Argentine in the match was a success with rookie Iceland, but not quite a surprise. What Iceland can do is provocatively proved by the Portuguese draw or a shock win over England at EURO 2016. Just a bit of a surprise that two years have passed, but Iceland still retains the inspiration and play. The same discipline as the EURO campaign.
This discipline would be Iceland's major advantage in today's match. After what was shown in the match, the appearance of Nigeria was quite clear. They have big stars, such as Victor Moses, John Obi Mikel, Kelechi Iheanacho, but the play of the Blue Eagles is still like a classic African team: very strong, very fast, very clever, but wild and lack of adhesion.
To deal with this typical African style is not too difficult. Just maintain a stable pace of play, discipline and skill, Iceland will hold the chance of winning. Iceland's hardest point in this game is not having a specific goal.
If the match against Argentina, Iceland just blockade all roads to Lionel Messi, the match against Nigeria today, opponents will have quite a lot of triggers. However, the story of Iceland will still revolve around individual encounters rather than a battle on the stage. Nigeria will take advantage of their star players to create a mutation with their own explosive capabilities. So Iceland only needs to win in doubles battles are likely to create opportunities for counterattack.
Of course, it will still be a top choice for Nigeria. The African defenders are strong, playing ball rolling discharge, but the ability to mediate defensive arrangements to the middle of the sentence is not strong. With an average height of up to 1m85 and the throwers are no different than wings, Iceland can take advantage of the "dead ball" to score.
There are many who believe that the long experience in Nigeria's World Cup playground will help them navigate Iceland. Of course, in terms of experience, Nigeria is better than the competition. However, the experience of the Blue Eagles in the recent World Cup is the experience ... lost battle.
Since the 1998 World Cup, Nigeria has experienced 13 World Cup finals and won just one match (ahead of Bosnia in 2014). Nigeria has weak opponents such as Korea and Iran. Possibly today, African representatives will again experience another disappointment in the World Cup playground.
INFORMATION SITUATED
2 teams are full of forces.
Nigeria lost to 4 out of 5 recent matches in Asia.
Iceland only won the last 3/10 of the Asian match.
6 out of 8 recent Nigeria matches have scored at least one goal in the first half.
Nigeria and Iceland have 10 or more corners.