Icon4s:


This one made me laugh out loud.

Back to the basic:
1. You don't change a winning formation.
2. You don't change a winning Team.


National team football is a lot lot different from Club football. In club football because of the quality of players at your disposal, you can chose to alter formation even severally in a single game. You can chose to go to the market to buy a particular due to a new formation the club has chosen to adopt. If a formation or tacticsfails the coach has several other matches to redeem himself

This is national team football.
Caution here in very key. You don go about experimenting squads at random except for friendly matches.

The key to national team selection is to optimize your available resources especially when you are limited compared to the major oppositionsyou are to face.

If the midfield combo of Ndidi-Onazi-Mikel has been giving you the right results why change it?

O I understand the need to play Iwobi at the AM position but right now Mikel is more effective in that position so we have to move Iwobi to the wings.

What happens to Simon? Yes Iwobi has reclaimed his wings position from him. Can we recall Simon was not a starter in Rohr's earlier matches?

Now going back to the issue of consistency. We saw what happened against SA with so many changes to the starting lines up, with some of the regulars missing for various reasons known to us.

Consistency is key in team building. One or two changes may be made depending on various circumstances.
Rohr knows his team already and there is no need for wild experiments. It is important that the team maintains shape and cohesion as this would be vital as they compete at the World Cup.

Mickael2:



i didnt know the national team is reserved exclusively for some. David Villa was recently recalled to the Spanish national team, are they lacking potent strikers? If Ike Uche or Martins or even Osaze has what we need then we should call them back

tbaba1234:
Dele Aiyenugba highlights for last season. As expected, many penalty saves.


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

Aiyenugba can be called up but he will have a battle on his hands.

Kog45:
Oh boy expect slacks,me i no dey.Uche,Martins,Osaze?

forgiveness:


Did Aiyenugba fumbled against Guinea?

krattoss:
If gernert Rohr should just stumble on this thread....he go laugh tire

some People don take advantage of nairaland turn pundits overnight

Mickael2:



so Etebo played as a LW against Algeria? I never knew. That is the height of ridiculousness, me I am done with you on this topic

Magink:
Guys u can listen to genot rohr on Lagos talks 91.3 he's live on radio.
Said enyeama might come back
Said an u-20 player that plays for a big country is going to play for us refused to give name

Kog45:
Oh Iheanacho and thegoodjoe is like Ndidi and Michael2, Akpeyi,Mikel and icon4s, Komne and Nigeria born English player, Ajagun and forgiveness,Awaziem and Safarigirl,Mikel and Kog45 just to mention a few.

I believe when it reach a certain stage in d course of our discussion or arguments we should put aside our love or hate for a player and let football reason take over.

This is d only way we can have good and constructive analysis.In one of my comment yesterday i said Awoniyi was like a son to me but did u ever see me mentioning his name has a potential player to be in d WC team,not yet for him but if he make it fine.

Dele Aiyenugba very closed guy to me,am one of d people that make sure he signed his first professional contract as a footballer but I read all d heated arguments about him yesterday and my comment on him was on football reason,i did not allowed my judgment to be based on personal relationship.

Good to love a player but when it comes to reality we should face it and talk football without sentiments.

I can mention some monikers(icon4s, safarigirl,Bascon velli,tbaba1234,Humility, enomakos,Joseph1013) despite their likeness for a player when it reach certain point they come out and say d truth,this is more reason i hold Jobie and mujtahida in high esteem when it comes to unbiased football analysis.

For instance,i remember safarigirl was one of d championing of Tammy Abraham but now one of d strongest antagonist coz she believe he insulted Nigeria.

Magink:
Guys u can listen to genot rohr on Lagos talks 91.3 he's live on radio.
Said enyeama might come back
Said an u-20 player that plays for a big country is going to play for us refused to give name

Magink:
Guys u can listen to genot rohr on Lagos talks 91.3 he's live on radio.
Said enyeama might come back
Said an u-20 player that plays for a big country is going to play for us refused to give name

Mickael2:



big time. One of the goals he was beaten at his near post, two shots on target, two 'saveable' shots on target, two goals

Nigerdeltaboi:
Are you Great Ife ...nice to meet you oooo
I am an unrepentant AWO boy

Naijaphobia:
I no know wetin make me spend 5years for that hall alone.

Naijaphobia:
Me be Awo boy but I no dey do aro again

forgiveness:


And Etebor played in this makeshift position against South Africa what did he do?

He failed woefully.

We need players in their natural positions and not makeshift.

tbaba1234:

I think Tammy Abraham or one of the German boys.
Please give us more info

Joebie:
Putting another player in the same position does not mean like-for-like.
like-for-like is when they are similar players in strengths.. two players can play the same position but be given different roles. based on their strength.
Dynamism calls for some adjustments by one or two other players after a player is introduced. That's tactical.


Modified
Nigeria played a 4-2-3-1. That is double DMF.. Players drift during a match. Agu came in as a DMF. Onazi was a DMF not CMF

Modified2
Rohr worked according to the options he had when Onazi got injured. You said Mikel told Agu... were you there? haha.. see assumption oh. You are forming an opinion over an assumption. You were also reading Rohr's mind that he thought Agu can play as a CMF because he was a DMF. ABi na you train the boys for camp?. Rohr was quoted as saying only Iwobi's substitution was tactical. And I have every reason to believe that.
Pure, joebie you are right on this, iwobi's substitution was pure tactical, he brought in a different style of play entirely coupled with his excellent pass accuracy and vision. As for Mikel AGU, he started as a cmf before he switched over to the dmf role in that match. As for people saying that rohr is not a good tactician, maybe we should tell rohr to resign so we can hire them to see what they can do. Even if we hire guardiola, people will always look for something to say, please you cannot know these players more than the coach. Analysis on nairaland is not equivalent to coaching. Let's learn to appreciate what we have.

Mickael2:



from your views I have learnt one thing today which I think I should ask you to be sure.

So if in a game CR7 is marked out of the game by one or two defenders and he has a poor game but Benzema manages to run the opposing defence ragged(despite the fact that he too had a defender on him just like CR7), then it was actually CR7 that won the game because one defender marked him out? I think this makes sense now

Humility017:

to be honest wit you...my brother.
Alhassan stands a better chance to be called into the SE as an AM...Than Ajagun...
reason because rohr already knows the first and even assessed him in training...
ajagun will have to get involved in close to 20-25 goals this season to get rohr's attention

Mickael2:



First I would like to ask you your definition of a middle 'giving you the right results', for me it means dominating a game against a Zambian team is a sure banker and that is not the result we have.


A coach does not come with a set formation, simply plugging in players to suit that his formation. No, a coach comes with an open mind, trying to generate a formation that will work with what he has. Now let us assume that Iwobi has a monstrous season at AMF, scoring and assisting like it's nobody's business. Maybe Iheanacho is converted back to an AMF and he also has a monstrous system there, but currently our system only requires one AMF but now we have three AMFs, to make it more interesting Joel Obi also has a great season at CMF and stays injury free. So if you are the coach will you still maintain your 4-2-3-1 formation knowing fully well that the players you have are mainly midfielders? Will you still maintain the same midfield trio of Ndidi-Onazi-Mikel because they huffed and puffed and secured a win against Zambia? Just some questions then I can conlude