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Coach wrote:As one of Obiesta’s biggest critics when green on the greenery, his display yesterday, cautiously colossal, deceptively dominant, exercised excellence in those unspoken arts, was a joy to behold. This wasn't an aged, ring rusty, made in China copycat version of a Lynn Oslo leviathan working wonders in the trequartista, it was a young old man embracing age and all its wisdom and vintage.

Far removed from the Okocha-induced mirage of marauding trickery, this was Obi old and omnipotent. At long last, Nigeria was acceptant and the invitation, duly accepted. Obi was akin to the old Dad playing try and get the ball in the garden at a family barbecue, with a thousand little legs buzzing about him like bees to the honey pot. None able to unscrew the lid. This was the Obi many had pined for, withdrawn, deep-lying, the game ahead of him and yet ahead of the game in thought and execution. Pass completion has been higher, but seldom has one seen Obi, green and full of beans in the dying embers. Gentle John enjoyed the freedom of a niche he knows too well and one for which his square slots perfectly into the four-sided aperture.

It has been a long time coming, but alas, when the watching nation needed it so dearly. It came.

Odas wrote:I don't know why we are so effective in a 3-5-2 formation, yet didn't deploy it against Croatia in the entire game. What then were the reasons for all the friendly matches played in preparation for the tournament?

sinequanon wrote:

Odas wrote:I don't know why we are so effective in a 3-5-2 formation, yet didn't deploy it against Croatia in the entire game. What then were the reasons for all the friendly matches played in preparation for the tournament?

You know, as the tournament goes on, other teams learn how to neutralize your key threats. You need to bring them out at the appropriate time.

marko wrote:Mikel is a defensive midfielder, he can dictate the game better from deep than the advanced role

Eaglezbeak wrote:

marko wrote:Mikel is a defensive midfielder, he can dictate the game better from deep than the advanced role

But this has been the case for the last 10 years and many thought he was the new Jay Jay!

TonyTheTigerKiller wrote:One can always count on the dumbest commentary on CE. I am scratching my head wondering how the Icelandic coach saying Mikel was very good, which he was, would help Iceland qualify for the second round. You closet Mikel haters should just come out and say you didn’t think Mikel played well rather than insinuate it


Cheers.

marko wrote:Mikel is a defensive midfielder, he can dictate the game better from deep than the advanced role

marutimon wrote:

marko wrote:Mikel is a defensive midfielder, he can dictate the game better from deep than the advanced role

No, he's not. Ndidi is a defensive midfielder. Mikel is a deep lying playmaker / central midfielder.

Eaglezbeak wrote:

marko wrote:Mikel is a defensive midfielder, he can dictate the game better from deep than the advanced role

But this has been the case for the last 10 years and many thought he was the new Jay Jay!

cchinukw wrote:

Eaglezbeak wrote:

marko wrote:Mikel is a defensive midfielder, he can dictate the game better from deep than the advanced role

But this has been the case for the last 10 years and many thought he was the new Jay Jay!

I always said from day one that he is the second coming of Sunday Oliseh.

zee wrote:

cchinukw wrote:

Eaglezbeak wrote:

marko wrote:Mikel is a defensive midfielder, he can dictate the game better from deep than the advanced role

But this has been the case for the last 10 years and many thought he was the new Jay Jay!

I always said from day one that he is the second coming of Sunday Oliseh.

With 10 times more skills.

Eaglezbeak wrote:

TonyTheTigerKiller wrote:One can always count on the dumbest commentary on CE. I am scratching my head wondering how the Icelandic coach saying Mikel was very good, which he was, would help Iceland qualify for the second round. You closet Mikel haters should just come out and say you didn’t think Mikel played well rather than insinuate it


Cheers.

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Yes everyone knows he played better in a deeper position except you a former advocate of Mikel being an AM,remember you got salty because I stated my opinion on the fact he was playing out of position and thus inaffective,People like you are a virus amoungst Africans,you always want to look Holier than thou http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/holier-than-thou ,I need to call out BS when it drops and starts to stink!
Cheers!

TonyTheTigerKiller wrote:

Eaglezbeak wrote:

TonyTheTigerKiller wrote:One can always count on the dumbest commentary on CE. I am scratching my head wondering how the Icelandic coach saying Mikel was very good, which he was, would help Iceland qualify for the second round. You closet Mikel haters should just come out and say you didn’t think Mikel played well rather than insinuate it


Cheers.

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=289320&p=5269969&hi ... l#p5269969

Yes everyone knows he played better in a deeper position except you a former advocate of Mikel being an AM,remember you got salty because I stated my opinion on the fact he was playing out of position and thus inaffective,People like you are a virus amoungst Africans,you always want to look Holier than thou http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/holier-than-thou ,I need to call out BS when it drops and starts to stink!
Cheers!

Wow. I’m very doubtful that I will ever read anything this stupid so, I’ll make the most of it. When we were beating arguably better teams in the qualifiers, what position did Mikel play? At the Olympics where Nigeria put up a more than credible performance and Mikel was adjudged one of the best players at the tournament, what position did he play? Indeed, how often has Mikel played defensive midfield for Nigeria? Those were rhetorical questions. We already know the answers. Therefore, claiming that Mikel was played out of position is demoralizingly retarded. Moreover, it is a strong sign of how easily ignorant people like you can be brainwashed. So, because an oyibo coach selfishly decided to employ Mikel out of position at DM just to satisfy his team’s needs, you think that’s where he was born to play? I’ll readily concede that Mikel is our best defensive midfielder but that by no means implies that it’s his best position. Only a fool like you would think that


Cheers.