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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 9:21am On Mar 13, 2018 |
Pre-WC friendlies Countdown Nemanja Matic Tops List Of Serbian Players Invited For Friendly Tie Against Nigeria ![]() The coach of the senior national team of Serbia have released the list of players who will be in action when they take on Nigeria in a friendly game later this month in Barnet. Head coach Mladen Krstajic named Manchester United midfielder Nemanja Matic in the squad which was released earlier today ahead of the March 27th game. The list consists of three goalkeepers, ten defenders, nine midfielders and two forwards lead by Fulham forward Aleksandar Mitrovic with Aleksandar Prijovic of PAOK Salonica, the other forward named in the squad. Former Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic who now plays for Russian side Zenith St. Petersburg tops the list of defenders which also has Dusan Basta of Lazio and Roma defender Aleksandar Kolarov, who was once on the books of English Premier League leaders Manchester City. Bar Matic, Southampton midfielder Dusan Tadic was also listed alongside the likes of Sergei Milinkovic-Savic of Lazio, Adem Ljajic of Torino and on loan Liverpool midfielder Marko Grujic who is with Cardiff City temporarily. Serbia Squad Goalkeepers: Vladimir Stojkovic (Partizan), Predrag Rajkovic (Maccabi), Marko Dmitrovic (Eibar); Defenders: Branislav Ivanovic (Zenit), Antonio Rukavina (Villarreal), Dusan Basta (Lazio), Nikola Maksimovic (Spartak Moscow), Vujadin Savic (Red Star), Matija Nastasic (Schalke), Dusko Tosic (Besiktas), Milos Veljkovic ), Aleksandar Kolarov (Roma), Ivan Obradovic (Anderlecht) Midfielders: Nemanja Matic (Manchester United), Luka Milivojevic (Kristal Palas), Sergei Milinkovic-Savic (Lazio), Adem Ljajic (Torino), Mijat Gacinovic (Eintracht), Marko Grujic (Cardiff), Dusan Tadic (Southampton), Filip Kostic (Hamburg), Andrija Zivkovic (Benfica) Forwards: Aleksandar Mitrovic (Fulham), Aleksandar Prijovic (PAOK) **Ade Emmanuel Source: http://owngoalnigeria.com/2018/03/12/nemanja-matic-tops-list-of-serbian-players-invited-for-friendly-tie-against-nigeria/ Russia 2018 WC Countdown: 93 days 6 hours to go |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by tbaba1234: 9:22am On Mar 13, 2018 |
TheGoodJoe: Against Iran, Azeez played behind the striker and was not very good. With Aluko, Igiebor, Mikel could have played a deeper role and we would have not lost much quality. We played well against Spain but our lack of quality is why we could not score. Place Otigba instead of Egwuekwe and a better striker than Ideye and we could possibly have a more respectable result. The 2:2 draw against Italy exposed huge flaws that we did not take on board. We were terrible in the second half. 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by tbaba1234: 9:23am On Mar 13, 2018 |
somehow: IG post from who? There is no word yet.. Joel Obi is fine though |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 9:25am On Mar 13, 2018 |
forgiveness:Forgiveness--Azeez should be removed Icon4s--Nwofor and Uzoenyi should be removed Kog45-- Kunle Odunlami should be removed if Egwueke is not on the list and i think Odunlami replaced Echiejele and also had wonderful CHAN and made CHAN all star team as best CB Thegoodjoe--Shola Ameobi,gave good reason why Shola merited his place,Keshi like big striker and his MOTM against Italy was a class. Michael Uchebo? Honestly who to replace these players. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 9:33am On Mar 13, 2018 |
tbaba1234:Yes Onazi injury affected us but i don't shared that popular belief that we lost due to it. Enyeama failed us when it matter most and Keshi said it. Sir we lost to a superior team beating France would have been one of the greatest upsets at 2014 WC. 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 9:34am On Mar 13, 2018 |
tbaba1234: The Flying Eagles coaches, please take note. 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheGoodJoe(m): 9:37am On Mar 13, 2018 |
tbaba1234: Keep in mind Ambrose was playing with a knock too. Also Keshi could not bring in Azeez because of the physical game the French relied on to weaken us. The quality replacements for Onazi you talk about are definitely not Aluko or Nosa. We were a team that did not have options and Keshi was able to make something out of it. He deserves credit for his achievements than picking players you feel did not deserve call-ups |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 9:38am On Mar 13, 2018 |
TheSuperNerd: I am not so optimistic of our chances of beating Poland especially as the game is in Warsaw, but we should be able to beat this Serbian team. 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 9:39am On Mar 13, 2018 |
Icon4s:Better forward the info to NFF technical team our youth coaches are not like Rohr o. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by somehow: 9:40am On Mar 13, 2018 |
Sorry Naijafootballers's page tbaba1234: Groin injury. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 9:41am On Mar 13, 2018 |
Icon4s:I don't think these teams should pose a threat though it's friendlies. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by tbaba1234: 9:42am On Mar 13, 2018 |
Kog45: Immediately, Onazi was out. There was only one winner. We would have lost that game even with no error. We were under the cush. Pressure forces errors. Benzema could have scored before that. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheGoodJoe(m): 9:42am On Mar 13, 2018 |
Kog45: Precisely, we lacked quality options. Even Oliseh said Keshi should have stuck to our players playing in top clubs. The question was, could Oliseh list these players and was he sure if they would suit Keshi's tactical plans? When Oliseh became coach he started talking of players from the moon. 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by tbaba1234: 9:43am On Mar 13, 2018 |
