safarigirl:
thank you o.....if Desserts as young as he is, cannot get an invite, it is now old man Aluko that Rohr will invite


We are in greater need of a striker than a midfielder or winger. If Rohr needs a winger, he can always revert to Onyekuru that he knows is capable. He doesn't need to dust up Aluko's CV

You know it is considered wisdom to think before you speak and greater wisdom to think deeply before you write.

Aluko is actually 29 younger than the 2 best players in the world. And you called him an old man Make fun by all means buy now you are making fun of yourself. What you have said about Aluko in its entirety nonsensical.

At the end of last season if he wanted too he would have been in the EPL. His CV does not need dusting up at all.

I stand to be corrected but in my objective opinion there are not up to 2/3 players in the current SE, that can contend with him in terms of quality, sheer skill end product and technical ability.

TheSuperNerd:
#TeamMartinsforWC campaign vs #CallUpDessers campaign





Oya take your corners....

Joshua by KO, 6th round..

TheSuperNerd:


At least he gets to rest small again... This guy have been playijg every damn game. Haba! As one of our top key players we don't wamt him to suffer burn-out in the summer biko... This red card is a little breather at least...

Go take a nap son... Make your legs rest small inugo...

Bros no b lie you yarn,that guy no dey rest oo,him minute for pitch no b here,If not for red card that guy will play all the 38 premier league games without being subbed out,now the guy has 2 red card,even last season he was one of the player with the most minute along side griezman,the guy play belgium league half season then played premier league half season,played europa league group stages,and played champions league knockout stage,playing both legs against athletico madrid and sevila.

TheSuperNerd:


Are you Congo4ka's brother, cousin or clone? Or you are really him again... But be reminded of the 50days countdown to Russia 2018 biko... Sir Mujtahida gave you that assignment and you agreed to do a fine job on that ooo... So no forget when the time comes...


But uhmmm...

Pussy.pounder, congo4.ka and now Russianmob... Hmmm... You all sound the same....

Greetings to the supernerd himself....dem just dey ban me anyhow for this forum, if not for this thread and safariwoman, I for don comot this shitland already

daveP:
Lol. Let's go there.

Make Una nor bring issue if Aaron Samuel here o.

Nice one for Aluko and Martins.

komekn:


You know it is considered wisdom to think before you speak and greater wisdom to think deeply before write.

Aluko is actually 29 younger than the 2 best players in the world. And you called him an old man Make fun by all means buy now you are making fun of yourself. What you have said about Aluko in its entirety nonsensical.

At the end of last season if he wanted too he would have been in the EPL. His CV does not need dusting up at all.

I stand to be corrected but in my objective opinion there are not up to 2/3 players in the current SE, that can contend with him in terms of quality, sheer skill end product and technical ability.

Who are the 2 best players in the world? because the 2 best players in the world i know are not up to 29,are you trying to tell me its ronaldo and messi? Anyway the 2 best players in the world are Anthony Okpotu and sunday Mba

Joel with a goal.

tbaba1234:


I love Aluko but he is no iniesta.. He has not had a great season by his standards.

I never said he is Iniesta, just pointing out that scoring goals isn't exactly everything for a midfielder. Even if he is having an average season by his standards, I am sure having him in the team is better than not having any AMF in the team which is the current situation

Loooolll.... One pugilism follower I know was saying 7th round KO for Joshua.
Just one round off yours...

tbaba1234:


Joshua by KO, 6th round..

russianmob27:

Greetings to the supernerd himself....dem just dey ban me anyhow for this forum, if not for this thread and safariwoman, I for don comot this shitland already

Awwwwwwwwn.... So this beautiful thread wey get its own dose of wahala and Lady Safari na your motivation for visiting NL....

Take heart Sir... Maybe na the bots... Abi na the mods? No wonder you come wear your Russian uniform today instead of congo uniform... Just hang in there coz of the 50 days Countdown aiit. Nothing do you....

