Kelechi Iheanacho has described Leicester’s 1-1 draw away to Manchester United on Saturday as a great performance.
Iheanacho opened scoring for Leicester on 63 minutes with a header from a cross before Fred equalized for United three minutes later.
The Foxes thought they had won it after James Maddison slotted past David De Gea. But the goal was disallowed by VAR after Iheanacho was adjudged to have fouled Raphael Varane in the build up to the goal.
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And reacting to the outcome of the game, Iheanacho urged his teammates not to relent and also thanked Leicester’s fans for their support.
He wrote on his personal Twitter handle: “Great performance from the team, nearly won it. Let’s go for more. Thanks to our fans for there support.”
The draw means Leicester in ninth place on 37 points are 14 points from a European qualification spot.
By James Agberebi
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COMMENTS
But I don’t like the term they used ‘PERFECT EGUAVON REPLACEMENT’ Come on guys EGUAVON was a DISASTER!
If they can’t give us ROAH, I think I support they go for this MAN
LMFAO!!!
I didn’t want to be the only one that will be APRILED FOOLED…
Hahahahahahahahaha…….
Thanks for the link Mr. Mo-Post.
Well, Hervé Renard is not a bad option to replace Eguavoen whose record wasn’t actually too bad.
In 7 games, Eguavoen won 4,drew 2 and lost 1 which equates to an 85% positive results ratio.
Well we all know the (painful) story: the games he drew and lost were the most important ones and the outcome of these sealed his fate and condemned Nigeria to misery.
As time goes on, I am starting to feel pity for Eguavoen as a fellow Nigerian and a human being. He took on a daunting assignment with the inner belief that he had what it takes to propel the Super Eagles to greater heights.
Unfortunately for him, two things happened:
1) He ran out of luck.
2) He ran out of ideas.
Luck:
– if Iwobi had not being red carded against Tunisia.
– if Iwobi had been available against Ghana.
– if Simon had buried the guilt edge chance in Kumasi.
– if Umar had buried the chance against Tunisia.
– if Osimhen had stayed on side in Abuja.
– if Partey hadn’t been afforded time and space to lock and load.
– Osimhen hadn’t elected to go for bicycle kicks twice in Abuja.
– if away goals rule had been banned in all football matches across the globe.
Who knows what would have happened.
Ideas:
4-2-4 is not altogether a worthless formation if you settle down to it and take steps to address its weaknesses. What people haven’t noticed is that Balogun, Ekong and Omeruo have developed the ability to launch effective and beautiful long range balls from defence straight to the centre forward or either of the wingers. One of these from Omeruo directly led to Musa’s second goal against Iceland in 2018.
What this does, in a four-two-four set up is that the entire midfield apparatus of your opponents is bypassed and rendered redundant. Your winger then lays the ball back to your fullback who launches another long ball for the likes of Onuachu, Umar and Simy to knock down to Osimhen or Awoniyi to feast on.
That formation will work well with long ball philosophy as that is the only way you can allow your opponents to populate the midfield without causing you much headache. When defending, yes, just like Eguavoen did, one of your wingers (Chukwueze) will go the midfield to provide extra support. But when you attack, long balls, quick passes and flick-ons all day long.
But I don’t think Eguavoen was well aware of the limitations of his formation. Moreover, when that 4-4-2 or 4-2-4 wasn’t working, he didn’t have a viable option B.
His Tunisian and Ghanaian counterparts pinpointed the achilles heel of his formation alarmingly well. And when they sought out to negate and neutralise it, Eguavoen’s answer was to press the panic button and throw all caution to the wind.
Having exposed his own strategy to the whole world in his now infamous YouTube video, it took two average teams to show him that a true shrewd army General keeps his cards so close to his chest.
No wonder Eguavoen fell in battle!
What a pity.
I pray Nigeria fans will come to forgive Eguavoen one day. He did his best, but I guess his best was just not good enough !
https://youtu.be/nV2z9wLVm_Q
Thanks DEO
@Deo… Thanks. When the likes of @Dr.Drey choose to stop insulting and castigating, we can then come together and offer very strong helpful and realistic advice to our football administrators here for a change. Eguaveon, though I am guilty also of having talked him down… he listened to fans, felt the pulse of Nigerians and their varied conjectures and wishes of changes to be made from the first leg in Kumasi but our albatross was that we did not get the job done from Kumasi. We can feel entitled as much as we want but we could not put Ghana to the sword over two legs to save our lives… When we have finished insulting the coach, his assistance and Amaju and NFF top brass, we will allow the smoke clearup and critically look at our players for the real stuff they at made of… it is no secret that an average team with spine and guts can crash good results on gameday.
