ybalogs:
Even the assist was a fluke as it needed that magnificent ball control from Musa . Unfortunately we still don't have any player to play from that right side. His performance was better than the match against Croatia so let's hope he'd still get better.

Which fluke?

So, you didn't see Musa pointing to where he wanted to ball and he placed it there exactly.

soetanoreoluwa:


Feel for him cos he is not performing well... You know sometimes you give it your best but it will never be enough people will never see that effort but the results


That's the reason behind my feelings for him...

If what he has been giving thus far is his best then.......

Triniti:
Joebie please stop spreading bad luck here, man you have been telling us that Argentina is going to beat us for the past couple of hours now, allow us savor the euphoria of this win nah

I don't think I'd watch the first half. That game is scary- The Messi and Aguero factor. chai!

forgiveness:


If we consider the calibre of goalkeepers we had Uzoho is very average. Sorry to say.

You are confident they save penalty, freekick, shots etcetera. But Uzoho is not good in all.

I still don't think he is the best goalkeeper we have judging from the spot kicks and other factors.

Hope he improves but before then I want to see the Brazilian and German breed Nigerian goalkeepers, even Alampasu before I conceed he is better.

However, Rangers Bees of those days is not efulefu and even our league was not talent drained as we are having it now. 98% of Nigerian players played in the local league but very tangible fraction played abroad.

So, it was normal to scout players from the local league.

If not why you no put Lokosa for ya list ahead of Onyekuru and co?

if you consider Uzoho's age, you will not be considering him alongside keepers in their late 20's-early 30's

He is just starting, compare him to a 20-year old Enyeama, were you always confident about him? Did you think he could pull his weight at a senior World Cup back then?

Uzoho has done well for his age, he has done very well in fact and could very well be greater than Enyeama in the coming years considering how well he has handled pressure so far

The boy is yet to concede from open play, there are many other keepers far better than him in this tournament who have conceded. So, it is about time we stopped considering the players we could have had and focus on the one we do have.

It is very easy to assume someone else could have done better, when the person cannot be in that position. For all we know, the 'better' goalies would have crumbled under pressure.

Uzoho has earned some level of trust from fans and it is very unfair of you, and anyone else, to keep on bringing up players who may or may not have done better. Give him his accolades abeg, enough of sizing him up with others, everybody's time will come

if i am to Vote ... i will Vote Musa's first goal as the best goal in this tournament so far . cos the ball control , confused both the defenders , the keeper ,his team mate , even the spectators ,and the viewers at home , cos they were expecting a pass . or something else .ITS ONLY ARJEN Robben that has used similar style . what a magnificent goal!

can someone watch it again and come here to analyse that goal

MetalJigsaw:
I don't think I'd watch the first half. That game is scary- The Messi and Aguero factor chair!

There's no running away from it, come Tuesday the boys will go on the pitch and square it out with the Argies. what ever the outcome, we will still get to see it

safarigirl:
if you consider Uzoho's age, you will not be considering him alongside keepers in their late 20's-early 30's

He is just starting, compare him to a 20-year old Enyeama, were you always confident about him? Did you think he could pull his weight at a senior World Cup back then?

Uzoho has done well for his age, he has done very well in fact and could very well be greater than Enyeama in the coming years considering how well he has handled pressure so far

The boy is yet to concede from open play, there are many other keepers far better than him in this tournament who have conceded. So, it is about time we stopped considering the players we could have had and focus on the one we do have.

It is very easy to assume someone else could have done better, when the person cannot be in that position. For all we know, the 'better' goalies would have crumbled under pressure.

Uzoho has earned some level of trust from fans and it is very unfair of you, and anyone else, to keep on bringing up players who may or may not have done better. Give him his accolades abeg, enough of sizing him up with others, everybody's time will come

Even I, as one of his strongest critiques here, have come to gain confidence in him with every passing game.

TheGoodJoe:


It is very clear.The camera caught it. It was not Rohr who called but Ighalo.

