Rhemmymatician:
1st this report was written by an Ebuehi fan.

2nd Ebuehi didn't say any if the rubbish in the above article.

3rd Messi didn't run Idowu ragged

4th Messi didn't score through Idowu's position, he scored through Omeruo's position (Left Central Defence)

5th Nigeria were not launching attacks at 1-1, we were counter attacking

And lastly you won't find this trash report in any credible tabloid

kjhova:


There is something called game management. It is an extensive school of thought and standard professional football clubs and football academies take considerable timeto train their playing staff on it. The Super Eagles had poor game management walahi!

83rd min on and match score was 1:1, we have our result while the Argies were chasing the game. We also had 2 subs to go. I'd take the slower striker, Ighalo, out and stick an extra DF like maybe Ogu in his place and move a faster poacher like Musa to central attack. Musa hugs the center circle in anticipation of a fast counter while everyone else wall of our 18yard.

88mins on, still 1:1, bring on an extra DF for one of your MF like maybe Mikel leaves for Abdulahi and waste some considerable time while doing that. Get a yellow in the process or something but ensure the match isn't active again until the 90th min.

90min+, still 1:1, all the players should become brittle bones and collapse upon all flimsy touches. Howl, wail, scream, cry...but plssss stay on the foickinndg floor!! We will get a yellow card or three but that game must never have been allowed to remain open as it was.

Is it the coach? Should the players have known this too and kick into the act? I really don't know. I guess Africa is still learning the finer points of the game.

Rekyz:
The coach was right with his decisions. We were a bit unlucky.

jrusky:
Pls NFF let Roar or Raw be sack simple as that. This Ebuei came for Iceland match in a matter of a minute the whole game changed but this old lazy coach sat this boy on bench all through and other few players and Argentina ran wild to pushed us out.

Pls Roar must go Nigerians are tired of lazy coach that has no sense of the game of soccer.

We have loads of good players now but lazy dull coach. Before we use to have active coach but lazy players. Or did Roar or whatever got bribed

babytoun:
There was nothing wrong with the coach's strategy in that match whatever we say now is hindsight bias .

I like Ebuehi more than idowu because of his attacking ability and recovery speed....lets not forget however that ebuehi caused the penalty against Iceland...A coach that followed the path of caution in that tense match should not be blamed .

we lost because of ighalo ighalo ighalo and nothing more ....We were not under pressure in the second half...betwen the 76th and 83rd minute we had 3 clear chances to go ahead .

Rojo's goal in the 85th minute was Argentina's first shot on target in the second half so how can someone now come and blame the coach .


a coach can strategise and only pray that your good chances don't fall to an Ighalo

Gaddafithe2nd:

If he had started Ebuehi, I swear to God Argentina will score more than 2 goals, that guy is not good defensively. The coach knows better than us. Despite not using Ebuehi we had more chances, we should blame Ighalo and Ihenacho that never utilised their chances.

hisgrace090:
Rohr seems to have suffered stage fright which make him unable to make good decisions during the tournament.

pelezico:
Yep your 100% right but i will add that this started after the Argentine friendly game. As much as I want continuity and do not want Nigeria to stuff up players like Ebuehi by leaving them in the wilderness of international football i really beleive Rorh has to go - we need change and i my suggestion would be to use Emmanuel Amuneke

lexy2014:
u right ighalo should have taken his chances but d game should have been done&dusted b4 ighalo came in.After watching how Iceland & Croatia almost ruined messi's career, what did d coach learn from that? Nothing. Playing against Argentina, he deployed tactics that gave d below average Argentine team all d room in d world 2 play, pass&shoot

Truth is that d coach has been deficient tactically & he never seemed enthusiastic about taking d team beyond d group stage from his utterances.

babytoun:
lets not make the mistake of sacking Rohr ....a coach whose second half is always better than what the opponents offer is one that really reads the game

neyobills:


Who cares whatever daddy in the sky u want to swear to,I guess u folks like to mention the word in the most petty things imaginable,all that matters here is the stats,compare the stats in the first half vs ISL to the second half and u will know he is damn defensive,the coach should have brought him in immediate after we scored the penalty if not for his pace at least to kill time,besides we obviously needed fresh legs cos fatigue was already setting in,I wouldn't blame anyone as it is what it is,but Ebeuehi would have sure made a lot if difference as well as a few other fresh legs in the last 25 mins of the match at least.

