Taiwo Awoniyi got the only goal as Union Berlin pipped FC Cologne 1-0 in the German Bundesliga game on Friday night.
Awoniyi has now scored 12 goals in 25 appearances for Union Berlin in the German topflight.
It was the 24-year-old’s third goal in his last six games in all competitions.
He netted in the 49th minute to help Union Berlin secure the three points and end a run of three straight games without a win (two defeats, one draw).
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The Nigerian international was then replaced with two minutes left to play.
Also in action was Kingsley Ehizibue who went off before the start of the second half.
The win took Union Berlin above Cologne to seventh place on 41 points and are three points away from sixth place, which is the European Conference League qualification spot.
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They will never call you because of sentiments. Grate game. Which you paired with victor against Ghana i know you would have scored
Taiwo Awoniyi… This guy is even stronger than Osimhen and uses both feet better. It was the bias and nepotism with politics riddled in the team selection that caused Nigeria to fail… Ighalo jumping back with the help of Rohr. It was always one step forward… five steps backward. The whole confusion started with Rohr in charge and we keep asking for Victor Moses to be recalled instead. I have said it for long that I don’t fancy players like Moses Simon(even though we are tribesmen) and likewise Samuep Kalu, I also never rated Iheanacho much and even Chukwueze because having played football myself… I know one-legged players can be very useless often in the pitch. Imagine if a hustler like Olayinka had started on the left in place of Moses Simon, or even Anthony Nwakaeme with his mature game and physique… the fact those guys were sidelined showed had we qualified, they will never had made the Qatar cut as we had people and returnee-retirees than wanted to go and use world cup to shine and collect one last jumbo contract(Musa, Ighalo). There is even a young lad with Olayinka at Slavia Prague… Sor doing well. We had the players to have made a joke of Ghana but for a fraud like Eguaveon we will always fail… how can Sadiq be making a team that Awoniyi couldn’t make considering where they’re playing? Imagine pairing Awoniyi and Osimhen in a 2-prong attack in a 3-5-2 system. I lamented for long that we need to be fair to give other deserving players chance… Obinna Nwobodo will have made a joke of Partey in the absence of Ndidi… Same Partey that we all knew was their most dangerous midfield lynchpin was the one who lost Onyeka and put a knife in our hearts… Certain players were just too close to pinnick and couldn’t be touched… We did not qualify for Qatar because our administrators are nepotic and always relegate merit… Moses Simon has no end product but he continued in the team for 6years as a starter… Nwakaeme and Olayinka are far better than him on that left flank if we need to talk efficiency. Na God catch us with bias and favoritism… Arab contractor and Gold Teeth should come and go to Qatar let’s see… Oldmen wey know Sabi say their time don pass. Under pinnick we had Amapakabo managing U-23, CHAN and Super Eagles… just one man o… failing in all his assignments. Aigbogun is even the worst of them… bribe taker! I am so happy that pinnick won’t get his hands on FIFA largesse this time…
We have started again so soon. Stronger than Osimhen? Is he not the one who played at afcon 2022? He is a good player no doubt but let us stop hyping these players.
Osimhen is wasteful and has no skill. Just run and muscle his way always and hastily shoot… I don’t think Awoniyi is inferior to Osimhen. But we could have had them both on the pitch… We have not been finding it easy to score even when Rohr was still in charge. Awoniyi did well in AFCON. You have to realize we have a poor midfield… these games have exposed the likes of Aribo… dude is not a midfielder of Nigeria’s usual quality…
You have summed it up very well. I concur that the combo of Victor and awoniyi would have given us the needed goals required. Victor was just being punished because he didn’t have the necessary support he could have gotten. Well why cry over spilled milk. Its over and we move on. And less i forget all this call for you must be playing in the top 5 league should be scrapped
@JimmyBall, I understand your frustration about Nigeria not going to the world cup. However, there are some things I will like to point out concerning your post.
Nigeria failed to qualify for the world cup because of the tactical incompetence of Eguavoen. Eguavoen is a one dimensional coach who can’t change his pattern of play. He is only interested in using one dimensional players (Simon and Chukwueze). Eguavoen played 4-2-4 in the nations cup and didn’t take us anywhere! He went to Ghana and played the same 4-2-4 with no result. He only decided to play 4-3-3 because Nigerians clamored for him to use more midfielders in his team. However, in the match against Ghana in Abuja, Eguavoen reverted back to 4-2-4 in the second half of that match and eventually threw caution to the winds, playing 4-1-5 (this showed the extent of cluelessness and chaos going on in his mind) at the latter stage of the game.