And Samuel na..
Let all Nigerians abroad keep firing all cylinders. It will be good for the current SE set up morale

MetalJigsaw:
Make Una nor bring issue if Aaron Samuel here o.

Nice one for Aluko and Martins.

na only safariwoman make am dey come back here.. before world cup he go don get 100 monikers.. carry on bro.. more banning in store haha

TheSuperNerd:


Awwwwwwwwn.... So this beautiful thread wey get its own dose of wahala and Lady Safari na your motivation for visiting NL....

Take heart Sir... Maybe na the bots... Abi na the mods? No wonder you come wear your Russian uniform today instead of congo uniform... Just hang in there coz of the 50 days Countdown aiit. Nothing do you....

We have Iwobi and Mikel.. but if Rohr looks Alukos way, good for him.. but he'll have Iwobi to battle with. How about that?

Modified
Competition is always a good thing.. maybe when Mikel retires.. Aluko will not be too old for Qatar

Mickael2:




I never said he is Iniesta, just pointing out that scoring goals isn't exactly everything for a midfielder. Even if he is having an average season by his standards, I am sure having him in the team is better than not having any AMF in the team which is the current situation

russianmob27:

Greetings to the supernerd himself....dem just dey ban me anyhow for this forum, if not for this thread and safariwoman, I for don comot this shitland already

hahaha. He say *shitland*. You are hella funny

TheSuperNerd:
You are right. Being medically inclined, I felt tempted to add my voice but I didn't see the need again. When some people's minds are made up on something, just let them be to run with what make them feel better. Fact is Ebuehi was truly not at 100% that day fitness-wise.

Anyway, Nacho was not even used today and it is obviously because Puel would not risk it even though Nacho was "passed fit" to sit on the bench. Surely that arm/hand still hurt. A broken metacarpal is not beans. The pains can limit one on field.

Thanks man, its good to get an opinion from someone from the medical field..

Mujtahida:

Yeah he's been getting great reviews since he moved to NAC Breda. One slot up for grabs in the attack. He stands a far better chance than Dessers. He's in the picture of Nigerian football. Dessers is a total stranger.

Thats favoritism and sentimental bias by the selectors.

This is one of the issues dragging Nigerian football back is we rely on past youthful glories forgetting that youth football is totally on a duwff level than professional football.

How many games has Umar played as a professional and how many goals has he scored. His stats amount to just mere promise not even definite potential. He left Seria A to Belguim league he is 21 but he has not even really progressed. He is still in many respects an academy player.

It's not progression he is not outstanding in that league beyond his tall stature. He is not better than Dessers who is proven and tested at that lower level.

But none of them have played at a level or consistency to say they are SE level players that can add much needed quality or value.

andrew444:
Ndidi red card

I'm so happy Ndidi got a red card..finally they can rest his ass!!! That guy has played too many games..

komekn:



You know it is considered wisdom to think before you speak and greater wisdom to think deeply before you write.


Aluko is actually 29 younger than the 2 best players in the world. And you called him an old man Make fun by all means buy now you are making fun of yourself. What you have said about Aluko in its entirety nonsensical.

At the end of last season if he wanted too he would have been in the EPL. His CV does not need dusting up at all.

I stand to be corrected but in my objective opinion there are not up to 2/3 players in the current SE, that can contend with him in terms of quality, sheer skill end product and technical ability.

you are so quick to poach reasonable peeps on these thread...when there lies no wisdom in your words.....

why not talk straight to the young lady than start pour out empty advise....you can't even give to yourself....

so...regarding that you wrote..if aluko was that good why is he still in the championship?
or probably epl clubs refused sign him because he opt play for Nigeria.

you guys talk here...as if the rest of us don't watch football at all.....
a good player don't stay in the championship for over a season...same championship tega wrote his name on the platter of gold...and only to get play in the epl the next season...

only in your imagination...aluko better than 4,5 6 super eagles players.....

sometimes prior your write up...tell yourself those words you put up in your first paragraph....you need it more.

