Who should we blame for the goal?

Nkume · Post by **Nkume** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:15 pm

CCC and his Formation!

Dodo · Post by **Dodo** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:18 pm

Its a Goal wrote:
[color=brown]hakim075[/color] wrote:I AGREE WITH YOU,AND IT'S NOT AGALI WHO WILL CHANGE THE SITUATION, WHEN HE WERE IN, i knew that the game is over
Yeap. All day we tried to get into the match with 3 strikers to no avail, so instead of making a tactical change by fortifying the midfield, what did CCC do? He replaced one striker with another .

When CCC took out Kanu he should have brought in Lawal or Ekong (Two players not on my favorites list). Our 'midfield was gushing and he did nothing, nothing at all to stem the flow

khalela · Post by **khalela** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:19 pm

I do nor think Baba is to blame.Okoronkwo could not carry his bulk so he could not mark.

Its a Goal · Post by **Its a Goal** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:21 pm

Dodo, Kanu's replacement, Ikedia, at least changed things around for us a bit as Ikedia took over the RW and Utaka was able to go and stay in the middle. Once we fell behind, I expected him to have replaced Aiyegbeni with Ekong or Lawal to hold the midfield and try to create problems from the middle.

dagooner · Post by **dagooner** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:22 pm

If CCC continue to play Kanu and JJ @ the same time, we might as well start supporting anoda team, Benin? cameroun?

Kanu+JJ is a LUXURY NO team can afford!!!

I bet Yobo was wtaching "Lord of The Rings, Return of The King" while Hadji turned 270 degrees b4 placing the ball beyond Enyeama, even if na Manute Bol dey Naija post, im for no fit catch that ball.

Names, PAST achievements/Glories DON'T play soccer!!!

I REALLY don't know what to/not to expect from this team.

BTW the "Hadji" that scored the goal, is he the same as the one playing for Villa?

bigshawn30 · Post by **bigshawn30** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:29 pm

ALL DEM YEYE TEAM, JUST GOT IN MY TIMER NO RECORD THE YEYE MATCH THANK GOD MAN PEKIN NO CALL IN SICK DIS MORNING FOR WORK.

fishward1 · Post by **fishward1** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:32 pm

None of the above.
The Morrocan manager for realising that we do not do our homework and Yobo would not know who to mark whwn a change was made as to us they all look alike. So Yobo was marking the person he thought was the new striker oblivious to the fact that he had the wrong man and the striker was in fact free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Goal ignorance is bliss untill it bites u

geminikoat · Post by **geminikoat** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:35 pm

Gotti wrote:Okoronkwo -- and of course Chukwu. It was a piss-poor performance by both!

Why all these ratings about CCC now Gotti; You just noticed? When he almost threw away the ANC ticket against Senegal, you said he still won; and when he could only beat Malawi and lost to the only competitive oppositio--Brazil, you said he hasn't lost a competitive game yet. So what has changed bro? Or r u just now being emotional?

You backed the wrong horse long time ago, so ride it to the end man.

green4life · Post by **green4life** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:38 pm

Its a Goal wrote:
[color=brown]green4life[/color] wrote:From what I remember, that goal was caused by a combination of Babayaro, who failed to close up on the guy who delivered the pass and Yobo who did not mark hadji.
The guy who delivered the pass did it from outside the 18 yard box and Baba couldn't have closed him down anymore than he did.

IAG, watch the tape again. The guy who delivered the pass was a few yards outside the 18 on the left side of our defense. Babayaro saw him and even had an opportunity to close up on him but chose to do the safe thing (as usual) which gave him the room to cross that pass into the box... Yobo then fell asleep on the job which allowed hadji to score... the sad thing about that is that until that moment, both players were playing brillliantly...

Gotti · Post by **Gotti** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:50 pm

geminikoat wrote:
Gotti wrote:Okoronkwo -- and of course Chukwu. It was a piss-poor performance by both!
Why all these ratings about CCC now Gotti.

GEMINIOAT:
There are no "rantings" (I assume that's what you meant) here. Tactically, Chukwu had a piss-poor game on the night (just as Wenger had on another night against Inter Milan -- as have several others). There is nothing amiss in acknowledging a miserable day at the office.

