Completesports.com’s Live Blogging of the Colombia 2024 FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Group D match-day 2 game between Die Nationalelf of Germany and the Falconets of Nigeria at Metropolitano Techo Stadium, Bogota.
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Their finishing touches in front of goal is so poor and midfielder are too far from the defenders affecting our ball distribution, but the lads are trying
Lads??
Lasses…
If we could show Germany less respect,we stand a good chance of scoring a couple of goals to nick this game..The problem we have against big opponents is showing them too much respect
I don’t think this team will not go far in this world cup. For starters, the coach is not good enough. The players themselves, apart from lacking technical abiliies, are very selfish and indiscipline. Against Korea, Osigwe had the chance to pass to a free player to score, she refused, went for glory and threw away that glorious chance. Today in the first half the number 6 player had a chance to pass to a free player with the net gapping, she decided to go for glory and eventually fluffed the chance. How can a team progress in a competition with these attributes.
I also do not think the players Danjuma is parading or took to the world cup are the best Nigeria can offer. No wonder Danjuma’s team could not beat Ghana on two different occasions. After this competition, Danjuma should go. He had very good under 17 players that graduated to the under 20 to work with but he is choosing to use his own players who are even not good enough. It is just sickening, the ttitude of Nigerian coaches. Pure incompetence and corruption.
At the end of the day, 23 teams will NOT win this competition….
The players did some good things and some poor things (frankly little or no different from the Germans really, who messed up on some great scoring chances and effectively ‘gifted’ us a goal). That’s just the nature of football at this level (if not arguably at all levels). Let’s count the miles after the race is finished!
Meanwhile, which “great” 2022 U17 players are you going on about? Two of the poorer players today (Bello and Ajakaye) were from that squad. Although I think Afolabi may have been able to help this team (albeit she’d presently pre-occupied with the U17 WC preparations and Folorunsho did well), football is NOT like the Nigerian civil service where you get promoted from level to level based on the great ‘accomplishments’ of being alive (in fact, you don’t even need to be alive given the prevalence of ‘ghost’ workers…LOL!). Perhaps Miracle Usani, who is apparently the rave-of-the-moment based on substantively little or nothing more than her performance against mostly pedestrian opposition at the WAFU B WCL qualifiers, should’ve been called up (and maybe she was – after all, most folks didn’t know that Ajakaye and Oyinlola had been called up after their names were missing on the initial prelim list), but frankly I don’t think she’d move the needle.
Even though the tram lost tonight, they nonetheless performed better than in the win against Korea, so hopefully the team will continue to improve as the tournament progresses. GOOD LUCK LADIES!
You know there is a problem in a team when the captain of the team (Ohaegbulem) is more or lass a passenger in the defense and Rofiat Imuran and Flourish Sabastine are proving that they don’t deserve to be in the team. You’re talking about an Ajakaiye that Danjuma brought into the match when the Germans had ran the team ragged with technical deftness on the ball.
What do you think will happen to the psyche of a player if a coach is clearly refusing to give him or her equal opportunity or allow for full integration into a team. Even Osimhen would have found it a nightmare staying put in Napoli after Conte told him clearly that he was not needed. You mentioned Miracle Usani and quickly brushed aside her performance in a competition where she did well. But the players Danjuma prefers, with their indiscipline and selfishness are now showing why they struggled in Africa. Who do you think stand to lose from this poor judgment or what should I even call it sef, by Danjuma
You were saying….LMAOO!
They should just stop appointing barbers as national team coaches, because clearly, the only thing they’re trimming is our chances of winning anything. If the NFF thinks we’re going to get different results with the same old nonsense, they’re dreaming. Honestly, can the NFF point to a single thing Danjuma has achieved for Nigeria besides just showing up for FIFA competitions? But of course, they will never learn. As long as you’ve got someone up there pulling the strings for you, you’re untouchable—even if you’re wasting taxpayers’ money left, right, and center on a mediocre coach and his badly managed players.
That’s Nigeria for you. This team is going nowhere, and you can quote me on that, anywhere!
