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QueenJazz:
Sometimes I read his comments and my blood begins to boil. Always manages to sound sooo arrogant and clueless at the same time.

Fun fact: the coach of DRC is the same coach from the last AFCON and if you pay attention, you can see how far their game has come since then. As for Nigeria, well, you know our story: 3-4 coach switches in just one year.

Eric Chelle obviously made a lot of questionable choices in this game, but why are we foolishly forgetting the fact that he's relatively inexperienced with this team? So because of one bad game, suddenly he's not a good coach?

We love throwing stones at the NFF for their cluelessness and retrogression, but how are people like this any different?

Looking back yesterday, we even tried. I'm starting to look at the game differently. We had no business going to penalties with how shambolic our attack and midfield was. This team has promise.

If only NFF will help us.

You're intelligent and it's not news at all. I no go talk pass that one. I'm just pained.

QueenJazz:
Make all the African teams go to blazes. Senegal included.

Why root for them when ALL of them are comfortable joining hands together to root for our downfall?

The only thing that will satisfy me is the annihilation of African teams at the World Cup next year. I hope none of them makes it past the Round of 32.

I love good football and good talents. I love Senegal football. They don't make noise, and I always root for them.

ChrisKels:
Our boys were scared of these guys yesterday. From the time I saw the boys coming out from the tunnel, through the national anthem session, something was just off and I could sense fear in the air.

DRC is the most physical side in Africa. Not even Uganda or Cameroon can match them in terms of physicality, now they have complimented that with some really good talents. I doubt we can hurt them even if we meet them again at the AFCON.

At a point, our boys were praying for the game to end so that the onslaught would stop. They dealt with us so mercilessly that we became clueless when we have the ball.

That is the way to win in Africa, without physicality, your skills and tactical play can't take you far. Me too, at a point in the game, I just wanted the ref to blow the final whistle and give the game to DRC. It was that bad. We need more robust players in our midfield and attack who can put their whole body into the game, especially when it gets tough. Just see that kongfu kick that DRC player used to score the goal that was cancelled. Another ref would have just allowed that. Na gbe body things for this Africa o! all those gentle men play no dey work most times

ChrisKels:
I love good football and good talents. I love Senegal football. They don't make noise, and I always root for them.

Well that's you sha.

I'm rooting for England cos I've got many friends there and a large portion of my extended family lives there. So it's like a second home.

Plus in general, UK is like second home to many Nigerians. We choke for there and many of their top influencers and celebrities are Nigerian.

In the words of Pinnick, "we have a bilateral relationship." 😂😂😂

minfelix:
hahahaha🤣🤣🔥 omo at this point…im speechless 😶…DRC look more determined and they play the kind of game we want to see of an african side at the worldcup

who are you going to support now at the world cup

Goke7:
No coach even the greatest ones are perfect and all these he should have brought in this player are all assumptions cos if those suggested players come in and we lost we will still assume that if this other player came in too.

We had the best of our players on the pitch last night the same players that have been giving us joy in the previous games but they all let us down when it matters most. Nwabali, Bassey, Fredrick, Onyeka all stood up to be counted yesterday even Bassey was going into the midfield to do some other people’s job. The question is where were the other players? The same coach gave everyone the opportunity.

God bless you sir.

People just dey talk anything wey dem feel. Like we had our best players on the field, like the best! All the entire attack decided to go on holiday. Our defence. Jesus I wan cry for Bassey and Fredrick, even Nwabali held his own too.

QueenJazz:
Sometimes I read his comments and my blood begins to boil. Always manages to sound sooo arrogant and clueless at the same time.

Fun fact: the coach of DRC is the same coach from the last AFCON and if you pay attention, you can see how far their game has come since then. As for Nigeria, well, you know our story: 3-4 coach switches in just one year.

Eric Chelle obviously made a lot of questionable choices in this game, but why are we foolishly forgetting the fact that he's relatively inexperienced with this team? So because of one bad game, suddenly he's not a good coach?

We love throwing stones at the NFF for their cluelessness and retrogression, but how are people like this any different?

Looking back yesterday, we even tried. I'm starting to look at the game differently. We had no business going to penalties with how shambolic our attack and midfield was. This team has promise.

If only NFF will help us.

