THOSE NIGERIANS WHO SAID THEY CANNOT MINGLE WITH GOD IF NOT THE ARTIFICIAL ONES THAT CAN DO THE MAGIC I WHICH THEM GOOD LUCK

That Jersey has produced nothing but bad luck...

I love those people saying the truth. Algeria played better.

fx45:
Poland 0-1 Nigeria.

You have inaccurate facts

you can count the number of of matches won with that Jersey. You play football too and you know how tense it could be especially when every player just wear anything and can't differentiate your members from the opposite members talkless of a black person wearing a black cloth and playing football. My take still remains that we should wear a very bright unifom socks if we still wanna keep that uniform.

everything about buhari na failure be that

that st.u.pid bad luck jersey should be banned the way sniper has been banned. that jersey is pure evil.

Tolexander:
But the fact still stands!

We have never won with this jersey!

we are what we believe. That Jessey is bad luck, not one match has been won wearing it, we should throw it away

nototribalist:
Thunder fire Ighalo, in this kind of match you need to be putting pressure by marking their defenders well just like they did to us, but Ighalo chooses to just stand without marking the ball. So why won't dey press us.


We've never had a good defense for decades now

The pattern of football Nigeria play is his problem.

No strategy on how to involve the striker, they just do the passing in their half and except to hit on counter.

Ighalo does his best to hold onto defenders since he doesn't see the ball most times in the game.

Besides every other striker except osimen was tested in this tournament and ighalo pass dem

inoki247:
Na Cow we suppose send go Egypt we go don Ruga Algeria.. in our President Voice Cow would av Perform beta Dan our Keeper nd Players wen eating Grass dey eat with Perfection...

make buhari headache no kill u o,u go toilet buhari, u de Bleep Bihari, take am easy buhari is Ur president weather u like it or not

Arsenalholic:
I am surprised at many Nigerians sha... They seem to watch back of TV like we used to say as kids.

Compare our team to that of Algeria and you'd see a massive gap. The Algerians were more tactically astute and surprisingly fitter. The Cameroonian team and South African team were a lot poorer and that was why we had any chance against them.

I have been saying this:

Genot Rorh plays an obsolete brand of football.

In this modern age hardly do you see teams withdrawing into their own half of the pitch when the opposition defenders are bringing it forward. You have to PRESS the defenders and block every expected passing option. Pep Guardiola made this "modern tactics" popular. And many teams use it now.

Madagascar used it against us and we saw the result.

Today, the Algerians did the same thing.

Since the first day of the tournament I watched out football and was immediately unimpressed. Even against Burundi we were playing this kind of obsolete football.

They play like this waiting to counter without any meaningful passing triangles. Once the opposition score, they get out of their shell and start to press. Then once they get a goal, they sit back and start to invite pressure again.

We need a coach that is up to date with modern football... And more importantly can blend our team together as a unit.

I hope Senegal now go ahead and do West Africa proud come Friday

Ehn.. Go and hire Guardiola or klopp na. Which current Nigerian coach is better than Rorh? Because you don't see the man jumping up and down the touchline, he's not good enough.

''Worse" .Two guys are involved here.

Grandmisty:
if Algeria had a sharp attacker , it would have been 4-0 within 30mins of the 1st half. Algeria no 9 worst than ighalo

Rohr has to go, NFF should do the needful. He should be escorted by Mikel, Musa.

Nigerians will always blame something... Now, they are blaming the "JERSEY." Listen, even with our Home jersey, Algeria will still beat Nigeria blue and black... We don't have a tactical coach, his previous matches were all gambled.. No tactics, No outstanding substitution, formation is zero.. He threw dice � with our matches, and he was lucky to have gotten to the Semi, but luck couldn't protect him while playing with North-Africans.. Over there, they play good football..

jimcaddy:
Abegi... Jersey has nothing to do with it. We lost to a tactically and technically ruthless team. They kept the ball better than us. They passed the ball with sense. They were purposeful and came with a game plan. Nigerian coaches do not know how to read games. They don't lay emphasis on technicality. How can we be 220 million in population, and we cannot produce one stellar goalkeeper or someone who can cross, and someone who is good in dead ball situations. It's a shame. We keep letting ourselves down by doing the same thing and expecting miracles to happen.

this the real state of the team.. best comment so far

Tolexander:
But the fact still stands!

We have never won with this jersey!

immediately I stepped inside to watch the game and I saw the Jersey, I knew already that we were going to lose the game. the Jersey is real bad luck.

