Beautiful goal by Onyekuru.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLMcqM9vMRk

BascoVanVeli:


Naive can never be the word. Even the people sweeping the glass house know there is a chance they won't get paid talkless of a former captain. He knew he had already worked for fifa and all he needed was a job with Super Eagles on his CV. Egypt would have dropped him to a losing record, he could not take that chance. I wish him luck but i can't just sit back and play a fool.

How do we know what Pinnick promised him?? Remember he had already rejected the job twice. Maybe he felt things would be different.

tbaba1234:
Beautiful goal by Onyekuru.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLMcqM9vMRk

Sooner or later Rohr has got to call this guy up. The perfect Musa replacement.

Tammy Abraham's Brace


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI_IBFuZBIM

Nothing special abt it

tbaba1234:
Beautiful goal by Onyekuru.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLMcqM9vMRk

Fanendo Adi scored a penalty in Portland Timber 3:1 Away win against Philadelphia Union

Would have been more interesting if Ikeme was in goal....
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TAMMY ABRAHAM’S BRACE POWERS BRISTOL CITY PAST WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS





[quote]The forward was on song twice as his side returned to winning ways and kept their survival hopes alive on Saturday[/b]


Tammy Abraham maintained his superb scoring form netting twice as Bristol City secured a 3-1 win against
Wolverhampton Wanderers at Ashton Gate Stadium on Saturday.


The 19-year-old’s brace plus Jamie Paterson's goal helped the home side sink Paul Lambert's men to their first defeat in seven matches in the English Championship.


Parterson handed the home side the lead in the 33rd minute before the Anglo-Nigerian made it 2-0 from the spot.


Four minutes into the second half, Abraham scored his 21st goal of the season extending the lead to 3-0 before Jon Böðvarsson handed the visitors a consolation.


The win helps City open a four-point gap above the relegation zone with 44 points and will face 16th-placed Queens Park Rangers in their next game.


Source: http://m.goal.com/s/en-ng/news/4110/nigerians-abroad/2017/04/08/34437312/tammy-abrahams-brace-powers-bristol-city-past-wolverhampton

Wilfred shared this beautiful and revealing Article on his Twitter account just last night.
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Leicester City’s Wilfred Ndidi: ‘The other players were scared and couldn’t cope’

The Nigerian midfielder reveals how growing up in a Lagos military zone equipped him with the strength and running power to follow N’Golo Kanté

By Nick Ames



In years to come it may seem particularly far-fetched that when Wilfred Ndidi took his early steps as a midfielder things did not quite go to plan.

It was July 2015 and Ndidi, whose first six months at Genk had been spent making cameo appearances across the defence under Alex McLeish, had been repurposed by the newly arrived coach Peter Maes.
A first midfield outing against OH Leuven had gone respectably; a far bigger test would come in the season’s second fixture, away at Belgium’s reigning champions, Gent, and a cocktail of pressure and inexperience took its toll on the then 18-year-old.



“I was so nervous that I couldn’t pass the ball properly,” Ndidi remembers. “I was new to the position and the coach wasn’t the kind who keeps calm, he screams a lot at every player. So I didn’t play well and he took me off at half-time. At half-time!”

The repetition is accompanied by a laugh and it is the nearest that Ndidi, modest to a fault, comes to suggesting wonder at the journey he has taken since then. That jittery performance at Gent led to a brief run of games on the bench but he made himself undroppable upon returning and, three months since joining a Leicester City side whose fortunes have swung wildly in that time, he is nearing similar status in the east Midlands.


Leicester saw in Ndidi the same things as Maes – “ a lot of running and trying to win balls ”, is what the player suspects – but there has already been so much more. He arrived with a reputation for scoring rarely but spectacularly; a driving run and finish in the FA Cup replay with Derby, bettered by last weekend’s thrilling long-range effort against Stoke in the league, bore that out quickly and alongside those thunderclaps has been a composure that belies his years.

