Re: OFFICIAL: NFF release team list for friendly games
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2022 1:33 pm
Cellular wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 7:58 pmI don't have a problem with the list.vancity eagle wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 5:47 pm What should have been done.
I can't fault the coach for his choice in 4 strikers given our injury situation
Dessers, Moffi Iheanacho, Awoniyi
He gets a pass for this
Wingers/wide forwards
Again good picks given injuries but no need for so many. Musa should be finished with the national team.
Midfield is barely satisfactory
Iwobi, Ndidi, Onyedika Onyeka
He should have called up Yusuf, no ifs ands or buts and in fact Yusuf was called but then cancelled for some unknown reason. Completely unacceptable.
Defence is again barely satisfactory
Why was that Blackpool defender not called ?
Why was Osei Samuel not called to challenge Ainas RB position and give us new options ?
Why were 6 centre backs called ?
All in all the squad is imbalanced lacking more central midfielders and overloaded with CBs and Wingers.
We've wasted a friendly window where we could have tested legit options from Yusuf in the middle to Ekpetita and Osei Samuel at the back.
We typically have a problem with lists...
What I will like to see is for the coach to see the players up close and personal and slowly weed the ones who can't play for him the way he wants them to play.
He will in a hurry realize that having too many forwards on a team doesn't win you jack.
If he intends to be successful, he will have to scout and find more midfielders and ball playing Centerbacks. Reduce the number of forwards you invite (make the competition stiffer). Stop playing forwards as midfielders... And he will have a winning tenure as coach.
Since we triggered DNQ, thanks to you, BigPorkey, EII and co for the moral support that led to that, but I digress, we have started a new cycle.
But some of you insist on eating your wife's (or Gf's) stale okro soup!
Like Ugbowo said, inadvertently, you accept sh1t without complain and ask for a second helping...
We are here celebrating like Maceo, Balogun's two starts in the Championship at 34yrs, and we think we will be successful?
2years from now we will be screaming our heads off about failure as if it suddenly happened.
Its happening now....