Oga! Nothing clear stop the delusion. Thanks.

If una say Ighalo dey beg Rohr to enter pitch, what about Iheanacho that was begging Musa to give him the pass so he can do a simple ''Tap-in'' after Musa had done all the serious work.

A special shout-out to TeamTap-InMerchants

MetalJigsaw:
Those monikers were not wrong either, let's be honest. Musa simply improved, and he's in too form that's just it.

Musa has been good??

he was always deolyed in the wings when he eas underperforming, musa is a striker

joseph1013:
WOW

The owner must be linked to Nigeria.

DokitaDave:
Don't compare Brazil with Nigeria, please. Plus, how many games has Brazil won by 2 nil while in the 80th minute in this World Cup?

i was not comparing any body here, the coach felt Etebo was the man to protect and he took him off, musa is not even an injury prone play and his speed was already causing headache for our opponent, so why take him off?

TheGoodJoe:


You should note from now that the same shape but change in personnel affects the playing pattern of a team. Iheanancho contributes more defensively than Ighalo. So pulling Nacho for Ighalo reduces our defensive contributions even though the shape is the same.

Gerrit?

what you are saying is from the angle of hatred for ighalo, that change was not bad, fresher ighalo for a tired nacho was a good move

Icon4s:


Could be that they later moved to Ojo road. I stayed at Sari-Iganmu, my street was off Amuneke's. When i gained admission into tertiary institution I learnt they left the neighbourhood. I didn't actually probe much about where they had moved to.


Talking about the Cat and Dog stance between the two schools, it wasnt there during our time. Although there were usually little pockets of battle for supremacy here and there. I learnt there was a serious War between the two school after we left and that even led to the fencing of the schools and separating their gates.
Gaskiya were bragging about their Samson Siasia we were bragging about our Emmanuel Amuneke.

You know Bina Ajuwa right? Bina and Kachi were my boys. I personally adviced our games master to elivate Bina to play with us in the senior team. He was in SS1 then. Bina became our best left winger while I played the Right wing. Then we likened him to Emma Amuneke. The same Bina later went to play for the Super Eagles. Kachi also made his debute under Christian Chukwu.

Yes you are right about the fencing it started not too long after I enter the school, say like during .y first first long break as a student of the great cardoso,

The unfenceed outside was actually the playing ground more like a mini field

forgiveness:


Which fluke?

So, you didn't see Musa pointing to where he wanted to ball and he placed it there exactly.

it was a fluke...

Icon4s:


Even I, as one of his strongest critique here, have come to gain confidence in him with every passing game.

we have to just trust him. even though we know, once in a while he will make that childish schoolboy error

darkelf:


Ighalo....hmmmm . That one moment where he could have passed the ball but instead decided it was time to show his shaku shaku skills exposed him. Now we know a major reason our attack has been blunt for a while now.

Just a look around and a simple back heel would have made it 3-0

This stewpid insinuation should stop already. How could someone say he was begging to be subbed in? The Coach might have told him to get ready, and as soon the second goal came, he had to hurry up in order to help protect the lead by being a nuisance with his hold up play. He did holding up pretty well even though I wanted more from him because he killed two go bound opportunities with his excessive holding up and poor striking sense.

I have never been Ighalo's fan and I never wanted him in this world cup team, but in this case, he didn't do any wrong. Make una stop dis nonsense talk, its nauseating.

eterisan:
No shot on target poor....infact no shot at all poor.... Well I could agree with you...was Tactical..

If Rohr had started with a 352 in the Croatia game we would not have lost.. We tend to play better in the second half of games.

Since it's like we play better in the 2nd half, maybe we should always start the 1st half in a defensive mode by playing 4:5:1 or 5:4:1 then we switch to 3:5:2 in the second half against Argentina. All our recent matches has proven that we soar mostly after 45 mins and we get punished within the first 45 mins.

goldfish80:
Ebuehi did well no doubt, even better than Idowu managed especially with his drive forward, but he should be cautioned on giving unnecessary fouls away.
He committed a handball in the penalty area which was waved by the referee before the penalty incident.