By playing that ineffective pattern of 4-2-4 or make shift 4-3-3, Eguavoen only succeeded in punishing Osimhen for 180 minutes. Nigeria needed a minimum of 4 midfielders in the match against Ghana (seeing that Ghana was using 5 midfielders and hoping to catch Nigeria on the break with a counter attack) and another striker upfront to support Osimhen and divert attention away from him. With this formation, Nigeria could possibly have scored more than one goal. not conceded any goal, or end up playing extra time and penalties. But Eguavoen thought otherwise!
In terms of current form and with respect to the strikers we have at our disposal at this time, the pecking order is as follows: the 1st is Osimhen, 2nd Awoniyi, and other strikers take the remaining positions. I will not put Sodiq or Onwuachu in the 3rd position because their physique or built does not suit super eagles style of play. We’ve all seen this in the games that Sodiq and Onwuachu have played for Nigeria.
I continued to mention that it is suicidal to play 2 midfielders in modern day football especially when you have midfielders who are not dynamic or versatile. A coach can’t just do this because it is a recipe for disaster. But that is what Eguavoen ended up doing even when past events showed to him that he will be digging his own grave if he adopted a 2 midfield personnel against Ghana. Even as a mere football fan, I could deduce that Ghana will play a 5-man midfield both in Kumasi and here in Nigeria. But especially here in Nigeria. So, it beats my imagination for Eguavoen to be unable to decipher this.
The super eagles currently lack a ball carrier. The only semblance to a ball carrier that the coaches have managed to call to the national team are Amoo and Nwakali. But the coaches don’t even believe in these players. I did not mention Iwobi because ever since Victor Moses left the national team he has been unable to establish himself in that role. In fact he has been inconsistent both at the national team and at his club. All the midfielders we have are ball winners who don’t do anything meaningful with the ball in terms of forward play. Even Wilfred Ndidi is only a ball winner and he doesn’t do much in terms of attacking play in the super eagles. He is not in the mould of Oliseh or even late Muda Lawal (when last did Ndidi hit a shot on target or even score a goal for Nigeria!)
So, the next super eagles coach must know how to maximize the players at his disposal and play to their strength. But more importantly, he must get us a reliable goalkeeper and ball carrier in the midfield.
@josh… Perfect analyses. Austin Eguaveon… We wanted a Nigeria coach that shares same passion as the citizens. Ndubuisi Egbo was there… One Nigerian British… Eddy Newton who coached Trabzonspor recently was also there. Even Mike Emenalo or Seyi Olfinjana. Senegal has been plating 3-5-2 and 4-3-3 for long. If you want goals, that is the system that can best guarantee you goals. How did pinnick even come back a choice of Eguaveon when they ask Rohr to leave?
Here is a guy that ticks all the boxes of modern day forward/striker. Within two years of joining a top 5 league clubside he holds his club highest transfer fee record and highest goal scorer in the club history.
Scored 1 goal and had 1 assist in his first 3 starts for Eagles but because he refused to be their ATM they dropped him for retiree league player and a division 2 striker.
His hustling and unrelenting threat would have opened up spaces for Osi9.
Eguafon’s recalled of the Sunday-Sunday footballer flopped Igahalo goes beyond tribal sentiment, rather it is the combination carrot and stick ( Amaju for tribal sentiment and bribe ) , and as for Eguafon and Rohr what could you have expected Oga Rohr to do with the accumulated of unpaid salaries other than succumb to an unmerited retired player that has enough Dollars to rescue his coach ?)
If Rohr could not resist Igahalo’s Sunday-Sunday Saudi Arabia Oil Money; how could you have imagined Eguafon that did not have contract paper signed by NFF let alone being paid just 20% of Rohr’s Salary to now resist Igahalo’s financial support ( if Eguafon had insisted one , he would suffer of no money , and if they had qualified Fraud-Pinick would go and do arrangeee with another Gabon- Niger rejected version of Rohr and demote Eguafon) .
I can’t imagine any defence that could have withstand the physicality of combo of Osimeh -Osigoal & Taiwo Awoniyi; and with inclusion of Dessers and the wonder kid Amoo that was never used ( please go and watch video recording of Udeze analysis on Brilla Sports ⚽️ with Larry on the wasted Amoo on the bench while the Supper flopped Igahalo was thrusted into high tempo match ) .
What a nation of a cursed administrators and few of unpatriotic selfish player
It is now our turn to plead with unpatriotic selfish Sunday-Sunday Football player Igahalo not to announce his second retirement until he qualified SE to the next WC
Maximum respect for the smarter Victor Mosses for not canceling his retirement even though he merited it but for principle because he knew they had wanted to use him to legitimate Igahalo’s fraudulent inclusion.
