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Mujtahida:
The same Ndidi who was praised to the heavens, is today the villain.

I thank the players for keeping this dream to this point. Life goes on.

Exactly, I don't know why some fans are always looking for a scapegoat after every loss, they quickly did a 360 degrees turnaround on Nwabali after the match, now it's Iwobi and Tolu.

In the previous games it was Dessers and Ekong.

Maybe Bameyi and his u20 brothers should be promoted and used for Afcon, smh

9JAMac10:

“During all the penalties, the guy from DR Congo did some voodoo.”

Nigeria head coach Éric Chelle explains why tempers flared between him and the DR Congo staff at the end of the World Cup playoff final. pic.twitter.com/nMyTIcqlTT

— ESPN Africa (@ESPNAfrica) November 17, 2025

Funny Eric chelle is blaming the loss in voodoo by the Congolese people. See primitive inept coach wants to blame African voodoo hahaha what a jokester

Point of correction. He did not blame the loss on voodoo. The reporter asked him why he was upset with the Congolese staff members during the penalties, and Chelle replied by saying that he saw a Congolese staff member sprinkling something during the penalties, which he suspected was voodoo.


He did not blame the loss on the suspected voodoo. He only explained why he was angry.

Chelle and the players did their best after a rough start under Peseiro and Finidi, it's a miracle they even got this far.

They should just focus on the Afcon next month, the only sad part is that majority of them will be in their 30s if we qualify for 2030.

When person talk about iwobi Una go rush person

Iwobi should focus on Fulham and his music career he's never a national team player

UncleHaba22:
When person talk about iwobi Una go rush person

Iwobi should focus on Fulham and his music career he's never a national team player

Iwobi is not the reason we lost today and we don't actually have a lot of players to choose from unless we start begging foreign-born players.

The entire team was outplayed by DR Congo from the 1st minute to the 120th.

It's time to focus on the Afcon

Why bench Akor when he compliments Osimhen and make work easier for him. At least one of Akor or Simon should have started.

Simon should have started not Lookman. We hardly scored goals when Lookman play. Simon creates chances, draws defenders to himself and is very effective while helping defense bunch Chelle is carried away by APOTY award. Chelle doesn't learn from his mistakes.

And when it comes to Midfield onyedika is better But he still gets benched. How can a professional midfielder be losing the ball carelessly. Iwobi and Lookman are so guilty of this.

MetalJigsaw:
Why bench Akor when he compliments Osimhen and make work easier for him. At least one of Akor or Simon should have started.

Simon should have started not Lookman. We hardly scored goals when Lookman play. Simon creates chances, draws defenders to himself and is very effective while helping defense bunch Chelle is carried away by APOTY award. Chelle doesn't learn from his mistakes.

And when it comes to Midfield onyedika is better But he still gets benched. How can a professional midfielder be losing the ball carelessly. Iwobi and Lookman are so guilty of this.

Lookman played well today. it was ndidi and chuks that did not convert the easy chance Lookman created for them.

but Lookman himself should have the intelligence to know that when he plays the team does not score and should himself ask the coach to bring him on in the 2nd half...

same way ndidi and iwobi can both fake injury on the pitch if they realize they are not playing well themselves and tell the coach to replace them with Onyedika and Alhassan Yussuf..

SE is not a team, it is a bunch of players who prefer the bonuses they get from the SE than for the SE to actually play proper football and win teams..

UncleHaba22:
When person talk about iwobi Una go rush person

Iwobi should focus on Fulham and his music career he's never a national team player

No P....who should we call up instead?

Karlovych:
Exactly, I don't know why some fans are always looking for a scapegoat after every loss, they quickly did a 360 degrees turnaround on Nwabali after the match, now it's Iwobi and Tolu.

In the previous games it was Dessers and Ekong.

Maybe Bameyi and his u20 brothers should be promoted and used for Afcon, smh

u20 team will at least press and transition the ball better than the SE who will cede possession to the opponents and allow the opponents to press them as if they are a League 2 club side..

codemaniacs:
Lookman played well today. it was ndidi and chuks that did not convert the easy chance Lookman created for them.

but Lookman himself should have the intelligence to know that when he plays the team does not score and should himself ask the coach to bring him on in the 2nd half...

same way ndidi and iwobi can both fake injury on the pitch if they realize they are not playing well themselves and tell the coach to replace them with Onyedika and Alhassan Yussuf..

SE is not a team, it is a bunch of players who prefer the bonuses they get from the SE than for the SE to actually play proper football and win teams..

Lookman was just average at best. He didn't play well.

Karlovych:
Exactly, I don't know why some fans are always looking for a scapegoat after every loss, they quickly did a 360 degrees turnaround on Nwabali after the match, now it's Iwobi and Tolu.

In the previous games it was Dessers and Ekong.