The mistake we made for long was creating false narratives to hype our players that they were a class and invincible. It was Madagascar that first brought us down to earth from our celestial podium, atleast so we thought. Then Sierra Leone kicked us on the butt, then came Wilder Beasts of CAR, without forgetting that we could not beat Liberia in Morocco, neither could we beat Cape Verde at home in that nervy WC PLAYOFF berth finish.
Coaches have come and gone but one thing that was constant was we retaining 95% of the same players that have been responsible for all the labored and average results. We made the national team to become a cult group were certain players were permanently shutout and if at all they get involved from time to time… we push them to alien positions different from what they play at their clubs… we give them cameo shows and give them the stick. We largely made the national team comfortable for a select few for over 5years and even when other Nigerians streak constant top performance in Europe league or other leagues of worthy note… we still ignore those ones.
Nigeria can comfortably put together, three different solid first elevens that could have rubbished Ghana with the right formation. When in years past I called for Peter Olayinka, Junior Oluwafemi Ajayi, Iyayi Atiemwen, Anthony Nwakaeme and recently Obinna Nwobodo… it was because I have come to realize how complacent a lot of the regulate have become. When an average team begins to see themselves as invincible and continue to put up a show of bigman football, just know you have trouble.
Going forward… I will advice we begin to call for players who are fighters and hustlers, players who have maintained a level of consistency and respectability in their clubs and must kill the temptation of playing footballers who ate not starting at their clubs but only bit-part performers. I have continued to think what could have happened in our recent fails with Ghana of we had Nwakaeme, Olayinka, Nwobodo and Awoniyi playing certain role over 180minutes… I want to believed we failed because of our wickedness to a lot of players who have shown through their club performances to be deserving of squad places… We will continue to fail as long as politics, man-know-man, nepotism and quota system continue invitation criteria instead merit!
Deo,
I have personally forgiven him already, and moved on from the monumental setback.
The man failed woefully. But he also could easily be a national hero today. As you pointed out, he just got so unfortunate.
For me, the bigger blame lies with the people who hired him.
Letting Rohr go so close to the Afcon could only be justified if someone as good as Rohr or better was hired.
In Eguavoen, what we got is what we paid for.
It is not for nothing that our people say: BETTER SOUP, NA MONEY KILL AM.
The big lesson for us is that we should stop pinching pennies or cutting corners when it comes to hiring a coach for the SE. A quality coach makes a huge difference.
If we had a quality coach, Nigeria would have a medal from the last Afcon (bronze, silver, perhaps gold), Nigeria would have qualified for Qatar, and the NFF would be $12 Million richer. At the end of the day, you save money hiring a low quality coach, but down the road, you lose big time.
A big lesson that I hope the new NFF that come in the next elections will take very seriously.
Thanks guys (Pompei, Mo-Post and Jimmy). Eguavoen was truly on to something great but he lacked the wisdom and wherewithal to harness the huge potentials at his own disposal. He was also unlucky.
I wish him well.
My goodness, in football the margins are indeed very narrow: just 1 goal against Tunisia and away goals rule against Ghana without losing across 2 Legs were all she wrote !!
Na wa o!
@Deo let’s stop playing with words and reducing the impact of what happened. The truth is that Eguavoen or any other local coach we currently have is not competent to handle the Super Eagles. Let these coaches go and coach other smaller footballing nations, get the experience, learn from those feedbacks before trying to coach SE. In my opinion, we weren’t unlucky. Yes, luck plays a role, but at the WC playoffs we lost. Away goal rule have always been there, we knew the rule, but didn’t prepare for it. We knew all the variables, but failed to control the ones within our reach.
Typically, I wouldnt respond. But after I noticed that our coach picked his lineup from this forum and not from what he saw in training, I’ve decided to voice my opinion. The mistake we are making now is being sympathetic to the coaching crew. And when we start thinking that way, these guys would come back since our failure was based on luck. They failed! They should go!