It may have taken the champions half a season to get over the departure of N’Golo Kanté but, in a player almost six years younger, have they now found someone who – for a relatively moderate £17m – could represent an upgrade?


It is a valid question but not the kind of talk that interests Ndidi. “I can only see myself as myself,” he says. “Whether people say I play like Kanté, or that he’s better than me, I don’t listen to them. All I want to do is play and keep improving, and it is working well at the moment – we are doing the basic things well and we try to kick on from there. I prefer to enjoy the winning mentality of the team rather than how I play or what I try to achieve.”



Ndidi is not given to grand pronouncements about the present but offers enough colour about his past to suggest where his discipline comes from. A childhood spent living in a military zone just outside Lagos, Nigeria’s largest city, was hardly an archetypal footballer’s upbringing and it was sometimes an achievement to get a ball out at all. His father, a soldier who moved around frequently on peacekeeping operations in locations such as Sudan and the troubled far north of Nigeria , preferred more scholarly pursuits and his absences were to be capitalised upon rather than mourned. “I’d be happy when he went away because he never wanted me to play football,”

Ndidi says. “He wanted to make sure I was at school. Whenever he went anywhere I was, like: ‘Right, I’m going to play.’”

There was a well-run setup of army teams, leading from under-10 level to a senior side, and by his mid-teens Ndidi had caught the attention of Nduka Ugbade, who had captained Nigeria to victory at what was then the Fifa Under-16 Championship in 1986 and was helping out with coaching at the barracks.


“I think what I did with him meant that I was stronger than people expected when I went into physical contact,” Ndidi explains of a regime that sounds punishing but was presumably intended to harness a talent that leapt out at Ugbade. “It wasn’t normal training, we would just keep running – there would be two pitches every time and we would have to cover them. Even when you were tired, he’d tell you to keep going. There would be three sessions a day: morning, afternoon and evening. Most of the other players didn’t come because they were scared and couldn’t cope. But he kept pushing me and pushing me, saying that I should not worry about my age and that in football you could beat anybody.”

Wilfred Ndidi is tackled by Sevilla’s Pablo Sarabia during the 2-0 second-leg win which took Leicester into the Champions League quarter-finals. Photograph: Plumb Images/Leicester City FC via Getty Images.

A place at Nath Boys’ academy, among the best-regarded of Lagos’s many football schools, resulted and perhaps this is where Ugbade’s exhausting sessions bore fruit. It is easy – far too easy – to slip through the cracks as a budding footballer in Nigeria, sometimes with demeaning and dangerous results.

The tiny minority that achieve the dream are fortunate but also have something that sets them apart.

When Ndidi was 16, Nath Boys entered a tournament that he says involved about 40 teams and pitted academies against senior sides from Nigeria’s Premier League. Among the scouts watching was Roland Janssen, then of Genk and now employed by Manchester United, and one particular moment from what was in effect a shop window event sticks in Ndidi’s mind.


“We were playing a team from the top division and losing 1-0 towards the end of the game,” he says. “You could tell they were much older, but we were trying to play. I was playing centre-back and passed to our midfielder, who held the ball, and I ran forward into the open space. If you remember my goal against Derby, I ran in through the middle because it was open. This time, he gave the ball back to me and then before anybody could react our striker had made a run and I played it between the two defenders. He controlled it and scored, and the whole stadium was happy because an academy team had equalised. It was a one-two up the pitch and then a pass; maybe that’s what they saw.”


It certainly sounds like some piece of initiative from a player who, back then, drew upon John Terry as a major influence for his defensive work. This was something quite different and in January 2014 Ndidi, who by now was also involved in Nigeria’s youth teams, travelled to Belgium for a month-long assessment by Genk. A contract offer followed quickly and a year later, shortly after he had turned 18, the move was formalised.


