Icon4s:


Well, if you want to descend the laders you can add that Ahmed Musa is a Kano Pillars Legend, Vincent Enyeama is an Enyimba legend, Henry Nwosu is an ACB legend ati be be lo.

tbaba1234:
Pep is a one trick pony... In Barca, he had players like Xavi, busquests, iniesta and masherano who were good on the ball and can deal with pressure. Today, spurs killed them with pressing.. They could not cope.

Icon4s:


Now na acknowledgment. Oya show me the acknowledgement that Yekini is a Victoria setubal great and Segun Odegbami is also a 3SC great.

tbaba1234:

No i am not babayaro..

Icon4s:


Respect to you man. Not every one here has the boldeness to openly concede to an argument.You are a great guy. At least we are inching closer to knowin Rohr's stlye of play.

Iheanacho is really a great asset to the Super Eagles. With him in the team, you dnt necessarily need to make a substitution to change formation. He can play as a number10, Supporting striker or as a lone striker.

Success has proven to be a deadly weapon from the Right of the attack. Moses has been having a good run of play of late. Iwobi has been fantastic from the wings for Arsenal but has proven super efficient from the middle.

If we adopt the 4-2-3-1 against Zambia i would like the formation to look like this:

..........Iheanacho

Success....Iwobi....Moses.

If this team does not perform with this attack then we need to go beg "that mama we don put Super Eagles inside bottle".

Alternatively, we can make Success a direct replacement for Ighalo and the set up would look like:

..........Success

Iwobi...Iheanacho...Moses.

This formation would effectively utilize the potency of Iheanacho in edge of box shorts and killer final passes.
However, Success would be a debutant for that match. It is not likely he would be made to shoulder the responsibility of the lone striker for a game of this magnitude.

The earlier formation I proposed looks more likely.

TheSuperNerd:
INJURED MIKEL TO PLAY THROUGH PAIN
BARRIER FOR NIGERIA AGAINST ZAMBIA





Despite being pronounced injured by the coach of
Chelsea Antonio Conte, captain of the Nigeria
senior national team Mikel John Obi is set to play
for Nigeria in their first World Cup 2018 qualifiers
against Zambia.


Mikel is expected to arrive Nigeria on Monday for
the start of training ahead of the October 9 tie in
Ndola and, so far he is yet to formally inform the
technical crew of the extent of his injury.


Hence the coaches are going ahead with the 29
year old in their match plan for the game which
will be the first real test for the newly appointed
coach of Nigeria Gernot Rohr.



” Even the game he played against Tanzania, he
wasn’t fully fit. He managed his way through the
Olympics and his determination to lead Nigeria to
qualification for the World Cup in Russia is enough
reason for him to play through the pain barrier” a
team source told Owngoalnigeria.com.



However there are plans for the midfield maestro
to undergo test with the medical team of the
Super Eagles upon arrival in camp to enable the
team assess the severity of the injury.


His injury according to Conte is the reason why he
is yet to play for Chelsea in a competitive fixture
under the Italian after his participation at the Rio
2016 Olympics.


He has however within that same period of time
played for Nigeria in a dead rubber AFCON 2017
qualifiers against Tanzania.


Source: http://owngoalnigeria.com/2016/10/02/injured-mikel-to-play-through-pain-barrier-for-nigeria-against-zambia/

Icon4s:


Respect to you man. Not every one here has the boldeness to openly concede to an argument.You are a great guy. At least we are inching closer to knowin Rohr's stlye of play.

Iheanacho is really a great asset to the Super Eagles. With him in the team, you dnt necessarily need to make a substitution to change formation. He can play as a number10, Supporting striker or as a lone striker.

Success has proven to be a deadly weapon from the Right of the attack. Moses has been having a good run of play of late. Iwobi has been fantastic from the wings for Arsenal but has proven super efficient from the middle.

If we adopt the 4-2-3-1 against Zambia i would like the formation to look like this:

..........Iheanacho

Success....Iwobi....Moses.

If this team does not perform with this attack then we need to go beg "that mama we don put Super Eagles inside bottle".

Alternatively, we can make Success a direct replacement for Ighalo and the set up would look like:

..........Success

Iwobi...Iheanacho...Moses.

This formation would effectively utilize the potency of Iheanacho in edge of box shorts and killer final passes.
However, Success would be a debutant for that match. It is not likely he would be made to shoulder the responsibility of the lone striker for a game of this magnitude.

The earlier formation I proposed looks more likely.

TheSuperNerd:
That's the secret to dealing with "guardiola" teams.... Apply high pressure/marking from the front on their defenders as they love to build from the back a lot.


