Kog45:
Humility baba pls calm down on Ighalo issue.

Truly he hasn't live up to expectations but let's take it cool on this players.

We are playing Argentina tomorrow let's hope for the best and rally round the team irrespective of players picked by Rohr.

Some don't expect anything good from Musa in this WC but see Musa now,a saviour.

I will not deceive you we don't have any talisman when it comes to goalscoring and it will take a well convincing performance from Simy to start ahead of Iheanacho and Ighalo.

Simy coming into the team was to provide cover for Ighalo and Iheanacho and he has not done anything extra ordinary to bench this guys even in training.

Remember I told you Simy is not a high profile striker but you said NO which i agreed,different opinions must be respected.

I want you to see Simy as our hidden weapon that Rohr can unleashed anytime to cause havoc,pls let's wait for that moment.

Ighalo,Iheanacho and Simy are in the team to compliment not as rivals and this was the reason you saw Ighalo on the bench after Croatia and Iheanacho in XI against Iceland.

Pls don't be surprised to see Ighalo or Simy starting against Argentina.

It's team work and players understand this better than we fans.

Ighalo scored last against Cameroon in Uyo but unable to score against

1.Cameroon in Yaoundé
2.Zambia
3.Poland
4.Serbia
5.England
6.Czech
7.Croatia
8.Iceland

Iheanacho scored last against Argentina but unable to score against

1.Poland
2.Congo
3.England
4.Czech
5.Croatia
6.Iceland

Simy not yet there but i see him as our hidden weapon

Sir with this I if i have my way i will pair Musa and Iwobi upfront but no coach will do that with two strikers available who have done it before and normal for goal drought in football.

I think we are still good with Musa/Iheanacho or Ighalo.

My guy tomorrow is knocking and by the grace of God we are beating Argentina.

Unfortunately, you tacitly ignored the stats in these games. You left out tiny details such as assists. We are talking about having real goal threats. Not ones that people used to have. I am sorry, but truth is there was no reason to draw up the side by side comparison. It is as clear as day and night even to a person with sight problems. Football is played with purpose and intelligence. Those are the first criteria needed. Physicality is just another aspect. Fìrìgbòn kò s'ílèkùn ....!!!

I hear a lot of people talking about hold up play. Of what use is a hold up play that yields nothing to our bottomline? If its not that Rohr is a loyal coach, do you think Ighalo would be going to the world cup? Why was Iheanacho dropped from Man City? It had to do with work rate and not for lack of goal scoring prowess.

While I am not siding with Iheanacho cos he also can be very weird in his decision making at times, but really, sleep and death are 2 different things. We need intent. Intent in this tournament is to score goals and score plenty.

Today, when the Super Eagles of Nigeria files out to represent their father's land, the whole World will stand still and watch in anticipation of what will be the result between two World Cup and perennial rival.

So many questions will be begging for answers. Will Argentina continue their dominance over their perennial rival? Will Nigeria rise to the occasion and say enough is enough? Will Messi (one of the game's finest) once again do the impossible and wand his magical feet to ensure is country progresses to the next round? Etc.

But, in the mist of this mouth watering encounter, there certain things the Nigeria side will have to face before they progress.
* They will be playing against a wounded Argentines
* They will square up against 14 man team(against the Argentina's fans who will definitely fill everywhere in the stand, against the referee who is an European and finally against FIFA who already have their own favorites)

The odds are definitely against us. The media does not give us a chance.

I SAY THIS IS WAR!

But I'm hoping The Super Eagles will flap its wings today and soar far above the reach of any fiery arrows of the enemies that will come inform of biased officiating helped by VAR!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URvjp3rGnHM

Nigeria Team update I Mimi Fawaz I We speak to Alex Iwobi and Shehu Abdullahi

Uzoho
Ebuehi. Balogun. Ekong. Omeruo
Mikel Ndidi. Etebo
Iwobi
Vicmo. Musa
Let's go naija

My prediction
Nigeria 2 - 1 Argentina
FT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srUv5dLyF8w

Nigeria vs Argentina: Nigerians share their thoughts on the super eagles’ formation

LieDetector:
Sampaoli on Argentina: “Tomorrow, our World Cup begins”
25 June 2018



Under-fire head coach Jorge Sampaoli was almost removed from his position after a reported player mutiny nearly dethroned him from his role at Argentina.