Maybe Bameyi and his u20 brothers should be promoted and used for Afcon, smh

The same bameyi that can’t stand toe to toe with players younger than him

You want him to play against professionals lol 😂

UncleHaba22:
When person talk about iwobi Una go rush person

Iwobi should focus on Fulham and his music career he's never a national team player

Shut up go find another scapegoat
Who is more consistent and readily available than iwobi

Lace up make you go enter field na if e easy

codemaniacs:
u20 team will at least press and transition the ball better than the SE who will cede possession to the opponents and allow the opponents to press them as if they are a League 2 club side..

Same u-20 that’s a fraud or which one??

Or you meant Morocco u-20 I thought you were talking about flying eagles

Karlovych:
Iwobi is not the reason we lost today and we don't actually have a lot of players to choose from unless we start begging foreign-born players.

The entire team was outplayed by DR Congo from the 1st minute to the 120th.

It's time to focus on the Afcon

U people don always admit this iwobi
Even when the team is playing well Iwobi will still drop a stinker

In this current team iwobi is the oldest player and we have been finding iwobi position for the super eagles team since 2015

Next week he'll turn maradona for Fulham
Iwobi is very average when it comes to the national team

I know the whole team was poor yesterday but let's talk about iwobi he too poor man
Wrong pass, can't press, sluggish on the ball rinse and repeat

He caused the DR Congo equaliser
Since 2015 iwobi still dey average lol
Make Una talk truth jare

typicalgamer:
Shut up go find another scapegoat
Who is more consistent and readily available than iwobi

Lace up make you go enter field na if e easy

Consistent and readily available to stink for games u mean??
😂

Na this morning the players go feel the pain of not going to the world cup. My own be say don't sack Chelle.

MetalJigsaw:
Why bench Akor when he compliments Osimhen and make work easier for him. At least one of Akor or Simon should have started.

Simon should have started not Lookman. We hardly scored goals when Lookman play. Simon creates chances, draws defenders to himself and is very effective while helping defense bunch Chelle is carried away by APOTY award. Chelle doesn't learn from his mistakes.

And when it comes to Midfield onyedika is better But he still gets benched. How can a professional midfielder be losing the ball carelessly. Iwobi and Lookman are so guilty of this.

My brother that where the problem begin from the very blast of the whistle,

The coach got two things wrong,
1, the CB pairing, he should had maintained the pairing of Benny and Bassey,
2, The striker should had be maintained too, Amor and Osimhen, so Victor doesn't get isolated upfront,

I also nothing something, and it goes to all of US here that had been shouting about the midfield, what had the midfield 3 gave us yesterday?? Apart from the goal

From the blast of the whistle, the Coach got it wrong with that selection, don't watch the second half, never had to and thanks to NEPA for seizing light, if not, na one correct headache for woza me

Bro I kept dreaming that we replayed the match and we still didn't win... 😔

This loss go mess with me for sometime sha. But where has Éric Chelle got any blame in all these?

Now people are shouting that why didn't he play 4-4-2? The same people who were shouting "is 4-3-3 dead in football?" Chelle got his formation and selection perfect in this game, the players were just complacent and confused on the pitch. It's safe to say without Osimhen, the Super Eagles cannot function.

So now every game he didn't play up to 50 mins at least, we didn't manage to win one in the entire qualifying process? Akor and Tolu disappeared, no single shot from 2nd half to the the 2nd half of extra time.

The one chance Tolu got he headed it upwards. We played bad and this is NOT on Chelle. I pity the man in all these, why can't these players turn up for their coach and themselves? Why?

Nwabali saved a last minute shot, saved two penalties and players still decided to miss more than he saved. BROOO 🤦🏾‍♂️... I can't move on from this anytime soon. I just dey look sha 😐

Semi Ajayi had no business starting this game. Did not know why Eric Chelle played him. Made things difficult for Benjamin Fredricks. He keep sending out long ball to the opponent , recycling attacks on our back line.
Its time to get that long throw specialist, Kayode Michael.

UncleHaba22:
U people don always admit this iwobi
Even when the team is playing well Iwobi will still drop a stinker

In this current team iwobi is the oldest player and we have been finding iwobi position for the super eagles team since 2015

Next week he'll turn maradona for Fulham
Iwobi is very average when it comes to the national team

I know the whole team was poor yesterday but let's talk about iwobi he too poor man
Wrong pass, can't press, sluggish on the ball rinse and repeat

He caused the DR Congo equaliser
Since 2015 iwobi still dey average lol
Make Una talk truth jare

Welcome to a thread where people are very sentimental when it comes to their favorite player

My brother, I have told them this same thing since. That guy called iwobi isn't a serious player at all

BankyGee:
Bro I kept dreaming that we replayed the match and we still didn't win... 😔

This loss go mess with me for sometime sha. But where has Éric Chelle got any blame in all these?