Only God can save our football; Amaju is here to use corruption and tribalism to kill and bury our football completely
@DeStar… to be honest, when Eguaveon put out his list and it still did not have Dessers, Obinna Nwobodo and a creative player in the absence of Iwobi, and then went on to load the team with more than necessary wingers and strikers… I just asked what is going on in the mind of this man Eguaveon? Can’t Ejaria do the job since Eze and Olise refused us? There is even James Igbekeme in Real Zaragoza… A whole load of hype and arrogance with how our players are scattered all over the European leagues made us forget forget was all tactics and a team game… That first leg in Kumasi was where we ought to have gone to pick our ticket from…
It might yet be the time for strikers like Taiwo Awoniyi to shine.
Despite the disappointment of missing out at the 2022 World Cup, this generation of Super Eagles strikers nonetheless have meaty encounters to look forward to imminently.
First is the 2023 Afcon qualifiers that has already started and will run until September this year. Then we have a number of high profile friendlies leading up to the Afcon itself in July next year in Ivory Coast. And then shortly after, the preliminary rounds of the 2026 world cup qualifiers will commence.
Nigeria is currently a wounded animal. But wounds do heal. We missed 2 afcons consecutively only to bounce back stronger with the 2018 world cup participation (against all odds) and 3rd place in the 2019 Afcon.
This 2022 world cup hiatus represents an unfortunate dip. It will now be up to the likes of Taiwo Awoniyi to help claw Nigeria out of this transient quagmire.
It will be truly fascinating to see what the new improved Super Eagles strike force will look like once Nigeria’s Afcon qualifiers resumes in a few months time. Which coach will the NFF engage and what philosophy will he introduced.
Eguavoen tried to re-introduce vintage 4-4-2 formation with emphasis on wing play and a mixture of high and low balls with catastrophic effect.
Iheanacho and Awoniyi combo wasn’t entirely memorable and Iheanacho’s combo with Osihmen against Ghana yeiled no fruits. Sadiq Umar never really came to his own.
Rohr’s 3-5-2 was not universally popular, though I liked it, but his 4-2-3-1 found fame and success more so in his early days.
Ighalo was the focal point and he found fame, fortune and infamy in equal measures.
Taiwo Awoniyi sped with purpose from the left before cutting in on his right to dislodge a decent low shot that the keeper gathered. Before that, he had intercepted a wretched excuse of a back pass before caressing home deep inside the 18 yard box for his 17th goal for Union Berlin this season which is a club record.
Such performances consistently should make him a target of any future coach aiming to revive the fortunes of the Super Eagles. The prospects are there, they just need to be harnessed properly.
Keshi often adopted for 4-3-3 with Brown Ideye, Ike Uche and Victor Moses up front against Burkina Faso for example. By far Emenike was a runaway success with memorable support from Ideye, Musa, Victor Moses and Odewingie.
Thinking ahead of what the new look Super Eagles strike force will look like for this year’s Afcon qualifiers (and beyond) is an interesting exercise. But, as noted, it will depend on the coach engaged.
Who knows, it might even be Paul Onuachu’s time to shine. Coaches like Harry Redknapp, Bernd Storck, Sam Allardyce, Tony Pulis or Rafa Bernitez will definitely court and get the best out of a player like Onuachu with their route one options. In fact, under this breed of coaches, Onuachu will always be the first name on the list and could even start some matches ahead of some more familiar names.
The fact of the matter is that the tools are there, whatever the style of future coach employes, so long as the tactical sagacity is there to make the strikers interpret his methods in a manner that will navigate the Super Eagles back to greatness.
I agree with what you have said but regardless of whoever is appointed as the coach of the super eagles, if we don’t have players who can supply the balls, Awoniyi and Osimhen will just be frustrated journeymen upfront for the super eagles.
If there were no Amunike, Finidi, Amokachi, siasia, or even Oliseh, Yekini would just have also been a frustrated player upfront for Nigeria just as these current players around Osimhen have frustrated him. We need team players and not glory seekers in the super eagles! Unfortunately, Moses Simon is a glory seeker (with his zero result oriented dribblings) and Aribo, Etebo, Ndidi, Onyeka are ball winners who are not proven ball carriers or playmakers. This is the problem of this current super eagles and until it is resolved, the team will continue to find it difficult to win matches.
Love your honest reply. Even some of the ex players are condemning the lackluster behavior of the players. This is the more reason am trying to absorb the coaches. Some are the players are not super eagles material.
In as much as I love your pin point analyses both now and the previous rejoinder to JIMMYBALL, I wish to digress on BALL CARRIERS!
It’s still down to EGUAVOEN’s cluelessness and confused head that we found ourselves writing about that.
Everyone knows that AMOO is a ball carrier in the mould of MESSI, GREALISH, MOUNT, SANCHO, etc; players who can run at people with the ball.
