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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by tbaba1234: 8:08pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
forgiveness: By sitting in the stands every week. If Alampasu gets a loan move in January, you will have legs to stand on. 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by tbaba1234: 8:10pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
forgiveness: Alampasu is in limbo right now.. no league games, no cup games.. What makes him different from Enyeama who is still in Lille by the way.. 8 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by tbaba1234: 8:11pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
forgiveness: Yes. 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by forgiveness: 8:11pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
mazimee: We dey talk of meat wet get flesh rat wan join.. Who dash Akpeyi experience? Oga, accept you were wrong in your submition that no experienced player qualified us to the WC, then we go yan. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by forgiveness: 8:12pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
tbaba1234: Ok. Na you be dat. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by SerVik(m): 8:15pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
GROUP D FIFA ranking: 4 The lowdown La Albiceleste were expected to stroll through qualifying but found life extremely difficult, were managed by three different coaches and eventually only made certain of their place in Russia on the final matchday, winning 3-1 in Ecuador. Incredibly for a country with countless top-class strikers, they had the second-worst attacking record in South America – and the worst at home with just nine goals in nine matches. It remains to be seen who will partner Lionel Messi at the tournament, but Paulo Dybala is seemingly destined for the bench and Gonzalo Higuain might be discarded altogether. With question marks hovering over the quality in defence and midfield, hopes are low – but isn't that somewhat reminiscent of Brazil going into the 2002 World Cup? Key player: Lionel Messi Simply, Argentina wouldn't have made it to this tournament without the Barcelona superstar. Messi – who temporarily retired from the national team after losing in the 2016 Copa America Final – scored seven goals in the qualifiers, including the crucial hat-trick in Ecuador. This will be a fourth World Cup for the 30-year-old genius – but can he finally win a title for his country? It's the only trinket missing from a glorious career... but a big one. FIFA ranking: 22 The lowdown After starring at Euro 2016 and reaching the quarter-finals at the expense of England, Iceland became the smallest country (by population) ever to qualify for the World Cup, finishing top of a tough group ahead of Croatia, Ukraine and Turkey. Swedish coach Lars Lagerback might have left after the adventure in France, but Heimir Hallgrimsson – who worked alongside him – proved a worthy successor in his own right. There are few big names in the squad, but the team works perfectly as a unit, and their self confidence is sky high. Expect their magnificent fans to make a lot of headlines too. Key player: Gylfi Sigurdsson The playmaker is struggling to find his feet at Everton after a big transfer from Swansea, but Icelandic fans hope that he will be in top form come summer. Intelligent, blessed with magnificent vision and a dead-ball specialist, Sigurdsson is the main source of creativity. Iceland wouldn't be the same without him. FIFA ranking: 17 The lowdown Not helped by bad blood between fans and FA, and influenced by politics behind the scenes, this talented squad isn't always able to deliver. The Croats only finished second behind Iceland in the group; luckily, they were drawn against Greece in the play-offs and new coach Zlatko Dalic – who has no high-level experience whatsoever – celebrated after the 4-1 aggregate win. The midfield and attack look fabulous on paper, with Luka Modric, Ivan Rakitic, Ivan Perisic and Mario Mandzukic complementing each other well. But there are question marks about the defence, and the pressure might be too much. Key player: Luka Modric The 32-year-old veteran has sparkled for Real Madrid in recent seasons – a key midfield performer in a side winning two Champions League trophies in a row. He’s now widely considered one of the best players in the world in his position. Modric isn't always popular in his homeland because of political issues, mind you. FIFA ranking: 50 The lowdown The Super Eagles have only missed one World Cup tournament since 1994, and they overcame a very difficult draw on paper to make it through again this time. Eliminating African champions Cameroon and heavily favoured Algeria with ease, the team led by experienced German coach Gernot Rohr could be dangerous opponents in Russia. The squad should be quite youthful, with rising stars like Kelechi Iheanacho, Wilfred Ndidi and Alex Iwobi likely to shine. Players like Ahmed Musa (25) and Victor Moses (26) feel like veterans in comparison. Defence has always been the biggest problem for Nigeria, though, and it looks a bit thin again. Key player: John Obi Mikel The former Chelsea midfielder is plying his trade in China now, and there’s a feeling that he’s past his best – but that's wrong. For Nigeria he’s not only the captain, but also the main source of improvisation as a playmaker – a role that would have been unthinkable at Stamford Bridge. He is the ultimate leader as well, and at the age of 31 next summer, is still capable of dominating games. https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/world-cup-2018-group-group-what-you-need-know?page=0%2C1 3 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by forgiveness: 8:15pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
tbaba1234: So, you do not know Alampasu will be tested in training by better players. Unlike, Uzoho who will be against condemned players in the third tier league. 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by tbaba1234: 8:19pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