We can attribute luck to anything in life. Eguavoen, Yobi, Yusuf, Agu and co should go accomplish something meaningful with their coaching careers before coming for FG’s allocations.
@onwajunior you nailed it. There is no how we try to sympathise with Eguavon the bottom line is that he failed woefully because he doesn’t have it. He failed against Tunisia of all time in that competition and even against the worst Ghana team of all time haba! Which kind luck. Truth has u said he picked his players by listening to online fans rather from study opponent strength and weakness then his own tactics that he want to deploy. This is one thing I respect Rohr for he will never change his team for anything out of his plan that why he said he ignored fans calls for dropping Mosses Simon then the same man he has been vindicated on now. To me when I saw the line up for second leg in Abuja I shake my head that this man doesn’t know what he is doing because he listen to fans calls rather than his own input. His reason for playing Bassey ahead of Zanusi and even Dennis his what I didn’t know till today. Using the team for first leg or switch to 2 man attack would have been better.
Exactly DEO…
I was telling CHIMA yesterday or so about POTENTIALS in the SE needing DIRECTION and GUIDE but as usual I was called names..
Thanks Onwajunior. It was nice to read your comment as you sparsely respond to others.
We all agree on one thing: Eguavoen was out of his depth.
You also tacitly albeit reluctantly agree that luck (to one degree or the other) plays a role in human endeavours.
So we are singing from the same hymn book.
Sympathetic? Hmmmm. Yes I feel pity for Eguavoen because he could not realise his own legitimate ambitions of bringing joy to millions of Nigerians. That takes nothing away from the fact that his tactical know-how was not quite up to the task on hand. Which is why I agree 100 percent with my brother Pompei who said the NFF who put Eguavoen there should bear the brunt of fans’fury.
I find it very difficult to forgive this NFF. I have intense anger in the way they have derailed the progress of the Super Eagles with poor management and ghastly decisions.
Eguavoen believed in his own abilities (nothing wrong with that as a human being). As we all witnessed, he wasn’t as good, astute and as visionary as he thought he was!
He is no master-tactician.
High time CSN began to stop allowing irrelevant post on their platform. How does this thread even relates to coach Eguavoen’s performances as the Technical Adviser of the Super Eagles?
I wish he is making sense but no one really recon with comments from faceless persons. That guy is normally a noise maker who goes with fictitious handles just to tarnish people’s image.
Let’s celebrate with seniorman for his goal.
What’s going CSN why do you guys keep deleting my LINKS??
*Going on*
Lol… Its a normal thing. They’ll use ur link to publish another article. Just watch! Not the 1st time, it wouldn’t be the last.
Na wa o…
About an hour after the match finishes the BBC open it up for comments. Wonder how long it would have take had United won…lol
Iguma, Probably we aren’t educated enough to know write-ups have special comment inclination. HA HA HA HA!
Thank you very much Leicester for making it the perfect weekend for every fan of every premier league club and just before Easter as well makes it extra special in your next meeting.
This is a match Leicester should have won. What’s happened to Brendan Rodgers? He used to be entertaining, witty, different – charming even !! He’s turned into a miserable, classless, bitter, sour faced, unreasonable, biased muppet !! Now the football to one side every minute, he’s just become a truly unpleasant, every inch a pale imitation !!! You have Nacho to thank Leicester.
You are shading, lolz.
Oh my gawd! You just shaded. LMFAO.
…for those who will like to watch Anthony Nwakaeme for Trabzonspor against Besiktas… the link is under if you can stream!
https://live.xn--tream2watch-i9d.com/video/trabzonspor-vs-besiktas-2022-04-03-17-30-00
…Let us watch one of our own who has been maligned from playing for his country be fraudulent and dishonest gatekeepers.
https://live.xn--tream2watch-i9d.com/video/trabzonspor-vs-besiktas-2022-04-03-17-30-00
or
http://lalastreams.me/streams/?stream=123911199?sid=1384947
Oh my gawd! You just shaded. LMFAO.
I couldn’t stop laughing, lolz… Mind you, not as much as after the ManU game. The self proclaimed biggest club due to overseas plastic fans, a million miles away from winning but suddenly in a hurry to explain to us.
He is a coward. Ask me what concerns Eguavoen here.