ETEBO is also a proven BALL CARRIER or BOX to BOX midfielder! I was shocked seeing EGUAVOEN deployed him as his Defensive Midfielder in that game whilst playing ONYEKA (not taking away his endeavors in that role) as the CM. ETEBO was the reason why our transitions in 2018 WC were seamless. He was rated the top dribbler in that competition. (He completed the most take one at some point at that mundial). But against GHANA, I saw him sat deep while ARIBO who on PAPER (emphasis mine) was the no 10 or attacking midfielder actually played as a Support Striker to OSIMHEN.
There was no one linking defense and attack. For me it was done to confused coaching.
Recall how GHANA was running rings round us in midfield. By the time SHEHU came in and ETEBO played as the CM…we could see him carry the ball forward on occasions but because of fitness issues (just playing his first 90 mins in ages) he tired out.
A good coach would have brought on AMOO in place of DENNIS and ZAIDU in place of another tired and jaded BASSEY.
AMOO would have ran at that GHANA backline and who knows…SE rather BS would have been the team paired with PORTUGAL today!
You can’t give what you don’t have. We didn’t lose on both legs against Ghana. The players can not be at fault for not losing a two legged tie only on away goals rule. Ghana switched to 3 at center back in the second half and load up the midfield with 5 players. What was the response of the clueless coach?? He brought in Shehu for Onyeka instead of bringing in Iheanacho and move Aribo back to his usual position for the SuperEagles as he wasn’t offering anything attacking wise. How can you leave Kelechi on the bench for 90 minutes when we needed to score??
Ghana realized that their AFCON was a failure they fired their technical crew and replace them with seasoned coaches who have horned their skills at the highest level. Nigeria crashed out in the round of 16 which was a monumental failure, but we didn’t see it as a failure instead kept the consortium of failed coaches for an important WorldCup playoffs.
The results is what we’re licking our wounds for right now. I wish Ghana and the rest of the African representatives good luck at the Mundial. We are where we belong at the moment. The next U17, U20 and U23 team will be very critical to us riding again.
There’s need to say goodbye to some players as they’ve paid there dues and should allow others to show their potentials. We lost not because of the players but because we have a consortium of failed local coaches who are clueless and couldn’t read games to know what’s next to do in critical times.
When Keshi took over from Siasia he dropped some players and brought his own kind of players to fortify the team. He didn’t rely entirely on the team he inherited from Siasia which sets the tone for his earlier success until it gets to his head eventually and he lost his way.
Why can’t Eguavoen bring in his own kind of players?? Why must he rely on the players used by Rohr??? When you call Amoo why can’t you use him?? He thought he was going to reap where he didn’t sow. Lmao!! Playing table soccer all over the place thinking he has a team reminiscent of the 94 squad. Lmao!!! Rohr already know our limitations that’s why he adopted a 3 man center back policy to block shooting lanes from the oppositions. Mr Nonsense thought he had a fantasy team. Lmao!!
The front three of Ghana Afena Gyan, Ishahaku and Kudus are 18, 19 and 21 Jordan Ayew is the only experienced player upfront. Instead of or two changes you made 5 changes from a team that battled for a draw in Kumasi. Who does that?? Why bow to pressure from online bloggers academies who are only their to gossip about the players and can’t really contribute anything?? I know we will never learn because we can still be talking about this same issue in 2025.
If we find ourself in another WorldCup group with Ghana in the next installment of WorldCup qualifiers we should carry a whole SuperEagles give consortium of failed local coaches. Lmao!! Ghana will be heading to the USA Canada and Mexico while we’ll sulk our thumbs at home again. Lmao!!
Wooow, now the coaches are clueless, who couldn’t read the game, who benches Ihenacho for 90 minutes. Maybe you can honestly answer this questions. In kumasi, Ihenacho last 90 mins, did we get a goal? was that the coaches fault also. Moses Simon had a golden chance to score, was that the coaches fault also. bring bonke to replace Ndidi, what exactly did he do to impact the game. Now coming to Abuja, the coach decided to approach the game with an all attack approach, Etebo who was match rusty couldn’t command the midfield. All the noise about bring Dennis he is good for our attack, all he did was just dance. Was that the coaches fault. So onyeka and bonke out of the match, the coach decided to bring in a defender to keep the Ghanaians from attacking and occupying space, that one also let us down. Bro the bottom line is theis players didn’t come out to play simple. The coach would not pause the game to tell them how to score . So please stop absolving the players for there clear mistakes. Some players are not super eagles material simple
I know u don’t have a brain, I am never disappointed in u.