Then it was a case of taking information on board as quickly as possible. How things would have panned out had McLeish remained in charge is uncertain but under Maes the art of midfield play was boiled down to its simplest elements. At times Ndidi felt it was “like he was teaching an academy player how to become a midfielder”, with drills amounting to little more than “take it, pass, open, pass, open, pass”.

Simplicity was the key to Ndidi’s conversion; he had already shown, in front of Janssen, that the decorative elements were there.


It was not the time to be flashy when, at Leicester, he was pitched straight into a side whose winter freefall was shortly to hit what seemed like terminal velocity. Claudio Ranieri sat him down in front of the tactics board before his debut, at Everton in the FA Cup, telling him to sit ahead of the back four and, most important, be himself. The manager’s sacking five weeks later came as a surprise; Ndidi had not been around to experience the highs of Ranieri’s reign – and admits he did not watch much of the title-winning campaign – but still felt the departure of the latest man to put faith in him.


“When the manager left we were all sad,” he says. “But it wasn’t a decision I could put in my head, I was sad but had to move on. We just had to pick ourselves up quickly and say: ‘Come on, we need to push harder and harder,’ because we weren’t in a good position in the league.”


The results since then, under Craig Shakespeare, speak for themselves and when Leicester step out at Goodison Park on Sunday afternoon they will do so with six straight wins behind them. One of those set up Wednesday’s improbable Champions League quarter-final first leg with Atlético Madrid and Ndidi smiles at the memory of the 2-0 win over Sevilla , before which “we said to ourselves in the dressing room that we had to work like slaves”.



Jamie Vardy and Kasper Schmeichel made headlines for their performances but Ndidi – eating up the ground in a manner that Ugbade, back in Lagos, must have been proud of – was the best midfielder on view. “Working like that was the only way we could achieve [the win], so we tried all we could and everything went right,” he says.

“There was never a moment when we felt safe. The only time we had some relief was after the red card [for Samir Nasri]. Then we felt: ‘OK, we can do this.’”


Leicester hope to replicate that feeling at the Estadio Vicente Calderón and ties against Spanish opposition have served Ndidi well this season. He scored twice in Europa League group stage meetings with Athletic Bilbao while still with Genk – a header and one of those trademark screamers – in further evidence that whenever the bar has been raised, he has been ready for the challenge. And although Leicester are, even on current form, rank outsiders, it is hardly as if Atlético have not been forewarned.


His adaptation at Leicester has been helped by the presence of Ahmed Musa, his international team-mate with Nigeria. Musa has not made the same impact as Ndidi despite arriving last summer with a more accomplished reputation and it may only be slightly harsh to suggest his fortunes have embodied the scattergun thinking of late-Ranieri. But it was Musa who, on the telephone, urged Ndidi to join him in England and who, when his young compatriot arrived, took care of him with simple gestures like driving him to the airport before away games.


Ndidi was “a little bit nervous” when he first set foot in Leicester’s training ground so it helped to have a friend close at hand and they will also link up in Russia next summer if Nigeria, four points clear in their qualifying group, qualify for the World Cup. A vibrant, youthful side also includes the Arsenal forward Alex Iwobi and Chelsea’s Victor Moses;

Nigeria faced Senegal in London last month and were mobbed
on the pitch by their supporters after drawing 1-1 at The Hive.
“They were hugging us and taking photos,” he says. “The game was a good exercise, we have a good group and we’re now just looking at what we need to do to reach the World Cup. We have to look at what’s ahead and then go for it.”
It is an attitude that, aside from that false start in Gent, has brought little other than success so far.




*Wilfred Ndidi will be more than just a new ball-winner for Leicester.






***This article was corrected on 8 April to reflect the fact that Wilfred Ndidi’s childhood coach was in fact called Nduka Ugbade.



Source: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/apr/08/leicester-city-wilfred-ndidi-nigeria-ngolo-kante

Nice article. I hope the Drills Jab crew can see. This is where Improvement happens. Big shout out to Nduka Ugbade. God Bless for the intense work put into Ndidi. Weldone TheSuperNerd.