The players’ supposedly asked to manage themselves for their final group game; after a string of questionable decisions and poor results against Iceland (1-1) and Croatia (0-3) see them sit bottom of World Cup Group D.

It is all to play for tomorrow as Argentina take on Nigeria and speaking on the topic, Sampaoli had several things to say:

“We leave behind a particular week, because we are recovering from a losing defeat and that puts us in a position to win at all costs. At the same time, it also depends on the outcome of another match. Argentina's World Cup begins tomorrow - for us it will be the first of 5 finals that could lead us to raise the World Cup.

We will have to play with heart, this is what I am trying to get across to the team. The players who come down on the pitch will have to push themselves to the limit, we have no alternative and I am sure that this will happen. You will see the best version of Argentina. I'm sure of what I'm saying.”

Saw a post that said the Messiah rose on the third day, Messi will rise in the third game. This gave me chills.

TSOM:


Let's arrive at a middle ground.

Nigeria 11: 10 Messi.

At least he'd be the highest goal scorer - he'd go home robed in pride and glory.

I think I can learn to live with that. The G.O.A.T can't exit this tournament under a dark cloud. That'd be too much to handle after the 2014 World Cup final.

Maybe you should take that up with FIFA who grouped us with Argentina 5 out of 6 times..... And we have always been beaten. Today, the curse is broken! If Argentina like, make dem appease all the known and unknown gods and goddesses. Today, we write our destiny the way we want it to be!

Finito ...... copyright TheGoodJoe since 1867
O pari...... Copyright Icons79 since 1536

Another beautiful talk by mathematical Segun odegbami to super eagles players...

It is so motivating...

All odds against us.
VAR to their advantage
Refer to their advantage

We shall overcome Argentina this period

Good omen

1994 we qualify with Argentina in our group
2014 we qualify with Argentina in our group
2018 we shall qualify too
Eagles win for Plateau people!


Go for win
Break the jinx
Make us smile again

#RideOrDie
#soarSuperEagles

My verdict on today's match cracker...



Nothing that will happen that has never happened in the game of soccer

Nigeria 5 vs Argentina 0 or either way

Incase of whatever happens today

zuchyblink:
Nigeria 5 vs Argentina 0 or either way

pass me that shiii bro

zuchyblink:
Nigeria 5 vs Argentina 0 or either way

I saw the opposite in my dream

Humility017:


you even wanna see Ighalo...me don't wanna see him at all...let rohr give other players the opportunity to impress..... especially simmy...he is a high profile striker in Italy
let's see what he has to offer

Rohr can do it this way..



start Simy and Musa up front and Nacho behind then


Second half let the trio of Iwobi, Moses and Ighalo take up the reins.


Reason being that I expect th3 first trio to bury the game and the 2nd trio to set up very hard disturbance against that Argentine defence. If It was Lokosa, I'd pick him instead. But I have no choice again sha.

Well it's just 3subs, so I prefer to see Iwobi and Moses come on provided there is no one at the back that takes a knock whatsoever.


I believe Musa and Simy would do something to calm our nerves.

komekn:


My thoughts exactly with regards to Messi.

The high press is essential for us too we don't want Messi getting penalties or free kicks near our 18. We should know that these players are really good at hood winking referees for fake fouls.

Argentina will also high press us, I am very sure. They will be worried about our fast break. This means we will often use the long ball. Who will win our aerial battles and bully the Argentine CB'S for our fast paced forwards to capitalise on.

My formation 3-5-2

Omeruo - Balogun - Ekong

Mikel
Ndidi - - Etebo
Ebuehi - Moses

Ighalo ----- Musa


With a number of substitute options that excludes Echiejile and Shehu

carry your unlucky ighalo dey go

komekn:


My thoughts exactly with regards to Messi.

The high press is essential for us too we don't want Messi getting penalties or free kicks near our 18. We should know that these players are really good at hood winking referees for fake fouls.

