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michlins:
Slap on the wrist conviction. Six months or option of fine. The EFCC officers who worked hard to secure this conviction(s) will wish they took the bribe they were offered earlier on. This is heavily demoralizing to the determined staff


Bunch of jokers

No japa for you if you have a criminal record.

chrisooblog:
Ekong out for the rest of the season due to injury sustained in AFCON group stage match against CIV.

To undergo surgery for the bicep femoris injury in Finland.

Got injured but still played through the pain barrier to win tournament MVP that's my captain

Men our players who were the real walking wounded in the finals Huge respect to them

I remember the game against SA,his mobility was heavy, I tried to highlight this part but some people disagreed with me. It's obvious the injury impeded his movement in that game but he played through it.

His minutes should have been better managed. Paok should petition FIFA and send his medical bills to NFF.

charlesemeka85:
Porto coach Sergio Conceição after the win over Arsenal: “Arsenal wanted to play...we wanted to win.” [Mirror]

🤣🤣🤣

Portugal seems to be the hotbed of young forward thinking managers. Marco Silva, Rúben Amorim, Sergio Conceição, Nuno Espirito, Paulo Fonseca and the likes. You're in for a long thing if you play their teams.
This is why I recommend Pedro Goncalves, the young Angola coach if Peseiro is leaving.

The link tries to explains what Portugal seems to be doing right https://football.fmh.ulisboa.pt/portugals-army-of-special-ones-coaches/

This list looks like something compiled by senators.

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Not that I support bullying but I think we've sensationalized this Iwobi thing enough. Footballers being yabbed comes with the perks of the job. It's one of the occupational hazards of being a player and they are well compensated for it. Same can be said of politicians. You can't in one breathe defend Iwobi and same time insult Tinubu Balablu. That's hypocritical.

Harry Maguire has been hounded over the years so much that a Ghanaian parliamentarian made jest of him on the parliament.

Onana's at 50 memes are everywhere.
Messi was bullied to a point that he quit the national team because he couldn't win the world cup or the South American copa.

Nobody even threatened Iwobi to start with. Back in 2006, Pierre Wome had his family house burnt in Cameron after he missed a last minute penalty which denied Cameron from qualifying for the world cup. Let's move on abeg

kennysville:
Now Okoye don turn best thing since sliced bread....
When him dey concede 4 goals back to back nobody come here dey wax lyrical O.

Players need to be called out so they can work harder.

Before una come for my head, pause and read what I wrote and understand before you respond

My brother the thing taya me o.. One will think Okoye was dropping bangers before one mistake made people turn against him.
Nigerians eh

Philosopher1979:
Most natural midfielders we have are not in top 5 European leagues. If u mention nwakali samson tijani ebenezer akinsanmiro etc they will say they are not in good clubs or that they are too young. We are stuck with Europe. Our midfield was given problems by players from mamelodi sundown but we will not hear.
By the way samuel kalu is better than chukwueze and moses simon. Also olisah ndah is the most skillfully and technical defender we have but they are not in the top leagues in Europe so people here will say I'm foolish for saying so.
Time will prove people who think like me right. Football does not end in the top 5 leagues of Europe. Nwabali proved it.
TIME WILL TELL

That Olisa Ndah boy is indeed one who could come in and elevate the technical profile of our defence line. Our 3 centre backs at this AFCON lack the technical ability to play out from the back. This resulted in their lump it to Osimhen approach.
I barely saw our centre backs hiting diagonal balls to wingers. A player like Olisa does this with his eyes closed, he can even be asked to invert into the midfield when we have the ball like Jon Stones.
So much dynamics if we can stop this straight jacket aproach in call ups.

This maybe controversial but just like some of us screamed about sourcing for local talent for the GK role, I feel we just might hit gold if we look within for a midfield talent from the league since our best talents abroad are either strikers of wingers.
Never again should we have a coach call up 4 midfielders for friendly games. We must expand the dragnet if we desire progress.

Mujtahida:
You said as much if not directly then by implication.

Why would such implication come up when I'm not typing from a psychiatry ward?
The full context of my post eluded you, which understandably is normal after such an emotional night.

Mujtahida:
Is it the players who made such postulation? How does the postulations of fans translate into the performance of team? You dey reason so?