NarnieSnyper:
I told my bro to stake high on Algeria. I just hope he did. From the moment Algeria beat Senegal in their group stage encounter , I started to watch their games and boy! Those lads are good, their 7,8,9 and 10 are nightmares. I love that their no.9 player "Bounedjah"; That guy is fast, strong and can bully defenders. I hope Ighalo learns from him.
Algeria play good football and are always a joy to watch. I tip them to win this cup but I'd prefer Senegal to win it

and dier number 22, Ismail bennacer.. that lad is top quality

Maski87:
Thought I was the only one who noticed the bad luck associated with that dark green Jersey, we Lost all the matches we played wearing that Jersey in Russia, U20 in Poland and the female world cup in France

shut up jooooo!

which jersey? did we play well enough to win?

which jersey color did we "wear" against Burkina Faso in 2013 final?

that is why Nigeria is here and others are there... believing in nonsense!

Grandmisty:
if Algeria had a sharp attacker , it would have been 4-0 within 30mins of the 1st half. Algeria no 9 worst than ighalo

God bless you there. Tell them something, that guy ruined most of their chances and we are here blaming Jersey and others. Una better thank God say you weren't humiliated.

no attack minded chukwueze in our attack line, then no threat in our front row

True true that dark green jersey na bad luck, even Falcons don't win matches with that jersey

Deepfeel:
True true that dark green jersey na bad luck, even Falcons don't win matches with that jersey

Superstitious has a relationship with Nigerian culture it appears

9ja players dangled all through......Come bk guys,we have a lot of issues bothering us ranging from ruga,herdsmen,kidnapping,blood letting,millitia group and bad economic policies to tackle....The cup should swerve joor!!!!!!!

oluwaahmed:


Senegal cannot win AfCON, bros have u been following this tournament? Algerian team have scored 12 goals and conceded only 2. They are the most balanced in-form team of the tournament. They could have beaten us like 4-5 goals and that's how they play. They played Senegal to a standstill in the group game even though they won 1-0. The final is going to be very boring cos Senegalese will defend throughout.
See my prediction below

Senegal doesn't play defensive football. Even when Algeria beat them in that group game, Senegal had majority of the chances and were even denied a stonewall penalty for a foul on Mane. I remember watching that game.

otokx:


Superstitious has a relationship with Nigerian culture it appears

Superstition has to do with what we belief in, the first jersey automatically became our good luck jersey cause it was praised since 2014 world Cup and was the best jersey in that world Cup tournament, our players wear that jersey with pride and confidence they do better when they wear that jersey, all the needed in that yesterday match was confidence to give their all but they were playing with panic

how do you expect apeyi to catch that ball when the wall is blocking his view

Lastorator:
A REPLAY.
The underlining rule in life, is that Luck will take you places, but when you are up against the best, luck will abandon you for preparedness.

From the onset, you could easily discover clearly that the Algerian Defence were not ready to give both Chukwueze and Musa any breathing space., they were ready to choke and starve them of all balls coming in, it was the same thing we did against south Africa, so our charging down the wings game was dead on arrival.

Then down the midfield, one could see clearly who was running things, Mahrez was just there controlling the entire place as if it were his Kitchen, dishing passes at will and starving our eagles to ensure we had no energy to fly. You need to be the very best to play Manchester City.

Ehnn Ehnn, our back line, Nwaziem is one amazing defender i would give everything to sign, the commentator said it,that no one has dribbled past him in the entire tournament, my Nigah, that guy is Taribo west on Steroids.

Ekong... Lols, we know the guy needs to up his confidence level, his ball control is very lousy like mine, but then he couldn't help the goal it came off collins so he didnt anticipate it. The bad thing was that he lost most of his composure after the goal. And as for Omeruo he is good too like Nwaziem, and Collins too tried sha.

But you see that our keeper ? How in the 7hells did the guy come out to represent 200million people ? Forget that one ball he caught, he was just plain lucky, the algerian guy shot the ball directly into him, if say that guy applied even small sense to run forward like Suarez normally does or say he tipped the ball like Messi would, then you know whats up.

And the worst sef was the last minute free kick. The defenders were arranged for one set to jump, while anoda lay on the ground, so one wing of the goal was totally covered, so why then did that basket not move on to cover the other wing of the goal that was not sufficiently covered, the ...... Went and stayed in the behind the wall, if i catch that guy ehn, (shut up Ben, that 19yr old go beat o, im pikin em senior you) but shaa our goal keeper is a true case of our "man know man" corruption coming to bite us.

