How Nigeria Crashed to CAR......(Report/Ratings)

[Enugu II]

The unfortunate result demonstrated Gernot Rohr's inability to solve a packed defense that closed out any meaning fully Nigerian attack down the spine. The CAR central defenders dominated the air and massed on top of their box as they fended any attack generated by the home team. To make matters worse, Nigeria generated very little opportunities, surprisingly, in the opening half. This was clearly demonstrated when one of the few notable opportunities was a 20 yard strike, opportunistic at best, by Osimhen midway in the opening half. In the wide areas, the Central Africans easily dealt with crosses from wide. But even such crosses were few and far between with Ejuke choosing mostly to cut in from wide and Collins offering nothing going forward. It harkens back to Manager Gernot Rohr who had told Nigerians that he was not going to change his system for any one when asked about varying his method for the masterful header of the ball -- Paul Onuachu. Yet, on this day, it came back to haunt Rohr.

CAR, sensing Nigeria was ripe to be taken, dared to try the unthinkable. They attacked! They had put the ball in the net in the opening half but an obvious foul on Jamilu ruled that opportunity out. But yet, thy had another opportunity. This time it came late. With a minute left in regulation time, a ball dropped with two Nigerian defenders against a sole CAR attacker. Somewhat, Balogun failed with an attempted header out of danger and the CAR attacker easily shot into the gaping net past goalkeeper Uzoho. But it had not been CAR's lone chance. Beyond the disallowed goal, Uzoho had masterfully prevented another midway in the second half.

Here is the link for more
http://eaglecity.blogspot.com/2021/10/m ... es-at.html

[Enugu II]

The unfortunate result demonstrated Gernot Rohr's inability to solve a packed defense that closed out any meaning fully Nigerian attack down the spine. The CAR central defenders dominated the air and massed on top of their box as they fended any attack generated by the home team. To make matters worse, Nigeria generated very little opportunities, surprisingly, in the opening half. This was clearly demonstrated when one of the few notable opportunities was a 20 yard strike, opportunistic at best, by Osimhen midway in the opening half. In the wide areas, the Central Africans easily dealt with crosses from wide. But even such crosses were few and far between with Ejuke choosing mostly to cut in from wide and Collins offering nothing going forward. It harkens back to Manager Gernot Rohr who had told Nigerians that he was not going to change his system for any one when asked about varying his method for the masterful header of the ball -- Paul Onuachu. Yet, on this day, it came back to haunt Rohr.

CAR, sensing Nigeria was ripe to be taken, dared to try the unthinkable. They attacked! They had put the ball in the net in the opening half but an obvious foul on Jamilu ruled that opportunity out. But yet, thy had another opportunity. This time it came late. With a minute left in regulation time, a ball dropped with two Nigerian defenders against a sole CAR attacker. Somewhat, Balogun failed with an attempted header out of danger and the CAR attacker easily shot into the gaping net past goalkeeper Uzoho. But it had not been CAR's lone chance. Beyond the disallowed goal, Uzoho had masterfully prevented another midway in the second half.

Here is the link for more
http://eaglecity.blogspot.com/2021/10/m ... es-at.html

Just a note .... This is CAR's only win in their last 10 internationals which include gams against the likes of Rwanda (0-2, 0-5) Liberia, Cape Verde, and Mauritania (0-1 and 0-2). Go figure!!!

[vancity eagle]

The unfortunate result demonstrated Gernot Rohr's inability to solve a packed defense that closed out any meaning fully Nigerian attack down the spine. The CAR central defenders dominated the air and massed on top of their box as they fended any attack generated by the home team. To make matters worse, Nigeria generated very little opportunities, surprisingly, in the opening half. This was clearly demonstrated when one of the few notable opportunities was a 20 yard strike, opportunistic at best, by Osimhen midway in the opening half. In the wide areas, the Central Africans easily dealt with crosses from wide. But even such crosses were few and far between with Ejuke choosing mostly to cut in from wide and Collins offering nothing going forward. It harkens back to Manager Gernot Rohr who had told Nigerians that he was not going to change his system for any one when asked about varying his method for the masterful header of the ball -- Paul Onuachu. Yet, on this day, it came back to haunt Rohr.

CAR, sensing Nigeria was ripe to be taken, dared to try the unthinkable. They attacked! They had put the ball in the net in the opening half but an obvious foul on Jamilu ruled that opportunity out. But yet, thy had another opportunity. This time it came late. With a minute left in regulation time, a ball dropped with two Nigerian defenders against a sole CAR attacker. Somewhat, Balogun failed with an attempted header out of danger and the CAR attacker easily shot into the gaping net past goalkeeper Uzoho. But it had not been CAR's lone chance. Beyond the disallowed goal, Uzoho had masterfully prevented another midway in the second half.