forgiveness: Uzoho has trained severally with the first team and still gets to play competitively every week. Is Feirense better that Depor? 8 Likes 1 Share |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by forgiveness: 8:19pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by mazimee(m): 8:20pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
forgiveness: Na waoo, go back to my ealier submitions and see that you may be having a misunderstanding of what I wrote. My point is, Experience Bawo/Fire as far as we are getting Result 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 8:32pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
Icon79:O pari master do we need to argue this i don't think so,am not disputing seeing rare gem in lower league but a good national team is made up of players playing in quality leagues. I remember Rueben Agboola very well playing for Swansea in lower league then,hope you remember Emeka Ezeugu who made national team playing in India league,George Abbey playing in league two,Rasheed Yekini making the team playing for African sport,also Thompson Oliha playing in cote d voire for Asec,Gabriel Okolosi with African sport,Efetebore and Sam Sodje doing it in championship. We have them like that but better to have your players in good league,this is why i always praised Westerhoff for showing Nigeria players way out to better league.He made sure Yekini moved to Europe cos he can't imagine Yekini playing in African league.He assisted players like Tijani to Roda JC,Finidi and Kanu to Ajax,Amokachie to club brugge,Okechukwu to Brondby in Denmark,Ben Iroha to Vitesse Arnhem,Friday Elaho to Brondby and find club for Emeka Ezeugu in Denmark from India. He did this to boost the quality of his team cos good leagues will boost the national team output.Do you think beating Argentina can be done with bunch of players from lower league. 2 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by mazimee(m): 8:38pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
Kog45: You guys have a funny thought process. Last two season, an unknown Leicester City came all the way from a lower League and broke the big teams in the EPL like they are nothing and won the Premier League like a boss. If that is isn't a good lesson to you and the people from the same school of thought like yours that some Leagues maybe bigger than others, but quality players and a better team work is all you need to win, then I am afraid you are terribly bad with analysis. 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Icon79(m): 8:39pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
Thanks for taking us down memory lane again. Quite refreshing But, abeg, don't mention Efetebore and Sam Sodje again .... some of us know how Efe Sodjie made the National team under Pa Onigbinde. I don't wanna go into a full expose but let's just say that they are amongst the folks I nicknamed "$10,000 per junk player". I am pretty sure you'll understand O pari Kog45: 2 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by safarigirl(f): 8:41pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
SerVik: Dear ignorant Europeans and other white people, Please, if you do not have full information on the status of African teams, kindly exclude us from your analysis. These half-baked, ill-informed analysis is getting annoying to read. If there is any part of the Nigerian team that is thin, it is certainly not the defence, which is brimming with a host of options. if we could, we would take 12 defenders to Russia....that is how ROBUST our defence is I implore you press men and women of Britain and its environs who I once thought knew their onions, to please, make a balanced research of the African teams before these analysis, or keep our names out your write-ups. Yours Gratefully, Annoyed Nigerian 6 Likes 1 Share |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 8:45pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
mazimee:Pls read my post very well before you comment. Pls what is bad in my analysis cos sometimes i keep on wondering why some don't read and get it simple or do you think i just came into football talks yesterday. My point is so simple that guys who know football very well w comprehend very fast and understand my angle of discussion and mind you is not compulsory we should agreed. If i may ask did you really know what we are talking about cos your submission lacks it.Pls better for you to go back how it all started or ask icons79 what was our discussion about. My point is simple better to have national team players in good league (YES or NO) or did you see me condemning guys playing in lower leagues,i said we can find them but on rare occasion just like having Shehu Abdullahi now playing in Cyprus but Shehu turning good doesn't mean we should now focus our attention on lower leagues when we have guys doing it in better league. Oh Leicester coming to EPL and won league, pls can you tell me how many modelrate clubs that did what Leicester did in the last 20 years and what has it got to do with our discussion. Did you know how many years he took us to qualify for WC despite having great talents.This was a period Cameroon, Algeria, Morocco, Egypt are serious threat just cos they have players doing it in Europe while ours are majorly in local league except Richard Owubokiri, Sylvanus Okpala who are based in Brazil and Portugal until Keshi joined in mid 80s. Hope my point is clearer now better to have them in better league like LA liga, EPL,Bundesliga, serial A,French league, Belgium league,Dutch league,Portuguese league than playing in any second tier in Europe or obscure league in Hungary, Bulgaria, Norway, Sweden, Cyprus, mind you we can see good players from this league but must be extremely good and hardworking like Shehu to break into Super eagles team. 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 8:47pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
Icon79:$10k?i don't think so cos a friend made the team without paying a kobo |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by forgiveness: 8:49pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