Did you know?: Ebuehi has conceded two penalties for Nigeria.

forgiveness:


If we consider the calibre of goalkeepers we had Uzoho is very average. Sorry to say.

You are confident they save penalty, freekick, shots etcetera. But Uzoho is not good in all.

I still don't think he is the best goalkeeper we have judging from the spot kicks and other factors.

Hope he improves but before then I want to see the Brazilian and German breed Nigerian goalkeepers, even Alampasu before I conceed he is better.

However, Rangers Bees of those days is not efulefu and even our league was not talent drained as we are having it now. 98% of Nigerian players played in the local league but very tangible fraction played abroad.

So, it was normal to scout players from the local league.

If not why you no put Lokosa for ya list ahead of Onyekuru and co?

You are a disgrace to Nigerians and a disgrace to this thread.

How do you watch your football? you want uzoho to be world class? a player who started playing professional football not even up to a year and it is in a reserve team and you want him to be more than average,shame on you

Shame on you,always looking for a player to dis,confused fellow

safarigirl:
if you consider Uzoho's age, you will not be considering him alongside keepers in their late 20's-early 30's

He is just starting, compare him to a 20-year old Enyeama, were you always confident about him? Did you think he could pull his weight at a senior World Cup back then?

Uzoho has done well for his age, he has done very well in fact and could very well be greater than Enyeama in the coming years considering how well he has handled pressure so far

The boy is yet to concede from open play, there are many other keepers far better than him in this tournament who have conceded. So, it is about time we stopped considering the players we could have had and focus on the one we do have.

It is very easy to assume someone else could have done better, when the person cannot be in that position. For all we know, the 'better' goalies would have crumbled under pressure.

Uzoho has earned some level of trust from fans and it is very unfair of you, and anyone else, to keep on bringing up players who may or may not have done better. Give him his accolades abeg, enough of sizing him up with others, everybody's time will come

Help me tell am well,uzoho is okay,he is expecting a 19 year old to be world class.

If uzoho do wetin caballero do wetin go come happen? dem go kill am,caballero that has been a keeper for 18 seasons a 36 year old man for that matter look at the silly mistake he did.

Our keeper uzoho is okay to me but some people will always look for fault,Nigerians will never change

goldfish80:


The Mourinho criticism got to him. I saw his measured reply to Mourinho and thought to myself that he will re assess Mike's position.
I also think, he reads alot and follows trends to feel the pulse of fans and some journalists. I say this because not so long after some of us here suggested the 352 formation, he tried it out in the Argentina friendly.
Not even when some told us that playing 3 at the back was like standing a table on 3 legs. Lol

And in actual sense, three at the back is more balanced because the back three are strictly for defensive duties. They are basically CBs.

somehow:


Since it's like we play better in the 2nd half, maybe we should always start the 1st half in a defensive mode by playing 4:5:1 or 5:4:1 then we switch to 3:5:2 in the second half against Argentina. All our recent matches has proven that we soar mostly after 45 mins and we get punished within the first 45 mins.

I'm telling you.... And to me eh the thing is just somehow.

do4luv14:



Yes you are right about the fencing it started not too long after I enter the school, say like during .y first first long break as a student of the great cardoso,

The unfenceed outside was actually the playing ground more like a mini field

Ok. Meaning I had left before you entered.

That is a school that prides itself not in the number of Medical Doctors, Engineers, Accountants etc that it has produced but in the number of great footballers, and coaches the two schools combined have produced.

We had a very standard football pitch then, alomost the size of what we see in the NPFL. Na there many of us perfect our playing skills.


Good to know you are part of my almata-mata. Besides, have you joined us on facebook?: Cardoso High School, Bajia-Ijora, Old students Reunion Campagne.

