Joebie:
ANS confirms:

Trabzonspor's Eddy Onazi returns to the starting line-up and will protect the back four, Wilfred Ndidi and Joel Obi will play slightly ahead of him in a three-man midfield.

Ahmed Musa will lead the charge for goals and the CSKA Moscow striker will be flanked by Alex Iwobi and Victor Moses.

The friendly in the English capital will start at 2000 hours Nigerian time.

Nigeria Starting Lineup Vs Serbia (4-3-3) : Uzoho - Ebuehi, Balogun, Troost-Ekong, Idowu - Onazi, Ndidi, Joel Obi - Victor Moses, Alex Iwobi, Ahmed Musa

Mujtahida:

It's been said that Escobar's death might have been for non footballing reasons or rather the own goal was not the primary reason he was killed. It's a known fact that Escobar was deeply involved with the notorious drug baron Pablo Escobar. The drug Lord was a mad football fan(even invited Maradona to come play for him in his personally built La Catedral prison which had a football pitch and handsomely Diego was handsomely rewarded) but he was using football clubs in Colombia as a front to launder money for his cartel. He also had many vicious enemies. The footballer was his good friend. So some people think Escobar was caught in the crossfire.

Four Four two magazine has an interesting article titled: Narcos: When Pablo Escobar did football – and changed the game in Colombia forever

Narcos is an ongoing Netflix drama series about Pablo Escobar. I find drug barons interesting and certainly Pablo Escobar was one of the most interesting and mysterious characters

safarigirl:
this one is hiding upandan for friendlies, make dem dey open Argentina yansh small small

When it is time for the main koko, all of them will disintegrate like a pack of cards, he thinks World Cup is CONMEBOL qualifiers that he can do last minute trickery. Thank God say na we dem go meet last, no road for Messi this time

MetalJigsaw:
There should have been a john Ogu in DM

TheLoneCitizen:



That is not insane pressing by any inch, go watch Liverpool and see them choke opponents.

Poland were just abysmal.

andrew444:


Just the way he was hidden at the last World Cup and super eagles won them and they crashed out of the group stages.

Icon79:
Correct! Sorry for the typo. Yes, I have seen Joel play LWB a few times when he was at Inter Milan.

And I agree with you on making change early as well. Against, Poland he left the changes come way too late into the game. I was expecting about 3 changes immediately before kickoff of the second half and 3 more about 10-15 mins later.


O pari

TheLoneCitizen:



Sometimes teams win cause they were just unplayable, in this case we won cause our opponents didn't rise up to the occasion.


You shouldn't say we were very good on that day, rather both teams were bad. We were just able to grind out a result.

I saw a couple of lads saying Morocco weren't good enough in the win over Serbia but Serbia were just too poor. Why can't we say the same for our beloved country, pal?

Joebie:
OGN on their roles tonight:

Ogenyi Onazi ( Defensive Midfielder)

Wilfred Ndidi ( Advanced Defensive Midfielder)

Joel Obi ( Creative Midfielder)

Hence, J. Obi as AM. A moniker once argued with me here that J. Obi can't play as AM because no records ever showed he did.
Coaches make these decisions with various factors in consideration. I can watch a player and suggest areas they could also excel

MetalJigsaw:
Ighalo and Simon should have started the game

MetalJigsaw:
Ighalo and Simon should have started the game

MetalJigsaw:
Ighalo and Simon should have started the game

chilex9:



Serzly.....I have watched 2 of Musa's games with CSKA...it was really bad....

Simon too should have started

komekn:


Agreed with the proviso for Ovie being YET.

With regards to Nwakali non starter playing in the 2 nt tier of the Eredivisie without being outstanding simply says not good enough. A long way to go

Joebie:
Did you oversee their preparation in camp?

kentebemoney:


HABA BROS!!!

Polish team abysmal?
Re-watch the game and you'll notice that as soon as they get the ball we pressed them into losing it within a minute only for us to lose it and press again . With a little more of passing accuracy we would have beat them with more than a goal.

I think we underestimate this team. All through the qualifiers we never had better ball possession, we play direct one touch football, create 3chances and score two.

Watch the game again, within 6mins of the polish no6 coming in, he contact from Joel like 3 times. It was war between the four central midfielders.

kentebemoney:


I don't think we were poor. Mind you we are punching above our weight, don't forget where we were about two years ago

andrew444:


Just the way he was hidden at the last World Cup and super eagles won them and they crashed out of the group stages.

TheLoneCitizen:






Be very honest here brothers; from what you've seen, do you think Poland can beat Spain, in addition do you think Spain can beat Nigeria?

safarigirl:
different team and different coach. Last I checked, Cameroon, Algeria and Ghana were at the last World Cup, you see them now?

TheLoneCitizen:






Be very honest here brothers; from what you've seen, do you think Poland can beat Spain, in addition do you think Spain can beat Nigeria?

Clementoke:
Messi has been ruled out of Argentina vs Spain friendly.
Let's see what happens

TheLoneCitizen:






Be very honest here brothers; from what you've seen, do you think Poland can beat Spain, in addition do you think Spain can beat Nigeria?

TheLoneCitizen:






Be very honest here brothers; from what you've seen, do you think Poland can beat Spain, in addition do you think Spain can beat Nigeria?

Joebie:
I've watched that game probably for the fourth time..
What I noticed we were good at, was our pressing and our positioning. Poland rarely had clear chances. But yes bigger teams like Spain could produce something out of nothing.
Again, you don't approach every team the same way. The way we approached a physical poland was very different from how we approached a "strong passing" Argentina. That's Rohr and his team's job -- to study the opponent and neutralize their strengths. Yes, we can beat Spain (answering both questions).

maidaboi:
did you think nigeria can beat argentina?

Dedebanky85:
I dunno why all of a sudden we are grossly underating Poland. This is a team that only lost on penalties to the reigning Euro Champions, drew and played a great game against Germany at the last Euros, tied against Uruguay at the last friendlies window, scored for fun during the Fifa WC qualifiers, and have some decent players. Poland is a good team, they may not have so many WC players, but as a unit they are quite formidable.

TheLoneCitizen:




You've given me exactly the words I expected "A Bigger Team like Spain"... Actually Poland ranks higher than Spain according to FIFA, so in other words their performance against Nigeria make you see them as a smaller team.


That only means one thing, there weren't up to par.





Very good point, but it becomes insignificant when you realize that Argentina did not play badly at all. This means Nigeria was better than them.


The case of Barcelona vs Chelsea, Chelsea played like champions to the extent that the fans were satisfied with the bashing.


In the case of Manchester United vs Sevilla, Man Utd didn't live up to expectations and Sevilla edged. Would you say United were poor or Seville were too good?


I reiterate once again, I'm in no way against my country, I'm just bringing ya'll back to earth.