So me yabbing some fans for their ridiculous takes before the game is the same thing as saying the fans were responsible for the loss? Take a step back and ask yourself if this is a sound sense of reasoning from you?

TheGoodJoe:

Let us be real, throughout Peseiro's time here, we have never built our midfield. We did not freeze on the occasion. We never grew. That is how we ran with the myth that we had no keeper. Scout and screen and freaking build a team. Nigeria is not a country that fields chickens as players. Pound for pound, Brazil had far better players than us in 96, but we did not cower, we gave them hell.

On the contrary, Peseiro have tried to develop our game to be more possessive. Nobody can deny we controlled games prior to this championship, we just couldn't keep a clean sheet thanks to an unbalanced defence and Uzoho.

Alot of people commended our posessesive play against Saudi Arabia and Uganda abi na Mozambique, even you, I remember reading your blue font.

Just like the way we struck gold with Nwabali, I feel same will happen to that midfield in fullness of time.

I hope we get the next managerial hire right. Alot depends on that

TheGoodJoe:

There is a difference between having a tough game against the host and just sitting back and doing nothing. We offered nothing.

Lets be real, pound for pound they have better midfield than us. I feel the occasion got to our players and they frooze.

Icon4s:
Overall an excellent AFCON outing. For me I had an open mind going into that final game and already prepared for a defeat in case it comes.

Prio to commencement of the tourney I am not sure up to 10% of us here could have predicted we will get to the Semis let alone the final.

The team gave all they have, you cannot give what you don't have. Playing against a host team in a Cup final is not an easy fit. This is Cote D' Ivoire we just played in Abidjan.

Let's just take the positives and continue to build.

Peseiro needs to scout for more midfielders and inject them into the team while also reducing the number of defenders. Thank God we now finally have a goalie, which is one of the major positives of this AFCON outing.

We can build from here as we push towards world cup qualification. 2026 World Cup is just by the corner . Core of this team will still be available then, if we qualify.

I AM PROUD OF THE BOYS

I think Peseiro will quit, the search for more midfielders will be the job of the incoming coach.
Nice submissions though. Playing the hosts in a final was never going to be a cake walk.

Mujtahida:
Your logic - fans setting up to celebrate = reason why we were defeated.

They said people who talk logic should come out, you ma dey come 😂😂.

Your hype means nada. You don't have faith. If you attempt to hype you will suffer from the dissonance between your faithlessness and the lies your mouth utters in the name of hype.

Spin it how you like but expecting to beat Ivory coast black and blue using Germany VS Brazil as a case in point defies logic or any color of rationality.
If you draw strength and courage from that sort of asinine postulation, it's pretty much how you put it, misdiagnosis.

Mujtahida:
You have no faith. You expected loss. It happened. How e go come take pain you?

This is a misdiagnosis like you call it. Not farming for likes by yabbing Ivory coast and boasting about beating them 3-0 doesn't necessarily mean I was expecting a loss. Othwerise, I might as well not have watched the game if the result was a certainty.

Mujtahida:
There is no basis for your criticism. You don't have faith. So criticism is all you got like a wretch who keeps lashing a child he has not faith in.

I know those whose criticism one can lay store on. Marjoribanks believes deeply in the team more than most of us. In fact, his optimism shocks me yet he points out defects. You have no faith. You even attribute our loss to the confidence of fans.

So in other words, for one to be qualified to criticise the team, he must have earned the privilege by displaying a sense of fanatical support that defiles logic?
Nobody briefed me, I get the memo now.
Watch me hype the team to crescendo. I will make sure I tag you. Be there

Odunayaw:
Who were you criticizing when you were talking about humility and faith?

So hosting a victory party before the ball is kicked is the way to go?

Mujtahida:
We don lose na. You don win. Carry your trophy

Why do some of you think whoever criticises the team automatically hates the team? This is like the thinking of a douche bag kid in some expensive private school. Good lord!

Mujtahida:
We don lose na. You don win. Carry your trophy

Asin how na? You think it's easy enduring this loss? Abi you think you're more Nigerian than me?

Mujtahida:
No be only squad na squash. Typical. As we don lose, una don get mouth. You'd be hyped abi and your hypeness would not have affected the team. See you

I have been quite active on this thread all through the competition. We don loose una get mouth is coming from where?
From day1 of the competition, I've pointed the strength and weakness of this team. The result of this final is not a shock because the signs were there.