And keep up the pressure all through from the front (attack) to the middle (midfield) and to the back (defence).

City are still in transition under Guardiola and Spurs did a great job of doing perfectly what Celtic exposed as City's weakness.

tbaba1234:
Pep is a one trick pony... In Barca, he had players like Xavi, busquests, iniesta and masherano who were good on the ball and can deal with pressure. Today, spurs killed them with pressing.. They could not cope.

TheGoodJoe:


Guardiola has passed the Xavi, Iniesta and Busquets excuse. After he won the league three times at Bayern and the DFB Pokal Cup twice in three seasons, you are talking Xavi, Iniesta and Busquets.

11 games played this season, won nine games, drew one and lost one. You are saying one trick pony.

tbaba1234:


Celtic found them out and Spurs capitalized.

In Bayern, he had Alonso, lahm and others that were able to handle pressure. Without De bruyne, who can handle pressure in city's midfield? Spurs did not do anything special, they just applied pressure. Pep could have changed the style of play and confused spurs.

TheGoodJoe:


What is found out? It is high pressing which Arsenal used against Chelsea. Michael Laudrup used it multiple times. Pochettino played that way from Espanyol until now. It is not found out. Tottenham will still lose other games. Guardiola will win games and lose games. It is football.

I guess you did not watch the Gladbach game. They pressed the hell out of us but we won. Against Celtics, Dembele was offside for one of the goals and Kolarov made a mistake and handed them a goal on a platter.

We were the better side, created more chances but lost the game. It is football. It happens.

Today, one of the goal was an unforced own goal by Kolarov. But, Tottenham played well and worked hard. They were good. Not found out. Also, we have an aging players we will soon replace to cope with the high intensity game of Guardiola.

It is not found out but a good game. Guardiola loses his first game and he is found out. Give him kudos. Even Barcelona lost to Alaves. Does that mean Enrique is a one trick pony?

tbaba1234:


Celtic found them out and Spurs capitalized.

In Bayern, he had Alonso, lahm and others that were able to handle pressure. Without De bruyne, who can handle pressure in city's midfield? Spurs did not do anything special, they just applied pressure. Pep could have changed the style of play and confused spurs.

tbaba1234:


City were doing the same thing over and over again even when it was not working.

When Inter won the champions league, they beat Barca in the semis, watch that game again, Pep needed a different approach to get a result. Even if the game went on for 5 hours, Barca would have struggled to score.

The point is that , there is no plan B with pep. When it is not working, switch it a bit.

tbaba1234:


City were doing the same thing over and over again even when it was not working.

When Inter won the champions league, they beat Barca in the semis, watch that game again, Pep needed a different approach to get a result. Even if the game went on for 5 hours, Barca would have struggled to score.

The point is that , there is no plan B with pep. When it is not working, switch it a bit.

forgiveness:


Well, I did not arrange them according to the greatest but if I should do Rashidi Yekini go still be no one not Kanu.


Now let me arrange it accordingly.

1, Rashidi Yekini: In Africa nations cup, he won 1 trophy, 3 times runner up, 1 third place, Twice highest goal scorer of African cup of Nations(1992 & 1994), 2nd highest goal scorer in 1990 AFCON, Nominated twice for AFCON best player of the tournament but he won only once1992 & 1994), 2 times CAF team of the tournament (1990 & 1994), Nominated 3 times for African player of the year which he won once, came second and third, highest goal scorer prior to 1994 World Cup, first Nigerian to score in a World Cup, Nigeria highest goal scorer of all time.

Club achievements

He was the highest goal scorer in the Nigerian Premier league in the 80's( when Nigerian league was hot), he won the Nigerian Premier league in 1983 with 3SC, he took 3SC to the Finals of African Champions cup for the first time in Nigeria Football club history(this was massive in the eyes of patriotic Nigerians), Won 2 FA Cups with Abiola babes in 1985 and 1987 (I was at the National stadium in Lagos for the finals, Waoh! It was massive with the stadium filled to the brim.I can't forget the song, on ke bi ologbo iwanyanwu... Meeee yee... Ooooo) , He helped African Sport to win Treble in 1989( his name is written in Ivorian folklore), highest goal scorer in LIGRAPRO(Segunda-division) with 34 goals in 32 matches, highest goal scorer in Portuguese Premier Liga, Won Bola de Prata etc

Note: Nigerian Premier league was hot when he achieved these. And because of that Rashidi Yekini was invited to the National team in 1982.


This is obviously number one. Who can match this? Kanu Nwankwo? Okocha? Mikel (my man)? Sorry

forgiveness:


Ok na! You see as dem dey celebrate am for Victoria Setubal?

