Super Eagles trio of Alex Iwobi, Calvin Bassey, and Samuel Chukwueze were in action as Everton defeated Fulham 2-0 in Saturday’s Premier League game.
Iwobi, who was making his 10th appearance in the league this season, has scored one goal and bagged two assists. Bassey and Chukwueze were also making their 10th and third appearances, respectively.
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Gueye scored in first-half stoppage time after Tim Iroegbunam’s scuffed shot fell to him following James Tarkowski’s header off the bar to give Everton the lead.
The maximum three points were secured as Keane added the second goal in the 81st minute from a corner kick delivered by Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall.
This win moved Everton up to 11th place, four points ahead of Fulham before the international break.
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Iwobi, great with d ball at his feet, on a good day can provide exquisite and incisive passes. However, he rarely contests for balls in the air for someone his height, he rarely wins balls off players, he feigns tackles but marks space instead. Whoever knows him should seriously advise him. Am not in anyway knocking him but this is a war d eagles are about to fight and everyone needs to be agrgressive not d soft boy tinz. Mario Lemina of Gabon no wan hear ooo lol, dat guy aggressive wella. Him dey put leg for wetin no good and we need our midfielders to match Gabonese midfielders physicality. They will likely take a leaf from the Ivory Coast playbook,choke the midfield and try to dominate it. They will most likely employ a 3 man midfield while we will employ ndidi and iwobi, this our midfield screams soft players. I wouldn’t mind a Ndidi-Obyedika-Iwobi/Chukwueze midfield in this playoff. That will bring stability and d necessary physicality needed to play in d African continent. If we are to accomodate Lookman (whom personally i think 9ja can’t do without same as VO9, pipo go argue se we won 4:0 without him again Benin which is a fair argument but dat guy shows up for big games and as u all know Gabonese strategy will be to lockdown VO9, so we need another gamechanger, and Lookman is dat player in my view), i will play him from d left which is his natural role and simon on d right (though he was ineffective against Lesotho from dat position). Simon tracks back which is a big plus for him, and can help Frederick if he is employed there. Moreover he and Lookman can always switch abd if Chukwueze is used ahead of Iwobi in dat 3 man midfield Chukwueze can always be move to d right while simon returns to left and Lookman deployed as a support striker with VO9. Our backline is where i see a problem as we will be without Semi Ajayi, very underrated player in my opinion. Do we pair Frederick and Bassey or Awaziem and Bassey abd allow Frederick play d RB position as Osayi -Samuel no go fit cut am ooo in dis kinda game in my opinion. I will go for Sanusi as LB and Frederick as RB leaving Awaziem to partner Bassey due to Lique 1 connection as he must have played again Aubameyang’s Marseille. Just a thought.
Chuckzy need to start and that behind VO9 not from RW, ndidi and onyedika combo in the midfield, iwobi from RW to switch with chuckzy, Simon from LW while lookmon start from the bench. That’s my 433 formation. Ajayi played hull city last match now even though from the bench, didn’t know he got injured in that match, we really need that guy to partner bassey.
@Proudly9ja, the best analysis on Super Eagles formation so far. I
I wouldn’t mind Onyedika, Ndidi and Chukwueze combo too.
The game is most likely to be won by midfield dominance or costly error from an error prone defender./GK.
This us where the team may miss the aggressiveness and Forward playing Fisayo Bashiru.. I believe Chukwueze on his good day can wreck any team with splitting passes. The guy just need to be more. focused.
The team has the best attacking threat in Africa,. It is unstoppable with the right supplies from the wings or MF.