Joebie:
na only safariwoman make am dey come back here.. before world cup he go don get 100 monikers.. carry on bro.. more banning in store haha

Looolll... Sir Joebie be nice naa... Hahahahahaha

Mujtahida:

But he's clearly taking risks with Agu. It's conservatism that killed German football before Klinsmann came and broke the ground, planted the seed which Leow watered and eventually reaped the fruits. Conservatism sometimes can be as a result of lack of ideas or lack of confidence. That's why I've never really been taken in by the talk that we are counter attacking team. Why can't we be an attacking team? Why sit back and wait to hit opponents on the counter?

We lack flair. That's why I was happy when in a flush of indiscipline Iwobi began to drift into the middle and do some jiggery-dribbery. It yielded no fruit but in that brief display he was saying 'see coach I can do this thing'.

I actually I wasn't impressed it was show boating and playing to the gallery. There was very little end product hr needs to do that in the fina third.

I want end product not flattery that decieves. For sure he wouldn't do that in an Arsenal shirt why in the SE.

Super Eagles’ friendly: A post-mortem

Posted By: Ade Ojeikere

The noise from the social media after Nigeria beat Poland in Wroclaw penultimate Friday was deafening. It was as if the Super Eagles lost the game, with paralysed analysis bothering on the people’s primordial sentiments on how the team should look. Chief among the complaints was the clamour for Vincent Enyeama’s return, even when we know that he has been inactive in Europe this season. The submissions gave the impression that they would rather have Enyeama in goal with a walking stick than allow Francis Uzoho man the goalpost in Russia. Let me not say what have gone down in the social media since Eagles lost 2-0 to Serbia in England. Everyone talking about going to the drawing board to plot new tactics. I wonder if this board isn’t in tatters.

The friendly matches against Poland and Serbia were meant to test the players and see how they would fare against countries that have similar playing patterns and mentality like the Croatians, Nigeria’s opening game opponents at the Russia 2018 World Cup on June 16. Besides, the two matches were meant to expose the team’s lapses so that the coaches could find the right players for weak positions. I’m glad that both games served the purpose, with the tie against Serbia showing that Eagles’ regular back men have no substitutes. It is also not too late to look for reliable defenders to rival the first team players.

Enyeama was awesome with the Eagles. When Adegboye Onigbinde told us (Nigeria sporting press) in Japan that he was fielding Enyeama ahead of Ike Shorunmu in Nigeria’s last World Cup game against England at the Korea/Japan World Cup, many wondered if he could stop David Beckham’s free-kicks. Enyeama kept a clean sheet in that game. The rest is history.

What these analysts don’t know is that Uzoho will only gain experience playing games such as the one against Poland. The essence of friendly games is to correct mistakes. Most teams at this time are work-in-progress, like the coaches say. It is worthy to note that Rohr listed Uzoho in the Serbian game, making the goalkeeper know that his fate doesn’t lie with what critics say but how the manager rates him – boosting his confidence.

Two balls slipped through the defence into the net. The first which happened in the Poland game was debatable. But the slip in the first half against Serbia was a good goal. Rohr needs to warn his defenders and Uzoho that such slips would be captured by the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) machine, which wasn’t used in the two matches. On the score of 10, I will rate Uzoho 7, as a first timer in such high profile matches.

Sticking to Uzoho underscores the importance that Gernot Rohr attaches to using this Mundial to give Nigeria a team that would have a lifespan of 10 years, which is what Clemens Westerhof did when he started rebuilding the Eagles in 1990. Nigeria is going to the Russia 2018 World Cup with the youngest squad. Nobody is casting any doubt on the players’ ages because most of the players pledged their allegiance to Nigeria from other countries, although they have Nigerian parentage. It simple means that their ages are incontestable, how being born in Europe. We are tired of always rebuilding Eagles after every failed expedition. The drawing board we always refer to after every aborted trip must be tattered now.