Chelle should be kept, and supported to hunt for some dual citizen talents to improve the team. Our midfield is below average and cant help make transitions from defense to attack. Our wingers are very poor. Our defense is good but lacks depth. Our attack is good too.

QueenJazz:
Well that's you sha.

I'm rooting for England cos I've got many friends there and a large portion of my extended family lives there. So it's like a second home.

Plus in general, UK is like second home to many Nigerians. We choke for there and many of their top influencers and celebrities are Nigerian.

In the words of Pinnick, "we have a bilateral relationship." 😂😂😂

I don't like anything about the 3lions. I always want them and their noisy pundits to fail. Lol God forbid the national team of England. 😂🤣

Goke7:
That is the way to win in Africa, without physicality, your skills and tactical play can't take you far. Me too, at a point in the game, I just wanted the ref to blow the final whistle and give the game to DRC. It was that bad. We need more robust players in our midfield and attack who can put their whole body into the game, especially when it gets tough. Just see that kongfu kick that DRC player used to score the goal that was cancelled. Another ref would have just allowed that. Na gbe body things for this Africa o! all those gentle men play no dey work most times

And we are more than capable of matching their physicality and aggression, so for the life of me I don't know why Nigeria has grown so fragile over the years. I remember the 2013 AFCON squad was ridiculously physical. Between Emenike and Obaobona, if you put body, you fit lose your full teeth. 😂

Only physical players we have now are Osimhen, Frederick, Bassey and Nwabali. Unironically, they were our best players yesterday. The rest are just fancy runway models. Starboys 😁. Na Tolu dey even vex me pass.

Lookman tries to be aggressive but recently he has lacked the precision and decisiveness to back it up. Atlanta really did a number on him.

The influx of foreign borns into various African teams is beginning to change the dynamics of African football and small yanah don begin dey shake.

Cape Verde used it, now they are in the World cup.
Morocco used it and got to the world cup semis.

Senegal and Algeria used it, and won the AFCON.

Now Congo.

Never have I seen an East African team dominate Nigeria the way Congo did yesterday, the way they quickly closed down our players whenever we attacked and the way they totally controlled both wings of our defense line. It looked totally strange to me.

Someone highlighted the quality of their defense yesterday when the team list was released and I wasn't particularly worried because I believed our attack was potent enough to unlock it.

But I was shocked at how easily the Congolese defense shut out our attack line, I don't think we make it into their 18 box up to 2 times yet, the Congolese had a field day in our own 18, strolling in virtually every time they attack.

With the influx of foreign borns into African football now, grit and brawn will never cut it again . The Congolese side played like a well drilled European team.

Mujtahida, mostob, kennysville, Charleschukwuemeka, 9jamac10, chriskels, bankygee, goke7, others, oya adopt and mention your new team at the coming worldcup. Me am going with England

Kellycute who are you rooting for

ChrisKels:
I don't like anything about the 3lions. I always want them and their noisy pundits to fail. Lol God forbid the national team of England. 😂🤣

You have to admit that's one thing our pundits and their pundits have in common. Which is why we're hated in all of Africa.

Like I said ... "bilateral relationship" 🤣🤣

ChrisKels:
They can always match our madness, good thing they don't speak English, otherwise they would be giving us gbas gbos online.

Chai, na why Keshi dey like hefty men as his players.

In his playing days, nko no be hefty men like Chidi Nwanu we get abi na iroha wey sabi break leg, omokaro dem and all those wicked players

As a coach, he had the likes of Fegor Ogude, Onazi, Emenike, Oboabona dem, even that short Ejike Uzoeyi, all those players wey don chop better bitter leaf soup growing up. Abeg na those kind players I wan see for our national team again o! Make we mix dem with some of these Indomie players. It's a shame the way we are being bullied these days on the pitch.

Goke7:
That is the way to win in Africa, without physicality, your skills and tactical play can't take you far. Me too, at a point in the game, I just wanted the ref to blow the final whistle and give the game to DRC. It was that bad. We need more robust players in our midfield and attack who can put their whole body into the game, especially when it gets tough. Just see that kongfu kick that DRC player used to score the goal that was cancelled. Another ref would have just allowed that. Na gbe body things for this Africa o! all those gentle men play no dey work most times

We were bullied. This is how we used to bully south Africans those days. 🤣😂

Nwabali did great yesterday minus his antics... 7 saves 😮‍💨

BankyGee:
God bless you sir.

