Lesotho vs Nigeria (2- 4) x2 assist Osimhen plus 2 goals

[oloye]

To be fair, Awaziem has had a hell of a game defensively. Cardinal sin of defending as Oloye has pointed out over and over again. Dont play the ball when running to your goal.

You will be amazed how instinctive that action is, the defensive instinct is to stick out a leg only to go ooops when you see you finishing off nice move for the opposition

[pajimoh]

Please someone who might give a little fk, check up krawkRawlings

[Lolly]

We need to address that right back position, thank God for the versatility of Aina.

Awaziem has done well there recently but he looked laboured all through today's game. Same with Aribo and Iwobi.

[Scipio Africanus]

Kai imagine if we had Victor at the last WC!

He wasn't playing like this at the last WC, he was a bust at Wolfsburg then...how quickly fortunes could change in footie1

With all due respect, that should be irrelevant to his play for the national team.

The the H are you saying???????

That we should evaluate our players for our own purposes and not lazily accept the evaluation by others, who have their own purposes, different from ours

[oloye]

Kai imagine if we had Victor at the last WC!

He wasn't playing like this at the last WC, he was a bust at Wolfsburg then...how quickly fortunes could change in footie1

With all due respect, that should be irrelevant to his play for the national team.

The the H are you saying???????

If he had been picked and did not perform, the coach would have been crucified for taking a player who did not perform at club level to the world cup. This is a case of wishful thinking over reality.

The coach deals with reality the fans coach in reverse with the advantage of hindsight

[charlie]

To be fair, Awaziem has had a hell of a game defensively. Cardinal sin of defending as Oloye has pointed out over and over again. Dont play the ball when running to your goal.

You will be amazed how instinctive that action is, the defensive instinct is to stick out a leg only to go ooops when you see you finishing off nice move for the opposition

Bros,...how bodi?! I no know sey you dey camp.

[truetalk]

Awaziem should have been sent off

I am his biggest fan, but that was simply dumb. We are leading, the guy had to get across you to get to the ball, so plenty of time to recover. Absolutely no need to make that foul.

If the Ref saw it, that would have been a red & a dangerous FK.

Guess it was a bad day in the office for him all around. A central defender cannot have too many of these moments (even if he is on the right today). His versatility is great (he can play on the right, centrally & as a defensive midfielder) but, he needs to know that some things just don't happen as a CD

[oloye]

Kai imagine if we had Victor at the last WC!

He wasn't playing like this at the last WC, he was a bust at Wolfsburg then...how quickly fortunes could change in footie1

With all due respect, that should be irrelevant to his play for the national team.

The the H are you saying???????

That we should evaluate our players for our own purposes and not lazily accept the evaluation by others, who have their own purposes, different from ours

But he was in camp and the coach who is trained to do the job evaluated him. What you are doing is now using his current form to wish him into the team last year.... Man mi ko le werk, in fact it does not work in reverse

[Gotti]

He was not this energetic at Wolsburg, so you can't blame Wolsburg.

How can he be when they were playing out at right-wing?

[Spicyee]

To be fair, Awaziem has had a hell of a game defensively. Cardinal sin of defending as Oloye has pointed out over and over again. Dont play the ball when running to your goal.

You will be amazed how instinctive that action is, the defensive instinct is to stick out a leg only to go ooops when you see you finishing off nice move for the opposition

Very true. It always starts out with 'good intentions' because you don't know who is behind you, waiting to pounce.

[oloye]

To be fair, Awaziem has had a hell of a game defensively. Cardinal sin of defending as Oloye has pointed out over and over again. Dont play the ball when running to your goal.

You will be amazed how instinctive that action is, the defensive instinct is to stick out a leg only to go ooops when you see you finishing off nice move for the opposition

Bros,...how bodi?! I no know sey you dey camp.

Charlie my own persin, I dey o, I trust you dey gentle and doing amazing things yaself. I dey here dey quietly enjoy myself watching our boys use the Lesotho lads for training. I love that Aribo boy and I am happy seeing my boy Osimeh living up to my expectations unlike Awoniyi. By now we should have the two of them terrorising teams.

[truetalk]

Conceded from 2 routine crosses that we should’ve dealt with easily. Back to the drawing board notwithstanding the win.

Both goals were on my boy Awaziem. No pressure on the cross for the first goal, & no comments needed for the 2nd.

There are some rules of defending that must be drilled down so deep within you, it becomes instinctive.

Awaziem is mega talented, but he has shown some costly lapses today.

[green4life]

Kai imagine if we had Victor at the last WC!

He wasn't playing like this at the last WC, he was a bust at Wolfsburg then...how quickly fortunes could change in footie1

With all due respect, that should be irrelevant to his play for the national team.

Oh really? Why don’t we just call up kelechi Nwakali right now then?

[Scipio Africanus]

Kai imagine if we had Victor at the last WC!

He wasn't playing like this at the last WC, he was a bust at Wolfsburg then...how quickly fortunes could change in footie1

With all due respect, that should be irrelevant to his play for the national team.

The the H are you saying???????

That we should evaluate our players for our own purposes and not lazily accept the evaluation by others, who have their own purposes, different from ours

But he was in camp and the coach who is trained to do the job evaluated him. What you are doing is now using his current form to wish him into the team last year.... Man mi ko le werk, in fact it does not work in reverse

OK oga, don't mind me. Just torturing myself with what might have been.

