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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by goldfish80(m): 11:01am On Jul 18, 2018 |
tbaba1234:The difficulty level required to execute the task was not the same. Only very few players would have scored that goal Ighalo missed under the same circumstance , that's the bitter truth. 2 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by tbaba1234: 11:07am On Jul 18, 2018 |
goldfish80: I feel he should have scored both goals. There was enough time to take an extra touch if necessary. Anyway, water under the bridge.. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by edi287: 11:13am On Jul 18, 2018 |
BascoVanVeli:Giroud's hold up play was better than Ighalo. There's a reason Deschamps scrapped the Dembele - Griezmann - Mbappe front 3. Griezmann plays well when Giroud starts 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by edi287: 11:25am On Jul 18, 2018 |
goldfish80:To be honest, I was never really convinced by that Iheanacho - Musa pairing. I felt Ighalo would compliment either one better it was just a choice of either picking Musa's searing pace or Iheanacho's clinical finishing. What helped us at the second half against Iceland was Etebo and Musa having a stormer. Nacho wasn't that great except for his set pieces. Only way we play Nacho is with a target man or part of a fluid front 4 |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by komekn(m): 11:36am On Jul 18, 2018 |
tbaba1234: I respect your opinion because it's born from sincerity and objectivity. Awoniyi is recovering from Injury and is in training. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by komekn(m): 11:37am On Jul 18, 2018 |
BascoVanVeli: Thank you |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 11:40am On Jul 18, 2018 |
tbaba1234:Sir hope you remember Yekini miss against Italy, worst after Yakubu Yekini and Yakubu miss were cleared cut chances that required a pregnant woman to score. Do you see people criticising Yekini?NO and that miss was the saddest in Nigeria football history. As you said good to see Awoniyi and Sadiq coming up. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by elyte89: 11:40am On Jul 18, 2018 |
goldfish80: Boss 4get,in as much as u and I dizzed iheanacho for a poor outing, even though ighalo was slightly better I would still say dt ighalo shld av converted one of s two chances dt came to him, most especially d 2nd one,having said dt,let's look for another top 9 dt will slug it out with ighalo ![]() |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by BascoVanVeli(m): 11:41am On Jul 18, 2018 |
edi287: Name one ball that Giroud brought down on his chest and passed to his player? Dembele is not a striker so that was just an experiment. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 11:43am On Jul 18, 2018 |
edi287:edi baba Giroud play tire me for WC o. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by komekn(m): 11:44am On Jul 18, 2018 |
BascoVanVeli: Every new season will see new players in coming and behind that quest is a belief they don't have those players in the squad. Depending on who they bring will reflect whether he Osimhen will get any chances. As for now he is simply a youth academy player. Wolfsburg have been flirting with relegation for the past two seasons, and always just making it on the last hurdle. That means this season they have to invest heavily or be relegated. Relegation could be a good thing for Osimhen as he may get more opportunities. Otherwise he really needs to get a loan move, he is approaching 20 and is still stuck in youth football. That's not progression. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by BascoVanVeli(m): 11:44am On Jul 18, 2018 |
elyte89: As for the second not so talked about chance Ighalo should have squared to Ndidi because he was in a very tough angle and the keeper made himself big. I personally was more angry at that one because he was selfish. 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by forgiveness: 11:45am On Jul 18, 2018 |
edi287: Hahahahahaha! He had better behave himself. By now, I expect him to call those foreign born players. Most especially, Midhat Bajric, Keanan Bennetts and Deji Beyreuther who have all openly indicated to play for Nigeria U20 and SE. While at that, he should also consider players that won the last U17. I think only Kingsley Michael and Samuel Chukweze are eligible to play for Nigeria U20 because they were born in 1999. I hope Shawn Adewoye and Adam Idah are considered. 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by AIG07: 11:46am On Jul 18, 2018 |
edi287:I don't know what would have happened had Rohr started Musa and Iwobi together against Argentina? |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by komekn(m): 11:46am On Jul 18, 2018 |
elyte89: Apart from Obagoal. We actually don't have a proven tested top quality forward player to play that role currently. We even had Osimhen invited to the SE that shows our lack of options. So who do we have ![]() 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 11:47am On Jul 18, 2018 |