People just dey talk anything wey dem feel. Like we had our best players on the field, like the best! All the entire attack decided to go on holiday. Our defence. Jesus I wan cry for Bassey and Fredrick, even Nwabali held his own too.

Until something is urgently done about that midfield we'll still keep struggling about higher sides. People that can show up, actually hold the ball and not lose it after 5 seconds everytime

Nomyth:
The influx of foreign borns into various African teams is beginning to change the dynamics of African football and small yanah don begin dey shake.

Cape Verde used it, now they are in the World cup.
Morocco used it and got to the world cup semis.

Senegal and Algeria used it, and won the AFCON.

Now Congo.

Never have I seen an East African team dominate Nigeria the way Congo did yesterday, the way they quickly closed down our players whenever we attacked and the way they totally controlled both wings of our defense line. It looked totally strange to me.

Someone highlighted the quality of their defense yesterday when the team list was released and I wasn't particularly worried because I believed our attack was potent enough to unlock it.

But I was shocked at how easily the Congolese defense shut out our attack line, I don't think we make it into their 18 box up to 2 times yet, the Congolese had a field day in our own 18, strolling in virtually every time they attack.

With the influx of foreign borns into African football now, grit and brawn will never cut it again . The Congolese side played like a well drilled European team.

DRC isn't East Africa.

codemaniacs:
Chrisantus Uche is young and will press the opponents.

DRC did not deserve the slot, the SE handed the game to DRC by sitting back defending and not pressing them to force errors instead they were the ones pressing the SE players into committing errors..

SE lacks players that have the drive to press or it might be instructions from the coaches because this is how they have been playing since 2022...

it is rocket science to the SE to control and pass the ball in the opposition half...

did you noticed how many passes they laid together before dashing it to the Congolese bushmen

Goke7:
In his playing days, nko no be hefty men like Chidi Nwanu we get abi na iroha wey sabi break leg, omokaro dem and all those wicked players

As a coach, he had the likes of Fegor Ogude, Onazi, Emenike, Oboabona dem, even that short Ejike Uzoeyi, all those players wey don chop better bitter leaf soup growing up. Abeg na those kind players I wan see for our national team again o! Make we mix dem with some of these Indomie players. It's a shame the way we are being bullied these days on the pitch.

Even small Fredericks didn't allow their left side to bully him yesterday by using his body to shield the ball. Tolu tried with his own physicality when he entered but he made wrong decisions too

semid4lyfe:
Even if Xavi, Iniesta amd Busquets played for us yesterday, they would have been ineffective.

DR Congo were a far better and superior ball playing side, and it showed yesterday.

The way DR Congo dominated us yesterday is reminiscent of how Algeria totally dominated and outplayed us in AFCON 2019 semifinal.

what are you saying? We are talking about three midfielders who could not block the middle and you are dishonoring three barca legends

QueenJazz:
And we are more than capable of matching their physicality and aggression, so for the life of me I don't know why Nigeria has grown so fragile over the years. I remember the 2013 AFCON squad was ridiculously physical. Between Emenike and Obaobona, if you put body, you fit lose your full teeth. 😂

Only physical players we have now are Osimhen, Frederick, Bassey and Nwabali. Unironically, they were our best players yesterday. The rest are just fancy runway models. Starboys 😁. Na Tolu dey even vex me pass.

Lookman tries to be aggressive but recently he has lacked the precision and decisiveness to back it up. Atlanta really did a number on him.

Oboabona retired Drogba from the national team of the Ivory Coast, dude no see ball land for im chest like he always wants for that game in 2013, Ivory coast no believe am, the likes of Vicmo and Emenike bullied their defence line with the likes of Kole Toure and Eboue. Mikel was taking care of Yaya in midfield. even against Burkina Faso in the final with the likes of Aristi Bance, but for physicality, Omo, we won't have beaten that fantastic Burkina side.