Here is the link for more
http://eaglecity.blogspot.com/2021/10/m ... es-at.html

Just a note .... This is CAR's only win in their last 10 internationals which include gams against the likes of Rwanda (0-2, 0-5) Liberia, Cape Verde, and Mauritania (0-1 and 0-2). Go figure!!!

its terrible, but how many of those games did they park the bus ?

I've said this a long time ago.

When you play these minnows in Africa you need to have skillfull players WHO DO NOT RELY ON PACE, and you need creativity in the middle

players like Iwobi, Ejuke, Ejaria, Lookman are key in these type of games.

Guys like Musa and Simon are pointless.

Carpenters serve no purpose whatsoever, ,so calling up the likes of Bonke is just retarded, So is calling up 9 defenders for heavens sake.

[joao]

Too many yarns riding on pure emotions.
If only we are realistic and true to ourselves, we will not be sounding so hurt.
There are no minnows in football. Just teams and fans with little regard for the
opposition, and no team discipline.
If the SE manage a win on Sunday, many of today's lamenters will be back to this site,
crowing and hyping up players as second coming of our greats.

[mystic]

The unfortunate result demonstrated Gernot Rohr's inability to solve a packed defense that closed out any meaning fully Nigerian attack down the spine. The CAR central defenders dominated the air and massed on top of their box as they fended any attack generated by the home team. To make matters worse, Nigeria generated very little opportunities, surprisingly, in the opening half. This was clearly demonstrated when one of the few notable opportunities was a 20 yard strike, opportunistic at best, by Osimhen midway in the opening half. In the wide areas, the Central Africans easily dealt with crosses from wide. But even such crosses were few and far between with Ejuke choosing mostly to cut in from wide and Collins offering nothing going forward. It harkens back to Manager Gernot Rohr who had told Nigerians that he was not going to change his system for any one when asked about varying his method for the masterful header of the ball -- Paul Onuachu. Yet, on this day, it came back to haunt Rohr.

CAR, sensing Nigeria was ripe to be taken, dared to try the unthinkable. They attacked! They had put the ball in the net in the opening half but an obvious foul on Jamilu ruled that opportunity out. But yet, thy had another opportunity. This time it came late. With a minute left in regulation time, a ball dropped with two Nigerian defenders against a sole CAR attacker. Somewhat, Balogun failed with an attempted header out of danger and the CAR attacker easily shot into the gaping net past goalkeeper Uzoho. But it had not been CAR's lone chance. Beyond the disallowed goal, Uzoho had masterfully prevented another midway in the second half.

Here is the link for more
http://eaglecity.blogspot.com/2021/10/m ... es-at.html

Just a note .... This is CAR's only win in their last 10 internationals which include gams against the likes of Rwanda (0-2, 0-5) Liberia, Cape Verde, and Mauritania (0-1 and 0-2). Go figure!!!

its terrible, but how many of those games did they park the bus ?

I've said this a long time ago.

When you play these minnows in Africa you need to have skillfull players WHO DO NOT RELY ON PACE, and you need creativity in the middle

players like Iwobi, Ejuke, Ejaria, Lookman are key in these type of games.

Guys like Musa and Simon are pointless.

Carpenters serve no purpose whatsoever, ,so calling up the likes of Bonke is just retarded, So is calling up 9 defenders for heavens sake.

It's not simply about being skillfull. 90 percent of a player's worth has to do with what he does when he doesn't have the ball. After a static, stagnant and sloppy first half performance; you would think that our lack of mobility and ball movement would have been emphasized at the half. But we came out playing the same way in the 2nd half.

It was a loss that was well deserved based on how poorly we played.

[wanaj0]

Too many yarns riding on pure emotions.
If only we are realistic and true to ourselves, we will not be sounding so hurt.
There are no minnows in football. Just teams and fans with little regard for the
opposition, and no team discipline.
If the SE manage a win on Sunday, many of today's lamenters will be back to this site,
crowing and hyping up players as second coming of our greats.

There are still minnows. You just deal with them accordingly.

