Cybereagles

He won a 16 team tournament without the likea of Senegal, Egypt, Cameroon, even taking part.

Algeria and Morocco were much weaker than they are today. Did not have all their European born players yet.

CIV was literally our only legitimate contender in that tourney.

Reason I wanted him fired was because he was a crook not interested in building a formidable SE, but more concerned with lining his pockets.

In the end I was proven right and he couldn't even qualify us to the next tournament, disgracing us against Sudan, fake Congo, and this put Nigeria into the darkest period of 2 missed ANCs and our lowest ever FIFA ranking all because of his destabilization.

Just finished the First half Second time around

- It is becoming a common theme that the match I saw the second time is not the one I remember

- No way was this game as bad as people are saying, even I am guilty in this regard

- Algeria and Nigeria were both dead even. It was an even match, dare I say we actually even had the better chances to score, other than the sloppy goal at the beginning of the match

-the tired cliches about us "not being able to string together passes" is a complete lie and fabrication by either emotional people stressed at watching live games (myself included) or those with an agenda. We had some very neat passing play at times. In fact we did not give the ball away as much as I remember, and when we did it was usually when the Algerians double or triple teamed our guys with a high press.

- Our defence was SOLID. It is understandable why Rohr went back to the "Oyibo wall" Nothing was getting by these guys, and the wing backs were great as well and it is understandable why the Algerian website gave their attackers such low scores.

-Onyeka was not as bad as people made him out to be. He got disposessed once early in the game in a bad area, but other than that, he worked hard, covered lots of ground, and even tried to get into the attack part of the game. I would definately not write him off, and want to see more of him vs Tunisia.

- Ajayi also wasn't bad at DM, and he won lots of ball in the air from midfield as well as on the ground. He is an extra tall body on the pitch for set pieces.

- Onuachu is just not a fit for this SE. Not a diss on him, but we dont need that kind of forward. We need a guy who will press the defence, and a guy who is far more dynamic. Onuachu is not it, and it wasn't just about "service" He is too one dimensional, not a good fit.

- Iwobi is very talented, we are lucky to have a player like him. The hate against him needs to stop. He was everywhere, covered lots of ground, dropped back deep to make things happen, made intelligent passes and decisions. Iwobi is a G, and he can only get better.

- Kalu and Chuks were OK, but I expect a lot from them, they weren't bad, but they were just OK, they defended as well too.

- Zaidu what an upgrade from that hapless Collins. Frankly with Aina and Ebuehi both able to play left back, I struggle to see the relevance of Collins in a SE 23. I would rather take Aina, Ezibuhe, Ebuehi, Sanusi to any tournament. I hope Rohr can see things this way, since he loves players who can play multiple positions.

- Ebuehi was very good defensively and has quick recovery speed, would like to see a little more in attack.

- Chei Balogun still has it. That boy get vexxed and joins the attack to try and make something happen, I was one of those writing him off, but he is here to stay for the time being. Omeruo and Awaziem will be the ones to lose out.


Overall a very good work out so far. I am not worried about this team at all.

Now on to the 2nd half.

Perhaps we in the middle of rebuilding after losing a few 1st team players to retirement/age (Mikel, Moses, Ighalo, Onazi, Ogu) and not having 3 of our current central midfielders available yesterday. That is what you call sliding backwards?

Meanwhile, yesterday was a friendly with both teams playing understrength but our own understrength was worse. Ajayi (as DM), Onyeka, Onuachu are really understrength. Kalu and Chukwueze are out of form. And Algeria are the current African champions. And yes, they looked better than us. That is the purpose of friendlies.

The excuses are pretty much pathetic... 4 years plus and they are shouting understrength . I cannot wait for the massive shame come WCQs, nah then una eye go open

Understrength for one match. Haba! You no go school? When you are forced to play without 5 first choice players, you are understrength. That’s even easy for casuals to understand.