Ehnn Ehnn Coach, you sef how far you ? From beginning of the tournament it was obvious that our team had no tactics, our game was all about kicking the ball forward for any of our players that caught it, to then run towards the goal with it.
So when the Algerians locked down the wings, our coach was jus out if his wit and couldn't change the gameplab.. Etebo did struggle to regain control of the midfield, and Iwobi was amazing too, I loved the fact that our attacks switched from trying to come down from the wings, to trying to penetrate in through the midfield, but the Algerians were not having any of that, they were not doing ghost/shadow marking as our defenders, who are always moving back, to give the attacker options, their own they moved in, and moved in fast, to get the ball from you. Hence no matter how had Iwobi tried, 3players will just show up and force him to surrender the ball, so our final balls were always weak. Shebi we wanted Musa to shoot, shebi we now see that in place of shots, he was jus passing the ball to the keeper. Lols.

But then, we somehow came back into the game, the Algerian defenders were beginning to run back, and Musa and Iwobi, Chukwueze began making break ins.. But the ..... Coach had the impetus to substitute Chukwueze and bring in that fancy hair guy to audition in a semi-final ? Who does that ? Like who does player trials at Semi Finals ?
I was just mad the moment i saw that sub... And that killed our attack game...
Henry had 3chances to show himself, and i was cursing the coach all those while. Imagine Chukwueze with those chances... (Tunda, u are wasting time bhro).

I know we will win the 3rd place, Tunisia do not have an intimidating attacking line, they are a defensive team, all it takes to beat the present breed of Eagles is to put them on pressure and get Musa and Chukueze to fall right back and get the ball... But las las, I beta pass you, be say I beta pass you, Algeria were better than us all round.. The better team won. And yes we need to sign a petition to ban that Jersey. We all hate it, even luck hates that Jeysey too.

Over and out, your armchair analyst. #Benesis.

Spot on!! Be like say you sit for front seat for viewing centre. Your N50 no waste.
Na dat stupid coach kill the match. First, he had answer to the Algerians locking down the wings. Then again, he had no answer to the Algerians putting our defenders under pressure.
Finally, his mumu mind told him to remove chukueze, the only attacker out of the four who was giving Algerians snippets of problem and brought in an immobile neophyte. The same shite he did in qf when he removed musa who was getting joy against SA's num 5 and brought in an immobile Simon. I suspect ighalo is giving him roger as the guy was totally useless on the field and still lasted 90mins

We should learn from this it’s less about the color of the jersey and more about how we can’t serve two masters. Both the super eagles and the super falcons met their defeats when they focused more on the reward that the crown of success.

Every team at that competition focused more on preparation and tactics like stable passes. I suggest for the next competition super eagles technical team goes nationwide and into the real soul of Nigeria to find our rising stars like we did in 94

We can’t just run with the ball there has to be build up play and execution of opportunities to win

Arsenalholic:
I am surprised at many Nigerians sha... They seem to watch back of TV like we used to say as kids.

Compare our team to that of Algeria and you'd see a massive gap. The Algerians were more tactically astute and surprisingly fitter. The Cameroonian team and South African team were a lot poorer and that was why we had any chance against them.

I have been saying this:

Genot Rorh plays an obsolete brand of football.

In this modern age hardly do you see teams withdrawing into their own half of the pitch when the opposition defenders are bringing it forward. You have to PRESS the defenders and block every expected passing option. Pep Guardiola made this "modern tactics" popular. And many teams use it now.

Madagascar used it against us and we saw the result.

Today, the Algerians did the same thing.

Since the first day of the tournament I watched out football and was immediately unimpressed. Even against Burundi we were playing this kind of obsolete football.

They play like this waiting to counter without any meaningful passing triangles. Once the opposition score, they get out of their shell and start to press. Then once they get a goal, they sit back and start to invite pressure again.

We need a coach that is up to date with modern football... And more importantly can blend our team together as a unit.

I hope Senegal now go ahead and do West Africa proud come Friday

Well said. But my fear is, even our boyz, r dey able n willing to adapt to play modern football, looking at their performances and stands at their various clubs. ndidi z etebo, chukwueze. Well most of d guyz r good. Dey just played with fear n too much respect for the Algerian, which dey saw n used wisely.

MorataFC:
you dey mind that clueless coach
You can't defend for 90 minutes without committing a costly error

you the man with the clue.....I sight you...naso una vote jona out vote in the clueless himself..una wey get clue no dey waste time tag person clueless.....