There is a reason why minnows are yet to win the WC

[mcal]

The unfortunate result demonstrated Gernot Rohr's inability to solve a packed defense that closed out any meaning fully Nigerian attack down the spine. The CAR central defenders dominated the air and massed on top of their box as they fended any attack generated by the home team. To make matters worse, Nigeria generated very little opportunities, surprisingly, in the opening half. This was clearly demonstrated when one of the few notable opportunities was a 20 yard strike, opportunistic at best, by Osimhen midway in the opening half. In the wide areas, the Central Africans easily dealt with crosses from wide. But even such crosses were few and far between with Ejuke choosing mostly to cut in from wide and Collins offering nothing going forward. It harkens back to Manager Gernot Rohr who had told Nigerians that he was not going to change his system for any one when asked about varying his method for the masterful header of the ball -- Paul Onuachu. Yet, on this day, it came back to haunt Rohr.

CAR, sensing Nigeria was ripe to be taken, dared to try the unthinkable. They attacked! They had put the ball in the net in the opening half but an obvious foul on Jamilu ruled that opportunity out. But yet, thy had another opportunity. This time it came late. With a minute left in regulation time, a ball dropped with two Nigerian defenders against a sole CAR attacker. Somewhat, Balogun failed with an attempted header out of danger and the CAR attacker easily shot into the gaping net past goalkeeper Uzoho. But it had not been CAR's lone chance. Beyond the disallowed goal, Uzoho had masterfully prevented another midway in the second half.

Here is the link for more
http://eaglecity.blogspot.com/2021/10/m ... es-at.html

Just a note .... This is CAR's only win in their last 10 internationals which include gams against the likes of Rwanda (0-2, 0-5) Liberia, Cape Verde, and Mauritania (0-1 and 0-2). Go figure!!!

its terrible, but how many of those games did they park the bus ?

I've said this a long time ago.

When you play these minnows in Africa you need to have skillfull players WHO DO NOT RELY ON PACE, and you need creativity in the middle

players like Iwobi, Ejuke, Ejaria, Lookman are key in these type of games.

Guys like Musa and Simon are pointless.

Carpenters serve no purpose whatsoever, ,so calling up the likes of Bonke is just retarded, So is calling up 9 defenders for heavens sake.

...where were those guys you listed? On the bench during the match?

[airwolex]

I said that Iwobi was our most important player and Kogi called me an agent. The SE is not a team and are dependent on individual moments of brilliance. Also the pitch did not help. Just leveled the playing field and made the match a lottery. The good thing is that we play again soon.

[Enugu II]

I said that Iwobi was our most important player and Kogi called me an agent. The SE is not a team and are dependent on individual moments of brilliance. Also the pitch did not help. Just leveled the playing field and made the match a lottery. The good thing is that we play again soon.

But airwolex, that excuse is a nonstandard. Without 10 Iwobis is still not an excuse against CAR bros, CAR is so scary that it has not won in its last 10 games? It is so scary with 4th division players and local players? So scary that we need an Iwobi to dispatch CAR?

[Cellular]

Too many yarns riding on pure emotions.
If only we are realistic and true to ourselves, we will not be sounding so hurt.
There are no minnows in football. Just teams and fans with little regard for the
opposition, and no team discipline.
If the SE manage a win on Sunday, many of today's lamenters will be back to this site,
crowing and hyping up players as second coming of our greats.

SMDH!

[joao]

Too many yarns riding on pure emotions.
If only we are realistic and true to ourselves, we will not be sounding so hurt.
There are no minnows in football. Just teams and fans with little regard for the
opposition, and no team discipline.
If the SE manage a win on Sunday, many of today's lamenters will be back to this site,
crowing and hyping up players as second coming of our greats.

There are still minnows. You just deal with them accordingly.

There is a reason why minnows are yet to win the WC

Thanks for confirming what I had known all along - That the SE are 'a top minnow' pretending to be a shark.
If only our fellow compatriots can figure this out, the less anguish they have to bear.
Cheers!!!

[maceo4]

This was their most famous victory in the history of their country. I don’t think some of y’all get how bad this was. This isn’t a case of there are no more minnows. This is a case of shame and embarrassment!

[Cellular]

This was their most famous victory in the history of their country. I don’t think some of y’all get how bad this was. This isn’t a case of there are no more minnows. This is a case of shame and embarrassment!

Don't mind them. **** has succeeded in lowering expectations that folks console themselves with "there are no minnows" talk.

Yet when we get beat by teams who are ranked higher than us, the same **** will be talking about, "well they have better players who play in better leagues and clubs so the result is expected".

