Former Nigerian international Osaze Odemwingie has warned Super Eagles striker Victor Osimhen to curb his frequent on-field altercations, stating that such behavior happens more often than it should and invites opponents to provoke him.
In a chat with Brila FM, he warned that smart opponents and defenders will try to use this visible frustration to provoke him.
Behavior Concerns
He made this known on the backdrop of Osimhen’s heated confrontation with Villarreal defender Santiago Mouriño during their pre-season friendly at RAMS Park.
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The Nigeria international clashed with the Uruguay defender during Galatasaray’s 2-1 defeat to Villarreal at the weekend.
Osimhen was reportedly frustrated after Mouriño used his body to prevent him from advancing into a dangerous position inside the penalty area.
However, he stressed that Osimhen needs to manage his emotions better, stay humble, and avoid giving referees or opponents an easy reason to target him.
Need for Humility
’As somebody who has been on the pitch; somebody with experience, I understand that reaction.
’Sometimes we get provoked, and especially in friendly games, it annoys more because it’s a friendly game,’ Odemwingie said on Brila FM’s breakfast show ‘No Holds Barred’.
‘I don’t back this behaviour because my first feeling was, “Not again”. I’ve seen it quite a bit. It’s happening a bit more often than it should. I think Osimhen needs to understand that he’s a threat.Games
’Defenders are scared of him and they will try to upset him and get under his skin.
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’He needs to deal with this and be humble. He’s becoming a big name in football and this will naturally get into his head, but, he needs to find a way to be more humble.
’Before you jump to conclusions, you have to look a little bit more into it. There may have been something said before that incident, so we can only speculate for now.
’If you ask Victor why he reacted that way, he might tell you that the player said something. But for now, we can only speculate and think about what was going on in his mind.’
4 Comments
Hahahahaha…..
I hope we are now seeing one of the so many reasons big elite clubs don’t want to sign this guy…..
Hahahahaha
He was even pushing and shoving his fellow gala team mates that were trying to calm him down….
This is one of the so many reason napoli shipped him like a parcel and dumped him in a third class league….
I even learnt his only saviour now (average tottenham) have withdrawn their pursuit for him….
This is really sad!!!
Knock! Knock! Mr Monkey Post, are you home?
Hahahahaha @deo my man
This is what you get when an agbero, a motor park thug luckily achieve stardom….
Hahahahaha
This guy has become a national, international embarrassment and disgrace….
Hahahaha
From fighting with his national team coach finidi…..
National teammate lookman….
Napoli club coach and fans….
Liverpool players….
Now villareal players???
These are the ones I can remember o…..
Like bro you remember just recently I talked about him always being in cheap newspaper headlines….
Hahahahaha
This is it right here….
Hahahahaha
Like you are fighting in a preseason game?!
Hahahaha….
Preseason o deo!
If it’s in a world cup match or a champions league final match then we would have said fine this is a more global and prestigious headline….
Hahahahaha
But deo preseason match o against vilareal….
Hahahahaha
Lets not forget off the pitch he fought with his elder sister and brother inlaw too…..
Like all the ones that came before him like their ighalo, emenike etc have you ever read this kind of agbero headline about them???
Mind you they grew up from the slum too like ighalo who grew up in ajegunle….
None of them ever displayed this kind of shameful antics reason why they achieve far greater success than him….
As much as I really like Osimhen
He needs to curb his thuggery behaviour, typical white man would provoke you silently and wait for you to explode for the world to see
We encounter this everyday here
Even his team mates are not spared while displaying ,
Many people now expect this reaction from Osimhen which is very bad…