Celebration of odion ighalo goal

Can the super eagles of Nigeria move on from mikel with this kind of performance?? Only time will tell

Super eagles of Nigeria have moved to the second on the table in group E after they disperse the Mediterranean knight of Lybia in an afcon qualifier game played at the akwa ibom international stadium today, and odion ighalo scored his first hat trick for the super eagles of Nigeria and samuel kalu got the final goal as Nigeria won four nil in the encounter in another group E match the bafanabafana of south Africa defeated the Seychelles six nil to go top of the group..

Their today win got everyone dancing, singing and all full of joy and also congratulating them not minding the tribe or where anyone came from and we started talking about the fact that super eagles won for Nigeria and odion ighalo got an hat trick for Nigeria what a very big one for him although many people want to say maybe a hat trick is sought of made in China , made in Germany (LOL) wherever it's made a goal is a goal..

Looking at the performance of the guys especially with the guys that started , the likes of jamiu collins and with what he was able to put up today he will be maybe going forward to make a place in the super eagles of Nigeria fold..

Jamiu collins

No one can say yet although he had a good game, a game that was just decent, it was not really a relatively excellent performance but one moment I will pick out from today is that when he made that fantastic run from the back gave iwobi and iwobi giving him direct and pass again and then he continue that run till he got into the box and he shot at goal and eventually he shot at the other side of the crossbar, at that moment it was a fantastic run it's really a world class display what we ascribe to the likes of marcelo, alaba and the likes it was really really good but then aside that particular moment he wasn't really so adventure or maybe he was a bit isolated because I feel at some point there was passes that when musa was at the left flank and also when samuel kalu was at the right flank they would have easily given it to him but most of the pass were going towards the center maybe because iwobi was running riot and almost all the ball was going to him, because at some point some passes should really have been given to him, but no one to look at his side, maybe if they had done that, he would maybe have a very good performance I mean attacking wise.

Defensively, we didn't play a Lybia side that were really threat in the game, at a point they had a moment where they want to score but they were not really good. Even the defenders were not really disturbed,so I felt if the team had attack lot more we would have seen the defensive quality of jamiu collins, for today he had a good performance that can really give him subsequent appearances ahead of brian idowu, but

for me he did fair today.

Samuel kalu behind Justin Kluivert of Ajax Amsterdam.

Now about samuel kalu ignoring the fact that he scored a goal he should have been replaced in the game, because he was trying to be too individualistic, maybe probably because he was trying to get a goal for his country but then for the better part of the game Nigeria were relying alot on central football and it was difficult for a winger to get involved specially with that kind of play, because all ball goes to the number 10 it's difficult for a winger whose personal interest is to skin into the defenders and then come back in to get a shot at goal or send in a cross, but for samuel kalu he was just too selfish, because there are times you expect him to link up with the full backs or with the striker a lot more but he felt it will be very good going all alone, and a part whereby he need to send a pass he decided to dribble, his job in that game is to ensure he link up with the full back to ensure they didn't give the midfield trouble and the attack a lot of problem, although at a point it looks like he will be able to do it but at a longer stretch of the game he couldn't and now decide to do what he want well is something I think when he play lot more he will try to improve and do a lot for the team

Alex iwobi

For alex iwobi , he played centrally and was a little bit looking good rather than playing on the flanks for the super eagles. The decision is just for gernot rohr to decide but as for me and I also believe so many Nigerians will prefer to just have an alex iwobi starting the game in the number 10 position rather than having a mikel coming back into the national team because with this game against Lybia today we saw how fantastic iwobi was playing from the midfield the way he was connecting with the likes of etebo, nididi and with the attacking pattern of the team , It was a very great performance for iwobi and had a solid backing from ndidi and he was very fantastic in terms of retaining the ball, iwobi is the peak of the moment in the team, even if mikel will be coming back to the team he will be coming in for any of the guys in the middle because I don't even want mikel to replace either of the midfield 3 , is actually what we need in the team but we still can't rule out the experience of mikel obi in the national team and the afcon is coming very very soon, so the absence of mikel cannot be do without but nevertheless I will prefer iwobi to continue as the number 10 because he's fantastic in that position for Nigeria and he's a good player when it comes to creativity.

The super eagles will meet Lybia in the second leg in tunisia next week Tuesday..