[joao]

Too many yarns riding on pure emotions.
If only we are realistic and true to ourselves, we will not be sounding so hurt.
There are no minnows in football. Just teams and fans with little regard for the
opposition, and no team discipline.
If the SE manage a win on Sunday, many of today's lamenters will be back to this site,
crowing and hyping up players as second coming of our greats.

SMDH!

You know there is quite a 'difference between wishful thinking and reality'.
If you realize that the NFF cannot afford to get the right coach, and prefers someone they can owe money to
and manipulate on player choices, where then is your optimism stemming from?
Just so you know, the is the same NFF that had Nigeria miss Men and Women Olympics, and failing to qualify for
sets of age group competitions. BTW, did you notice that all the blames ended up being placed on the coaches?

I know what I'm looking at, and my reality helps ease my pains. Please try looking at the whole picture.
Cheers Bro!!!

[mcal]

...I 100% blame this loss on the players on the field.
No matter what, you have to be able to beat this armature players in the duration of 90 mins.
We have players from 3 of the top leagues in the world, in Europe, yet they could not control ball, string passes, decipher a low level side.
Granted we had many misses, this was due to panic shooting or heading and defending.
A pro should be composed on the ball at all time.
The 2 center backs screwed up big time to not be able to muscle and wrestle the ball from the goal scorer.
I commented at half time, 'first half was disjointed' and true to form they returned for the second half still disjointed.

[vancity eagle]

I said that Iwobi was our most important player and Kogi called me an agent. The SE is not a team and are dependent on individual moments of brilliance. Also the pitch did not help. Just leveled the playing field and made the match a lottery. The good thing is that we play again soon.

But airwolex, that excuse is a nonstandard. Without 10 Iwobis is still not an excuse against CAR bros, CAR is so scary that it has not won in its last 10 games? It is so scary with 4th division players and local players? So scary that we need an Iwobi to dispatch CAR?

you are absolutely right

our 4th or 5th eleven should dispatch CAR easily.

The problem however is that Rohr does not really plan beyond his first 11. Keshi did the same thing.

Rohr after 5 years still does not have a deputy for Iwobi, Ndidi, Osimehn, so when these players are missing he scrambles like a clueless fool and has no clue what to do.

When I started my depth chart thread it was to deal with these situations when players are injured or unavailable.

Rohr has not thought about this, he doesn't plan for unforseen events. The fact that he takes 3 midfielders into a double header is proof of this.

then he has started to fill the bench with dead wood, carpenters and defenders.

When you need game changers who will you bring on ? Defenders ? Carpenters ? Dead Woods ?

Dont even get me started on our tactical attacking play, it is non existant, static and one dimensional. Even watching average teams in Africa, their play has been better.

[wanaj0]

I said that Iwobi was our most important player and Kogi called me an agent. The SE is not a team and are dependent on individual moments of brilliance. Also the pitch did not help. Just leveled the playing field and made the match a lottery. The good thing is that we play again soon.

But airwolex, that excuse is a nonstandard. Without 10 Iwobis is still not an excuse against CAR bros, CAR is so scary that it has not won in its last 10 games? It is so scary with 4th division players and local players? So scary that we need an Iwobi to dispatch CAR?

you are absolutely right

our 4th or 5th eleven should dispatch CAR easily.

The problem however is that Rohr does not really plan beyond his first 11. Keshi did the same thing.

Rohr after 5 years still does not have a deputy for Iwobi, Ndidi, Osimehn, so when these players are missing he scrambles like a clueless fool and has no clue what to do.

When I started my depth chart thread it was to deal with these situations when players are injured or unavailable.

Rohr has not thought about this, he doesn't plan for unforseen events. The fact that he takes 3 midfielders into a double header is proof of this.

then he has started to fill the bench with dead wood, carpenters and defenders.

When you need game changers who will you bring on ? Defenders ? Carpenters ? Dead Woods ?

Dont even get me started on our tactical attacking play, it is non existant, static and one dimensional. Even watching average teams in Africa, their play has been better.

Yes Keshi did the same thing and defeated your favourite team with the Elephant Slayer showing what he can do. Keshi went ahead to WIN the AFCON and get to the second round of the WC. Something Rohr is yet to do even after about 6years on the job.

[maceo4]

I said that Iwobi was our most important player and Kogi called me an agent. The SE is not a team and are dependent on individual moments of brilliance. Also the pitch did not help. Just leveled the playing field and made the match a lottery. The good thing is that we play again soon.

But airwolex, that excuse is a nonstandard. Without 10 Iwobis is still not an excuse against CAR bros, CAR is so scary that it has not won in its last 10 games? It is so scary with 4th division players and local players? So scary that we need an Iwobi to dispatch CAR?

you are absolutely right

our 4th or 5th eleven should dispatch CAR easily.

