safarigirl:
Indonesia ke?

These people are not ready at all

RoyalBlak007:
♤Iceland shouldn't be

♤a threat at all .

Icon4s:


Hmm highly informative.

Gernot Rohr needs to see this.

This Croatian team reminds me of the Bosnian team of 2014 WC that had Begovic, Kolasinach, Pjanic, Djeko and co. The team was stars studded in certain areas but was not balanced in strength of personal and we carried the day.

Same goes for the Bulgarian team of 1994: Stoichkov, Leichkov, Balakov, Siranov and all. Yet they chop Cain.

The strength of this Croatian team is in the midfield and so we can exploit the weaker areas.

tbaba1234:


They topped their group ahead of croatia. Underrate them at your peril.

♤From that group? This is the World Cup bro

RoyalBlak007:

♤So are you saying they have a strong chance of qualifying?

♤From that group? This is the World Cup bro

Icon79:
In theory, this like up can work if you move Mikel down to replace Ogu, then move Iwobi down to in place of Mikel, and put Ighalo in Iwobi's position. Those are the pros.

The con(s): Victor Moses doesn't play with the same discipline for the Super Eagles as he does for Chelsea. He might not track back to support the defence.
It doesn't make a lot of sense to deploy your best and most creative player as a wingback.


O pari

Loogan:

With mikel playing in amf we can exploit thier weaknesses in terms of the holding midfielder they lack. Argentina have stronger defensive presence than Croatia and we still destroyed them, our strikers will probably hedge them physically but they have to be clinical on the day. Playing the recently used 3-5-2 might work IMO, counter looks like thier weakness.
Sometimes i think we underestimate the physical strength of our Nigerian players, when other countries talk about our physicality it's no joke, it's has been a very important part of all our games, we are top three in terms of physical strength in Africa also matched almighty Cameroon, I feel Zambia are one of the most physical teams Africa and we still edged them, that's an advantage we will use qualify from that group hopefully

Icon4s:


Hmm highly informative.

Gernot Rohr needs to see this.

This Croatian team reminds me of the Bosnian team of 2014 WC that had Begovic, Kolasinach, Pjanic, Djeko and co. The team was stars studded in certain areas but was not balanced in strength of personal and we carried the day.

Same goes for the Bulgarian team of 1994: Stoichkov, Leichkov, Balakov, Siranov and all. Yet they chop Cain.

The strength of this Croatian team is in the midfield and so we can exploit the weaker areas.

Danycrusoe:
Iceland are planning a friendly with Indonesia national team and a select Indonesia Eleven in January, their last friendly was a 1-1 draw against Qatar in November.

tbaba1234:


They have as good a chance as everyone in the group.

Did they not knock out England in the Euros?.

TheGoodJoe:


Says who? You? Nacho needed to stay and learn. With time, he will adapt. Look at Delph and Mangala how much they have developed to suit the system. Unfortunately, Nacho felt a move would serve him better.

So it is not about not being good enough. Manchester City was not prepared to let Nacho go. Which means they felt he was good enough.

edi287:

I've said Akpeyi clearly needs to see a psychologist time and time again on here. Maybe he should wear Chippa United's Jersey when he's playing for us.

TheGoodJoe:


The number of traditional strikers will be Limited with more modern forwards taken most of the positions to allow fluidity of the formation.

Loogan:

With mikel playing in amf we can exploit thier weaknesses in terms of the holding midfielder they lack. Argentina have stronger defensive presence than Croatia and we still destroyed them, our strikers will probably hedge them physically but they have to be clinical on the day. Playing the recently used 3-5-2 might work IMO, counter looks like thier weakness.
Sometimes i think we underestimate the physical strength of our Nigerian players, when other countries talk about our physicality it's no joke, it's has been a very important part of all our games, we are top three in terms of physical strength in Africa also matched almighty Cameroon, I feel Zambia are one of the most physical teams Africa and we still edged them. The less info they have in us the better, that's an advantage we will use qualify from that group hopefully

RoyalBlak007:

♤Be realistic Sir. Before they knocked England out...would you have predicted Iceland going through? ? That was just a "Bad day" for England. Not like Iceland are/were spectacular or something. ..

♤I repeat...Nigeria stand a better chance of qualifying when compared to Iceland

tbaba1234:


They beat Croatia on route to the WC. They topped their group and sent croatia with all their stars to play playoffs.

Do not Underrate Iceland

♤No one is underrating them

♤Croatia is going to be tenacious . 《2014 World Cup game vs Cameroon》Those guys were just all over the Cameroonian's ...quick

komekn:


TheGoodJoe you should not be making this kind of comment.

Do you really expect Gary Neville to advocate for anything other than English players, come on. It does not matter what Gary thinks it's all noise, he can not influence Pep.

I remember when Rio Ferdinand expressed open displeasure at the unfair release of Pogba. What happened nothing.

forgiveness:


We don't evem have a modern CF neither do we have a prolific traditional striker in the national team.

forgiveness:


Guardiola never wanted Iheanacho again hence his request to sell him outrightly, instead of keeping him or sending him loan.

Left to Iheanacho, he wanted to stay and fight for Shirt but it was Guardiola's decision to let him go.

The point is, Guardiola didn't consider Iheanacho good enough as a modern forward hence the need to let him go. EOD

Icon79:
Omo, I think you're mistaking the movement of the game (ball) with the speed of the individual players. Real Madrid plays a fast attacking football but this doesn't imply that players like Modric and Kovacic are speed stars, they just try to go with the flow and move the ball quickly. After all, this is the same midfield where Mesut Ozil excelled.

Bottom line, apples to apples, our midfielders are faster and stronger than the Croats. And you can prove this to yourself when we play them next June.



O pari

Danycrusoe:


maybe they think the world cup is an Asian invitational tournament or they r prepping 4 Qatar 2022....

Kog45:
Mind you this team topped their group and also had good performance during Euro.Sometimes playing top friendlies is not a yardstick to good performance.

Personally i don't believe in grade A friendlies,our US 94 team did not really play any grade A matches even lost most of their friendlies but went on to put a good performance at WC.

blueto:
This was my point. With the very lethal counter I saw the 3-5-2 formation produced against Argentina, and also with the defensive stability it also provided, I think it should be used against teams like Croatia. This is one of the reasons why I want Moses to play as a WB because I don't want him to temper the good combination of Mikel-Iwob-Iheanacho with his selfish-like kind of play.

TheGoodJoe:
Kovacic skinning Sergio Busquets.

TheGoodJoe:
Kovacic skinning Sergio Busquets.

Danielnino00:





TBH, I'm more worried about Kovacic,Perisic and Mandzukic than Modric