somehow:
I wondered why Rohr had to wait that long before using the subs. Why keep those you know how they play that long on the pitch when you have untested legs on the bench? Why call them if truly you needed to test their abilities?

This is what I can not wrap my head around. Why field players whom you know their real game abilities for 90 minutes when you have some players whom we've not fully seen or not seen at all in real game. In that regard I feel like we wasted an opportunity presented to us by this friendlies

We need to drop one of d DM


We need to shop for an AM in case Mikel gets "onazi" treatment at d world cup


Look for a potent 9,let's try Osimhen,any gud 9 in our league aside Anthony okpotu, or any oda good 9 in Europe


And who says ideye and success can't gate crash,with what d recent wingers are playing,are dey better dan success

krattoss:
See how ordinary friendly just triggered the panic button on this thread..

Everyone turning to pundits overnight...

Well thank God y'all opinions doesn't change any damn thing...

LOL..... God bless you my brother,thats the reason i didnt even come to this thread last night,And this is why Naija coaches failed,some people are already calling for different players,looking for players to blame,for super eagles to loose match na wahala,I remember when we won argentina,i see the feelings,just because we lost 2-0 many people are already talking trash

Kog45:
Ebuehi not fully fit but played 90 minutes with Aina on the bench and Balogun was declared not fit for the match and replaced by Awaziem.

So Ebuehi is highly rated to the extent that Rohr need to force him to play when he knew is not 100% fit and Balogun was replaced some minutes to the match due to fitness.

Pls why all these excuses for Ebuehi performance,for God sake i know how some are bashing Shehu performance just cos of Ebuehi.

Shey you are seeing what I have been talking about here?

They chose certain players to defend and some others to slaughter at every slight opportunity.

I have been reading and have not seen anyone here mention the poor positioning of Uzoho for that second goal. What was he doing at that corner of the post when he already had players covering? Very poor anticipation from him. That and that ruled out goal in the first half were the only low points of his game IMO. He had a better game than against Poland. But I Must say I am still worried.

Love of country over individual players should be paramount.

Joebie:
because he keeps posting like he has an agenda. hardly ever changes position.. says the same thing over and over again.. makes the same arguments.. I promise you pre Qatar 2022, It will be the same komekn lol
He has something to gain by being here.. certainly not for the love of SE.

You see what you want to see.

To buttress your point, state the argument you have assumed in the negative I present. I really expect more from you. But then when I contend with you on specific you go missing.


What is the agenda? state it according to you?

Goke7:


Which European continental coup trophy did martins win for his club? Mikel was a stand out performer on the champs league win over Bayern Munich, even Chelsea fans all over the world still gives him the credit, moses had a good run of form with important goals for Chelsea in their Europa league win. Martins goals for Nigeria could not win any aficon for us and failed to qualify Nigeria for the 2006 world cup. In 2010 world cup, the likes of martins could not take Nigeria beyond the group stage with even countries like Greece and south korea in our group. Am talking about delivering when it matters most. Your beloved martins is still behind mikel and moses. Talking is on the pitch,not on nairaland sports section abeg

For your information, Obafemi Martins won continental trophy.

Now, tell me another thing.

Kog45:
Sir no coach used unfit player for a match.

Balogun Leon failed late fitness test and what happened,replaced by Awaziem ASAP.

Ebuehi was fully fit for him to pass fitness test and played 90 minutes,but had average game.

OK Sir,wll you pick Ebuehi as our best RB with his performance against Serbia

No coach used unfit player for a match? This is simply not true. I can give you so many instances even in Nigeria football where unfit players were used. Keshi played some of our matches unfit, Oliseh came from hospital to come and play our Afcon 2000 semi final match with Senegal. Maradona played lots of matches unfit. I can go on and on.

The human body is not a machine. I do not agree with you at all that just because he passed fitness test he was fully fit. I ask didn't you see him wince in pain at one point in the match?

Even before the goals when some monikers were saying Ebuehi na baller I just sighed. He didn't ball cos I was watching him keenly. Yes I will not deny that he didn't play well but you cannot take away the fact that for the last two weeks the boy has been struggling with fitness issues. I repeat the human body is not a machine.

No be human body wey even somebody that is certified as fit will just slump and die?

forgiveness:


How many FIFA nomination did Mikel Obi and Victor Moses performance earned them?

Is FIFA award not European recognition award?

Is FIFA Nairaland?

Be deceiving yourself.