The problem however is that Rohr does not really plan beyond his first 11. Keshi did the same thing.

Rohr after 5 years still does not have a deputy for Iwobi, Ndidi, Osimehn, so when these players are missing he scrambles like a clueless fool and has no clue what to do.

When I started my depth chart thread it was to deal with these situations when players are injured or unavailable.

Rohr has not thought about this, he doesn't plan for unforseen events. The fact that he takes 3 midfielders into a double header is proof of this.

then he has started to fill the bench with dead wood, carpenters and defenders.

When you need game changers who will you bring on ? Defenders ? Carpenters ? Dead Woods ?

Dont even get me started on our tactical attacking play, it is non existant, static and one dimensional. Even watching average teams in Africa, their play has been better.

Yes Keshi did the same thing and defeated your favourite team with the Elephant Slayer showing what he can do. Keshi went ahead to WIN the AFCON and get to the second round of the WC. Something Rohr is yet to do even after about 6years on the job.

Yep losing his top scorer in the ANC semi final and his starting LB in the final, replacing his starting CB (Omeruo for Yobo), DM (Onazi for Ogude), his number 10 (Mba for Nosa) throughout the course of the tournament, didn’t have Moses available for first two games…but yea he only cared about his first 11….

[chief nfachairman]

The unfortunate result demonstrated Gernot Rohr's inability to solve a packed defense that closed out any meaning fully Nigerian attack down the spine. The CAR central defenders dominated the air and massed on top of their box as they fended any attack generated by the home team. To make matters worse, Nigeria generated very little opportunities, surprisingly, in the opening half. This was clearly demonstrated when one of the few notable opportunities was a 20 yard strike, opportunistic at best, by Osimhen midway in the opening half. In the wide areas, the Central Africans easily dealt with crosses from wide. But even such crosses were few and far between with Ejuke choosing mostly to cut in from wide and Collins offering nothing going forward. It harkens back to Manager Gernot Rohr who had told Nigerians that he was not going to change his system for any one when asked about varying his method for the masterful header of the ball -- Paul Onuachu. Yet, on this day, it came back to haunt Rohr.

CAR, sensing Nigeria was ripe to be taken, dared to try the unthinkable. They attacked! They had put the ball in the net in the opening half but an obvious foul on Jamilu ruled that opportunity out. But yet, thy had another opportunity. This time it came late. With a minute left in regulation time, a ball dropped with two Nigerian defenders against a sole CAR attacker. Somewhat, Balogun failed with an attempted header out of danger and the CAR attacker easily shot into the gaping net past goalkeeper Uzoho. But it had not been CAR's lone chance. Beyond the disallowed goal, Uzoho had masterfully prevented another midway in the second half.

Here is the link for more
http://eaglecity.blogspot.com/2021/10/m ... es-at.html

Just a note .... This is CAR's only win in their last 10 internationals which include gams against the likes of Rwanda (0-2, 0-5) Liberia, Cape Verde, and Mauritania (0-1 and 0-2). Go figure!!!

its terrible, but how many of those games did they park the bus ?

I've said this a long time ago.

When you play these minnows in Africa you need to have skillfull players WHO DO NOT RELY ON PACE, and you need creativity in the middle

players like Iwobi, Ejuke, Ejaria, Lookman are key in these type of games.

Guys like Musa and Simon are pointless.

Carpenters serve no purpose whatsoever, ,so calling up the likes of Bonke is just retarded, So is calling up 9 defenders for heavens sake.

What creativity does lookman have? Like we didn't watch him all through last season. Even Ejaria na gragra. 4 yrs now in championship. His mates have met him.and left him to bigger leagues. He's still there been hyped by only one dense CE.

[chief nfachairman]

I said that Iwobi was our most important player and Kogi called me an agent. The SE is not a team and are dependent on individual moments of brilliance. Also the pitch did not help. Just leveled the playing field and made the match a lottery. The good thing is that we play again soon.

But airwolex, that excuse is a nonstandard. Without 10 Iwobis is still not an excuse against CAR bros, CAR is so scary that it has not won in its last 10 games? It is so scary with 4th division players and local players? So scary that we need an Iwobi to dispatch CAR?

Bro, no excuse but that the God of football decided to shine it's light on CAR on that day. Same with SL that leveled up with We from 4 goals down. And you see these type of games happening once in a while to even bigger teams.