You will know a team lacks technical input when the team works so hard yet produces nothing.
You will know a team has technical input when the team seems to do so little yet produces all the goods.
If both teams will squeeze their jerseys at the end of this match, while a drop of sweat may not fall of those of the germans, ours will collect buckets filled with sweat.
We know them…..the ‘players must turn things around themselves’ sort of coaches. They will beat the likes of Capeverde and Ethiopia silly because obviously, we have better PLAYERS, but become useless when we meet teams with players equally as good [or better] as ours and the bench expected to make the difference.
There was nothing special about this german team. Our girls only needed the right information and instructions to put them to the sword.
Your comment brings back sad memories of Coach Randy’s Super Falcons at the Paris Olympics…LMAO!!
More like reminding us of the tragedy of why we couldn’t qualify for the Olympics for 16 solid years before Waldrum came to the rescue from such a disgrace.
To think that ‘agba baller’ could have joined Desire Oparanozie in retiring from football without having graced the hallowed and prestigious arenas of the olympics….??!
Or reminding us of the accomplishment of qualifying for back-to-back U20 WCs – and actually getting WINS (as in more than one) while there… LMAO!
To think ‘Agba Baller’ would (barring any future miracle) retire from football having tasted ONLY DEFEATS at the Olympics is the real ‘tragedy! SMH
Please “tell us for free” when last we failed to qualify for the FIFA U20 WWC……??? LMAOOOooo
Qualifying for an age-grade tournament [our forte] we have qualified for ALL its editions since 2002 and reached its Semis 3 times, because ‘players can turn things around themselves’ in Africa, barely scraping through on aggregate against BURUNDI[2-]] and TANZANIA[3-2], is an achievement…..LMAOoo…. only to be taught the rudiments of coaching by more competent white coaches at the WC proper….LMAOOoo.
I am 100% certain had we met Ghana [Pepp Danjuma’s nemesis] or Cameroon in the u20 WCQ, it would have been home-sweet-home for us…..LMAOooo
Same Olodo got booted out of Olympics qualifiers in the 3rd of 5 rounds [unprecedented in the history of Nigerian football]…..LMAOOoo…by a CIV Waldrum defeated home and away in Awcon/WC qualification…..LMAOOoo
Nigerians will rather accept qualifying for every edition of the olympics and going there to lose to current and past world champions than the tragedy of being booted out in the 3rd round of qualifying and not smelling the Olympics for 16 years.
Please “tell us for free” when last we failed to qualify for the FIFA U20 WWC……??? LMAOOOooo
Qualifying for an age-grade tournament [our forte] we have qualified for ALL its editions since 2002 and reached its Semis 3 times, because ‘players can turn things around themselves’ in Africa, barely scraping through on aggregate against BURUNDI[2-]] and TANZANIA[3-2], is an achievement…..LMAOoo…. only to be taught the rudiments of coaching by more competent white coaches at the WC proper….LMAOOoo.
I am 100% certain had we met Ghana [Pepp Danjuma’s nemesis] or Cameroon in the u20 WCQ, it would have been home-sweet-home for us…..LMAOooo
Same quack got booted out of Olympics qualifiers in the 3rd of 5 rounds [unprecedented in the history of Nigerian football]…..LMAOOoo…by a CIV Waldrum defeated home and away in Awcon/WC qualification…LMAOOoo
Nigerians will rather accept qualifying for every edition of the olympics and going there to lose to current and past world champions than the tragedy of being booted out in the 3rd round of qualifying and not smelling the Olympics for 16 years.
Let’s get this WitchDOCTOR logic…
The USA, Brazil and Germany must have poor indigenous coaches since – just like Nigeria – they have similarly qualified for EVERY U20 WC, which apparently in the Babalawo doctor world is proof of incompetence! LMAOOOO!!
Meanwhile, Nigeria has somehow managed to get to multiple q-finals, 3 s-finals and 2 finals, while apparently completely avoiding our resident Witchdoctor’s magical “competent white coaches” along the way…oh wait! LMAOOOO!!