If you want to call for Martins call for him based on current performance but forget about all this nominations abeg. Did he win those nominations yesterday?

Yes religion does it, check the way some pray. Enough said.

Check any country that makes remark using other people's failure as their own way of feeling better, they always have one thing in common.

Why not use those who did well to physc yourself?

safarigirl:
how religion take cause am?


Check even the foreign sites and see how they compare themselves to other teams in their groups. Nobody is saying the team is great, but don't act like only Nigerians do the "at least we aren't that bad" line.


Everybody does it.

bengine:


Bro if you are a true SE fan, nothing stops you from driving 200miles which is just 2hrs drive to go watch a naija team play at your backyard..I had to drive 480 miles in 2014 to chicago to go watch USA play belgium, I wasn't even a fan of any of the team, I only wanted to watch the stars on parade..

I have always given you benefit of doubt regarding SE but that statement complaining of just 2hrs drive shows you are not really passionate for SE, you just like to pick on SE players flaws....if you truly loved SE, you would at least have done your best to make that game..rmbr i also had work the next morning and I still drove 480miles just to go watch ordinary US team!!!

It's not a 2hr Drive it's 220 miles through rush hour traffic from Manchester M62- M6 - M1 to Barnet London.

A minimum of 4 hrs possibly a lot longer and another 3. 5 hours, back at least get back at 2.30am possibly even later. And I have an early morning hearing, so I simply can't do it. I still have to make them£££

Your assumption wrong.

Lollzzz...so much suggestions...I will want him after the world cup

precocious Arsenal Talent Nwakali Is The Solution To Nigeria's Midfield Problem


A playmaker with class, one highly rated by Arsenal and currently on loan at MVV Maastricht in Holland.
How is he not? It's a subject regular observers ponder. How is Kelechi Nwakali not included in the Super Eagles squad?
A player of grace, vision and football acumen, but one on the periphery at international level.

It's a strong national team, to be fair. And Nwakali is a creative midfielder – the Eagles are not short of those.
MVV fans would tell you how talented he is – one of the jewels of their campaign, a player to help facilitate the club's attacking principles.

Few midfielders are on the ball as much as the Nigerian in the Dutch second tier. Few can boast his passing accuracy, sitting at just over 87 per cent.
He is a fantastic player who is able to read the play before anyone else.

That's the major ingredient the Super Eagles lacked in their recent friendlies against Poland and Serbia respectively.
The former Golden Eaglets skipper will be hoping further great performances can aid a late bid for a spot in the national squad traveling to Russia.
It would be a fitting way to crown his time to date in MVV, where he feels at ease, national team or not.

Abayomi Ademetan

[b] source: ANS ]/b]

Icon4s:


Shey you are seeing what I have been talking about here?

They chose certain players to defend and some others to slaughter at every slight opportunity.

I have been reading and have not seen anyone here mention the poor positioning of Uzoho for that second goal. What was he doing at that corner of the post when he already had players covering? Very poor anticipation from him. That and that ruled out goal in the first half were the only low points of his game IMO. He had a better game than against Poland. But I Must say I am still worried.

Love of country over individual players should be paramount.

Sir on Uzoho i know Rohr w do the needful cos i don't want to say anything regards our goalkeepers cos no quality options.

Oh our double standard for players here abi,sir am beginning to differentiate real football analysis from personal,sentiment and emotive analysis.

Goke7:


It's obvious, that's what we have for now, another thing about mikel is that he dictates the pace of our game, when the serbians were chasing us all over the place, mikel would have slowed down the pace of the game for the other players to regain themselves, we don't have any other player who can do this and the names branded here to play like mikel na wash.

Just like argentina, no messi, no party. sad reality, we only hope mikel is not injured or will dip in form this summer

In other words, no Mikel and Moses, we're finished.

somehow:
The qualifiers has ended, we are heading to a stage where more difficult opponents are waiting for us. We must shun emotional and irational thoughts for now.

Goals win matches

Ighalo can't be our sole 9, I think we should be rational and think of a backup 9.

I would rather we go with Ighalo and Martins to the world cup.
One of the DMs should be dropped.

You need goals to win matches.

We need a backup for Mikel too and I think we should be rational here too.

Joel so far hasn't shown he can play that position or should we blame the coach for always playing him as a DM?

Let's think rationally this time around.

Your head dey dere.