Argentina will also high press us, I am very sure. They will be worried about our fast break. This means we will often use the long ball. Who will win our aerial battles and bully the Argentine CB'S for our fast paced forwards to capitalise on.

My formation 3-5-2

Omeruo - Balogun - Ekong

Mikel
Ndidi - - Etebo
Ebuehi - Moses

Ighalo ----- Musa


With a number of substitute options that excludes Echiejile and Shehu

i am one of ighalo strongest advocate here, but it make no sense using him after seeing changes when he was on the bench, i will go with the same line up...if I'm to change anything then i will have iwobi coming in for iheanacho

komekn:


My thoughts exactly with regards to Messi.

The high press is essential for us too we don't want Messi getting penalties or free kicks near our 18. We should know that these players are really good at hood winking referees for fake fouls.

Argentina will also high press us, I am very sure. They will be worried about our fast break. This means we will often use the long ball. Who will win our aerial battles and bully the Argentine CB'S for our fast paced forwards to capitalise on.

My formation 3-5-2

Omeruo - Balogun - Ekong

Mikel
Ndidi - - Etebo
Ebuehi - Moses

Ighalo ----- Musa


With a number of substitute options that excludes Echiejile and Shehu

i am one of ighalo strongest advocate here, but it make no sense using after seeing changes when he was on the bench, i will go with the same line up...if I'm to change anything then i will have iwobi coming in for iheanacho

daveP:
Rohr can do it this way..



start Simy and Musa up front and Nacho behind then


Second half let the trio of Iwobi, Moses and Ighalo take up the reins.


Reason being that I expect th3 first trio to bury the game and the 2nd trio to set up very hard disturbance against that Argentine defence. If It was Lokosa, I'd pick him instead. But I have no choice again sha.

Well it's just 3subs, so I prefer to see Iwobi and Moses come on provided there is no one at the back that takes a knock whatsoever.


I believe Musa and Simy would do something to calm our nerves.

This is not a training or friendly match. starting simmy,musa and nacho means you are sacrificing Etebo or mikel and it make no sense in this kinda game.

and bringing on 3 new attackers to replace them look like a PlayStation decision, guess you were joking afterall.

daveP:
Rohr can do it this way..



start Simy and Musa up front and Nacho behind then


Second half let the trio of Iwobi, Moses and Ighalo take up the reins.


Reason being that I expect th3 first trio to bury the game and the 2nd trio to set up very hard disturbance against that Argentine defence. If It was Lokosa, I'd pick him instead. But I have no choice again sha.

Well it's just 3subs, so I prefer to see Iwobi and Moses come on provided there is no one at the back that takes a knock whatsoever.


I believe Musa and Simy would do something to calm our nerves.

This is not a training or friendly match. starting simmy,musa and nacho means you are sacrificing Etebo or mikel and it make no sense in this kinda game.

and bringing on 3 new attackers to replace them look like a PlayStation decision, guess you were joking afterall.

Martz101:


This is not a training or friendly match. starting simmy,musa and nacho means you are sacrificing Etebo or mikel and it make no sense in this kinda game.

and bringing on 3 new attackers to replace them look like a PlayStation decision, guess you were joking afterall.

Glad you finally got the tone....


ease some tension too na.

daveP:
Glad you finally got the tone....

ease some tension too na.

ok then cheers

kennysville:



Unfortunately, you tacitly ignored the stats in these games. You left out tiny details such as assists. We are talking about having real goal threats. Not ones that people used to have. I am sorry, but truth is there was no reason to draw up the side by side comparison. It is as clear as day and night even to a person with sight problems. Football is played with purpose and intelligence. Those are the first criteria needed. Physicality is just another aspect. Fìrìgbòn kò s'ílèkùn ....!!!

I hear a lot of people talking about hold up play. Of what use is a hold up play that yields nothing to our bottomline? If its not that Rohr is a loyal coach, do you think Ighalo would be going to the world cup? Why was Iheanacho dropped from Man City? It had to do with work rate and not for lack of goal scoring prowess.

While I am not siding with Iheanacho cos he also can be very weird in his decision making at times, but really, sleep and death are 2 different things. We need intent. Intent in this tournament is to score goals and score plenty.