Another Nigerian coach called Clemons Westerhoff similarly began an ANC campaign with a 1-5 shellacking from another North African country (and virtually threw away Nigeria's 1990 World Cup hopes). Pardon me itherefore f I reserve my right to judge Chukwu only on the outcome of the ENTIRE tournament.

A seminal lesson in tournament play (and life itself) is that it is often a marathon and not a sprint. I will therefore leave the summary judgments (Cameroun is awlful, Senegal is miserable, etc -- all on the basis of one game) to the premature ejaculators amongst us.

Naija fan · Post by **Naija fan** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:55 pm

Gotti wrote:
geminikoat wrote:
Gotti wrote:Okoronkwo -- and of course Chukwu. It was a piss-poor performance by both!
Why all these ratings about CCC now Gotti.
GEMINIOAT:
There are no "rantings" (I assume that's what you meant) here. Tactically, Chukwu had a piss-poor game on the night (just as Wenger had on another night against Inter Milan -- as have several others). There is nothing amiss in acknowledging a miserable day at the office.

Another Nigerian coach called Clemons Westerhoff similarly began an ANC campaign with a 1-5 shellacking from another North African country (and virtually threw away Nigeria's 1990 World Cup hopes). Pardon me itherefore f I reserve my right to judge Chukwu only on the outcome of the ENTIRE tournament.

A seminal lesson in tournament play (and life itself) is that it is often a marathon and not a sprint. I will therefore leave the summary judgments (Cameroun is awlful, Senegal is miserable, etc -- all on the basis of one game) to the premature ejaculators amongst us.

Premature ejaculators?

Don Gotti don finish the doom sayers.

Goldleaf · Post by **Goldleaf** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:56 pm

That defence was over-worked. Seyi was over-worked. Playing 2 out and out strikers in Aghahowa and Ayegbeni was a luxury. We are better off having 5 midfielders who can easily join the lone striker when he needs help and also retreat to help the back 4 when they need help.

The blame for this loss has to be taken by the coach who flooded the team with too many fancy players. European coaches rarely do what CCC did today.

theYemster · Post by **theYemster** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 6:59 pm

I think we should blame Hadji for the goal;

mastermind · Post by **mastermind** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 7:16 pm

CCC and nfa should be blamed. CCC for his unpatrioctic #$%, he know that he is not a real coach and still insist in leading them to ANC to bury naija soccer. I also blame Nfa for not hiring a real coach and for edithing the list to exclude obodo, oruma etc.

Blakes · Post by **Blakes** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 7:38 pm

nah that goal was claerly Yobo's fault....u guys must have watched a diffrent game if u think it was okoronkwo...Yobo was the one who left hadji and went to stand infront of the keeper...Yobo was not paying attention. by the time he noticed it was too late...his man was miles away from him ...

Its a Goal · Post by **Its a Goal** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:26 pm

[color=brown]fishward1[/color] wrote:None of the above.
The Morrocan manager for realising that we do not do our homework and Yobo would not know who to mark whwn a change was made as to us they all look alike. So Yobo was marking the person he thought was the new striker oblivious to the fact that he had the wrong man and the striker was in fact free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Goal ignorance is bliss untill it bites u

You could be right, but I don't it. Yobo was not marking anyone when Hadji scored.

Blakes · Post by **Blakes** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:28 pm

fishward1 wrote:None of the above.
The Morrocan manager for realising that we do not do our homework and Yobo would not know who to mark whwn a change was made as to us they all look alike. So Yobo was marking the person he thought was the new striker oblivious to the fact that he had the wrong man and the striker was in fact free!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Goal ignorance is bliss untill it bites u

nah go and watch it again...yobo was not marking anyone...he was standing in front of the keeper...i dont know what he was dreaming about but he allowed his man to stray a little, this gave hadji enough time to the damage....by the time yobo got there the shot had already been taken...West would never have allowed a thing like that..

azuka · Post by **azuka** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:34 pm

None of the players but rather CCC for presenting a team that displayed a

piss-poor performance

as Gotti put it. I am not crucifying CCC yet though because i believe we can still qualify if only he does not translate mass attack to mean fielding 4 strikers at the same time.