Oga, na you no get brain. How many chances did we have? How many chances were fluffed by Osimhen? We were superior both home and away to Ghana. Blame it on luck either way. Moses fluffed a glorious chance. Osimhen kept shooting left, right and centre when he could have calmed down to shoot. Everyone is to blame. As it stands, I won’t attribute all the blame to Eguafon
Okponu….! You are now Adeyemi today…..LMAOoo…from shina yesterday…..LMAOOoo. Keep it up…LMAooo
You wont attribute all the blame to Egauvoen……Ngwa attribute it all to Rohr na….that is what you and your masters have been doing since Tuesday
Omo-ale, did I ask you to respond. I don’t know which Adeyemi you have beef with. Idiotic fool, do you see anything about Rohr in my assertion? Olodo!!!!!!!!!
Rohr has come and he has gone. We have a new coach in Eguafon and he is responsible for whatever results and not his predecessor. All I said, our players were wasteful in goals. So shush your mouth and crawl back to wherever you are from. Fool!!!
Hahahaha…omo irankiran…omo alawoku. Did I ask you too to respond…? Filthy multifaced liar….LMAOooo. Multiple names but one and the same senselessness….Abirun omo lasan lasan….LMAOoooo
Did you just say we have a new coach in Egauvoen…??? LMAOooo. Ode.
You must still be living in your fool’s paradise. LMAOoo. Ignorant fool….Let me clear your ignorance as usual with this breaking news to a low life like you…..Eguavboen and his 9 mechanic apprentice failure have been booted out after just 3 months. Eguaoven is past tense and will never have a say or return to any coaching position in Nigerian football again. Eguavoen is history….!!! LMAOOoo.
You dont need to mention Rohr in your senseless assertions before we all know you are making reference to him….LMAOoo…ever since tuesday when you have been vomiting the remain part of your jaundiced brain, you have been blaming everyone else except your Eguafon for this disaster….LMAOooo
Awon oloriburuku ti olorun o ni s’anfani fun
Do I need to stoop so low with a cretin and discrepant person like yourself? Anyway, I do apologize for calling your names. However, you started it without even knowing me. As you rightly know, Adeyemi is a common name in Yoruba. So, how do you assume is the same person? Only if you can look at the writing or give me a new name to use and you will know whenever I comment which I did sporadically. I still dont understand. Yes, they were all booted and rightfully, they should be booted as they didn’t achieve their mandates. However, do you honestly believe Eguavoen is all to be blamed? We all blame Buhari but is he the only corrupt person? Average Nigerians are corrupt and greedy. Players and coaches are meant to be blamed. No one is exonerating Eguavoen and blaming Rohr.
Idiots, multiple handle user. Which chance did u created for Oshiemen that he flooped? Olodo, so the blame should not go to Eguavon now, but to the players, werey, who do you blame when we loose to CAR at home? Is that not the match you and your cohort including agbaya Segun Odegbami used as headline in ousting Rohr? It’s karma of old that has patient, the one of now is very impatient he acts quickly. It’s not up to 3months,u have bought down the job of 6yrs. No wonder oyinbo people says its easy to destroy but very very difficult to build. Maybe NFF should appoint Odegbami, so that he can build with his yeye policy to rebuild SE. Nonsense people everywhere.
My brother let me tell you the simple truth that game was won and lost on the middle. Eguavouen failed simple ROHR that I know can’t lose home and away
Lmao!! We have 3 players from Rangers in our starting 11 6 players from the premier league and they’re not SuperEagles material? Lmao!! If they’re not SuperEagles material why did your Egudiola not discard them?? Why invite them?? Why didn’t he stick with the tried and trusted home based team that played against Mexico?? Lmao!!
Anyway they’ve been booted out the way they came. It’s good to flush a 6 years work in the toilet within 3 months Lmao!! It’s only a clueless coach that will last 3 months in a job. Lmao!!
@Ayphillydegreat i know many will not like to hear this.but u have said it all.that is why some of us don’t comment here again because some people don’t like the truth.what is the business of Rohr in super eagles not going to Mundial but some fools are still calling the old man’s name about their failures
And there opponent that had only one player from the premiership and still went toe to toe with your so called Super Premier Eagles. Yes if i was Eguavoen i would have scrapped some of them off the team. But yet the online coaches will come up with excuses has usual, why wasn’t this called up or that called up. Please stop bringing up the match against Mexico, was it his fault that the foreign players opted to stay back and he hurriedly had to assemble a team. Last last we are out. Will not be shocked if some players sabotaged the game. For me i would have gone with the back line of Omeruo and Balogun. Invited Nwobodo in the midfield with amoo. Abeg leave all this where players end up playing. It doesn’t count
Why won’t the players sabotage the match Lmao!! Of course they will sabotage the playoffs for a WorldCup because they know they have a consortium of clueless coaches to work with. Lmao!!
Continue to rejoice in your Round of 16 failure and your WorldCup playoffs failure with your failed local coaches because the players sabotage the team. Lmao!!