However, Joel Obi is not an AMF. He played as a CMF and LM and he has shown he is better than John Ogu.

elyte89:




We don't need those players mentioned above aside onyekuru,odas wont offer anything new as far as I am concerned, let's search for a potent No 9 dt would assist ighalo.

we need a no 9 that ighalo will assist

ighalo is better as a support striker

elyte89:
We need to drop one of d DM


We need to shop for an AM in case Mikel gets "onazi" treatment at d world cup


Look for a potent 9,let's try Osimhen,any gud 9 in our league aside Anthony okpotu, or any oda good 9 in Europe


And who says ideye and success can't gate crash,with what d recent wingers are playing,are dey better dan success

Put Aguero, Saurez, Griezman, Lukaku in that our front line and they will still not score. Where was the supply? I can only call an attacker bad where chances was coming and he failed to convert any.

Kog45:
Sir no coach used unfit player for a match.

Balogun Leon failed late fitness test and what happened,replaced by Awaziem ASAP.

Ebuehi was fully fit for him to pass fitness test and played 90 minutes,but had average game.

OK Sir,wll you pick Ebuehi as our best RB with his performance against Serbia

Wasn't it on this thread that someone posted a comment of Rohr commending Ebuehi saying that we all can see what Ebuehi could do even when he is not fully fit.


Ebuehi is still work in progres just like most players in the team, you can't rate him with one bad match.

Mujtahida:

No coach used unfit player for a match? This is simply not true. I can give you so many instances even in Nigeria football where unfit players were used. Keshi played some of our matches unfit, Oliseh came from hospital to come and play our Afcon 2000 semi final match with Senegal. Maradona played lots of matches unfit. I can go on and on.

The human body is not a machine. I do not agree with you at all that just because he passed fitness test he was fully fit. I ask didn't you see him wince in pain at one point in the match?

Even before the goals when some monikers were saying Ebuehi na baller I just sighed. He didn't ball cos I was watching him keenly. Yes I will not deny that he didn't play well but you cannot take away the fact that for the last two weeks the boy has been struggling with fitness issues. I repeat the human body is not a machine.

No be human body wey even somebody that is certified as fit will just slump and die?

Sir i still repeat it no coach will throw unfit player to the field of play.

How can a player from hospital made a match day squad,Oliseh passed last minute fitness test and was named on the bench against Senegal.

darkelf:


So bro, if I may understand you correctly, this current name is very okay?

I don't think so.

Ighalo: wasteful

Ahmed Musa: don't even know why he keeps getting invited. When he was benched at Leicester, I was among those that cried foul. Now, we know why

Awaziem:looses conc easily

Bryan Idowu: can't help the attack. No wonder he couldn't make it into Zenit first team and was sold to amker pem.

Iwobi: good talent but small pikin dey worry am. Too much showboating

Joel obi: Don't even get me started on him

Mikel Agu: hmmmm. Them egbons for this thread know am sha

Ebuehi: I want to think he wasn't fully fit.

Ekong:Oga, go learn how to pass. Even if na to stalk guti and xavi go their house. Do am make you beg them to teach you. Same goes for Onazi. It will help both your ministies

No be to dye hair dey post for social media we want. In fact you can be absent on Twitter but command a presence on the pitch along with a good result in matches. We don't mind. Don't unnecessarily raise our hopes up by forming team spirit and cohesion on Social media if you won't displlay it on the pitch were it matters the most.

Don't dye your hair unnecessarily if you won't use that same head to score goals via set pieces. We no send you go Russia to form Chris brown. Okay if you want to imitate Chris brown, try and be a world class baller just as he is a world class pop star. We are tired of sloppy displays. You guys are one of our few sources of joy in a country plagued with diverse challenges.

The nairaland sports section is filled with your die hard fans. Don't let them down. Always give them reasons to keep on supporting you

Agreed

But then what do we do ❓ Continue with what we have and expect the best or invite a 3/4 more tried and tested players to complement vthat we have.

We are effectively going to the world cup with one bonafide striker Ighalo he is not Lukaku , that can not be wisdom.

Just listening to amaju pinnicks interview on brila fm

He said that Ahmed Musa playing for 90mins was one of the high points of the game.

SMH. Someone whose continual invitation is shrouded in mystery.

My elders in the house, who can explain why we keep giving invitations to this guy?

somehow:
Did we play him as AM or as a DM? Thought he was on the right side of a 4:3:3 formation. How's that an AMF?

He was on the left side of the 4-3-3 formation and he played as a LMF. He didn't pay as the AMF.