“I think what I did with him meant that I was stronger than people expected when I went into physical contact,” Ndidi explains of a regime that sounds punishing but was presumably intended to harness a talent that leapt out at Ugbade. “It wasn’t normal training, we would just keep running – there would be two pitches every time and we would have to cover them. Even when you were tired, he’d tell you to keep going. There would be three sessions a day: morning, afternoon and evening. Most of the other players didn’t come because they were scared and couldn’t cope. But he kept pushing me and pushing me, saying that I should not worry about my age and that in football you could beat anybody.”

Not sure of the news but it looks like just speculations.... but even if true.... I think Cedric should be ready to play second fiddle to the world's best and most in-Form RWB in Victor Moses.
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Where does Chelsea's reported Soares move leave Victor Moses?



What does the future hold for Chelsea 's Victor Moses ? Should former clubs like West Ham United and Stoke City be on red alert?

Chelsea's Victor Moses celebrates

As they march on towards their first premier league title since 2015, Chelsea are looking in good shape under new boss Antonio Conte.

In the past, the club have been known to splash enormous sums of money in the summer transfer windows, but this doesn't look too necessary this time around.

However, a recent report in the London Evening Standard has linked the Blues with a move for Southampton right-back,
Cedric Soares.

The 25-year-old Portugal defender can play as a defender or further forward, and appears to be the type of signing that would fit Conte's current system at Stamford Bridge.
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So where would this move leave Chelsea's current right-wing back, Victor Moses? The Nigerian, who joined the Blues from Wigan Athletic in 2012, hasn't always had a fair crack of the whip at Stamford Bridge, and has found himself on loan at clubs such as Liverpool, Stoke City and West Ham United.


But under Antonio Conte, the winger has really found his home, slotting in perfectly in the Italian manager's 3-4-3 formation.

As one of the hardest workers in this Chelsea side, along with Marcos Alonso and N'Golo Kante, it seems unfair and slightly strange that one of the positions potentially being recruited for is Moses'.

Tottenham's Son Heung-min in action with Chelsea's Victor Moses

While it is possible Conte is bringing in a rival for the role rather than a replacement, should any of Moses' former clubs be on red alert? After such an impressive season with the Blues, clubs such as Stoke City and West Ham United would be silly not to consider a potential move for the Nigerian this summer if there is any suggestion that he will be demoted back to squad player again.



Source: http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2017/04/05/where-does-chelseas-soares-move-leave-victor-moses/

You don dey shine teeth now abi?

TheGoodJoe:
Nice article. I hope the Drills Jab crew can see. This is where Improvement happens. Big shout out to Nduka Ugbade. God Bless for the intense work put into Ndidi. Weldone TheSuperNerd.


“I think what I did with him meant that I was stronger than people expected when I went into physical contact,” Ndidi explains of a regime that sounds punishing but was presumably intended to harness a talent that leapt out at Ugbade. “It wasn’t normal training, we would just keep running – there would be two pitches every time and we would have to cover them. Even when you were tired, he’d tell you to keep going. There would be three sessions a day: morning, afternoon and evening. Most of the other players didn’t come because they were scared and couldn’t cope. But he kept pushing me and pushing me, saying that I should not worry about my age and that in football you could beat anybody.”

Antonio Conte has saved Chelsea star Victor Moses from ‘going nowhere’, says Harry Redknapp
By George Bellshaw for Metro.co.uk

[img]https://metrouk2.files./2017/04/666192658.jpg[/img]

Moses was in great form (Picture: Getty)

Harry Redknapp believes Antonio Conte has saved Victor Moses from ‘going nowhere’ in his career, after the Chelsea star put in another ‘fantastic’ performance against Bournemouth.