What’s there to rejoice about, it just exposed a wasted 6 years by the clueless white coach, who according to them qualifies us with games to spare and at the End of the day come back with nothing to show for it. Can the NFF ever give a local coach to go further despite not winning, no. Why not let the local coaches re-strategize. But no some online coaches will not accept. will advise you go read odegbami’s piece to who to apportion the blame.
Or rather keep his 6 years reign(even though it was 5) out of your mouth..
Try to be more trendy in your conversation..
*PURPOSELESS*
@Kenneth, the next time you mention Rohr’s 5.5 years as wasted I will definitely know that you are a complete MORON who only have sawdust in your brain and no grey/white matter at all.
Haba, what is your problem, is it not enough that you and your likes brought doom into our flourishing football in the hands of Rohr and destroyed the white man’s hardwork over the years but you still have the audacity to open your dirty halitosis mouth and call Rohr clueless, so what will you call “your own” consortium of failed coaches?
Our so called clueless coach were rubbing hands with the likes of Argentina, Croatia, England, Algeria, Cameroon, Egypt but “your own” were no where to be found anywhere close to Podium standings. A R16 exit and a WC no show is all your own could give us. Yet you still maintain the NFF should continue with local coaches to re-strategize. No be person wey get strategy fit re-strategize? Did you see any re-strategizing at all after AFCON failure? Na same story all over.
May THUNDER FIRE YOU if I hear PIM from you again on Rohr!!!
Don’t mind that KENNETH just looking for RELEVANCE..
That was how one OLODO here said he blamed PINICK and ROAH for filling the squad with half breed players all because BALOGUN showed SPORTSMANSHIP by congratulating the ghanian players in their dressing room…
And I was like WTF..so BALOGUN for carry knife go dey stab stab dem all in the name of RIVALRY??
na him be the coach wey make the tactical blunder that cost us the match??
SMH…
Some people no just get anything to talk but go wan just talk…
Hahaha! Dr Banks don’t mind that one soon he will reply you with Ade or Kingsley. He’s been found out here long time ago. Sometimes he use Nosa or Sean or Derrick. We know him here. I’m just playing with his brain. The players didn’t sabotage the match when we lost against CAR at home?? Lmao!! The entire blame was on Rohr by this dude when we lost at home against CAR. but the players sabotage the match when we draw at home in a playoff qualifier to go to the WorldCup. Lmao!! The clueless Rohr at least in his 6 years qualified for the WorldCup after back to back AFCONS qualifiers failures and got to the semis in the AFCON.
We should re-strategize with failures that should never get anywhere close to the SuperEagles in the next decades to come. Lmao! Since we’ve been qualifying for the WorldCup in 1994 the two times we’ve missed the WorldCup was with clueless local coaches. I guess we deserve where we are.
Kenneth, I’m not a big fan of iheanacho but I think AY, is right on this one, we need goals why bringing in Shehu, the Yeye clueless benched iheanacho and Amoo throughput the match in Abuja.And for the records I would say it again Awoniyi is the biggest treat to African defenders, but nepotism, sentiments and tribalism will cloud their reasoning they won’t see it.
I feel sorry for us. All these average players that have refused to improve much after their juvenile career is being praised to high heaven again. Nigeria we no dey learn this is exactly why we are turning round table. Truth be told we need a new management to come set up something concrete and not with all the feather weight players that has no zeal and loyalty.
Hahahahaha Ayphilly…. Ma da okponu were alaso loun. A company that was fledging and making profit steadily for 6 years was taken over by a new management and within 3 months became insolvent…..and illiterates open their mouth to blame the management that was sacked for making it profitable for 6 straight years……LMAOooo. Common Sense is indeed not common.
Awon opuro oshi
These were the same bunch of rogues who lied to NFF that Rohr was only succeeding because of the individual talents he has which Nigeria has not had since 1994…..LMAOoo….Their own failed local coaches came and took over the exact same individual talents we’ve never had since 1994 and gave us our worst spell since 1982 with cataclysmic failure back-to-back within 3 months…..LMAOooo
That didinrin is saying the coaches are not to blame but the players….LMAOOoo…please help us ask him whom he and his useless bunch blamed and conjured all sorts of lies against during Rohr’s era before the man got sacked…..LMAOOOO.
Under Rohr who was meeting ALL targets given to him Rohr was always to blame….infact all the matches we won used to be won by the individual abilities of the players…it was only the matches we lost that were as a result of Rohr’s inputs….LMAOooo. Now under their failed owns, it is not the fault of the coaches anymore….It is the fault of the players….LMAOoo.
They lied to the NFF that Rohr had no tactical input into the team only for the players to come out confessing that he indeed used to give them strict instructions on how to go about their play and that it was their own that was just pouring them on the pitch to do whatever comes to their brains. Our CFs were always among topscorers all the time because there was always a calculated game plan to get the ball to their feet to score……but under african guadiolas, even Serie A and Bundesliga strikers were struggling to score.