I don't understand the reason people can't see that.

elyte89:
We need to drop one of d DM


We need to shop for an AM in case Mikel gets "onazi" treatment at d world cup


Look for a potent 9,let's try Osimhen,any gud 9 in our league aside Anthony okpotu, or any oda good 9 in Europe


And who says ideye and success can't gate crash,with what d recent wingers are playing,are dey better dan success

Let's not deceive ourselves, all these strikers you mentioned aren't more potent than Ighalo. It is not an issue of strikers. There is no single creative midfielder that can feed Ighalo with the passes passes/ combination that he requires.

Ighalo is a dangerous and hungry striker, but no services, no supply, no connection for the midfield so what do you expect.
You notice that he tracked back to the midfield to get the ball a couple of times out of frustration. Put Mikel behind him and see what happens. Don't forget the Cameroon game.

mazimee:



Wasn't on this thread that someone posted a comment of Rohr saying that we all can see what Ebuehi do even when he is not fully fit.


Ebuehi is still work in progres just like most players in the team, you can't rate him with one bad match.

Sir did i say Ebuehi a bad player?NO

tbaba1234 said Ebuehi is the best RB and I said No Shehu is still the best based on their performance so far.

If Ebuehi come good tomorrow no issue,am a fan that always base his analysis on football reasoning with nothing attached to it.

Kog45:
Sir i still repeat it no coach will throw unfit player to the field of play.

How can a player from hospital made a match day squad,Oliseh passed last minute fitness test and was named on the bench against Senegal.

Look at you, you are quite unsincere. Many people still make reference to that incident even till tomorrow if the need arise. Oliseh was not fully fit, I remember Ifeanyi Udeze saying so on Brilla recently.

A contributor on brila just said he doesn't expect much from this team.

He said that he has his eyes set on Qatar 2022 and not this coming WC in Russia because it is a team for the future

He finally posited that we shouldn't expect much from this team and that we can only manage to survive the group stage in the WC

Mujtahida:

If you want to call for Martins call for him based on current performance but forget about all this nominations abeg. Did he win those nominations yesterday?

Who is currently holding the title of Chinese FA highest goalscorer? Martins Obafemi.

Those goals won his team Chinese FA cup ahead of Mikel Obi and Ighalo's clubs.

Besides, the arguement is not about current form, it is about the past achievements with their European club.

Pls, read well before you start jumping into matters. Thanks

Kog45:
Sir i still repeat it no coach will throw unfit player to the field of play.

How can a player from hospital made a match day squad,Oliseh passed last minute fitness test and was named on the bench against Senegal.

Sir Kog45 you are old in this game. Please don't say what you know is not true. Even footballers themselves will tell you they have played many matches not fully fit.
What happened to France in 2002?was Zidane fully fit, what of Beckham? Didn't Keshi play many matches with his niggling knee injuries. Haba, just because you want to make a point you shouldn't deny facts. John Terry played matches for Mourinho when not fully fit.

As for Oliseh I have told you what is. You are free to doubt it. Oliseh had malaria, his name was not supposed to be on the list.

I have given you many examples even beyond Oliseh. Players play matches even with less than 100% fitness.

forgiveness:


Your head dey dere.

However, Joel Obi is not an AMF. He played as a CMF and LM and he has shown he is better than John Ogu.

if it's only LM and CM he can play then we don't need him.

And you say he's better than ogu? someone that cannot trap ball or make any sensible pass?

tbaba1234:


Ebuehi is better technically.

We will see the big difference when Mikel returns to the team.

Remember when I said Shehu is better defensively and Ebuehi is better going forward. I was told I am out of touch.

Fans will always be fickle now they are saying something else. I said that Aina both or somewhere in between.

And he is only getting 5 or 10 minute cameo

enomakos:
we need a no 9 that ighalo will assist

ighalo is better as a support striker

Onyekuru is the only forward we need in that team.

Mujtahida:

Habaaa you are taking this Joel Obi thing too far. Whether he was played out of position or not his performance was okay. You say Joel is a flop and that's not true. Let criticism be fair and balanced. Extreme criticism like yours now is what provokes the cry of hater, hater, hater that litters this thread often.

Call me whatever, Joel was a flop period

mazimee:


Look at you, you are quite unsincere. Many people still make reference to that incident even till tomorrow if the need arise. Oliseh was not fully fit, I remember Ifeanyi Udeze saying so on Brilla recently.

Unsincere?pls read my comment very well and try to grab it and if you cannot let end it.Thanks