tbaba1234: Uzoho is a reserve player while Alampasu is a first team member. Deportivo has been poo for the past 5 seasons. They have been relegation contenders for the past 5 seasons, always finished 15th and 16th hence Feirense is better. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by tbaba1234: 8:53pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
forgiveness: Lol, chai... ok.. 8 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Humility017(m): 8:54pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
forgiveness:good you know this....then Martins too should be ignored just like akpeyi 5 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by SerVik(m): 8:59pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
safarigirl:The writer probably watched our game against Argentina and came to that conclusion. In the qualifiers, we only conceded 2goals from open play. But you have to agree that balogun needs to get in shape before the world cup. He's been suspect lately. 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by junnyjake(m): 9:00pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
PDPGuy:Damn, I once heard it was 9. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by forgiveness: 9:01pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
Humility017: Which good? Akpeyi no get single experience but Martins got hence the need to look Martin's way based on experience plus performance. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by safarigirl(f): 9:02pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
SerVik:Balogun is one of about seven defenders we will be taking to Russia, he should not be the reason the defence will be referred to as 'thin'.... 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by goldfish80(m): 9:06pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
FCA Croatian Coach: Nigeria Are No Longer The African Brazil, Praises Moses But Writes Off Mikel & Iwobi Croatian coach Boris Pučić, who has close links to Football College Abuja, has provided vital information about the Nigerian national team that might come in handy to Croatian manager Zlatko Dalić ahead of the 2018 World Cup. Pučić revealed that Chelsea's Victor Moses is the only star player on the Nigeria team, and the present squad cannot be compared to the USA 1994 and 1998 teams which paraded the likes of Nwankwo Kanu and Austin Okocha. ''They are not very pleased with the fact that they have drawn Croatia, but who would be. However, they are hoping that Nigeria will win, but I'm just waiting for a day to celebrate, I think we have no reason to be afraid,'' said Pučić to sportske.jutarnji.hr. ''Obi Mikel plays in China, Moses has been injured for some time and has just returned to Chelsea's first team, while others are all in some side-tiers. ''Iheanacho and Musa are in reserve in Leicester, Iwobi for Arsenal plays a bit more, but Nigeria is not the shadow of the national team that they once called 'African Brazil. ''Simply, there is no star player besides Moses in Chelsea and the team is not close to what we remember from the World Cup in the United States or France that played really well.'' Nigeria and Croatia will face off at the Kaliningrad Stadium, Kaliningrad on June 16, 2018 in both countries Group D opener. Ifeanyi Emmanuel http://www.allnigeriasoccer.com/read_news.php?nid=25695 ................................ I don't blame this guy. We couldn't even qualify for 2 AFCONs in a row. We are going into this mundial as massive under dogs. Only a deluded or dishonest person will think otherwise. 4 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Mujtahida: 9:07pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
Napoleon55:subtle negative profiling of our team has begun. Everybody stresses our physicality without laying equal stress on our finesse, our efficiency and fluidity. They want this stereotype to seep into the subconscious of the Referees and influence them to hand negative decisions against us. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by safarigirl(f): 9:09pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
goldfish80:we couldn't qualify for two AFCONS, but the last two winners of AFCON couldn't qualify for the World Cup....who AFCON don epp? The most recent winner sef, na we mutilate them with 5-1 aggregate Fire on coachee!! Make everybody just dey underrate us like this, it will really help us 6 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Humility017(m): 9:14pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
tbaba1234:thank God rohr thinks differently. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by goldfish80(m): 9:15pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
safarigirl: Chile won back to back Copa America championship yet they won't be in Russia. Being continental Kings is a record any country will want in their archives. I'd rather win the afcon than make a second round exit at the world cup. 10 Likes 1 Share |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by mazimee(m): 9:16pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
safarigirl: I really wish this team will be disgraced more than the disgrace Argentina got from us. Their arrogance is something else , from the Coach to the fans. 4 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Humility017(m): 9:21pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
komekn: oga don't you think same apply to Martins....if he is really a player so much quality....why is he doing in China? 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by goldfish80(m): 9:32pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
Humility017: Martins is well paid in China. As a matter of fact, he earns more(after tax) than 80% Epl players. The Chinese are not messing around. Epl top scorer Diego Costa packed his bags and suitcases when the Chinese called. 4 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by tbaba1234: 9:38pm On Dec 04, 2017 |
goldfish80: People celebrate just qualifying for the WC more than winning continental cups. 2 Likes 1 Share |
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