The Nigeria international was a surprise selection under the Italian in the right wing-back role early on in the season but he’s since blossomed in the position after spending previous campaigns on loan at Stoke, West Ham and Liverpool.


And former Tottenham Hotspur boss Redknapp has been hugely impressed with the 26-year-old along with fellow wing-back Marcos Alonso, who had endured a relatively underwhelming Premier League career prior to the 2016/17 season.

Redknapp told BT Sport: ‘He [Alonso] played here three or four years ago, he was at Bolton. He’s a lovely footballer, absolute quality, he has got a great left foot.


[img]https://metrouk2.files./2017/04/666204706.jpg[/img]

Conte has worked wonders with the pair (Picture: Getty)

‘His delivery is top class, he always looked very composed, he suits the system.

‘Moses was going nowhere in his career, suddenly in this system he has blossomed, he has been fantastic.’


Fellow pundit and former Chelsea boss Glenn Hoddle agreed: ‘Him and Moses, at the beginning of the season people weren’t too sure about the wing-backs, but they have proved themselves.


‘Alonso has that lovely left foot balance. The number of times they change the play, he is out there all the time. The diagonal pass is always in play.’


Source: http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/08/antonio-conte-has-saved-chelsea-star-victor-moses-from-going-nowhere-says-harry-redknapp-6562905/

Anthony Ujah and Jude Ighalo are going h2h this very moment.

'Wouldn't mind him as a back-up' - Watford winger impresses Tottenham Hotspur fans

By Hertfordshire Mercury: Matt Storey

RARE OPPORTUNITY: Isaac Success made his first start since October at White Hart Lane

Watford winger Isaac Success impressed some Tottenham Hotspur fans despite being on the losing side at White Hart Lane.


Success was making just his second Premier League start since signing for the Hornets in the summer, after a frustrating first season.


He had come off the bench in Watford's previous eight league games, but despite calls from fans to be given his chance, Walter Mazzarri said he would have remained on the bench if it weren't for the many injuries they have.


Although his final ball was lacking at times, one wayward cross in the first half was memorable for all the wrong reasons,
Success showcased some of the talent he possesses.

Quick feet and a lovely ball out to Nordin Amrabat after 15 minutes was the highlight and he also showcased his pace on a couple of breakaways.


He was not always as willing defensively and is clearly still a raw talent, but some Spurs fans saw enough to suggest he has a bright future.



Here is the best of the reaction on social media: Success reaction

>>Curated Tweets by @StoreyMatt 17h

Enoho Emeje @EnohoEmeje.
Congrats to @SuccessIsaac 4 completing his first 90 mins match in a @WatfordFC shirt||1 of d liveliest in a generally poor team performance

Source: http://m.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/wouldn-t-mind-him-as-a-back-up-watford-winger-impresses-tottenham-hotspur-fans/story-30258027-detail/story.html

tbaba1234:
Fanendo Adi scored a penalty in Portland Timber 3:1 Away win against Philadelphia Union

Call this guy sharpenly.

edi287:

How do we know what Pinnick promised him?? Remember he had already rejected the job twice. Maybe he felt things would be different.

Oliseh is the one that had always wanted the job. He was interviewed for the job and later offered to be an assistant which he refused. He knew all what he was in for but he already had this masterplan of coaching in Europe.

tbaba1234:
Awoniyi played 90 minutes.. His incredible barren run continues...

i am not worry about taiwo awoniyi let him keep improving,learning

Watford boss admits Isaac Success only started against Tottenham because of injury woes
By LeeWilmot

GettyImages-666107154: Isaac Success up against Tottenham's Davies

Watford were soundly beaten by Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane on Saturday lunchtime.

Manager Walter Mazzarri was forced into four changes against title-chasing Spurs, thanks to an injury crisis.


One of those changes was to bring in 20-year-old Isaac Success for his first start since October.

And on a difficult afternoon for the Hornets, Success stood out, alongside Stefano Okaka.