That's why Chelle likes Nwabali, he said in that interview with Odegbami, that he prefers crazy players like that and not gentle men. Nwabali, with his physical presence, was able to put pressure on the ref for those cancelled goals; that's how to play the game in Africa.

zuchyblink:
Alebiosu
Ogbelu
Nwaiwu
Akinsanmiro
Michael kayode
David Moses

Time to inject fresh legs and do away with some players

you people have come with all these westernised players that have no passion and fighting spirit to play for fatherland like lookman and iwobi

DRC will likely play two more games at the intercontinental playoffs, as they won't be seeded.

Call me petty and childish, but yes, I'm rooting for Jamaica, Panama and Costa Rica to finish as second place teams at the playoffs and hopefully knock out DRC. 🤧

I honestly think DRC only beat Cameroon and Nigeria because the latter two teams were absolutely trashbags.

I won't put it past Panama or Costa Rica to silence them in Mexico. Say what you want about them, but on average, CONCACAF teams are roughly similar to B-tier CAF teams like DRC, SA and Angola in terms of ability and physicality.

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.

na that iwobi dey vex me. Mark, e no go mark. Naso e go dey play like woman. I neva see am play like man

Arizoner:
Mujtahida, mostob, kennysville, Charleschukwuemeka, 9jamac10, chriskels, bankygee, goke7, others, oya adopt and mention your new team at the coming worldcup. Me am going with England

ain't supporting anybody. Would have supported Benin if they qualified! Just gonna watch and enjoy the game like I did in the last edition. And I don't wish any other African team well. That's my stand! They must all fail as a consolation for the Eagles' missing out. African solidarity is a scam!

LordTheus:
We'll bounce back from this. We needed this loss. For years, we've been using fanciful perfume to mask our pungent body odor without treating the root cause of the odor. Hopefully this spurs the FG to declare a state of emergency on our football. Losing back to back World Cups is no joke.

If Senegal and Morocco can suddenly dominate African football after being minnows for the entire 20th century and part of the 21st, why can't we?

I find it poetic though, that the two biggest African football powerhouses in Cameroon and Nigeria are currently in the doldrums.

Cameroon would still bounce back, it's left to us to find our way starting with the spot light beaming on the football federation, I saw a moniker asking if Pepsi academy exists even of they do would man know man for youth categories selection still come into play there? At least despite how poor the senior team was the youth sides were still decent unlike now that things are completely rotten from top to bottom. Hopefully it doesn't creep into the super falcons too.

Kilishihunter:
Even small Fredericks didn't allow their left side to bully him yesterday by using his body to shield the ball. Tolu tried with his own physicality when he entered but he made wrong decisions too

But for Frederick, Nwabali, and Bassey, we would have conceded like 4 goals yesterday. Na dem save us from disgrace yesterday.

Arizoner:
Mujtahida, mostob, kennysville, Charleschukwuemeka, 9jamac10, chriskels, bankygee, goke7, others, oya adopt and mention your new team at the coming worldcup. Me am going with England

Me na Norway o... Because of Haaland 🔥

ChrisKels:
We were bullied. This is how we used to bully south Africans those days. 🤣😂

omo wetin my eye see yesterday I just weak. SA used to be soft but not anymore, so tey they carry us go potato pitch play. na dem comot Aina na!

QueenJazz:
DRC will likely play two more games at the intercontinental playoffs, as they won't be seeded.

Call me petty and childish, but yes, I'm rooting for Jamaica, Panama and Costa Rica to finish as second place teams at the playoffs and hopefully knock out DRC. 🤧

I honestly think DRC only beat Cameroon and Nigeria because the latter two teams were absolutely trashbags.

I won't put it past Panama or Costa Rica to silence them in Mexico. Say what you want about them, but on average, CONCACAF teams are roughly similar to B-tier CAF teams like DRC, SA and Angola in terms of ability and physicality.

I actually want them to qualify to teach those in the glass house more lessons. That very disciplined style of football they exert needs to be rewarded. The ones I have beef with are SA and our bredas next year.

Arizoner:
Mujtahida, mostob, kennysville, Charleschukwuemeka, 9jamac10, chriskels, bankygee, goke7, others, oya adopt and mention your new team at the coming worldcup. Me am going with England

Oga I adopt host country 🇺🇸 and Team Brazil 🇧🇷. I can’t support any other African country if not Nigeria 😭😭