Pair Awoniyi and Rashidi Yekini in our attack, under these useless bunch of coaches we still wouldnt have a clear shot at goal, because their only game play was for our wingers to express themselves and then we’ll wait for what happens afterwards….LMAOooo….wingers who cannot float an accurate cross even at gun point….LMAOOoo
Immediately the 2nd half started…Ghana made 3…YES 3 changes. THREE TACTICAL changes. It wasnt that any of their players were injured in the first half…but because thay had coaches who have brains on their bench…coaches who didnt get the job simply because they are exinternationals with 100 caps……LMAOOOoo….coaches who werent jobless and were didnt get pitied by the GFA to be given national team as a form of rehabilitation…..coaches who are busy at the highest level….they knew it was a good time to approache the game in a more pragmatic way.
After playing 4-3-3 in the 1st half and getting the goal they wanted….immediately the 2nd half started they, took off 2 wide forwards, Jordan Ayew and Fatua Ishaku and switched to 3-6-1 with 1 wing back and 1 midfielder doubling up on both of our wingers on each flank, because they knew all they needed to do was clip our wings the same way Tunisia B coach and 2 string team clipped our wings to get us booted out of AFCON, and we became useless for the entire 2nd half…..LMAoooo. They knew we have a 1 dimensional coach whose only tactics which he knows in football in all his failed coaching career is a 4-2-4……LMAOOoo. Just outnumber them in the middle and clip them on the wings and that’s all……LMAOOO
Now that is a team that has a TECHNICAL CREW…..LMAOoo. Not the mechanic workshop apprentices who are only good for running errands to go and buy bread and beans that we had on our own bench…..LMAOooo.
Instead of their failed owns to switch tactics when things were not working they continued with their table soccer and even started removing the most productive players on the pitch….it was 10 minutes to go the dumb heads remembered they had experienced big-game minded players like Ighalo and Ahmed Musa on the bench and then switched to a bizzare 5-0-5 formation with nobody in the midfield….LMAOOooo.
Eguavoen should only be booted out of the SE, He should also be booted out of the Technical Director Job he’s holding at the moment. Imagine Eguavoen training other local coaches in Nigeria…..LMAOoo. I swear to god, we will NEVER qualify ofr anything again….LMAOOoo….wether at club level, youth teams level or Senior national team level….LMAOOO.
They said Rohr was making late substitutions…..LMAOooo…at least we wasnt making the wrong subs…..their owns will make 5 substitutions before the 70th minute leaving the worst performing players on the pitch….LMAOooo. They said Rohr was killing the moral of his players before games…..but we were flying past every assignment sucessfully……LMAOOo…they brought in failed coaches who gave all the moral and freedom Mandela fought for to the boys and we couldnt even rach the q/finals of AFCON and crashed out of the WCQ playoffs Rohr suffered all sort of sabotage and punishment to get us to, with these same players that they are saying all sorts of rubbish against now.
They should discard all of them and start using their homebase players and their Junior Ajayi in Libyan league henceforth…..LMAOoooo
Just in November last year….”We have so many quality players we”ve never had since 1994″…..LMAO. “Even the 2006 squad that had the likes of Enyeama, Yobo, Mikel, Taye Taiwo, Kanu, Okocha, Oruna, Martins were as LESS TALENTED team”……LMAOOoo.
Their failed coaches took over the same team and turned it into a disaster. And they still dont have enough shame in their lives but to bring Rohr into their current failure…..LMAOOooo
Sometimes some people talk through their anous. Awoniyi is better than Victor. But we should realized that we had no midfielders that would feed Awoniyi but remember in Afcon we had Inidi and Iwobi but in wcq the both were absent. Awoniyi started 3 games in Afcon and score only one goal, will Victor not achieve more? If you were Victor, what would you have done in this wcq when even here on csn, you were told that they will cage Victor and they did cage him. Someone said Victor has no skills, when you have 3 defenders against one striker, do you expect miracle? Assuming as they focus on Victor, your wingers were efficient, the story would have been different. For those of you that were clamoring for Dennis, I hope you are happy after he scored 10goals to qualify Nigeria?
For those who said Rhor was not good, how do you conclude on a man who has not fail in his assignment, the contract was, qualify us for Afcon which he did. Qualify us for WC, Nigeria was not eliminated and people started asking for his head. We wanted a pattern of play and now we have gotten it. Pattern don’t win match. U play according to the opponent you are about to face. What you sow you will rip.
Hahahahaha…Dennis the menace…..LMAOO…They way some people killed Rohr just because of Dennis ehn, you will think he too was better than Dessers, Onuachu and Iheanacho put together……LMAOOoo….and that we werent winning matches by 3 goals and more because we didnt have Dennis on our team. After 40 minutes the boy disappeared from radar, gasping heavily for breath….LMAOoo.