They played with even more of their first choice out, so that’s a moot point...just admit team didn’t look good and let’s move forward. Injuries are part of the game, SE lost their top scorer vs Mali in 2013 but was still able to win the final. We definitely need depth and seemed both teams were working on testing out their depth but they still looked better at it than we did. We never once felt like we were gonna equalize or really had any sustained threat. That is something we need to work on, no excuse can hide that fact.

maceo4

for the most part Rohr has got the scouting and callups correct, but as I stated earlier he made a few mistakes with this window

Onuachu is nothing new, we have seen him, he even started ANC matches for us and this guy has always been unable to fit into the team. I feel that Rohr was under pressure because of his club form and Dessers sitting bench on the very same club to call Onuachu up and start him because of his goals in training.

I really hope this Onuachu chapter has fully ended, he has had enough chances, plenty in fact, he needs to be absolutely and equivocally written off for GOOD.

He even jumped ahead of Maja, who was the one on the standby list, Onuachu wasn't even originally on it.

There is no reason why Rohr and his scouting crew have not identified the fact that Sadiq is not only tall, but quick, and very technical with goals and assists galore. NO EXCUSE TO OVERLOOK HIM.

IMO I think Sadiq is the backup for Osimehn we are looking for, its just too bad he couldn't make a proper move this transfer window.


Now to the midfield, a huge mess up by Rohr and the crew calling up a paper thin midfield with all of our injuries. I personally called this out before the game, now it is glaring as ever.

Alhassan Yusuf, Azeez should both have been called up. No excuse whatsoever to exclude Azeez. Nwakali sef should have been called up if the Covid was not an issue, which I doubt it was.

How on earth you can go into 2 matches with a midfield of Onyeka, Agu, Tijani is simply astounding.

You mention that Algeria midfield were all non starters, yes but those midfielder ALL play in Ligue 1, while we are parading a guy playing in Denmark, a youngster who just started his career in Austria, and a central defender, and we wonder why we were outplayed in midfield.

Again I have been happy with most of Rohr's decisions, but some of them have been head scratching to say the least.

The highlighted is summarily my whole point, Maceo is talking about us getting outplayed by non-starters on the Algerian side, but those Algerian midfielders despite not first starters, still play for established clubs in France. How would you expect us not to get outplayed when we fielded a rookie from Denmark, some 18 year kid still on loan in Austria and a natural defender playing as a CDM... This one is on Rohr, if we had the likes of Azeez, perhaps even Nwakali and even Ejaria (if only his passport issues were sorted out in time), that Algerian team was easily there for some thrashing... and we didn't even need the likes of Ndidi, Etebo or Aribo to do that.

Bros they had Mahrez and a very promising Behranma with some of their key players on the bench... whom did we have? basketball star Onuachu leading our attack and some experimental midfield with Semi playing in an unfamiliar position and Onyeka looking out of sorts with no chemistry with Semi. Not taking anything away from our poor performance, but Algeria fielded a far more balanced team than ours despite missing some first starters on their side. Against Tunisia play Dessers, Ejuke and Simon upfront... then let's see what Tijani can do in the midfield and Akpoguma in defense. Already Sanusi and Ebuehi have solved our full back problems as it seems.

Bros, Mahrez was their worst player on the night. We should stop throwing out names because even our best player is not the level of Mahrez that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t be able to put passes together and look somewhat coordinated. If Mahrez beat us with individual brilliance you hold your hands up and say well it is what it is. But Mahrez was not the one hampering our play, their midfield that was all non starters had more of an affect on our flow of play.

The players you listed didn’t impose themselves on the team, they were picked by the coach, we all asked why an Azeez would be overlooked with all these injuries, only for the same coach to play a CD in midfield, does that make any sense to you? We’ve all said the same about Onuachu why can’t the coach see it? Why can’t Sadiq Umar get a chance if you are looking for a tall forward that would better fit into SE rather than having to adjust to their lumbering style.

It just wasn’t a good showing, we should have enough depth to do better than this, I don’t see how anybody can argue with what Gotti said. Let’s chill with the excuses, focus on where we need to improve instead.

Ejaria, Lookman and Nwakali will bring some serious creative edge to this team.