somehow: No confirmation of the extent of the injury yet. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheGoodJoe(m): 9:43am On Mar 13, 2018 |
tbaba1234: Who should we have used to replace Onazi that Keshi failed to call? 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 9:43am On Mar 13, 2018 |
somehow:Saw it on TV too and this made me to ask you,any update on his injury. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by tbaba1234: 9:46am On Mar 13, 2018 |
TheGoodJoe: Oliseh was right but when he became coach, he started selecting crap as well. How was Gambo Muhammad, our striker sub at the confederations cup?? Like seriously, how?? We did not choose active or inform players. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 9:46am On Mar 13, 2018 |
Kog45: Poland are favorites to win in that friendly. 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by tbaba1234: 9:47am On Mar 13, 2018 |
TheGoodJoe: Certainly not a player, who had been inactive for 2 years.. Aluko, Igiebor, even Ogude would have added more quality. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheGoodJoe(m): 9:50am On Mar 13, 2018 |
tbaba1234: To replace Onazi? Matuidi was running the midfield and only Onazi could match his runs. Igbiebor, Ogude and Aluko would not do it. That is why the criticism is so unfair. 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 9:50am On Mar 13, 2018 |
http://punchng.com/why-i-left-alampasu-ajiboye-out-of-friendlies-rohr/ http://kwese.espn.com/football/nigeria/story/3416584/gernot-rohr-explains-dele-ajiboyes-super-eagles-snub?device=featurephone ESPN (KweseESPN) is the Main source and Rohr did say those words. Kog45: 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 9:50am On Mar 13, 2018 |
Kog45: Make me I forward.... 2 Likes
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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by tbaba1234: 9:52am On Mar 13, 2018 |
Icon4s: Results are not the most important thing now. New tactics /approach will be tried out. It will be good to see our defense under pressure from a home team. I do not think, we will be easy to beat though. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 9:52am On Mar 13, 2018 |
tbaba1234:Sir pls remove Igiebor and Fengor Ogude. At Afcon Sunday Mba replaced ineffective Nosa Igiebor and Onazi replaced Fengor Ogude. Hope you remember Ogude was a starter at Afcon with woeful displayed until Onazi step in and gave us a balance. 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by tbaba1234: 9:54am On Mar 13, 2018 |
TheGoodJoe: Reuben was a passenger.. Imagine bringing on Ogude and Igiebor to shore up the middle. No way, it would been that bad. 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Daejoyoung: 9:55am On Mar 13, 2018 |
TheGoodJoe:Keshi is quite tactical though. Remember he took a relatively unknown Togolese team to the world cup. With Nigeria(in friendly games for the nations cup), he also drew with the star studded Catalans as well as the ltalians. 2 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheGoodJoe(m): 9:56am On Mar 13, 2018 |
tbaba1234: Oliseh did not know what he was saying and when he became coach, he noticed how much we lacked quality options too. Keshi was flexible and has his tactics that sometimes worked or failed. This was due to lack of options. Gambo Muhammad might not meet what we expect but I keep saying, do you know if he met the coaches expectation with respect of meeting his tactics? I remember the outcry for Osaze but in one of the games, Keshi highlighted that Osaze was not playing to his instructions and tactics. So it is not always about our personal preference but what the coach wants. If Michael Babatunde had flopped, you would have written his name among poor players Keshi called but the young man excelled. That was Keshi. He relied a lot on his tactical tweaks to cope with our lack of options. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by tbaba1234: 9:56am On Mar 13, 2018 |
Kog45: Afcon was in 2013, WC in 2014.. Form changes.. Ogude was in great form before the WC. He was terrific for his russian club. He should have called up. Igiebor was not a bad player either. Reuben on the other hand was getting invitations even when he was not playing football. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 9:56am On Mar 13, 2018 |
tbaba1234:Yes you are right form changes but not all players have the same opportunity. Hope you watched Ogude and Igiebor at Afcon. I think i only missed Sunday Mba and Brown Ideye in that team.Ideye should have replaced Uchebo. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 10:00am On Mar 13, 2018 |
tbaba1234:I think a moniker has addressed this,Keshi has faith in Reuben just like Rohr is having faith in Akpeyi. I remember Westerhoff sticked to Uche Okafor all through despite not having a good club career even as clubless he always made the team It happen in football and only coach can explain 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheGoodJoe(m): 10:06am On Mar 13, 2018 |
tbaba1234: Ruben was not a passenger. The challenge he had was getting in tune with the game and he was not a likely replacement. Keep in mind, Azeez was the one to come in. The violent nature of the French team made that substitution unlikely. Also later in the game, Ruben improved and even made two tackles. He was not a flashy choice and as I said, you do not know if the names you wanted would have suited the tactical plans for that game. We also lost Michael Babatunde to injury before that game. Losing Onazi and then Azeez not coming in reduced the options further. As I said, unfair criticism. 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by tbaba1234: 10:09am On Mar 13, 2018 |
Kog45: Our goalkeeping position lacks options so Rohr is kinda stuck. It is either he stays with Akpeyi or invite young novices like Uzoho, Maduka or Ogenna. |
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