Nigeria captain Mikel slams Croatia decision to rest star players

June 22, 2018 6:02pm EDTJune 22, 2018 3:26pm EDT

The Super Eagles could find themselves relying on the Group D leaders - who plan to leave big names out against Iceland - to reach the knockout stages



Nigeria captain John Obi Mikel has called on Croatia to be professional and not rest players against Iceland in a match that could yet decide the Super Eagles' World Cup fate.


Two goals from Ahmed Musa ensured Nigeria remain in the hunt for a place in the knockout stages as they saw off Iceland in Volgograd.

Gernot Rohr's side now know that a victory over Argentina in Saint Petersburg will be enough for them to reach the last 16 for the fourth time in their history.

And though a defeat to the Albiceleste would confirm their elimination, a draw would mean they require Croatia to do them a favour against Iceland.


Croatia have already booked their place in the latter stages of the competition, and as such manager Zlatko Dalic has vowed to leave out some of his star players in a bid to conserve their fitness.

Mikel, though, does not understand the reasoning behind Dalic's decision and feels it is unfair on the rest of the teams in the group.

"I don't think it's the best thing to do," he told Goal. "This is a massive tournament - you can't rest people and give others a chance of qualification.

"They should be professional and play their best team. This is such a big stage that you can't rest players just to help other teams to qualify."

Nigeria have faced Argentina four times in their previous five World Cup appearances, losing on all four occasions, but the form of the South American outfit has raised hopes that the Super Eagles can end that run.

Lionel Messi Argentina Croatia World Cup 2018

Despite counting Lionel Messi among their number, Jorge Sampaoli's side have picked up just one point from their two games thus far, including an embarrassing 3-0 defeat to Croatia on Thursday.

However, Mikel is aware that recording the victory his side require will be no easy task.

"I think they have played well. It's going to be a tough and difficult game for us."

Both Nigeria's clash with Argentina and Iceland's match with Croatia take place simultaneously at 7:00pm BST (2:00pm ET) on Tuesday June 26.

Martz101:


what you are saying is from the angle of hatred for ighalo, that change was not bad, fresher ighalo for a tired nacho was a good move

It was a good move to bring ighalo in. Ighalo is not a bad player it's just that he's not suitable for counter attack because of his pace. Nacho was tired. Simy would have been a good go too with specific instruction to press them into making mistakes at the back.

It seems Nigeria's supporters club are not in Russia. Cos me can't see them. It only individuals who came to the stadium that was cheering the team to victory.

To those who think Rohr put fear into our players read this :


Speaking inside the Volgograd Arena, Omeruo praised the Gernot Rohr led coaching crew “We had worked really hard on how we expected Iceland to play, we watched loads of their clips and spoke clearly on what our roles were going to be especially at set-pieces. We are happy it worked out very well in the end”.

Victor Moses had, perhaps predictably, provided Ahmed Musa with the assist for the first goal, it was Omeruo who set up his fellow AFCON ’13 winner for the second goal. Was he aware of this his ‘Assist’? Cue laughter from the big centre back.

“To be honest I was not even aware. I just hit the ball in behind the defenders into the area I know Ahmed (Musa) likes to run into and thankfully he did the rest”.

That second half start? Again, praise for Rohr “the coach pushed us. He told us that we needed to push more, to be more aggressive in going forward and for us to win more of our individual duels and take the game to them. I believe that was what got us the victory today”.

I have this feeling that if we scaled this group stage, we would make it past the round of 16. But sha, make we play Argentina first.

charlesemeka85:
oga mistakes are bound to happen. the best and world class defenders do commit worst blunders than that of ebuehi. as it stands now he is the most assured player for that position. also i believe joel obi will do well in that position too if tested

He is not saying Ebuehi is bad. Just suggesting caution.

Clementoke:
Pls who has the link to the full match of Nigeria vs Iceland today? Or who knows the site where one can watch the full match

YouTube na