Lucque:

Moses Sabi dribble but onyekuru dribble pass am

daveP:
i think Moses needs a partner in crime that understands him in the team, like the Emenike-Ideye pair.

I noticed that after he dribbled, no one came out to receive him pass, no one. I have a problem though, he is selfish. and we don't need this at the mundial where we would be punished for that.


good angle, our defenders have improved in their comfy kinda passing and accuracy.


Balogun is low on confidence, he would have made mistakes if he was at CB. He did well at LB though.

sontoly:
The only positive from this game was the defence and goalkeeper, if not i dont we did anything good, no connection between the defenders and attackers, no coordination in the midfielder, I bet if that balogun clearance had been counted ( cos it was clearly a goal) we wouldnt have been saying mosses sabi dribble.

To me mosses played like a slowpoke, he is not a good teamplayer at all, only releases ball when he is under pressure, and that free kick shld av been taken by iheanacho.

Humility017:

but the dude is not complaining..neither is the coach..
his time I believe will come.....for now let him stick to the bench...
he is helping in trainings I believe...

CaptainStephen:
who noticed the formation changed to a 3-5-2 during the last 5 minutes and victor moved to RWB ?And ebuehi as one of the Central backs.

joseph1013:
Perspective: Poland was at home. We practically played and defeated a Lewandowski-led Polish side in front of a 42,000 polish crowd.

Not a small deal!

Joebie:
When he doesn't bring goals I want to see him do lots of pressing. He didn't do that today either.

Poor.. we have no choice but to settle for false nines. It's a good thing we tried a different formation today. Rohr is doing a great job.

edi287:

Aina said he likes playing at LB. We should try him out again there.

tbaba1234:
We should not play the 4-4-1-1/ 4-4-2 formation, Midfield was thin today..

Iwobi was restricted to the wing but he does his best work when he comes to the center to link attack and midfield.

I understand Balogun picked a knock but should be fine in a few days..

DrKlever:
The type of opposition we met also affected our overall play, in addition to Mikel's absence. The Polish were so physical, didn't expect that from a European side. This affected Iwobi and Iheanacho who are no gra gra footballers. Again, is it just me or the turf was not really good? I noticed the ball was bouncing kinda.

DrKlever:
The type of opposition we met also affected our overall play, in addition to Mikel's absence. The Polish were so physical, didn't expect that from a European side. This affected Iwobi and Iheanacho who are no gra gra footballers. Again, is it just me or the turf was not really good? I noticed the ball was bouncing kinda.

forgiveness:


No, I meant while he played.

ersonleads:
We really missed Mikel obi, dere was no balance in d midfield. Iheanacho can't play in dat position. Wished mikel played, dey could have make some couple of good passes from midfield to attack. Dey really did not play badly. It was just few times in training together after some months of playing together, believe dey will gel more & more when dey camp for world cup

Daejoyoung:

Baba u don confuse me this time wahlai.

solonnachi:
I noticed some few issues in that match. Congratulations though to the Super Eagles:
1. Victor Moses is skillful but selfish
2. Joel Obi is talented, tested and trusted
3. Alex Iwobi does not tick in every physical game. Even that against South Africa, he was lost. The Polish team were too physical for him.
4. Wilfred Ndidi, Shehu Abdullahi and Troost Ekong are both rock solid.
5. Francis Uzoho needs more friendly games to boost his confidence. Maduka Okoye should also be drafted in too.

TheLoneCitizen:
The Polish National team is a overrated bag of shite.

The FIFA Rankings is an even bigger piece of shite.

Uzoho is definitely going to Russia.

Eagles are so short of creativity that they can't even make a cake.

One-man teams will suffer this year.

Moses dives better than dolphins.

The Eagles thrive on confidence.

Eagles need a defeat ASAP, to bring them down to earth for they aren't World Cup quality yet.

The squad is so deep, that we don't have a "strongest lineup".

Only Mikel can suppress Moses' authoritative attitude.

Absence of VAR at the World Cup might start World War III.

Ekong is a rock.

We are Nigerians, We Will Survive.

TheLoneCitizen:


Moses causes more harm than good to the Eagles due to overconfidence, he would be willing to shoot when passing is key.

TheSuperNerd:
All I want to say is Well done Super Eagles.... I have no need going player for player... But Ekong was the best of the lot for me and Victor Moses still showed why he is the boss and livewire of the Super Eagles Attack. Amazing how we beat Argentina without him (Ofcos Mikel alone can make a decent attack of Nacho and Iwobi look like Magic).

