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semid4lyfe:
Baba, it is true.

I was on Oma Akatugba TikTok live session after the squad release and I asked this question, and Oma confirmed it, and even justified Maduka decision saying based on club and form, Maduka should be #1 and shouldn't be chopping bench for a goalkeeper in the South African league.

I dey chop eba. E get one epistle wey I wan write. Make I finish fiery

You see nigerian journalists??

Let me finish first

@ thesupernerd, do you know this guy?

do4luv14:
Can you blame them, who would wanna rate us with the way our football is being run by those people in glass house

You're right. It's a pity

forgiveness:
Please, don't drag CAF President and CAF. We still get appeal for FIFA ooooo.

CAF did very well in the organization of this tournament. The officiating was superb.

Drag him o, don't drag him oo

It won't go our way.

Would've made a stronger case for ourselves had we won

TheSuperNerd:
From outside the box. Please can the NFF sort out this guy's nationality confusion and get him into my next Afcon Squad abeg!!! Chelle needs bombers like this.

I thought he was called upon once upon a time

semid4lyfe:
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Elf, if you ever post Okoye's name on this thread and advocate for his callup, I will haunt you on this thread, in real life and in your dreams.

Maduka Okoye is a lilly-livered chicken, a traitor and a saboteur. As far as I am concerned, he should be axed from the Super Eagles forever.

That guy opted out of the AFCON squad because his demand to be first choice goalie was refused ,saying he preferred to play regularly for his club than sit on the bench at the AFCON.

That stunt he pulled is tantamount to blackmail and sabotage of the team's AFCON campaign because at the time he opted out, Nwabali was nursing an injury and it was uncertain if he'd be fit for the AFCON.

He made a decision and I respect that but he should also live with the consequences of his decision.

I didn't know this semid

No be fight na bro. Chill 😁

On a more serious note, I heard about this but wasn't so sure about the news because I doubted it's veracity

But if true, he should stay where he is

Goke7:
Osayi had to pass a late fitness test to play the game yesterday. I heard it from some foreign analysts, in fact, in the game against Algeria dude was limping to complete that game.

My point is, Aina can't simply walk into our starting line-up easily again; he has to fight for that shirt now, and the team is looking more competitive as we now have more options. Who would have thought that a whole Chukwueze will chop bench tire at this afcon. Na this overhype of some certain players dey affect us at times, see the Onyedika we thought was class, now we know he can't displace Ndidi easily. Aina is welcome back anytime, but he must earn it now.

Because he scored a brace against Uganda

Lollll

forgiveness:
Did you read "Aina is world class" in my comment? He is definitely above average and better than Osayi. That's fact. No doubt Osayi showed in this tournament he also good is a contender for the position but with Aina, Aina would had done better.

It's because you mentioned hakim is world class

forgiveness:
Why not? You saw how Hakimi dictated from the back. That is a world class player.

But Aina isn't world class

Anyways...we move

forgiveness:
In a big game like this, Aina would had done better offensively and defensively.

Hmmm

Are you sure ebony?

Sarsaparilla524:
We have to bear with the CAF president and his goons' shenanigans till 2029.

African football is in a quagmire.

Popular votes is how he got it

CASF is a reflection of Africa. The greedy and corrupt get into power.

The next o e will be nothing different my guy

If we develop our football and host, then we can dictate.

I'll say it anywhere, sports is business. Morocco has to be compensated. They lost women's finals, got to Semi Final of world cup and rep african football well. Even won the Arab cup

Of course, if they sneeze, motsepe will come running. They are repping African football well

Let us also put our house in order too

Note: I'm not supporting corruption in anyway

Yesterday was good for me

Because it reminded everyone that we have a real gem in Nwabali

If he can keep his head down, he can be as historical for us as Enyeama was

If the Wrexham guy -Arthur Okonkwo should join, he should act as understudy because he is not as good as Nwabali

Okoye should also be given a look in

Good one Nwabobo. 👍

9JAMac10:
forget about Algeria . Osimhen had a stinker yesterday. I see why people say Osimhen is only good in the air . Man was shuffling his feet when iwobi gave him that good pass towards the Moroccan goal

Broo

Osimhen is good oo

Yes, he can improve on his off the ball movement and positioning

But he's a world class striker ooo

9JAMac10:
I'm thinking about Akor Adams's performance yesterday and laughing to myself

Why?

