TheGoodJoe:

Uzoho is doing well for a young man but I am not convinced we put the best choice in goal or if he is ready for us to get excited. I believe he is the best among the pack we invited but we need thorough unbiased goalkeeper screening after the World Cup and select the best. If not we are deceiving ourselves.

Also the coaching crew needs to keep the young keeper on his toes to get him close to ready for the World Cup.

By the way, what the hell was up with our players in allowing English players restrict the movement of Uzoho during corner-kicks. That should never happen again. A player of ours should be close to the Goalkeeper during corner-kicks to prevent an opposing player from stopping the Goalkeeper from moving.

hat was at caused the first goal and it was so amateurish from our players.

edi287:

Well if you have seen me talk about the importance of having technical ability in our midfield and missing the guile of Moses Simon, I wonder what would make you think I don't value technique.
Anyways, 3 people picked up on it. Not my fault you didn't.

Mickael2:




I will just ask you a simple question. Iwobi scored after 47 mins, so from 47-90mins that would amount to 43 mins, so could you please tell me one other good chance we created during that period?

This was a warm up match, the English coach would have changed formation but you are already two goals up what's the point? Besides I do hope you know that this isn't England's main tactics? They were using us to test four attacking players and we were just over ran at will

kellycute:
Oga accept am, you nor sabi the art of sarcasm! The point is very simple in goodjoe voice lol

zuchyblink:
Iwobi has scored 5 goals for SE in 18 matches from the midfield while Ighalo has scored 4 in the same number of matches for the SE from CF position .

zuchyblink:
had it been we applied the second half tactics from the beginning of the match, we wouldn't have lost the match. Our second half tactics caused them a lot of problems, they began to introduce defenders to hold onto the lead.

realpoacher:
Joel Obi is a Big Flop and an Overhyped Fraud!!!


If he makes it to Russia then Rohr is Corrupt

Mickael2:



the sarcasm was very very clear na, I mean he even wrote some words in capital letter just for reference and yet you didn't get the point?

LieDetector:
sadly Rohr has dropped Agu and Aina for Joel and Echiejule. Now all hope is lost. I won't be surprised if he still starts Onazi and Joel in games. I watched the post match briefings and he was making excuses for Joel.

The babalowo that did that jazz for Joel is very potent and highly lethal

asha80:
when is the Ramadan fast ending? if it continues till world cup starts then it is no brainer that ebuehi should be a starter if shehu's fasting is going to be a problem

realpoacher:
Ogenyi Onazi is an overweight slow tortoise

If he makes it to Russia and starts our matches then Rohr is Corrupt and was Bribed

zuchyblink:
The jettisoned guys lack experience and are not-too-good

ChrisKels:


At your first paragraph, who else is the best choice even though u admitted he's the best among the three in camp?


Your best midfielder(Onazi) was guilty of your last paragraph. You have always rooted for him

Mickael2:


I just dey here dey check out some very very very funny analysis.

First of all we both saw it since 2017 that Onazi is gone, after this match even Sir Kog45 no fit defend am again. but trust them sha.


Then again, everybody is hailing our second half performance, but bar Iwobi's goal which other chance(notable or not) did we create? England were winning, they didn't need to push yet in that second half they still created the better chances after we scored and for God's sake this is England, you know the same England that we have been saying we will wipe the floor with? yes that sane England and we barely created 3 chances of note and people are still making reference to the Argentina friendly when we have been so poor recently.


Our main problem now is Mikel. naturally he doesn't have enough energy to function as an AMF self, but to make matters worse the Chinese league has been on for a while, I doubt he has had enough time to rest since he started all his team's recent matches, that's like 10 games at least in the last few weeks and yet we all know that without Mikel our team is...well Panama wearing a fanciful green jersey and the end point is that we will be destroyed. Ndidi is not yet training with the full squad, I don't know when he will get match fit but let's just watch. The main problem is that the Chinese league's calendar has affected Mikel and it will affect our team, that AMF role will be too stressful for him now and that's when we will see just how good our team is.


coming down to the manager, I'd bet thousands that Onazi would still start our matches, in fact make that a few hundred thousands. The coach is just a man manager, it works for Zidane because he has a lot of top quality players but when your forward players are either wingbacks in the clubs or they have a permanent quarter on the bench of a midtable team then being just a manager isn't going to cut it.


Finally to address those calling for Ogu to becoming a starter, you don't change your midfield most especially like that. No matter how impressive Saul is in training and even friendlies now and even if Iniesta starts playing like an old lady he will still start, that's one area of the pitch where you don't just change players because they come in as subs and perform well. Ogu may not even make it to Russia and I won't be surprised I mean Kayode was left at home for a Lokosa who had no chance whatsoever. I mean based on what Ighalo did today wouldn't Lokosa at least be a better choice? in fact I have tire

LieDetector:
sadly Rohr has dropped Agu and Aina for Joel and Echiejule. Now all hope is lost. I won't be surprised if he still starts Onazi and Joel in games. I watched the post match briefings and he was making excuses for Joel.

The babalowo that did that jazz for Joel is very potent and highly lethal

ChrisKels:
The rate at which Joel bumps into his team mates makes me wonder if he was on drugs. In that congo match he did it, killing a sweet counter attack as a result, then yesterday he showed us his plans. I nearly broke my LCD when he headbutted Balogun. My woman was like, gush who who be this agbero again nah!!

Martz101:


we need to drop joel obi, but j doubt if the problem was fitness

TheGoodJoe:


Me Onazi? Are you serious? I have never rooted for Onazi. Even during the time of Keshi, I called for dropping Onazi for Hope Akpan. I believe one of the reasons we did not qualify for the AFCON then was Onazi.


If we were to maintain the same formation, I expected Etebo off because I did not see Rohr pulling out his experience Onazi. If not, the best choice was Onazi off.

https://www.nairaland.com/3018619/super-eagles-thread-russia-2018/1111#57404403

You can read some of my opinions in the link like the bolded above and tell me Onazi is my best midfielder. I Wonder what you gain by spreading false information. A weakly calculated lie.

ChrisKels:


At your first paragraph, who else is the best choice even though u admitted he's the best among the three in camp?


Your best midfielder(Onazi) was guilty of your last paragraph. You have always rooted for him

TheGoodJoe:



I do not trust Onazi to stay disciplined at the back. Onazi caused us to fail in a lot of games with his reckless running forward and leaving us exposed at the back.

https://www.nairaland.com/1952331/all-news-olympic-eagles-u-23/202#44418747

My comment in April 5th, 2016. For you to say the above over two years later is frightening. My stance on Onazi never changed.

edi287:

Rohr needs to tell him to calm down. He is too eager to impress. There was absolutely no need to clash heads with Leon Balogun. It was hilarious and quite sad

ChrisKels:



I am sorry bro, it was an oversight. No be you na Icon4s, Kog45 etc

Mickael2:



OK after we changed that formation Sterling still got a chance which he would have scored bit he dived, Eric Dier I believe still had a good header that just missed, from the first half or not they would have still created chances and they created chances even after we switched for to 3-5-2 even more than we did, and we were losing the match.

ChrisKels:



I am sorry bro, it was an oversight. No be you na Icon4s, Kog45 etc

teeezy00:
Squad

No Aina

tbaba1234:


He was making excuses for Shehu which is normal but his praise for Ebuehi was enough for me to believe, he is considering starting Ebuehi.