Mujtahida:
Like Odunayaw said there's no victory in being a craven mouse. We lost. But I'd rather stay with those with heart to believe than with those who hide behind their fears and feign false humility and want to be right when we lost.

If we had been playing squash buckling football all through the games, I'd have been super hyped but the frailty of the team is well documented rather people think we can luck our way to steal the trophy playing like a mid table team.

TheSuperNerd:
Onyeka was the Spine of our midfield at this tournament. And remember, even I didn't rate Onyeka enough to start in my first 11 for a 433. But Onyeka shone in this 343 and won my heart.

Iwobi's best match came vs Equatorial Guinea in a 433. He was out of his depths in this 343. He was covered up for plenty times.

The team practically carried Iwobi all through the tournament. He brought zero control to the midfield.
Even up to my younger sister who doesn't watch football was telling me how rubbish Iwobi was today over the phone. Crazy

Mujtahida:
Rohr is humble. The kind of humility Barryseal is comfortable with.

I'd rather face the truth than being deceived by some big time Charlie.

Mujtahida:
This sort of craveness na wa. Here you go again. I ask: did we lost this match because of our lack of humility? So if we'd been humble, we would have won? Point out one single instance of boastfulness on the part of the players and the coach?

Did you not read Ivorians boasting they'd win because it's written in the stars? Omo your way of judging things is baffling.

I dont think we had any Ivorien on this thread. I wouldn't know what they said or didn't say, my point was that the bandwagonism and lack of depth to proper analysis by champions of this thread was baffling.
A little point I raised about the SA striker having a field day was met with stoic push back, even with video evidence.
The insatiable point everyone wanted to hear was how we will wipe the floor with Ivory coast. People were just farming likes without any form of substance or analysis.

Mujtahida:
The midfield issue is rather the side note to your comment. The substance which you have hammered on repeatedly is the over-confidence of the fans

Check the comment again and tell if the corner stone of the comment was about the fans.

Omanambala:
All I am saying is we need ball playing midfielders. If they like let the elevate Iwobi to a god status, that midfield will still suffer. Iwobi is not a midfielder. Iwobi is a minus one in that midfield

I shudder to think that majority of Nigerians don't know what a good CM looks like that's why they venerate Iwobi as much as they do.

Mujtahida:
How did that affect our play on the pitch? Omo fans can say they expect a spanking. Did our coach say so? Did our players say so?

This misdiagnosis is grating. It's really an immature and unrealistic way to think that fans on SM with their attitude whether positive or negative are responsible for the victories we've had and the loss today.

Mature analysis is that which analyzes our in-game approach rather than attributing this defeat to the attitude of fans. You no be small pikin na. Cos na secondary school pupil suppose dey think like this.

I feel you're majoring on the minor here. I never said the fans were responsible for the loss. It was just a foot note in my comment which you're blowing up for reasons I have no idea.
My initial comment was that the defence by passed the midfield and lumped it up to Osimhen majority of the game. We had no control whatsoever in the match as a result, we lost.

Goke7:
see we had beaten CIV before so it's normal if folks are confident, there is no sin in that. The fans are not the ones on the pitch but the players, All our best players so far from Aina, Bassey, Lookman, and Oshimen were all poor today. Only Ekong, Nwabali and maybe onyeka tried. It was down to the players, don't bring the fans into this, our role is to support the team.

Well, I guess it's normal to hype the players since they got to the finals. But I feel most of the fans didn't respect the Ivorians enough. A coach like Arteta fires up his players with comments from social media. He did that with comment from Ivan Toney, I'm sure most coaches do that.

Mujtahida:
So your team will play and enter final and you'd not be confident they'd win? Omo so your expectation was that we'd lost the match? Weren't the Ivorians confident? Why did they come to the stadium? If they had lost, you'd have told them that it was their over-confidence as fans that made their team lost?

I really detest misdiagnosis.

This fan talk is what I don't get. Is it the fans that play the ball?

Alot of people were living in denial. We got to the final to play the host, a power house like Ivory coast, came to the thread all I was seeing was talk about spanking Ivory coast. On the back of the South Africa outplaying us in the semi final.
I think it was the moniker Forgiveness who said we should stay humble, that God rewards humility.
As a people I hope we take home a lesson from this episode.