Anyway, it was NOT Randy Waldrum who qualified Nigeria for the 2023 Olympics. It was JUSTIN MADUGU and Randy! The medal for winning a RELAY is not awarded to only the runner on the last leg! LMAOOO!! LMAOO!!
PS: At least Coach Danjuma did NOT LOSE to CIV either at home or away (despite only being appointed as an emergency replacement for an absconding foreign coach barely 2 weeks to the tie, with a squad from which the NFF excluded several key players for leading protests over their unpaid allowances/bonuses). That’s more than can be said for a certain coach who got his behind axed and handed to him by South Africa at HOME in Lagos (let’s not even mention ‘away’ at the WAFCON as well). LMAOOO!!!
INNUMERABLE THANKS TO JUSTIN MADUGU for his inestimable contribution to Nigeria’s qualification for the Paris 2023 Olympics. Not only did he demonstrate (and remind us all) that the Super Falcons can actually score multiple GOALS under a competent coach, but the real prospect of playing 0-0 draws home and away with Ethiopia under Coach Randy and then probably losing on PKs (as the Falcons have done in EVERY instance under Randy) is the stuff that nightmares are made of! SMDH while LMAOOO!!!
Since Nigeria has previously failed to qualify for the Olympics, the 2020 non-qualification was NOT “unprecedented in the history of Nigerian football” (not that we expect factual rectitude to be on the Witchdoctor School curriculum…LOL!).
What’s FACTUALLY “UNPRECEDENTED (emphasis added) in the history of Nigerian football” is the Super Falcons (or in fact ANY Nigerian female NT at ANY level) (1) losing 6/7 CONSECUTIVE GAMES or (2) LOSING 3 GAMES at WAFCON – each UNPRECEDENTED nightmarish milestone ‘accomplished’ under own supposedly “more competent white coach” RANDY!! LMAOOO!!
The players work rate is good even better than the Germans. The players are seeking individuals glory. The players are guilty of ball watching. The players are technically deficient.
The Germans are technically good. Our girls learned something from this game.
If the coach could shout at the girls while correcting mistakes, and addressing their individual expectations, they will beat and opponents with this work rate and pace.
Must call a technical officer to help pinpoint these areas for improvement.
The players work rate is good even better than the Germans. The players are seeking individuals glory. The players are guilty of ball watching. The players are technically deficient.
The Germans are technically good. Our girls learned something from this game.
If the coach could shout at the girls while correcting mistakes, and addressing their individual expectations, they will beat and opponents with this work rate and pace.
Must call a technical officer to help pinpoint these areas for improvement.
God will bless everyone commenting this night, it shows our support for the Nation.
We need technical players in our teams. That will solve 89% our problem. Players can play and win games without the coach’s contribution if they are united and technically sound.
The girls showed too much respect. I think all our national teams need psychologists to put them in the right frame of mind. We played well, but it didn’t look as if we actually wanted to win.
@ Papafem and Dr. Drey thank you so much for your observations and comments. Like I said before, it is sickening to keep watching Nigerian coaches give us heartache any time we go for FIFA grade competitions. In Africa gragra will work and win you matches. But when it comes to FIFA competition proper, gragra and jambody football will fail woefully. This is the lot of this current Flamingoes team coached by Damjuma.
The writing was on the wall when Danjuma could not beat Ghana in Africa on two different occasions. One would haveexpected that NFF will query him and demand explanation as to why he could lose to the same team two times in a row. But because it is naija, that type of accountability will not happen. For as long as you know the right people, your job is never going to be threatened even if you keep churning out disastrous performances.
While the German ladies were using their heads, our girls were just using share energy. But we know that whenever physical energy meet mental energy, it is mental energy that will prevail. In the match today, there was no discernable input from Danjuma. No clear cut strategy. Just put players on the pitch and let them go and play. This is very shameful. When will our local coaches learn? The team performance today showed that they were badly coached. No intelligent play. No deliberate attempt to fashion out goal scoring chances. The list goes on and on.
