samu brings and worse, he doesn't even fix the midfield issues that can help in executing the tactical ways Samu can be best used in the final third.







Which one is true chance? Every moment I named could have resulted in a goal. It is not until they have a open net that we know it is a chance.

So our forwards threw away chance after chance because the build up from the middle was bad? Are they in the game to score goals or analyse how our build up is going? That's like a defender messing up and saying "Well the strikers were missing too much" it makes no sense. We had more than enough opportunities to defeat GB.

My point about Samu was that he scored the same type of goal. Why would I expect him to score every chance he gets?

U act like we were just chucking long balls up front. We passed those balls wide for the most part. In 180 minutes GB could not find an answer for our wide attacks.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by AndSunGorilla: 3:47pm On Apr 18, 2023
TheSuperNerd:
Omo Elyte. You know me... Come rain, come sunshine, I am Super Eagles through and through. Arguably their biggest fan but you see it is because I know what we are capable of as a team (and with the pool of players we have got) that makes me open to seeing the flaws that keep bedevilling our team plays.

If anyone, after all my years of passionately showing just how much this team means to me and all my years of constantly keeping tabs on Naija players all because of the love for the Super Eagles and Nigerian football in general, tag me a hater all of a sudden due to my critical analyses of the team in recent times then it shows they don't understand that what one loves he also must truthfully and constructively criticise in a bid to build up.


I mean... it has gone beyond even wanting an Amunike for the team. To hell with him if someone that can do just as well or even better comes along. That's me. I am not that guy who will die on one angle if I see a better angle. All I want is the right pegs in the right holes in the Super Eagles from the technical crew to the first XI selections and bench selections.

Every time we draw up a list, we must do so keeping in mind what we really want from these players and the tactical idea they are coming to execute in sync with their actual tactical/technical values and characteristics.


I saw what you did there, lol, why the blue font when he reach Amuneke? grin grin
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by AndSunGorilla: 3:51pm On Apr 18, 2023
TheSuperNerd:
Gabriel Nwankwo of Enyimba U15s.

The current leading goalscorer of the 2023 NPFL La Liga U15 promises with 5 goals in 2 games.

He bagged a hattrick for Enyimba U15 in their 4-1 win over Dakkada FC U15.

One to watch hopefully.
Thanks to you and Basco for that U15 nuggets. I hope Ugbade or one of his assistants are observing these boys. There should be at least a cour who can be invited to try out for the U17 team.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 4:01pm On Apr 18, 2023
Yes. True Chance. Not all chances have the same xG or xGOT. Even Ndidi's saw him not hit it towards goal but tried to square it in the box before it was intercepted quickly by the GK. Poor/slow decision making.

With no true penetration and transition play through the middle, we resorted to the wings in uncoordinated fashion. Scatter-gun approach. Chuks receiving the ball in zones which sees him up against a deep block instead of receiving between the lines. This led to him not completing many of his dribbles and also losing duels recklessly when trying to push his way past the block.
And in doing so, we didn't even establish consistent passing triangles on his wing whenever he had the ball. We struggled and laboured through it all, making do with whatever each attacking phase gave us.

Lookman experiencing same turmoil. Struggled to complete even a dribble.

The midfield hardly switching plays from high concentrated zones of play to less concentrated zones of play.

Our transition being laborious, and slow and with no real desire for the players to attack gaps created in transition.

Our midfield hardly providing BTL (breaking the line) options.

Chance after chance yet not many were clear cut. Midfield created almost zero in Abuja. Nada.



You talk about wide attacks for 180s yet for same 180 mins, we couldn't get one open play goal. So much for the attacks.
Most were rushed... uncoordinated and simply done with poor transition execution several of which died at the feet of the low blocks or found its way past the blocks yet couldn't be finished due to bad decision, poor finishing or just not settling well enough to be clear cut.

Guinea Bissau were expected to feel the wrath of rhe Nigerian attack yet what we presented even via wing plays was uncoordinated approaches that ended with us scoring nothing in the end. Bissau recorded more xG with their chances than our boys in Abuja even.

These issues are obvious and exist but noooo... cover it up with the fact that "we created chances".

Like we weren't supposed to somehow find a way to do so against a weak side like Guinea Bissau. Lol


BascoVanVeli:


Which one is true chance? Every moment I named could have resulted in a goal. It is not until they have a open net that we know it is a chance.

So our forwards threw away chance after chance because the build up from the middle was bad? Are they in the game to score goals or analyse how our build up is going? That's like a defender messing up and saying "Well the strikers were missing too much" it makes no sense. We had more than enough opportunities to defeat GB.

My point about Samu was that he scored the same type of goal. Why would I expect him to score every chance he gets?

U act like we were just chucking long balls up front. We passed those balls wide for the most part. In 180 minutes GB could not find an answer for our wide attacks.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by darkelf: 4:13pm On Apr 18, 2023
BascoVanVeli:


Lol I saw the picture and it's like I already saw the fight. Poor guy grin

Was rooting for him

Heard his mum is Nigerian though

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