Gajagojo:
Disgrace is good it lleads to change

How old are you were you around when Westerhof arrived in Nigeria in 1989

He had a terrible start

There . We focus too much on short term non issues

Yesterdays' result does not tell me anything about Finidi

AndSunGorilla:
Based on reports in OGN and Score, NFF doesn't look like they would fire FG. In that case, I feel and think we would miss out with FG still in charge.

charlesemeka85:
him wan play attacking football to entice fans and nff 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Goke7:


this attacking football will continue to hunt us if we are not careful, we don't have the full spine for that now, that's what Rohr and Paseiro saw and tried to manage but our arrogance that we have it all will continue to be our bane. If we like make we no hear word, we will continue to cry over what we don't have

TheSuperNerd:


Thank you very much. Humility33 clearly wanted Finidi. All because he didn't want Amunike, he wanted Finidi, a man he knew nothing about from a tactical coaching perspective. All those who chose Finidi or preferred Finidi just so that Amunike should not be considered should sit tight coz Finidi is our coach for now.

Una wanted this Finidi ride, not so? We dey here together. Lol

lbrichman2:


If we sack Finidi now, we would be making the same mistakes we made with JPes
JPes also made mistakes, then he stumbled on a formula that worked for him and used it to get to AFCON finals
We let him go with all the knowledge he had

If we sack Finidi now, the instability will affect the players and possibly results (think Napoli this past season)

Let's stick with him and maybe the technical committee should monitor his call-ups from henceforth

Let's invite our best players in Europe and not all these half cooked players in Npfl and Tanzania leagues
Then we might have a chance

lovewins:
Yes we have a problem defensively, but we have an even bigger problem offensively.

Since the World cup qualifiers started we have played a total of 14 games and have scored a total of 14 goals. With our supposed world class attacking roster we average just one goal a game. We are struggling to score goals and the simple reason is because we've been figured out offensively.

Nigeria for the most part plays through the wings to score. Any coach worth his salt who has watched enough of our tapes will easily figure that out. Once upon a time we have skillful players like J.J (maybe Mikel) who provided options for us who could drive the ball through the middle and get some defensive attention freeing the wings a little. Now we don't have that.

South Africa and Benin just focused their defensive on Lookman and Chukwueze. The middle was the freest in both games but we had no player who could take the initiative to go through the middle. If we had explored both we probably would have scored more goals. This is where players in the mold of Eze and Olise could help.

Guess how we scored both goals? Fisayo and Onyedika through the middle.

chidekings:
no matter how we see it,Nigeria is not ripe for a local coach......no matter the sins of a foreign coach,they are more fair with their selections.

joelsteron:


You have singled out 2 persons from my list. Good, now tell us what Iwobi offers to that team other than pass. Yeye pass. To shoot na work. Check Onyedika now.. We need Nwakali please.

Nwabali cannot lace Okoye's boot. Passing around balls to defenders doesn't translate to a good keeper. He has cost useless Uzoho kinds of Goals. Fans will soon have his time. End.

Odunayaw:
Odun throws in the towel**

Mujtahida:

This is just the point. It's not a matter of competence. We are simply not mature to believe in a local coach. Even the local coaches themselves don't inspire faith. A white man even if he's on the same level of competence with our local coach, he not on the same level of authority with them. White men usually command more authority. Call it colonial mentality if you like. I'm sure even many of us believe more in whitey than our own.

Without authority, no matter how competent or knowledgeable you go just dey TheGoodJoe talking sweet theories. When them punch you for mouth like Benin punch Finidi, you'd get confused and start making thoughtless substitutions.

semid4lyfe:
Sack Finidi. Sack Finidi. Sack Finidi.

I am of the same ethnic stock as Finidi but I cannot in all honesty advocate for him to continue in the helms as Super Eagles coach.

It cannot get worse. The knife has been shoved deeper and twisted in our heart and we'll eventually bleed to death. WE CANNOT QUALIFY. That:s the realistic diagnosis. .

We lose nothing from sacking Funidi.

Sacking Finidi is bye to football without formation and tactics.

Sacking Finidi is bye to poor defensive setup.

Sacking Finidi is bye to unmerited call-ups.

Sacking Finidi is bye to questionable player invitations.

Sacking Finidi is bye to home-based quota.

Sacking Finidi is bye to susceptibility to NPFL journalists and their envelope-induced hyping of home-based players.

NFF should do fast and sack him.

