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Blueelf:
Didn't know this

Then the boys did well

But I still don't fancy Chelle's formation sha

Can he just try a 4-2-3-1 or a 3-5-2 since he likes a 2 man attack

Abeg, if anybody sabi am, make him try another food for once na, no be everytime, eba, eba, eba

You see those scorelines...that's what super eagles supposed to be giving most teams in Africa as standard beating except for those closer to It in heritage but I bet you if Nigeria plays Namibia next week we go struggle to get 2-0

DeloitteNG:
Why do the Super Eagles play so well during major tournaments but consistently struggle during qualifiers? We easily thrashed teams like Uganda and Mozambique in the last AFCON, yet if we faced them right now in a qualifier, we would likely struggle to beat them.
We desperately need to get to the bottom of this issue because it is completely obvious that the problem goes much deeper than just the coaches and the players

It's a mentality matter...they view tournament as different just like how players treat leagues differently from cup games...in tournies,losses are punished immediately so the zeal to win is high but vice versa for qualifiers.

We need mentality monsters and supremacists in super eagles,apart from technicality,skill, goalscoring and great form...we need people who will hear the name guinea Bissau and decide that anything less than 6 nil victory is a loss, people that can't fathom the idea of losing to big teams or small teams just because in their heads they are the best in the world, people underlook this and that's why there's no single player in super eagles in the last five-15 years with that mentality...the comeback spirit and allat

Papi85:
he is still very young and likely to become number 1 once Nwabali retires

Nwabali may not play in the super eagles from now till the next 4-5 years time

And why is that?? He is not even thirty yet he could play till he is 37/38 if he keeps form

So y'all think we'll beat Madagascar?

Omo...and that Ghanaian voodoo man said he saw cape Verde eliminating Argentina

This is basically a repeat of 2019 afcon...they were both held in North Africa, Nigeria looked like they were gonna win both, Senegal reached both finals, Nigeria got knocked out by a north African team, and Nigeria faced a north African team for bronze

Morocco would defeat Senegal and lift the title

So afcon has become a host to win competition...I wonder how Tanzania,Uganda and Kenya would share the title between themselves at this point 🤔

I doubt this team can even win bronze and Nigeria should remember that there is only one more AFCON left before it becomes a 4 year spectacle....which means that we have had the chance to become 5 times champion but near success syndrome has held us back twice

Once AFCON becomes 4 years gap... you'll only have 2 times in 10 years to win the title making it tougher and harder and I fear that if the players of Nigeria keep having this stage freight when big games come......our next afcon win would be in a long long loñg time

And we would all look back on this generation as promising as they looked and ask ourselves: "what did you ever achieve? Why are you like a snake who passed on top of a rock"

This is the time where that comeback spirit I was talking of comes in... Nigeria is on the Backfoot and must not concede first but if they do then they have to channel their inner super falcons and win this match ffs

Akkin:
This afcon is ours for the taking...Senegal, Egypt and Morocco are tiers beneath this super eagles...

Egypt needed a last minute goal to beat Zimbabwe,was pressed to the brim by SA and drew with Angola and benin and now are in the semis

Morocco struggled against the defense of Comoros,drew with a Mali that scored only one open play goal and almost got upsetted by Tanzania

Senegal drew against congo who drew against Algeria making them the same tier imo and SE just bullied them today

The super eagles would defeat Morocco by two goals and face Senegal in the finals where we would clinch our fourth title while the Arabs can battle it out for the 3rd place so they go home with something at least

Lord let it happen 🙏🙏🙏

Nadingo:
App is not showing AFCON matches

Sporty tv is showing it

Hi

minfelix:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSCkpZ8gTR0?si=ZJFVTEh0eHpb44_H

watch how Tanzania played this people, omo anyone wey no Morocco should tell them to close up those reckless defense dey are opening up and down oo….them this one go too collect beating walai

I swear..... even against Cameroon I saw chances that had it been lookman or iwobi that had such an opportunity...they would punish Morocco defense and give osi or Adams who would definitely put it in the net

This people would collect wotowoto if they play like Algeria or Tunisia

We have gone 1up throughout this tournament and have not lost or drawn any game...and osimehn unbeaten streak is still alive with us winning every game he scored in

I believe that shouldnt change against Morocco so I believe we'll win

Osimehn to score

NIGERIA 1 - MOROCCO 0 FT

Blueelf:
Exactly!!!

