Completesports.com’s Live Blogging of the Paris 2024 Olympics women’s football Group C match-day 3 game between the Samurai Blue women of Japan and the Super Falcons of Nigeria at Stade de la Beaujoire, Nantes.
Japan Vs Nigeria Live Blogging – Paris 2024 Women’s Football; Group C Matchday 3
Nnamdi Ezekute
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Oshoala should operate from the left wing in place of Toni payne who doesn’t know how to shoot. Okoronkwo should never be benched for any reason or at worst play Kanu upfront. Stop playing Okeke at lb she’s good at CB or better still play Nicole at Lb or Alozie. This coach is an idiot sorry to say because he doesn’t use his brain or he’s intentionally sabotaging our football.
Exactly my take after watching how all ur performed pretty well toward the end of our match vs Brazil from that LB, play her from the LB and start Nicole jr from the RB.
We better make use of our chances and at least win this match, now that Canada might be ruled out due to 6pts deduction which simply means the group A won’t have any 3rd place finish.
Right now any win that give us 3pts would possibly see us through to the last 8.
It’s funny this days as say the word, sabotaging our football.I truly laughed.Anyway let’s see how it goes.Lets wish the Super falcons well against Japan.Hope they’re not going to play with defensive football today.If they do Randy Waldrum should be sacked whether we win or we lose.We need a Coach that believe in the team abilities going forward by attacking and playing attractive football irrespective of who Nigeria is playing at the moment.We can’t get it right who doesn’t have a winning mindset and believe about Nigeria chance to compete with the best.If he does that funny defensive football he will follow Jose Peseiro to the exit door.God Bless Nigeria.God Bless Super falcons.We’re behind you.
Any link to watch the match
Don’t even bother they are playing rubbish and are 2 goals down.
This girls lack intelligence and they can’t compete. This is too sad to watch. How do you expect to win if you cannot create chances? They can’t even complete accurate passes. So disjointed.
@Jaybee, abegi quit playing the players…
How come they don’t seem to “lack intelligence and they can’t compete” at their clubsides? Sadly, a poor workman blames his tools.
I think they should just come home….lol Japan is up 1 goal a game we need a win.
I’m done watching this ladies, like seriously, how do you decided to
Play ur worst game at the time u need to win ? Like what’s that okeke the LB doing in this team? She’s just playing against us, wardrobe or what’s ur name again, you are a shame of a coach, like what’s really going on with our sport all round?
I’m not sure why he dropped Imuran for this lady……Experience always counts than being physical. Waldrum sometimes acts like an imbecile.
Even Glory Ogbonna would probably have been a much better choice…
A match the Super Falcons want to win against Japan and they are 2 goals down within 30 minutes of first half. This is disgraceful! They can’t even score goals, no matter the opposition- what’s going on with Nigerian football at all cadre?
Useless tools!
Why does Waldrum keep fielding Okeke? She doesn’t know the game plan, looks confused most of the time, misplaces passes, and is the weak link in all the matches.
Plus our girls are just comparatively heavy. Not nimble. Not fast. Attack is blunt.
Disappointed is an understatement.
I’ve never been a fan of the ultra-defensive approach to matches. Watching our opponents dictate the pace while we sit back and absorb the pressure is like signing up for a stress test. It’s great for fans who love sitting on the edge of their seats, sweating bullets, and experiencing heart palpitations with every opponent’s attack. But for me, it’s a NO!
While our opponents look like ballet dancers with their elegant moves, we look like clumsy construction workers—jumping, blocking, sliding, and kicking just to prevent goals. It’s not my thing, and I’ve hated this style of play ever since Mourinho turned it into an art form, even as a long-suffering Chelsea fan.
Sadly, Waldrum has decided to drag the Super Falcons down this same dreary path, turning our players into a bunch of brawlers instead of a sleek, efficient machine. With Ayinde and Plumptre, the two linchpins of this strategy, missing, Waldrum should have tried to make the team more adventurous and daring. But let’s face it, the only thing this team does well is defend. They struggle with holding possession, creating chances, and scoring goals. We’re not going anywhere with that.
If Waldrum wants to stick around, he needs to fix this fast. Otherwise, we’ll just keep showing up to tournaments with nothing to show for it except higher blood pressure and frayed nerves.