elyte89:Thank you.I will never blame Ighalo for first miss cos it's 50/50 but the second miss he messed up and should have done better. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by komekn(m): 11:49am On Jul 18, 2018 |
edi287: That's an assumption in bold proven to be not true. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by ChrisKels: 11:52am On Jul 18, 2018 |
forgiveness: Can you show us where Bennets openly declared to rep Nigeria abi u dun start again? ![]() 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by AIG07: 11:53am On Jul 18, 2018 |
forgiveness:We have quality u-20 players we can make use of. I hope we qualify for the world cup and Aigbogun doesn't pull a Nigerian coach on us. Samuel Chukweze, Kingsley Michael, Orji should be notable additions from the last u-17 set. Added to them are the guys in Europe and the local lads here who are genuinely u-20s. Then we should be fine. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by AIG07: 11:56am On Jul 18, 2018 |
komekn:sometimes I FEEL Osimhen would have performed better than both Ighalo and Iheanacho at the World Cup. How these two became passengers, I'm still finding hard to understand. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 11:58am On Jul 18, 2018 |
AIG07:Yes you are right but Iwobi inconsistency is just the issue Solid Iwobi would wreck any team but inconsistent Iwobi is an eye sore to watch. 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by wayodude(m): 12:00pm On Jul 18, 2018 |
edi287: Something similar also happened a few years ago with Nigeria. When we played Ideye and Emenike together they were unstoppable! But people complained about Ideye's lack of goals. The resulting pressure from the fans and media I believe led to Keshi dropping Ideye, and subsequently Emenike's goals dried up. AND NO ONE SAW THE LINK between Ideye's absence and Emenike's goal drought so we the knowledgeable fans proceeded to hound Emenike until he quit the team. We single handedly destroyed our AFCON winning strike force. Clever aren't we? 2 Likes |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by elyte89: 12:00pm On Jul 18, 2018 |
Kog45: Dt 1st chance is well missed by proven strikers,most strikers miss such I av only seen two strikers scoring such ,messi he scores dt very well And surprisingly iheanacho too, I av seen him score in such a tight angle once b4,I don't knw if he can replicate such again sha ![]() |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 12:04pm On Jul 18, 2018 |
AIG07:I disagreed cos i watched him wella last season with Wolfsburg in few minutes appearances he made still a learner. Hope to see Osimehn making the team regularly this season. Let see how Awoniyi, Sadiq Umar,Olarewaju and him fare this coming season. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 12:10pm On Jul 18, 2018 |
elyte89:Yes Iheanacho would have scored it but the issue is that Iheanacho would not have got those chances cos Ighalo worked for it. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by edi287: 12:10pm On Jul 18, 2018 |
BascoVanVeli:Actually it was Grez that played as a 9. Go watch the game against Belgium again and see why Giroud is important. Did a lot of work off the ball. Something Ighalo did not offer at the WC enough |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by edi287: 12:12pm On Jul 18, 2018 |
komekn:Iheanacho is the best finisher we have. Unfortunately that seems to be the only thing he offers presently. His goals for Leicester shows this |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by edi287: 12:13pm On Jul 18, 2018 |
AIG07:We'll never know. It probably would've worked out. Plus Iwobi is better on the ball than Nacho and would've relished playing central |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Kog45(m): 12:14pm On Jul 18, 2018 |
wayodude:God bless you Sir.Pls go and watch Zambia/Nigeria in Ndola and see Ideye and Iheanacho combinations but really surprised to see Ideye shut out of national team. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by edi287: 12:15pm On Jul 18, 2018 |
Kog45:Loool yeah I'm surprised he didn't score at all. Though he didn't have Thomas Lemar and Dembele to put in crosses for him. It was all about Griezmann and Mbappe. Nothing eye catching for him 1 Like |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by edi287: 12:20pm On Jul 18, 2018 |
wayodude:I agree. Ideye was a very important player for us and it was unfortunate he got dropped. I'm a fan of Ighalo when he's on form. He's mobile, skillful and has great off the ball movement. To be honest, he's never been much of a target man. At Watford, Deeney was the target man. Fact is he just didn't do well at the WC and the friendlies. The second chance he missed was simply inexcusable especially for a guy like him. Everyone misses once in a while but that was just crazy. |
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2023, 2025 And 2026 World Cup by edi287: 12:22pm On Jul 18, 2018 |
Kog45:Ideye is a better target man than Ighalo. Infact both can play together. |
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