But his manager has admitted that he would not have been involved , were it not for the injury crisis at Vicarage Road.
Mazzarri said: "He still needs to grow, but he did well.

"He's a very young player and he still doesn't have 90 minutes in his legs. He can do much better in some situations with the ball because he can damage other teams.

"Of course he needs more continuity to play better, game by game, but I put him in the side because of injuries, not for technical decisions."



Source: http://m.hertfordshiremercury.co.uk/watford-boss-admits-isaac-success-only-started-against-tottenham-because-of-injury-woes/story-30257999-detail/story.html

TheSuperNerd:
His coach at NEC must have incredible patience also.....

Awoniyi.... come on... this lad promised so much.... what is happening to him really?

he is still learning,when he starts scoring he will be difficult to stop

Okay Sir.... Coz I still have high hopes for the lad.... he has so much in him... I pray you are right shaa....

enomakos:
he is still learning,when he starts scoring he will be difficult to stop

Would be very interesting..... Wonder when Mikel + Ideye will be up against Ighalo.....

BascoVanVeli:
Anthony Ujah and Jude Ighalo are going h2h this very moment.

TheGoodJoe:



What does physicality have to do with the point? Mikel is one of the most sleek players in the game but he is very physical.

I have watched most of Delph's games for City and I am telling you that there is a big transformation in his game. You are trying to argue that one.

Pellegrini used energetic. I am telling you he has transformed from that and he is more controlling. Delph is moving from a Rakitic kind of player to a Busquet kind of player and you are saying that, Delph is not doing anything he has done before.

Delph was not sleek. Now he is sleek. His awareness has changed and he said it himself. Delph is telling something about himself and you want to argue it.

“I thought Fabian Delph showed why he’s probably, in my opinion, the best midfield player in the country at the moment.
“I’m waiting for somebody to tell me a better midfield player than Fabian Delph. I wouldn’t swap him for anyone in the mess we’re in.”
Sherwood reckons Delph has proved his commitment to the claret and blue cause with his performances, let alone his decision to sign a new contract in January.
“What does he have to do?” said Sherwood.
“He’s a warrior. He’s a dream,. Tackles passes, runs with the ball, got trickery . There’s not a lot he can’t do and he can score“He shows you with his performances. If you’re an Aston Villa fan you’re loving him aren’t you?
“ He leaves nothing on the field, but it’s not only about energy and desire. It’s about flair and imagination. He’s got the whole package. ”........

http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/aston-villa-fabian-delph-best-9172138
Tim sharewood

The above quoted was said by Tim Sharewood after a game against Everton which Delph won the man of the match.
From the bolded you can see Tim sharewood praised his finness , flair and tricky.
He didn't suddenly develop this flair courtesy of Lord Guardiola's drilling. However, knowing what you're capable of, am sure you will find a way to twist everything just to attribute everything good to Guardiola and give an excuse why Kelechi should remain at City as a training cone.
Yeah.. I got the memo

TheGoodJoe:


Maradona is a lefty. Is he sleek? What of Messi? They are not sleek players. Kanu and Mikel who are right footed are sleek. Same with Busquets. Iheanacho is not sleek but his left footed. Iwobi is sleek but he is right footed.

It is not a left or right thing but football orientation.

I wouldn't pretend I understood what you meant exactly that Maradona and Messi aren't sleeky. Am not sure I've seen a better ball juggler than Maradona. The man can do everything with a football. I mean everything. I've seen Messi score unimaginable goals from angles that takes the breath away, I've seen him gracefully lob keepers making the best of them look silly at times. If that is not sleeky, I don't know again.

Kelechi at UAE was as sleeky as they come. Apparently it have been coached out of him at City. They have turned the footballer in Kelechi to a fox in the box.

TheSuperNerd:
Would be very interesting..... Wonder when Mikel + Ideye will be up against Ighalo.....

I don circle dat one tey tey. It is on the 21st of next month.