I still rate JPES team better than this one

Until they enter that final, let us even dead the conversation

Nahhh this afcon is tougher...Nigeria's path to the final is tougher than the last by miles and still they overcame the challenges unscathed

I watched the play of the 23 afcon and it was not as interesting or breathtaking as this set at all...the 2 man forward of osimehn and akor has really improved our attack and goal potency and if this squad met the 2023 afcon super eagles ... they would thrash them

I think Chelle should win best coach but I dunno if there's an award for that.....iwobi or lookman should win best player of the tournament... brahim is a fraud with zero assists and If Nigeria humiliates Morocco gk like they did to Tunisia and Algeria then nwabali should win best goalkeeper cause he' would be the only one to keep cleansheets in the KO

Just remembered that we beat civ at home in the last afcon even though the atmosphere was electric and hostile so we are definitely not new to making hosts cry but I wonder if the Moroccan crowd would be crazier

Either way... Nigeria vs Morocco FT 1-0

agaliboy:
Nigeria 🇳🇬- Good strikers 😎
Morocco 🇲🇦- Good REFEREE 🤪
Egypt 🇪🇬- Good attackers
Senegal 🇸🇳- Good midfielders

Ghana -good light😒

South Africa -good night 😂😂

This afcon is ours for the taking...Senegal, Egypt and Morocco are tiers beneath this super eagles...

Egypt needed a last minute goal to beat Zimbabwe,was pressed to the brim by SA and drew with Angola and benin and now are in the semis

Morocco struggled against the defense of Comoros,drew with a Mali that scored only one open play goal and almost got upsetted by Tanzania

Senegal drew against congo who drew against Algeria making them the same tier imo and SE just bullied them today

The super eagles would defeat Morocco by two goals and face Senegal in the finals where we would clinch our fourth title while the Arabs can battle it out for the 3rd place so they go home with something at least

Tessyy1701:
@Akkin

What do you have to say?

Bad belle😒

That's what I have to say big head😒😒

Nigeria is knocking out north African teams like they are collecting infinity stones

We beat Libya 3-0 while sleeping at the airport in the qualification if you remember all the fiasco they put up

We beat Tunisia.... putting three past them after not conceding through out their world cup qualifiers

And now Algeria... taking revenge for knocking us out in 2019

Next on our hitlist is Morocco......

My advice for them is to PRAY!!

GOoooooooaaaaallllll

Akkin:
Nigeria 2--Algeria 0 Ft

Osimehn to score a header and lookman to score

I SAID ITTTTTTYTTT!!!!!?

Are these really the stats for the match🙆

I hope it pays in the second half

The odds favored Senegal and Morocco to go through and they did just that....I don't expect it to be different for civ or Nigeria so our semi finals are

Civ vs Senegal (a repeat of their match in 2023 ro16 irc and I see civ beating Senegal again)

Nigeria vs Morocco (I do not know who will win this sort of matchup...too many variables to think of especially bad officiating which is disgraceful)


Cote D'Ivoire might just win the whole thing at this point ...I don't want Morocco to win it because of the terrible bias officiating so far at the tourney

The ref of Morocco vs Cameroon deserves motm...stellar performance 🫡 he was everywhere on the pitch doing anything but his job🤦

Ppogbae:
I beg to differ. Ndidi and Lookman to score. Osimhen will come out with an assist.

It's because i just watched all Algeria highlights at this afcon and i noticed how weak they are against aerial attacks from corners and headers which osimehn is very good at,..

Hell, against Burkina Faso,one of burkinas header hit the crossbar and would have drawn the game had it entered

Also, Burkina,equitorial guinea and Sudan all had terrible defenses that made silly mistakes throughout this tournament and the SE eagles defense has been way better so I dont really see Nigeria conceding...but Algeria's strength would be their long range strikes which are scarily accurate and that would be a problem for nwabali cause he rarely dives to catch such

Nigeria 2--Algeria 0 Ft

Osimehn to score a header and lookman to score

zicky:
Top Player.
Player of the Tournament battle

Lookman has two motm i believe

Goke7:
This is bulshit and very unprofessional from Lookman, let him try it against Algeria who can equalise the yeye two goals he was talking about. So it’s now a crime to be hungry for more goals because someone has two. Shebi it’s because it was Mozambique. Osihmen you guys are bashing is the one that’s more mature to know that after what happened against Tunisia it’s the wisest thing to pump in as more goals as possible. This gentle nature of Lookman that’s deceiving all of you, I will be here to mock all those that will complain again by the time the same Lookman starts playing like the way he was doing during the wcq and some were already saying he should be benched. You folks forget the past easily. Make una continue

Osimehn shouldn't have reacted like that because the only reason why you would lose a 3 up advantage is poor defence...he should've been clamoring for mass defense and high possession of the ball not more goals especially when few minutes remained

That's what they need to be doing against Algeria....score early,score at least 2 or three,mass defend and possess the game till the last minute

Tessyy1701:
You have never been since the start of the tournament... You don't see us in the semis since the or what changes

Any time you expect the super eagles to perform...they usually fumble and when you expect them to disappoint,they become superb

So I am not confident in them so that I will be impressed when they prove me wrong.

Reverse psychology 😏

I just looked up Algeria and Nigeria h2h and it's not looking good for Nigeria at all
We have lost 4 out of the last 5 games against Algeria with our last win being in 2016...I'm not so confident in Nigeria anymore

Blueelf:
Algeria have only conceded once all tournament

I'll be wary of them if I were chelle

Tunisia didn't concede in all of their wcq games

Tunisia 2- Nigeria 3 FT

I see Nigeria beating Algeria 3-1 on Saturday