It is obvious that many players have lost their shirts, given their contributions in the last two games, especially the one against Serbia, which we lost by two goals. Rohr must dig deep into his bag of tactics to evolve a system that would make the players play at their best. The only consolation is that Nigeria’s last group opponents at the Mundial, Argentina were whacked 6-1 by Spain. I know many pundits would say that the results would have been better if Lionel Messi had played. Hmmm! The same excuse when Nigeria beat Argentina 4-2 last year in Russia. Failure beckons, if Argentina’s coach must be told the truth.

Rohr, happily, isn’t perturbed by the defeat. He gambled on Ahmed Musa to lead the team’s attack, which is normal for friendly matches. It didn’t work. He played Awuziem in place of injured Leon Balogun; it was catastrophic. Oguenyi Onazi was lost in the game just Victor Moses, who apparently played to avoid injuries. The results of friendly games will count for nothing, when the chips are down during the Mundial. Balogun’s absence in the team’s defence showed when the Serbians launched their onslaughts. They effectively utilised Eagles’ weakness to play aerial balls, especially from set-pieces. Rohr should find a way to play Ola Aina regularly. He is big and strong, scared and plays regularly for Hull City in the English Championship, even though he is a Chelsea star on loan. Aina can dash forward to score like he does with Hull City.

Moses appears unable to carry the fortunes of the team, if marked like we saw against Serbia. Perhaps because Ivanovic, the Serbia captain, knew him – they were mates at Chelsea. One word- Moses isn’t Eagles messiah at the Mundial. Eagles, don’t have any undertaker in the mould of Lionel Messi (Argentina) and Cristiano Ronaldo (Portugal), Neymar (Brazil), Thomas Muller (Germany), Paul Pogba (France), Hazard (Belguim) et al. I’m scared to pick Wilfred Ndidi as Nigeria’s undertaker because he lacks the World Cup experience. He isn’t also a prolific scorer for the Eagles, unlike the aforementioned players in their countries.

Alex Iwobi looks like the man to do the creative job for the team at the Mundial, only if he is told so now. There is an obvious reason for that. Nigeria head coach Gernot Rohr may have an exciting young squad to take to Russia but he hardly has creators like Mesut Ozil and Henrikh Mkhitaryan. Iwobi is perhaps the nearest the Super Eagles have to a playmaker. He certainly looked like their best hope for a goal as they laboured against a disciplined Serbia.

A few people would argue that John Mikel Obi’s contributions were missing. True, but Mikel still needs a younger player, such as Iwobi to use his passes and dribbling runs to attract markers to him. This way, openings would be created for goals. Eagles’ midfielders in the two matches were tentative in their displays, with none of them willing to seize the initiative of being match winners reminiscent of the Nwankwo Kanu and Austin Okocha era.

With a dysfunctional midfield like we saw in the two matches, there is no way the strikers can work. Strikers are best utilised if the defence-splitting passes are there. They would find it easier to run into space to receive such passes, where the midfielders can dribble to unlock the oppositions’ defences. Our players’ resort to long balls to unlock defences was poor tactics as it rendered the strikers otiose. The manager needs to either look for the players (I wonder if there is the time) or find a better pattern of play that will bring out the players’ best qualities.

‘’Nigeria may have come away from Barnet licking their wounds, though it was largely to do with a youthful defence incapable of taming Aleksandar Mitrovic and the woeful display of Ahmed Musa as a central striker,’’ Standard Sports newspaper of England wrote on Wednesday.

“Rohr commended the boys and urged them not to drop their heads because no football team in the world wins all their games,” Eagles spokesman Toyin Ibitoye said.

“The coach told the team they should learn from this defeat but not suck, but rather go back to their clubs and keep fighting. He said what was most important after such a loss is how you react, he said we have to bounce back.”