TheGoodJoe:


Simple, give Amunike the job. All the dribblings have led us to nowhere.

semid4lyfe:


Oga rest. Even Guardiola wouldn't be able to replicate his tiki-taka suffocating possession playing style with the Super Eagles.

You know why?

1. Our players don't have it in their DNA.

2. Our players are bang average with the exception of maybe 1 or 2.

3,. Our players don't have the stamina and the work ethic to impose that kind of suffocating pressure on their opponents.

4. That kind of style requires months/years of continuous training to master, time which is not available in national team football.

You need to be realistic and pragmatic, and stop building castles in the sky with this your fantasy of tiki-taka possession based football.

elyte89:


Den if we can’t win those games(an afcon finalist) ;most especially

Our home games against Benin 🇧🇯, Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 and Rwanda 🇷🇼


And a game with Lesotho 🇱🇸 at a neutral ground

Haba ,den we shld be banned for 10years den,we re worse Dan been called minnows niyen

Mujtahida:

Go and rest jare. Personally I was indifferent to either Amunike or Finidi being appointed. But once Finidi was appointed, I supported him.

But to say Amunike would have done better, is just conjecture.

Mujtahida:

Me I Port follow Peseiro when I saw how our defense was like a wall of Gibraltar. Impregnable.

Charlesemeka85 convince me say fancy football will not take us nowhere.

The only snag with Peseiro was that the structure he played requires utmost physical exertion and he did not properly rotate his team .

TheSuperNerd:
More fair? Fairness isn't by local or foreign. It is down to the actual selection decision-making competence of the individual involved.

Was it not Lars Lagerback who also picked nonsense? Rohr, in his final 2 years with us was rubbish too in his selections and decision makings.

We have had them both local and foreign mess us up in terms of selection.


Not ripe for a local coach? Was Festus Onigbingbe from Togo when he led Nigeria to Afcon Silver in 1984?? Amodu Shuaibu remains the only coach who has qualified Nigeria successfully for 2 World Cups AND HE IS BLOODY LOCAL.

It is the choice of local coaches that matter. So snap out of your delusional fallacy.

Goke7:


Not that we can win but you see this Man City pattern wey Una wan play all these playing through the middle for where the players no dey available or those that can’t shoot na there wahala Dey. The countries we are playing won’t have respect for all those tiki taka nonsense.

Every African country wants to be at the World Cup especially now with the nine slots Africa has. If our players are not ready to get their hands and legs dirty forget it. If they want to save their leg for their clubs in Europe they shouldn’t bother to come and play, they will collect nicely

mank1234:


I miss Amodu. On both occasions he did it on rescue mission - when other mess up. Unfortunately, each time he qualifies after Afcon third place finish, the tiki taka crew will mount pressure on a willing NFA to recruit a foreign coach (for perceived cutback).

Napoleon55:

1994 set are not the problem,
some of them might not be good enough,
but how about some of them that are good?

Siasia played good football with U20 WC and Olympic silver to show for it,
Keshi won us AFCON,
Amuneke won us U17 World cup.

Oliseh and Finidi can b said to b woeful,
Eguaveon failed but not woeful.

Six of them have been tried on d national team job,
three of them was successful, three of them failed.

So how do u justify getting rid of them entirely when some has proven to b successful?

faithtemisan93:
Nwabali is miles ahead of Okoye


And it has been proven

TheGoodJoe:


Lie small now!

Guardiola's style has not become popular in the time of Amodu. 😂 😂

TheGoodJoe:


Na wah.

All of a sudden, Nigeria can not shoot shot from long range.

The same Nigeria that we had U17 boys hitting shots like flying carpets from the time of John Obuh to Manu Garba and even Amunike.

We need to get back to taking our training seriously and scouting.

Goke7:


Una wan force am Dey shoot? Na by force? 😂

Abeg make Una leave the boy alone if he begin shoot now Dey balloon anyhow na we go still complain o!

Goke7:


Na this tiki taka spoil everything na so tey na baby pass and baby shot our eagles don turn to

mank1234:


Tell the truth. Was he not sacked because we were not playing beautiful football. Tiki taka is synonymous with good football. I won't be supprised if you were amongst those criticising him then. He was pragmatic. He was reliable on rescue mission.

TheGoodJoe:


Simple, give Amunike the job. All the dribblings have led us to nowhere.

daveP:
Lol. If you know me, i be Iwobi defender here. Just that that aspect dey vex person.

Well, Ketekete Effect nooni