If you think hold up play is not important, then why is Giroud at the WC and not Lacazette or Martial for France?

Why was Tiimo Weiner picked and Sane dropped for Germany?

Is Argentina a language or you meant in "Spanish"?

Should we blame copy and paste here?

Kilanee:
My Russia Diary. Day 13.
.
I jux finished eating breakfast in my Kazan
Hotel wen i heard a knock. To my surprise it
was Messi. He greeted me and said he jux
stopped by to gimme Kola Nut. He was
taking style to ask me our formation and the
strategy we are going to use against
Argentina. I simply told him i dont know and
that i only came to Russia to see my phwend
the Russia President. He murmured some
words in Argentina and collected back his
Kola b4 leaving. How is Nigeria Today and
hope NTA is televising the World Cup as i
instructed them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR7HIoiTwNA

Go Nigeria Go!!!

We are all concentrating on Messi forgeting Dybala and De maria. you guys should remember that these guys can hurt us too. though its understandable to talk about Messi but they have others who can hurt us.

bengine:
To beat Argentina tomorrow, we need to take a cue from Croatia..

First Of all we need to do a high press so Argentina doesn't build up play from the back..let them kick the ball in the air which means 50-50 chance to get the ball back and automatically they become less dangerous since most of their strikers are short...

To neutralize messi, you need proper space engineering...never give messi room to run at you from the center and do combination play...we need to crowd that midfield whenever Argentina has possession, this would render messi less effective since he thrives on pocket of space left out by midfielders..Etebo would really have his hands full..its much easier for him to mark messi since he also has a low center of gravity!!!

I hope our players would not be selfish tomorrow and play with each other..its all about the team winning!!!

This is a game I believe we can win...we just need to get our tactics right and the players have to be alert for 90mins..no loosing concentration

Spy360:

If you think hold up play is not important, then why is Giroud at the WC and not Lacazette or Martial for France?

Why was Tiimo Weiner picked and Sane dropped for Germany?

is giroud a starter for France? He normally gets subbed on around 70mins. Him being in the team has absolutely nothing to do with hold up play

I am afraid of our wing backs. Most especially if we play Moses on the wing. I don't know if he will pour his heart playing there.

I also don't think Ebuehi is matured enough to avoid rash tackles in dangerous areas.

Anyway, I don't want us to gamble playing players in roles not too familiar with them or don't like.

Since, Rohr wants us to shot from all angles. I think he should start Iheanacho along with Musa because both can score from outside the box.


This is my formation.


.........................................Uzoho..................................

Moses..... Balogun...... Ekong........Omeruo.......... Brian...

...................... ..Ndidi.................Mikel..............

.Iheanacho.................. Etebo........................ Ahmed......

That is the shape when we defend.


This is the shape when we attack.

...................................Uzoho..........................


..................Balogun......... Ekong.............. Omeruo.....

.... Moses............Ndidi........ Mikel......... Brian/Joel

................................... Etebo............................

.................. Iheanacho................ Ahmed.........



There was something I noticed in matches played during the world cup, most especially between Sweden and Germany. There was a moment the Swedish player raised to the German goalpost before he was tripped in the box. The player stood up and protesed VAR should be used but the referee ignored and waved play on.

I think the reason the referee didn't consult the VAR was because the ball was still in play. It would have been easier to check the VAR if the match was stopped and the Swedish players protest vehemently by insisting on the assistant of the VAR.

I think that moment the player was so sure there was contact before he went down, he should have stopped the match by dramatizing it and still continue to lay on the ground even if the referee waved play on.

That could have given the Swedish players the opportunity to protest and mount pressure on the referee to use the VAR.

That was obviously a penalty and the player involved should know better and take advantage.

The second one is, players eyes must always be on the ball else we are punished the way Spain did to Morocco.

Argentina has done it to us before and they will do it again if given the opportunity.

If anybody has access to the camp, please kindly pass these messages across. Thanks

LieDetector:
is giroud a starter for France? He normally gets subbed on around 70mins. Him being in the team has absolutely nothing to do with hold up play

did you watch last match france played against peru?