“The coach reminded the boys that they have not been doing badly as a team and what has happened should be put behind. He said it is a game and they have done their part and should forget the rest. We have three more friendly matches to play before the World Cup proper. Ours is to take the positives from the Serbia game, study them critically and implement,’’ Ibitoye said.

It is good to know that NFF chieftains are on the same page with Rohr and the team. Amaju Pinnick’s statement underscored the need for all the parties to work towards getting Nigeria into the quarter-finals. At that stage, anything is possible, especially if Nigerians rally round the team. They could spring surprises.

Pinnick wrote this writer in a terse reply to an inquiry about his thoughts on the game: ‘’Trust me, it was a good preparatory game against Poland, for instance. We are satisfied. You learn more when you lose matches and learn less when you win games.

‘’I must congratulate Serbia for giving us a good game, which helped to expose the weaknesses of our team. This is the essence of playing such friendly games. The coaches have taken notes and we expect good reaction from them in subsequent matches before the World Cup proper in Russia.’’

http://thenationonlineng.net/super-eagles-friendly-post-mortem/

russianmob27:

Awwwwwwwwwwwn.... You okay Sir? Come on don't be sad...
Oya smile naa...

Did Obafemi Martins play as a LW today?
Today's strikers should be able to cope when deployed in any forward role.

fellory:
But why is Aluko so under rated.I remember that guy saved our blushesite with two goals in one qualifier in Benin. That guy from the video i saw is still very relevant.I urge all nay sayers to watch that video and tell us why that guy shold not be in the eagles.

Please tell them, some I'll informed have labelled me biased for talking about him.

He is only 29 for goodness sake.

komekn:


Thats favoritism and sentimental bias by the selectors.

This is one of the issues dragging Nigerian football back is we rely on past youthful glories forgetting that youth football is totally on a duwff level than professional football.

How many games has Umar played as a professional and how many goals has he scored. His stats amount to just mere promise not even definite potential. He left Seria A to Belguim league he is 21 but he has not even really progressed. He is still in many respects an academy player.

It's not progression he is not outstanding in that league beyond his tall stature. He is not better than Dessers who is proven and tested at that lower level.

But none of them have played at a level or consistency to say they are SE level players that can add much needed quality or value.

just watch out...umar will gets invited...
he played well in the last Olympics....
he is surely a striker for now and the future...there is no sentiment there...

the Chinese league is only highly ranked on paper but in reality.....it is mere garbage

I wales could beat the Chinese national team....where all their players are product of the Chinese league so mercilessly...then it means that league has nothing good to write home about....little wonder they have never qualified for the world cup for a long time now....

the depth of a country's league reflects in their national team.......
so you still have no case for obagoal I know you're trying to discredit the call for umar reason because of obagoal...

bengine:


I'm so happy Ndidi got a red card..finally they can rest his ass!!! That guy has played too many games..

Lol

andrew444:


The guy is not bad But rohr will not invite him

Why

Obafemi martins with a hat trick today

komekn:


If your groin injury is not treated properly you will get internal scarring. Then if you rush back when you are not fully healed you can make it worse.

6 weeks minimum for any muscle tear Groin injury if you have ruptured muscles even more. You could be struggling with that injury for 6 months longer if not properly treated.

It doesn't make sense as a RB in the modern game you will be sprinting stop and start. What on earth are you doing playing on it.

My issue is that all thus talk of injury came after the game not before. He declared himself fit he can not now claims injury.

Meanwhile there has been no official corroboration of that position. So it's all hearsay.

You just confirmed the right recovery time for groin..its minimum 6weeks..groin injury has different grade, that was the reason I called it mild groin since he was able to pass fitness test..I have seen guys with groin issues for over 6months..they think its gone, they go play a game and aggravate that injury..

The blame goes to Rohr for leaving him on the pitch that long knowing he has options on the bench..f