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SCOUTING REPORT: Super Eagle & Lobi Stars Ebube Duru

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Tactical analysis of Lobi Stars’ Ebube Duru – scout report
Ademetan Abayomi by Ademetan Abayomi January 19, 2021
https://futbalgalore.com.ng/2021/01/19/ ... ut-report/


This scout report will contain tactical analysis on Ebube Duru’s attributes and his playing style. Left full-back currently plays for Lobi Stars in the Nigeria Professional Football League.


Even though he is 21-year-old, the defender has already featured in the CAF Champions League in his career.

Player overview

Duru is 21-year-old attacking-minded full-back and that is the reason why he looks quality when plays as a wing-back.


His stamina and work rate allows him to cover the whole flank and to participate in both defensive and offensive duties. Duru is fast and his low centre of gravity helps him control the ball well and bypass opponents. Not only that he possesses impressive physical abilities he also moves well off the ball and makes smart decisions. His crossing is his top quality because he delivers outstanding crosses into the penalty area.

Attacking phase

As we already mentioned his deliveries into the penalty area are often followed with a chance for his teammate.

Even though Duru has a passing option between two defenders in front of him, he decides to cross because there is a lot of space between 6-yard-box and penalty spot from where his teammates can attack the cross. One of the reasons is his more offensive role in Lobi Stars formation this season where he has more freedom to join the attack and not exclusively tied to the left flank. Duru uses his more offensive role to get into chances. His physical qualities in pair with high football IQ allow him to be a step ahead of his marker, especially in transition.


The former Nigeria U23 international often uses his low centre of gravity to change direction in order to gain an advantage over his opponent in his off the ball movement.

The last thing we will mention about Duru’s offensive skill set is that he can create good situations with his passing and not only by crossing the ball.

Defensive phase

After analysing Duru’s offensive qualities we will now take a look into his defensive qualities. We already mentioned physical qualities and now we will see how he uses them defensively.


He is always focused on his player and his body position helps him adjust to any potential action his opposition takes. If opposition tries to bypass him down the flank he is positioned well to interject into his path, but also if the opposition tries to cut inside he has enough space to adjust his body to prevent him going towards the goal. His opponent plays pass towards his teammate and runs from the outside to try and receive the pass into the open space behind Duru.

Weaknesses

After mentioning Duru’s qualities we will now mention some weaknesses. Given his 179 cm height, he can be a liability when defending the far post. Teams who have higher wingers could exploit that. What could work on is decision making because sometimes he tends to shoot even when he has better options and also sometimes his attacking positioning can endanger his team because he is too far to prevent counter-attack.


Conclusion

This analysis gave us information on Ebube Duru’s capabilities. It is certain that current Lobi Stars tactical philosophy gets out the best from Duru in the attacking phase. He has high potential and still a lot of room to improve and given the shortage of quality left-footed full-backs in Nigeria he could be one of the leading players on that position in the years to come.
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It's been a long while since we had a good attacking LB , I think the last one we had was Iroha who was very good going forward. Cele Baba was the best of them because he was very good at both ends but not as good as Iroha going forward. I could b wrong but this boy sounds promising, at 21 he should look to Europe, maybe Portugal.
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He was the undisputed #1 LB in the league last season which is why he was the starting LB for the CHAN eagles and gets called up to the main SE. He has a sweet left foot.



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Is he a left back, an attacking midfielder or deep lying midfielder?
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Every position but midfield.

Next they will call another goal keeper.

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niyi wrote: Tue Sep 20, 2022 5:37 am Is he a left back, an attacking midfielder or deep lying midfielder?
He's a Left Back. His call-up actually makes sense if they plan on playing Bassey in Central Defense. However, that still leaves the team unbalanced with an overload of Centrebacks and Wingers.
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mystic wrote: Tue Sep 20, 2022 2:28 pm
niyi wrote: Tue Sep 20, 2022 5:37 am Is he a left back, an attacking midfielder or deep lying midfielder?
He's a Left Back. His call-up actually makes sense if they plan on playing Bassey in Central Defense. However, that still leaves the team unbalanced with an overload of Centrebacks and Wingers.
It doesn't really make any sense at all.

If Bassey is a CB, then why are there FIVE other centrebacks. Same thing happened under Rohr and it was attributed to his "defensive style"

We can all see now that the same person/people seem to be picking these imbalanced squads.

So why wasn't this LB called initially if supposedly Zaidu was the only leftback ?

The people running things are retards. Quite literally.

Instead of giving Alhassan Yusuf his much deserved debut, we are calling up 6 centrebacks and 3 leftbacks, and 6 wingers.

I'm waiting for 4 or 5 keepers next.

What utter nonsense.
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vancity eagle wrote: Tue Sep 20, 2022 5:42 pm
mystic wrote: Tue Sep 20, 2022 2:28 pm
niyi wrote: Tue Sep 20, 2022 5:37 am Is he a left back, an attacking midfielder or deep lying midfielder?
He's a Left Back. His call-up actually makes sense if they plan on playing Bassey in Central Defense. However, that still leaves the team unbalanced with an overload of Centrebacks and Wingers.
It doesn't really make any sense at all.

If Bassey is a CB, then why are there FIVE other centrebacks. Same thing happened under Rohr and it was attributed to his "defensive style"

We can all see now that the same person/people seem to be picking these imbalanced squads.

So why wasn't this LB called initially if supposedly Zaidu was the only leftback ?

The people running things are retards. Quite literally.

Instead of giving Alhassan Yusuf his much deserved debut, we are calling up 6 centrebacks and 3 leftbacks, and 6 wingers.

I'm waiting for 4 or 5 keepers next.

What utter nonsense.


The team lost 4 roster spots due to injury related withdrawals, but chose to only fill 3 of those spots with replacements. So Peseiro could have added another central midfielder if he wanted to. It's all very short sighted.

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