International football indeed isnt mates with club football…..LMAOoo
@Dr.Drey… Dennis was a big disappointment. I was cursing on my longs all through the much.
We have to realize that as painful as it is… football won. Ghana learnt from AFCON but we did not… Eguaveon wasn’t popular choice but once Amaju and his people made the call after Rohr we had no choice than to support.
Tunisia helped us and Ghana, they showed us that we were not invincible and they made Ghana believe that they can improve what Tunisia did to us a give a good run for their money…
We can blame the coach Eguaveon for being often dazed when his tactics comes unstuck but the players exception of Balogun, Ekong(2nd Leg), Osimhen, Aina and Lookman, were lost.
Rabiu Ibrahim is still playing, Usman Mohammed is still playing and Ejaria who is also creative could all have been thought of in creative capacity… I have said it long before now that Whiteman European football is soft… Aribo can do anything when it counts… we saw it. I cried about Iyayi Believe Atiemwen of Dinamo Zagreb for the whole of last year… it’s because I have always known that we don’t have a trusted midfield and all those playing the role of playmaking are not it… We could have gotten a decent guy who is comfortable with ball on his feet… Rabiu Ibrahim, Amoo, Iyayi, Muazzam, Nwakali(at nations cup he was deployed as DM… let him slot in as AM)
But alas! It’s too late… but of note is the fact that some players are being maligned from being a part of SUPER EAGLES… It is good to play in a high profile league and team but it is not the only parameter that defines a good Player… I hope we have seen and understood that fact yet again.
… I was *cursing on my lungs* all through the match.
@jimmy my brother with all this names it’s good but without a good coach, good tactics, good coordination we go know were
The lineup for the second leg was good, but it was too late. This game was to qualify for the world cup meaning you have to put your strongest line up. What are the factors
1. Playing time. Are you a regular starter and or consistent
2. Are you effective when you play?
3. The most important one that should put players on the top. Are you playing international tournaments that would bring the experience to the team? Like Champions league, europa league or conference league. Players of this quality should have priority.
Zaidu was benched when he was a regular starter for porto and played in the champions league and europa league. Olayinka is a regular, plays in the europa league and is a grind it out player, I always see him get dirty and is physical too, along with Awoniyi and Ighalo. Super eagles couldn’t even finish a pass and kept on falling whenever they were challenged or pressed. Sadiq is a regular starter along with Ajayi. Ekong is a terrible defender, he cant compete in the premier league, stay getting caught. Chukwueze has been coming off the bench for villarreal because all he do is dribble. Kelechi is not a starter he is a support role to Vardy. Osimhen, as much as I like him he brings his napoli personality to super eagles with rushing his play, not finishing well, complaining and looking for fouls before even trying to finish a play. Osimhen is half the physicality, he has hops and can do headers, but when you touch him he is injured, he is like Neymar made out of glass always getting injured. Dennis can score goals, but similar to what Yaya said when he is not involved in scoring he wont do anything, and I witnessed this game, he doesn’t track back, but he loves getting yellow cards for fun without even trying, hes selfish. And im tired of seeing Musa, its really sad. This team didn’t have enough time to get to know each other well, build partnerships and team work. When I watched them play it was no coordination, like nobody was linking up. Injuries played a role in this as well.
But I never seen so many people out of sync. So many new players were brought on in such short notice, it was for the qualifiers and then hopefully the world cup. If it was a year ago the team would of been in better sync. It was the same with rohr he always changed the lineup and the team had poor chemistry, like 6 different goalkeepers called up. Rohr was good for bringing mixed biracial players Africans especially Nigerians love so much. It was bound to happen of rohr being mentioned if this team didn’t go through.
People expect Nigeria to dominate because the country has the largest population in Africa but at the end of the day its Ivory Coast and Cameroon which are footballing nations. Cameroon made it through. Ivory coast and Cameroon have generational players and not only that, a lot of African players say they look up to Drogba or Eto’o. I just cant see a team going forward having Okcha still talking like he did something in his career. I don’t even hear much from Drogba or Eto’o. But at the end of the day, Ghana were expected to lose so there was no pressure. There was a lot of pressure for Nigeria because they were expected to win, but they folded after believing in their own hype, same as the music industry. I prefer Chris Hughton who has premier league/english league experience and knowledge than rohr from the German league which is only bayern dominated while other teams cant even make it farther in the champions league. But like I said, European experienced coaches are important, Nigeria cant even get a coach with european coaching experience or part of the technical staff. Its easy to blame the goalkeeper when they conceded the away goal that made Ghana win. Samuel Eto’o is doing great work with Cameroon, there is no leaders in Nigeria. It all comes down to the technical crew.