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Finidi has a big heart; demonstrating all through the 90 min of the game. Good he got a 1st time win.
Diambars mounted good & constant attack; their defense not really tested.
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Oguleftie wrote: Sat Oct 16, 2021 8:27 pm Finidi has a big heart; demonstrating all through the 90 min of the game. Good he got a 1st time win.
Diambars mounted good & constant attack; their defense not really tested.
Much respect. Diambarrs is a solid team build from a reverred Senegalese academy that has sent up several guys who eventually end up in France and then the Senegalese national team.
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:lol: @ the Finidi 'peeing dog' goal celebration
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Congrats to Finidi..... Soon NFF's hands shall be forced. Just do the business and a few more years.
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I'm glad for Finidi, but this idea you can just force an ex SE player to become coach od the national team is just wrong.

Lampard was a Chelsea legend. What happened when they put him in charge of Chelsea as coach ?

Simply being an ex player does not qualify you to be a coach.
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vancity eagle wrote: Sun Oct 17, 2021 11:14 pm I'm glad for Finidi, but this idea you can just force an ex SE player to become coach od the national team is just wrong.

Lampard was a Chelsea legend. What happened when they put him in charge of Chelsea as coach ?

Simply being an ex player does not qualify you to be a coach.
He has to prove he is good. However, note that the likes of Rohr who is now NT Coach was practically nothing in terms of resume before he became SE manager. If Nigeria is prepared to settle on the likes of Rohr, one has to figure that there are several Nigerians who can easily make the grade in no time at all.
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How Finidi George conjures a dream start to life at Enyimba FC
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October 17, 2021 8:29 PM

It was a dream start for Finidi George as he led Enyimba FC to an away victory against ASC Diambars of Senegal in his first game in charge of the Aba based team.

The match which is one of the second round elimination series of the 2021/2022 CAF Confederations Cup match was played at the Stade Lat-Dior, in Thies on Saturday 16 October 2021 and ended with 1-0 in favour of Enyimba FC.

Finidi put out the traditional 4-4-2 formation, granting new signings Olorunleke Ojo and Super Eagles defender, Adekunle Adeleke their debut match for Enyimba.

Adeleke combined with Bilal Yakubu, Somiari Alalibi and Emmanuel Appiah to form a formidable line of defence in front of the Olorunleke in goal.


The quartet of Sadiq Abubakar, Fatai Abdullahi, Philip Ozor, Frank Esobe manned the midfield while Samuel Kalu and Victor Mbaoma led the people's Elephant attack.

While John Noble, Chigozie Obasi, Pascal Eze, Nabil Yarou, Cyril Olisema, Orok Gabriel and Emeka Obioma find their place on the reserve bench.

The host took the game to the Enyimba with a quick exchange of passes through the midfield but the Aba Elephants held their own and gradually put down their feet in the game after surviving the early incursions from the fleet-footed Diambars FC players.

Finidi Goerge was on his feet on the sideline, throughout the first half, reading the game and calmly giving instructions to the Enyimba players as their performance gets better while the game dragged to a goalless first half.

In the second half, Diambars came out smoking forcing Enyimba to defend in mass with the defenders putting up a wall of resistance to everything Diambars threw at them.


Ojo Olorunleke was up to the tasks, as he put on a good show with incredible saves from the attacking line of the Senegalese side led by Cheick Kamara.

Coach Finidi George made two tactical changes when he pulled off Bilal Yakubu, and Samuel Kalu and brought in Emeka Obasi and Cyril Olisema to put some stability in the midfield while changing the formation to 4-5-1 to put the attacking forays of the Saly based team at bay.

The coach was forced to replace Frank Esobe who was trending dangerously on a yellow card and replaced him with Emeka Obioma in the 63rd minutes while tiring Victor Mboama made way for Gabriel Orok.

Finidi double substitution paid off in the 86th minute when Gabriel Orok was brought down in the box, and Cyril Olisema made no mistake to send the goalkeeper, Francois Djiba the wrong way to give Enyimba the lead.

Diambars came all-out to restore parity in the few remaining minutes but all heeded no results.


The team was made to pay for their failure to covert many scoring chances that came their way, including eleven corner kicks as the match ended by one goal to nil at the end of the ninety minutes.

Ojo Olorunleke describes the winning start as a morale booster ahead of the second leg in Aba.

“Diambars are a very solid side and they gave us a good fight. This result is a morale booster for us and we hope to finish the work in Aba" Ojo told Goal.
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CAF Confederation Cup: Finidi hails Enyimba’s away win against Dimbars
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Enyimba head coach Finidi George has hailed his side’s away win against Senegalese club Dimbars FC in the first leg of their CAF Confederation Cup first round tie on Saturday.

The Peoples Elephant defeated their hosts 1-0 with substitute scoring the winning goal from the spot three minutes from time.

Finidi , who was gracious in victory, expressied his admiration for the Diambars team.


“Personally I am happy that we played this way. We knew this team (Diambars) is a very good team technically, they pass the ball very well but at the same time we kept our composure, we kept our formation and then tried to hold them so that they cannot score an easy goal,” the gaffer told the club’s website.

“In the second half we still played that way trying to contain them and the tempo dropped and that helped us as well to pass the ball a little bit more in the middle and gave us that opportunity with the few changes we made.

“We saw that in the second half most players were tired after sixty minutes and we made some changes and brought in some fresh legs which really helped to give us that penalty.”
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