Football is dead

Bigpokey24 · Post by **Bigpokey24** » Sun Jul 08, 2018 1:19 pm

A team with only 2 wins in regulation time , defeating Panama and Tunisia are in the semi finals of the worldcup... wow , who says negative football isn't the way to go.. huff, puff long ball all the way and hope for a big man to nod it in for glory...

Eaglezbeak · Post by **Eaglezbeak** » Sun Jul 08, 2018 1:48 pm

Bigpokey24 wrote:A team with only 2 wins in regulation time , defeating Panama and Tunisia are in the semi finals of the worldcup... wow , who says negative football isn't the way to go.. huff, puff long ball all the way and hope for a big man to nod it in for glory...

Yeah well this is their time if they fail to reach the final they’ve blown it but if they do reach the final win or lose you’ll have to put your hands up and admit they took advantage of a gift (that’s how the British Empire was made),there are numerous nations that wouldn’t have got this far with better players even with the same opportunities after all what happened to the mighty Germans?

Molue Conductor · Post by **Molue Conductor** » Sun Jul 08, 2018 2:45 pm

Bigpokey24 wrote:A team with only 2 wins in regulation time , defeating Panama and Tunisia are in the semi finals of the worldcup... wow , who says negative football isn't the way to go.. huff, puff long ball all the way and hope for a big man to nod it in for glory...

IT's the European style. How did Portugal win the Euros

Bigpokey24 · Post by **Bigpokey24** » Sun Jul 08, 2018 2:56 pm

Well it isn't right and it kills the joy of watching the game.. I am beginning to lose serious interest

Post by **King Futcha** » Sun Jul 08, 2018 3:23 pm

well, that didn’t last long... negative pokey is back. I’m guessing you found out the lady has a new guy.

Man Ataye · Post by **Man Ataye** » Mon Jul 09, 2018 2:53 am

Bigpokey24 wrote:Well it isn't right and it kills the joy of watching the game.. I am beginning to lose serious interest

I feel u here too.

kalani JR · Post by **kalani JR** » Mon Jul 09, 2018 4:18 am

You're still gonna watch right?

Post by **truetalk** » Mon Jul 09, 2018 5:49 am

Bigpokey24 wrote:A team with only 2 wins in regulation time , defeating Panama and Tunisia are in the semi finals of the worldcup... wow , who says negative football isn't the way to go.. huff, puff long ball all the way and hope for a big man to nod it in for glory...

They also beat Sweden in regulation, and they were clearly the better side against a good Colombian team.

They might not be an exceptional team, but they have a couple of good players, and they are well coached and play to their strengths.

It hurts because this is what Nigeria should be at this World Cup only if we had a coach with any sort of competence. England, France and Nigeria are the youngest teams in the tournament, and while the other two have turned games into a track meet, the team that probably has the most pace collectively was sitting back, soaking up pressure & not substituting fatigued players.

Coach · Post by **Coach** » Mon Jul 09, 2018 7:01 am

And of those young teams, one fatigued more than the others. That’s the salient point. Ignasevich sp, 38 or is it 39 years of age, complete how many matches? Russia were able to repair a hamstring in seconds, Vincent Kompany is playing back to back games. It’s beyond coaching. It’s the science of the game, whilst we’re walking around in flowery Nike strips, the rest are decked in lab coats and thick lensed spectacles like a true poindexter. One turns left onto a Milan catwalk, the other turns right into a futuristic laboratory that looks cut straight out of Wakanda.

Post by **truetalk** » Mon Jul 09, 2018 8:06 am

Coach wrote:And of those young teams, one fatigued more than the others. That’s the salient point. Ignasevich sp, 38 or is it 39 years of age, complete how many matches? Russia were able to repair a hamstring in seconds, Vincent Kompany is playing back to back games. It’s beyond coaching. It’s the science of the game, whilst we’re walking around in flowery Nike strips, the rest are decked in lab coats and thick lensed spectacles like a true poindexter. One turns left onto a Milan catwalk, the other turns right into a futuristic laboratory that looks cut straight out of Wakanda.

You're way off on this Shakeskongi. Not even BALCO & Victor Conte could rescue the Eagles from the disaster this incompetent German beset on them in Russia. It took 10-15 minutes of the Croatia game to know that this dude was going to sabotage the team in this World Cup. I stated that on the game thread. I still made the trip to Russia anyway, hoping that the NFF would have chased this clown away from the team after that horrible first game.

This dude started Idowu over the spark that was Ebuehi in the previous game. Talk about taking the pace out of the team. Let's not even start with the vacationing Echiejile. I'm not even sure the clown pays attention to detail. Ekong passing the ball out of the back is a no-no. All of us on here know that, & have been saying it. A coach should drill that down his ears. Safe, short no risk pass to a wide open teammate or blast it 70 yards down the line of the opposition. Yet, this was what gifted an out of sync Messi his only World Cup goal.
The same lack of attention to detail could have cost us the World Cup ticket in a tighter group as he played Shehu in Algeria, even though we needed to get Ebuehi capped for a number of reasons.

The angel* is still waxing lyrical about FIFA rankings while defending his incompetence, as shown in an interview today. Pinnick has now glued us to this coach for 2 more years. Remember, this NFF board pretty much sacrificed the rest of our football for the Eagles and this World Cup.

http://aoifootball.com/2018/07/08/ill-l ... nigerians/
“When you have a team playing this good, beating Iceland who are ranked 20 in the world, while we are 49, a team that had Argentina who are number six in the world close to a knockout, who would think of resigning from this team? You would need to question your own work. No, it’s out of the question for me right now.

My brother, there are a few broken, cynical Pas & Grandpas here whose views and outlook have become jaundiced by their own jaded experiences and mediocre expectations.

Don't become one of them.

We've never done it, they say! So why would it have been different this time?

In only one half (really half of one half) did the Eagles even attempt to play to their strengths in Russia. Even the kids on the Nairaland World Cup thread see that. This was the first time in a World Cup that the Eagles were undone purely by bad coaching, thanks to a lazy, mediocre incompetent German.

http://www.nairaland.com/3018619/super- ... -2018/4387
The friendlies were a warning sign that Rohr might choke...we chose to ignore it and claim we'd show up.
In as much as we weren't favorites to get out of the group, Rohr's in game management especially against Argentina killed us. I'll never ever forgive him for letting Argentina bring in Pavon and Aguero and he just kept quiet forgetting he has a 31 year old Mikel in midfield and his LB was getting tag teamed.
His indecision and Ighalo killed us.

our working conditions here in Nigeria can't handle a coach like LVG....
but to be true...rohr cost us this world cup....
had it been the coward coach...took time perfect the 3-5-2 formation during those friendlies... we won't have ease out from the world cup so fast...

the coach messed up big time...Croatia was there for the taking that day....but rohr being a coward sticked to the 4-2-3-1 formation.

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