This team has scored two goals in two matches and while one of them was a fortuitous goal (neither a cross nor a shot on goal), the other was a clear mistake by the opponent. So, how can a team win matches with this statistic. Its just not going to happen. You can win against the likes of Fiji, Lesotho, Tahiti etc But not against good teams. This teams is not even sure of beating Ghana if they meet again.
I have not seen Nigerian youth players being this selfish in a long while. But this team is full of selfish players who are more interested in personal glory to the detriment of the team’s success. This attribute will kill this team.
Again, I don’t understand how or why Rofiat Imuran keeps getting invitation to the super falcons. If she can’t hold her own against under 20 players how is she going to compete against more matured players at the senior level. Even Flourish Sabastine does not deserve to be starting in this team. She lacks stamina and can’t even take on defenders. But these are players people continue to clamour to be included in the super falcons. You see why super falcons continue to fail at the very top level.
No until we as a nation decide to do things right, it is this type of result and heartache we will continue to get.
You should take up COMEDY….
The same “gra gra” that saw us win 5 U17 trophies (male) and get to 2 U20 WC and U20 WWC finals. Shame same “gra gra” couldn’t have been brought to bear by our non-“Nigerian coach” at the last WAFCON in Africa, as we struggled to finish outside the medals and lost 3 games in the competition for the first time ever!
Anyway, glad for you that you’re not “sickened” to score “two goals in two games” (even a fortuitous one…LOL!) at the “FIFA competition” Olympics nor even score in more than one game at either of the “FIFA competitions” of the 2023 WWC and the Olympics.
Heck, we couldn’t even bring “gra gra” to bear in 2 goalless draws in Africa against an aging Cameroonian team and South Africa (winning the latter tie by a “fortuitous” PK – as if they all don’t count the same) as we failed to score in 8 of our last 13 games under our non-“Nigerian coach”!
But on some things, you’re right. One would’ve thought that the NFF would “query” (perhaps even fire) a Super Falcons coach that got us humiliated by SA 2-4 at HOME in Lagos, LOST to Ghana away (at least our “Nigerian coach” managed a draw), and had us LOSING 6/7 CONSECUTIVE MATCHES for the first-time ever! SMDH
Well, Stand up Comedy na work na. Just as fortuitous goal, penalty kick, and pure open play goal all count the same. You and I know that if NFF were to be a serious federation, they will never have appointed all these “pack the bus” coaches they have been appointing for our national teams both male and female. If NFF were to be serious Waldrum and Peseiro would never have been the coaches of our senior national teams and the super eagles and super falcons would not have been struggling to score or win matches. But because na naija, the insincere people running our football continue to give us people who should never have been coaches of our national teams.
Funny enough you failed to mention those foreign and local coaches who have coached the super eagles and super falcons and given us good football with good goal scoring teams. I didn’t know you could forget Clemense Westerhof, Bonfere Jo, Amodu Shuaibu Stephen Keshi, Ismaila Mabo, Florence Omagbemi etc.
If you hire a good coach you get good results. But if you hire quacks, you get shabby results. Just like computer, it’s garbage in, garbage out. You reap what you sow.
That left back was just getting cooked. I believe they will make it out of the group guaranteed. Venezuela have no chance against us. I just don’t know how far they can go in the tournament. Our finishing is lackluster. We matched the Germans stride for stride, but they are more a cohesive unit than our sparsely individual talents. They need to work more on their finishing. It was glaring that the Germans are more technically superior than us. I wish the SuperFalconets all the best in their subsequent matches.
Even beating Venezuela is no longer a given after the Korea stalemate. Obviously, they look NOT like Fiji and might give us a run for the money especially now that our team is full of selfish players, languid backline and no discernable pattern except kick and follow football.
You were saying…LMAOOO
Danjuma has been playing futbol more with his mouth than the legs of his team. Even if we get out of the group, our end can easily be predicted by many well organized and tactical sides that abound in the competition. It seems everything in Nigeria is in the reversed gear, that’s the meaning of EMI LOKAN economy or simply put round pegs in square holes!