Yes, VicMo was selfish, and full of himself at times especially on that freekick he should have left for Nacho buuuuuutttttt.... Live with it... That guy is our biggest gun after Mikel. #Fact #CaseClosedOnThat




Breakout star of the game.... "Big" Francis Uzoho

Lord! That one-on-one save against arguably The world's best no.9 is gonna do something magical to Uzoho's confidence and mindset going forward. His morale is boosted after another fine shutout (another cleansheet) and he can only get better from here. He was jittery yes, but he is 19 and has not faced such huge crowd before with the whole stadium egging Poland on... Uzoho showed heart.... And I think this is the heart we need between the sticks. A Young lad with a Big Heart for the Grand occasions.
His scary face, big frame, super height and Big Heart... Hmmmm... Watch out for this lad. He is Nigeria's next number 1.



Iheanacho was kinda quiet today apart from a couple of fine interchanges/interplays and I was right to warn you all to not expect him to do even half of a Mikel... Despite that his shift on the overall was just moderately okay. I expect more from him (if he gets to start) against Serbia in the presence of Mikel.

The midfield combo of Ndidi and Joel did more tackling, marking, and ball winning rather than stringing consistently fine passes together to connect To Nacho and the other forward men. This left Nacho to come pick up stray balls deep in midfield sometimes.... Truly Mikel is the boss as I have always said.. The odogwu himself remains the best man for the no.10 role in this SE set-up.


With time, more will be said as we look forward to having a really solid 23-man squad for the mundial but I will end by saying, this win was massive and it is a big deal indeed. Beating a LewanGOALSki-led polish team (no.6 in the world) with our world no.52 team... *whistles** I say, this is huge mehn... After all we are not world class... But we have done it over two world class top 10 teams in Argentina and now in Poland. And this Poland result came in Wroclaw, Poland in front if their 48,000 passionate fans..... I say our young team deserve the credits. We can only get better.


#SoarSuperEagles

Humility017:

to be honest Ighalo played below par yesterday...he was always missing in the opponent team yard box....and could not make use of the aerial balls...not really interesting for me...

I will want Gabriel and Ajayi to be tried out...in the serbia friendlies....and Ighalo rested

TheSuperNerd:
Coach Rohr's post-match comments

Coach Gernot Rohr: "We were lucky to have won this game against a very solid Polish side. They created some big opportunities to score and were dangerous from set pieces that we found difficult to cope with but I praise my team for their victory."

"This team is a young team but also a team of leaders. If we stay humble & continue to work hard to improve our play we have huge potentials, but beating 2 FIFA top 10 teams in friendlies doesn’t mean we are now World Cup favourites."










I just love his choice of words.

MetalJigsaw:
I know he was kinda selfish but it also worked to our advantage in disguise.

He kept coming at the Polish defence with his trickery and mobility which subjected the defenders in a state of somewhat pressure and errors. Which eventually led to that penalty.

joseph1013:

Dele has not been playing games. He can't be invited.

If any goalkeeper deserves to be invited it has to be Aiyenugba.

And Uzoho needs to consolidate on his confidence. He didn't have a terrible performance yesterday. In fact, I think he should keep for the remaining friendly matches. He needs to be tested as much as possible, so we can know what he needs to work on.

komekn:


There was a lack of cohesion.

The invenrtive unpredictable spark that flair and skill give you was too obviously lacking.

The darling of this thread KC didnt stand up to.be counted as a forward players. You get boldness to crticiquality

It's not too late to bring in other players to be considered. Particularly experienced tried proven and tested players.

ChrisKels:
Who else heard when the commentator was praising my boy?

His exact words; "he is shone for a man his age (19),Nigeria has found themselves a decent young goalkeeper for the World Cup (considering our goalkeeping crisis) and his age is a plus too (future wise)"

joseph1013:

Dele has not been playing games. He can't be invited.

If any goalkeeper deserves to be invited it has to be Aiyenugba.

And Uzoho needs to consolidate on his confidence. He didn't have a terrible performance yesterday. In fact, I think he should keep for the remaining friendly matches. He needs to be tested as much as possible, so we can know what he needs to work on.

Hanibal:
Thanks TheSuperNerd... I've been waiting to hear from you and other consistent analysts on this thread.
I get nauseated when I see a lot of freelance writers bombarding this thread to condemn/criticise the eagles after a match, win or loose.
Damn it, this guys beat world no4 Argentina, they said its a fuke... Next they went to Poland's backyard and beat Poland world no6 in front of a 42000 partisan crowd , now they are saying its because Poland didn't play well blah blah...
We are here seeing things like poor transition between attack and defense. I hope they say that when man utd/Chelsea struggle to string two or three passes together consistently and still manage to beat the team that has all the possession? No? That one is tactics!
But when it comes to the eagles.. It's poor play.
No be everyone go fit play tikitaka... Pesin wey dey find tiki taka, make him go dey support Spain abeg.
Leave us alone.
I'm tired of typing....