Oya, please show me why Okocha is Frankfurt great.

tbaba1234:


City were doing the same thing over and over again even when it was not working.

When Inter won the champions league, they beat Barca in the semis, watch that game again, Pep needed a different approach to get a result. Even if the game went on for 5 hours, Barca would have struggled to score.

The point is that , there is no plan B with pep. When it is not working, switch it a bit.

Mickael2:
I have an issue that is bothering me here and I think I should say it. please, can we all reduce the number of images we attach to comments please, it is no longer funny, it seems childish to me, I used to smile at it when it was only the image of GoodJoe's stick,but now even when there is absolutely nothing funny, someone attaches a rather irritating image to it. Not only that, it undermines the sanity of the person of the person who made the initial comment and it isn't cool at all, it serves to portray you as having more knowledge than the other person which isn't always true, because I myself won't include Mikel in my top10 Nigerian players of all time, reason being that in the 80s, some local lads not only won us the nations cup, but also developed our local league massively, endearing the game of football to all our hearts, so great players of that era will come first, then Kanu and Okocha OBVIOUSLY, then you have to add our record goalscorer before anyone else, in fact , Enyeama comes before Mikel for me, by a mile, Enyeama has saved us more than I can imagine, and I can't seem to recall more than 5 games where Mikel has been our saviour at all

ChrisKels:
Finally we brought back the title. We did it in style. " Hozana" is the song all over enugu. Songs of victory.

In Obinna Nwobodo, a gem is born.

Get well soon Ifeanyi Ogui. U r a gallant warrior.

Me right now, na champagne things!!!

We are the flying antelopes, we are the grand kings!!!!

PROUDLY A RANGER

TheGoodJoe:


Stop that talk. Inter. Haba.

Inter played Barcelona four times that season. Inter won one, Barcelona won two and they drew one. Even the one they drew, Barca scored a clear goal that the referee ruled a hand ball.

Guardiola has beaten Mourinho nine times. Mourinho won him three times. The class is there to see.

goldfish80:

You're not exactly right. I understand Guardiola switches tactics about 8times in a game. That is not to say he does not stick to his philosophy,hes crazy about that.
In one game at Barca, he gave Henry specific instruction to stay close to the touch line, Henry went off the rails and stepped inside, he scored but was substituted immediately the 2nd half began. Henry narrated this himself.

tbaba1234:


See i am not pep is a bad manager.. i am saying, when it is not working, he does not switch. The loss to Inter was a classic example. With a slightly different approach, they could have won.

tbaba1234:


He has a philosophy that he does not tweak when it is going badly.

Mickael2:
I have an issue that is bothering me here and I think I should say it. please, can we all reduce the number of images we attach to comments please, it is no longer funny, it seems childish to me, I used to smile at it when it was only the image of GoodJoe's stick,but now even when there is absolutely nothing funny, someone attaches a rather irritating image to it. Not only that, it undermines the sanity of the person of the person who made the initial comment and it isn't cool at all, it serves to portray you as having more knowledge than the other person which isn't always true, because I myself won't include Mikel in my top10 Nigerian players of all time, reason being that in the 80s, some local lads not only won us the nations cup, but also developed our local league massively, endearing the game of football to all our hearts, so great players of that era will come first, then Kanu and Okocha OBVIOUSLY, then you have to add our record goalscorer before anyone else, in fact , Enyeama comes before Mikel for me, by a mile, Enyeama has saved us more than I can imagine, and I can't seem to recall more than 5 games where Mikel has been our saviour at all

Icon4s:


Bros forget that 80s talk. I watched football a lot in the 80s. The only thing dey achieved was winning the 1980 AFCON on home soil and i have included Segun Odegbami and Christian Chukwu on my top 10. The 1980s team wey no fit qualify us for World cup.I picked Yekini, Keshi and Rufai from the late 80s to early 90s squad. Three other players worthy of mention, but not in top 10, mayb top 20 are Muda Lawal, Samuel Okwaraji (popularly pronounced as Okparaji) and Henry Nwosu.

Kanu, Okocha and Mikel top the chat for me.
I watched Peter Rufai, Aloy Agu, Wilfred Agbona"basket", Ike Shorunmu, Abiodun Baruwa, Vincent Enyeama, Austine Ejide and Dele Ayenugba.Enyeama is our all time best goalie. He will make my top 5.

Icon4s:


Congrats.

But you no sing una traditional championship title winning song:

"Holy-Holy, Holy, Holy, Holy Enugu Rangers, another champions"!
Majority of today's Rangers fans will not know that song bc it was last sang 32 years ago.

tbaba1234:


He has a philosophy that he does not tweak when it is going badly.