Sake no let me vex for you ooo, stick arround to do what exactly? Haven’t you watched/tired of this man? He shd just go I beg, stick around on what ground exactly? It took me only few minutes of watching that Payne younger sisters introduction to the match against Brazil to easily know she gat be starting ahead of that okeke girl, but the dullard of a coach sticked with her, plus it would be good if the yeye agba bolla or what’s that her name just retire from NT football henceforth, like who even gave her that name? Abi na me know come
Know the meaning of (AGBA) again niii?
Japan has been brilliant. Not faulting our girls (apart from Okeke), they just don’t have what it takes.
Even falconet wil play stronger than this .. tomorrow nff glasshouse shud expect us .. if this is how dey play all team to fail because of money.. I doubt if anyy japanese lady is playing in Europe. All are home base and camp in Tokyo over months .
And Koch is Japan man
Stop the lies half of the Japanese team play in England and some in Italy….They have only 4 home-based players in that team. I don’t know why you guys like misinforming people.
Stop blaming Okeke it’s like playing Rudiger at left back when we all know he’s Ann excellent Centre Back. The coach is just pathetic like his employees. I pray we don’t concede 7 goals Ajibade will even make a better coach, no wonder he couldn’t even win WAFCON yet one idiot will continue saying sack him and no more Olympics. Now he’s no where to be found lol inferiority complex at its peak Dr egungu!!!
Chima, whether LB or CB it doesn’t justify passing almost all ur ball to the opposition.
If you have played football before you’ll understand that it takes a lot to adapt with such demand. She’s known for being a great CB and never seen her as lb most especially when we have better options for that position. That’s by the way coz we’re coming home and I hope they’ll join the protest for change.
@Onwajunior, abegi don’t blame Okeke. Many players become more tentative and less instinctive when playing in a “un-natural” position. We have Glory Ogbonna and Rofiat Imuran, but choose to “shoe-horn” the right-footed Okeke into the position. E don cast nah! SMH
Hahahaha….look at this imbecile. Shameless thief….LMAOOo
You expected free flowing tiki-taka branded wins against Japan, Spain and Brazil after 10 days camping because they are Ethiopia and Cape Verde right…..?
Thief….!!!
We didnt even qualify for the Olympics for 16 whole years no thanks to your Madugus who only know how to run oever the likes of Capeverde and Somalia…..LMAOoo
Keep your toilet mouth shut Magudu defeated an Ethiopian side that South Africa couldn’t withstand yet your shallow self can not appreciate than to down play it as common victory. Anyone going into argument with you is all set to get dull because you lack wisdom.
Age grade football, we play attacking football.. We take the the game to out opponents, but when it comes to senior teams.. Defensive.. Just look at third goal by the Japanese, can we do that? Set piece.. Boom goal.. The coach has made us compact only.. Scoring goal has been an issue.. Rinse and repeat again.
My other observations.
– The team loses idea when building from the back.
– No synergy or telepathy in the attack. It’s mostly individual plays
– As brilliant as Nnadozie is, she’s slightly heavy in this competition
With all of these una talks abeg jare who know when the tigress are going to play their next game.
Tigress playing France tomorrow, @1715 nija time.
When Ayinde got injured Waldrum was so stupid to invite Onumonu when we were deficient in the middle. I’m kinda like at a crossroad if he is to stay or go but I can’t lie he improved our women football and convinced some quality to switch to Nigeria.
So despite 6pts and 6goals deduction, Canada still qualify as second in there group while our own skit makers ladies can’t even draw a single game. When all they eat breakfast, lunch and dinner are starchy food, eba, rice, amala, akpu and the likes why won’t they be running like
Pregnant ladies everywhere shiooo, all bigger countries with even lesser population than use have already winning medals up and down, but we na to just go to Olympic to
Add to the numbers of participating countries, wasted resources .
Meanwhile, what was the point in selecting CHINONYEREM MCLEANS?!
A player who didn’t play in any of the qualifiers nor has even played with the squad for any significant amount of time (except for a basically cameo role at 2022 WAFCON) – and ended up not playing a second at this Olympics while taking up otherwise valuable space in a small competition squad.
If such a BIZARRE selection had been made by an indigenous coach, pretty certain the Randy Worshippers would have simply lost their collective rags and would have been driveling on about ‘marketing’ and corruption’. SMH