Babysho:


Yeah good call. We were able to defend without conceding a goal...oh wait!

Fear Fear Nigeria. Croatia beat Argentina 3-0. Must we defend?

Rigel95:

weak attempt at sarcasm.

Even Croatia did not go all gung'ho full attack on them. Two of their goals were from counter attacks while the third was from a goalkeeper's error.

The difference between us and Croatia is they had 3shots and scored 3 goals. we had more but scored only one.

Rhemmymatician:
1st this report was written by an Ebuehi fan.

2nd Ebuehi didn't say any if the rubbish in the above article.

3rd Messi didn't run Idowu ragged

4th Messi didn't score through Idowu's position, he scored through Omeruo's position (Left Central Defence)

5th Nigeria were not launching attacks at 1-1, we were counter attacking

And lastly you won't find this trash report in any credible tabloid

Certitude:

Thanks sir for this. I wonder how Messi ran Idowu ragged.

babytoun:

Idowu had the highest rating in our defence that day

babytoun:



Ighalo started the second half.

Technically how can an Argentine coach who could not formulate a strategy to register a single shot on target in the second half until 85th minute in a must win match be rated higher than a coach whose team needed a draw but had created 3 clear chances .


Summary of the match ...Ighalo wasted our chances ...Argentina got lucky and scored at a time when we had little time to respond ...lets not give any useless praise to sampaoli


let's not make the mistake of sacking Rohr..

babytoun:

Technically how can an Argentine coach who could not formulate a strategy to register a single shot on target in the second half until 85th minute in a must win match be rated higher than a coach whose team needed a draw but had created 3 clear chances

babytoun:


Amu. wetin?

don't even go there

DonFreshmoney:
Vex and die..

I have nothing else to say

lexy2014:
ighalo started d 2nd half but what business did messi have scoring within 15minutes, d same messi that couldn't even trap ball against Iceland & Croatia? D key was 2 take messi out d game but d coach allowed him & his team mates 2c d ball& play.

Am not absolving ighalo but d coach got it wrong right from d blast of d whistle. Again, if ur striker isn't scoring, y will u concede? Doesn't make sense.



Simply because football is about results. Sampaoli won d game so he is better, fair&square.

lexy2014:
what's wrong with amunike?

babytoun:


coach super Eagles with what coaching credential?

lexy2014:
what was rohrs coaching credential?

babytoun:


You think Messi has been world best for 5 times for nothing ? you think teams don't plan to shut him out of matches ...you think after the Iceland and Croatia match he would not have gone to do some home work...messi"s goal was omeruo's personal error for giving him space for a split second . Iceland did not register a single attempt at goal in the second half against Argentina because everybody was defending just nfroont of their 18.

Aside the goal by Messi and the free kick that the keeper paried I did not see much of Messi in that match

When you playva team like Argentina you cant deny them completely of creating chances ...what you work towards is to limit their chances and also try to create your own with the aim of being clinical in front of goal ...when you miss your chances...it does not mean I will miss mine . Rohr said before the match that our attackers must be very clinical.......no coach expects a striker to miss from 7 yards unpresaured like ighalo did

I disagree that Rohr strategy was wrong from the start of the match .....lets not allow our pain blind objectivity

Gaddafithe2nd:

If you don't believe in God that is your problem, moreover God is not my daddy. Back to the issue ,he(Ebuehi) won't do anything, I repeat it. Messi and the likes will dribble his life, the same Ebuehi that caused the penalty against Iceland. Even before Ebuehi was introduced against Iceland, the gamed had already changed, our attackers were already having an attempt on goals not like the first half that was dry. Had it been Sigurdsson had scored the penalty that Ebuehi caused with his inexperience, you won't be making this comment. We always want to look for who to blame, Argentina dominated the game, we had our own chances that would have sealed the game and fire us to the next round. I repeat Ebuehi won't do nada. Rohr has said it all, he is young he needs more experience that is what would make him a better player.