Now people are shouting that why didn't he play 4-4-2? The same people who were shouting "is 4-3-3 dead in football?" Chelle got his formation and selection perfect in this game, the players were just complacent and confused on the pitch. It's safe to say without Osimhen, the Super Eagles cannot function.

So now every game he didn't play up to 50 mins at least, we didn't manage to win one in the entire qualifying process? Akor and Tolu disappeared, no single shot from 2nd half to the the 2nd half of extra time.

The one chance Tolu got he headed it upwards. We played bad and this is NOT on Chelle. I pity the man in all these, why can't these players turn up for their coach and themselves? Why?

Nwabali saved a last minute shot, saved two penalties and players still decided to miss more than he saved. BROOO 🤦🏾‍♂️... I can't move on from this anytime soon. I just dey look sha 😐

It is well bro...

Oasis007:
......I know emotion garnished with pain still dey our body but we need to tell ourselves the truth.

Only Osimhen and Benjamin deserve the shirt, to some extent, Bassey as well. Rest should go and focus on their club careers.

DRC deserve the slot, I said it before the match even got to PK. We were completely outplayed and tactically destroyed.

We weren’t given breathing space at all in the second half and extra time. They owned the game and deserve to progress.

...and Chelle is never an issue. Tactically he got it right, especially in the first half but execution is the problem.

He gave Lookman, Iwobi, and Chuks, freedom to roam and dictating the play but the team couldn’t convert chances that came up in the first half.

We too dey overrate these lads on this board. The earlier we accept Nigeria is parading very average players the better.


Some are claiming we have midfielders and Uche is being mentioned?! Same Uche that is glued to bench at Crystal Palace?!

We are parading bunch of bench warmers or players that their careers have nosedived, yet we expect them to play well?!

NFF should clear all their allowances, then free most of them. Chelle should be allowed to assemble a new team as soon as possible.

You want these sentimental folks to agree with you on this?



It's like you don't know the people on this forum

Nwabali if yoj are reading this, God will bless you for keeping us in the game…both during the game and on penalties, you are a very calm goal keeper that tries to reduce pressure, dont mind any yeye person saying over confidence bla bla bla…the last save you made before the penalty shows you are big game goalkeeper….your players let you down when you keep giving us hope in the PK shootout..

i know penalties is anyones game, however i expected Strikers and DM,to take penalties…Akor,Tolu,Onyeka,Ejuke…coach for sub in Ekong, tyats the only confident pk defender taker.

Though we were totally outplayed from the second half till the extra-time…bassey,benjamin and Nwabali kept us till the shootout

So many matches iwobi has failed to delivered and he's always in the match day squad. That guy is one of the biggest culprit of failure in our team. As long as we continue to use iwobi in that midfield the team will never go places. We need rugged players.
Is a shame the coach did not invite uche.. uche would have even do well in that attack more than Tolu. I have never rated that tolu guy

BankyGee:
€213M XI vs. €81M XI

Omo... I'm damn heartbroken 😔
I feel for Nwabali more, he made that last minute save and ran into the frame of the goal, saved two penalties to keep the hope alive, but people like Simon can't take penalties to save their lives. If defenders are missing PKs, you wey be attacker supposed dey play PK like small girl?

In all, Éric Chelle is still the man, anybody saying otherwise no sabi wetin them dey talk. I just weak... 4 years? Headache wan kee me 😔💔

Chelle which man?
The guy is not a good coach
If you are coming for Simon you should also do same to Chelle

Dem say make iwobi leave football go do bbl - 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

MetalJigsaw:
Why bench Akor when he compliments Osimhen and make work easier for him. At least one of Akor or Simon should have started.

Simon should have started not Lookman. We hardly scored goals when Lookman play. Simon creates chances, draws defenders to himself and is very effective while helping defense bunch Chelle is carried away by APOTY award. Chelle doesn't learn from his mistakes.

And when it comes to Midfield onyedika is better But he still gets benched. How can a professional midfielder be losing the ball carelessly. Iwobi and Lookman are so guilty of this.

When Simon came in how many chances did he create?
The same Lookman gave Ndidi a glorious opportunity that he could not score

Samueltemi337:
Chelle which man?
The guy is not a good coach
If you are coming for Simon you should also do same to Chelle

bro let’s not b sentimental chelle is the man, it’s unfortunate he was outplayed…i really dont know the boys fell like pack of cards, i really dont know how they allowed congo build confidence…

bro lets remove sentiment and anger, if chelle had even picked up from jpes after our first 2 draws i dont see him losing away to Benin and maybe playing draw with SA, but he would have learnt his lesson and defeated zimbabwe in uyo…walai with that SA deduction we for don qualify direct tay tay…he only lost in Pk shootout, he is still unbeaten in 90mins as super eagles coach…even in 120 mins