[theDunamis]

Kai imagine if we had Victor at the last WC!

He wasn't playing like this at the last WC, he was a bust at Wolfsburg then...how quickly fortunes could change in footie1

With all due respect, that should be irrelevant to his play for the national team.

The the H are you saying???????

That we should evaluate our players for our own purposes and not lazily accept the evaluation by others, who have their own purposes, different from ours

But he was in camp and the coach who is trained to do the job evaluated him. What you are doing is now using his current form to wish him into the team last year.... Man mi ko le werk, in fact it does not work in reverse

I believe Scipio's substantive point is that the talent we are seeing today has always been there and could have been given airtime earlier in the national team rather than judged only on his Wolfsburg debacle. Especially given that his Wolfsburg debacle could have been due to multiple factors not unrelated to his obvious talent -- e.g. being played out of position, off field issues, etc.

[pajimoh]

They go soon blame Akpeyi for that one lol

I mean

Well if he had saved it would it have been a goal? Mssshhheeww. There's no law against him saving it now

[Scipio Africanus]

Kai imagine if we had Victor at the last WC!

He wasn't playing like this at the last WC, he was a bust at Wolfsburg then...how quickly fortunes could change in footie1

With all due respect, that should be irrelevant to his play for the national team.

Oh really? Why don’t we just call up kelechi Nwakali right now then?

Are you seriously comparing The Victorious Victor with Nwakali?

[Gotti]

Awaziem should have been sent off

I am his biggest fan, but that was simply dumb. We are leading, the guy had to get across you to get to the ball, so plenty of time to recover. Absolutely no need to make that foul.

If the Ref saw it, that would have been a red & a dangerous FK.

He shouldn’t have...
And the Ref saw it alright.

He stuck his hand across...
Dude ran into his hand and flopped.

Good call by Ref...
Despite the commentators’ drivel.

[charlie]

To be fair, Awaziem has had a hell of a game defensively. Cardinal sin of defending as Oloye has pointed out over and over again. Dont play the ball when running to your goal.

You will be amazed how instinctive that action is, the defensive instinct is to stick out a leg only to go ooops when you see you finishing off nice move for the opposition

Bros,...how bodi?! I no know sey you dey camp.

Charlie my own persin, I dey o, I trust you dey gentle and doing amazing things yaself. I dey here dey quietly enjoy myself watching our boys use the Lesotho lads for training. I love that Aribo boy and I am happy seeing my boy Osimeh living up to my expectations unlike Awoniyi. By now we should have the two of them terrorising teams.

Injury don derail Taiwo's career. I can only hope now he is a late bloomer, but I dont see any easy paths for me back into Super Eagle contention.

The person wey pain me most na Kelechi. How can he go from U17 phenom to perenial bench warmer??? Anyway sha, God dey.

[green4life]

We need to address that right back position, thank God for the versatility of Aina.

Awaziem has done well there recently but he looked laboured all through today's game. Same with Aribo and Iwobi.

Altitude plus terrible pitch didn’t help the players.

[Gotti]

They go soon blame Akpeyi for that one lol

I mean

Well if he had saved it would it have been a goal? Mssshhheeww. There's no law against him saving it now

Abegi, make una leave Akpeyi alone...

[oloye]

Kai imagine if we had Victor at the last WC!

He wasn't playing like this at the last WC, he was a bust at Wolfsburg then...how quickly fortunes could change in footie1

With all due respect, that should be irrelevant to his play for the national team.

The the H are you saying???????

That we should evaluate our players for our own purposes and not lazily accept the evaluation by others, who have their own purposes, different from ours

But he was in camp and the coach who is trained to do the job evaluated him. What you are doing is now using his current form to wish him into the team last year.... Man mi ko le werk, in fact it does not work in reverse

I believe Scipio's substantive point is that the talent we are seeing today has always been there and could have been given airtime earlier in the national team rather than judged only on his Wolfsburg debacle. Especially given that his Wolfsburg debacle could have been due to multiple factors not unrelated to his obvious talent -- e.g. being played out of position, off field issues, etc.

Every player reporting to camp have potentials, the coach of the national team is not paid to select players with potentials that is yet to come out, that is what coaches at club level are paid to do. The national team coaches are paid to use players who are already displaying certain abilities that is needed to prosecute the forthcoming national engagement.

Let us stop this debate right here, if he had taken him to the world Cup and he did not perform, this would have been used as one of his sins, that he took a player that was not even performing at club level to the world Cup.

Make we nor dey even bring up this kind argument. The funny thing here is that, he was even invited to the camp and he was deemed not good enough. You cannot use the form of today to wish a player should have played yesterday or even last year.

[ohenhen1]

We all remember Rohr didn't want Ighalo to retire. Benched Osimhen at Afcon.

He is better than Obafemi Martins, Yak and Ikpeba. At this stage I will say only Kanu and Yekini are better.

On what basis?

A eg just leave Ohenhen alone, he is in that zone again

Osimhen is a complete striker. He has height, pace, can provide assists and score goals. On that basis. Martins was one dimensional. Yak lacked pace. Ikpeba didn't have the physical advantage like Osimhen.