😀😀

He's decent though but he's not there yet obviously

But midfield sef no try sha. It's not totally his fault

Goke7:
We can give him a benefit of a doubt if he spends one or two more years with this team we will become more dynamic

True.

I am of the opinion he should continue and grow with the team

The root of Super Eagles problems have always been NFF

I believe he'd have learnt from this

realpoacher:
At bolded, that should work too

The man simply had no plan B


Once plan A gets caged, you all are on your own

Bros, maybe you weren't here but I remember asking here on this thread what our plan B was

Even me with little to no coaching knowledge saw that we were too predictable

The response I got was - No team will try to press us or they will leave space

Let me tell you categorically boss, the Egyptians are quite disciplined. And if they also read our game like regragui did, we may end up loosing third place

Chelle needs to up his tactical knowledge come up with a plan B, Plan C or even a Plan D, else we risk becoming too predictable

Goke7:
Chelle, for all his good works, may need a good match reader; either he's making too early substitutions or making them late. I observed after the Tunisia game that he was never in a hurry, as before, to make substitutions, which means he's a good listener, but I feel the NFF technical committee needs to work with him more to get a good match reader for him. Okpala Sylvanus was Keshi's match reader when NFF wanted to frustrate him; they simply remove sylvanus, and the rest they say is history .

Chelle needs help with reading our games, but an incredible job so far from him

Who is your suggestion?

I think those foreign assistants working with him may already be the match readers

I also don't think this NFF may want to add someone to thwir payroll

TheSuperNerd:
Look at this one too. Onyedika executed a clean tackle and won the ball but the ref called it against us. Look at how Iwobi reacted. Look at the steam it took out of our lads.

See clear tackle. Look at Iwobi's reaction The ref broke so many momentum in the game. pic.twitter.com/Uf1KPfYE24

— Chinaza Kelvin (@kelvin_chinaza) January 15, 2026

This clip is also part of why I say Onyedika was not all bad yesterday. He was not as physically assertive and aggressive as he should have been given the occasion but he did do some things right.
Below is yet another stat backing it up, under intense pressure, this guy still finds the pass.... he only need to up his physical aggression meter.

Backpasses and side passes with little or no impact at all

TheSuperNerd:
Carney Chukwuemeka
Faustino Anjorin
Lesley Ugochukwu

They are all 3/3 midfielders (Technical, tactically progressive and also importantly, Physically built & aggressive).

My only issue is if we can recruit them or if they will honor our interest.

Bro, it will be hard for any of them to play for us

They don't rate us at all

realpoacher:
As a Coach, you always have one job to do.


Find a way to play your game.


In this Match, we did not play our game, infact, we couldn't play our normal free flowing football we were used to, why?

Morocco did not allow us to do that, they had 3 players on us whenever we tried to move the ball to our half, Pass to Osimehn, 3 people on him, pass to Akor, or Lookman or Iwobi, same story, 3 players on them. Towards the end of the match, Iwobi had to drop deep to the defense line to collect the ball with a little freedom


As a Coach, what should you do? You don't stand for 90 minutes watch your team struggle to play their normal game, NO! ... You look for a way to fix it - think on your feet and fix it.


Your opponent should not be running riots on you all night and you stand by doing nothing.

Algeria did that nonsense and got punished, Egypt did the same nonsense against Senegal and lost, Nigeria did the same nonsense against Congo and now Against Morocco.

I also see many coaches do this nonsense too but Pep doesn't, Arteta doesn't, Anceloti doesn't


As a Coach, learn try multiple formations, try your players in multiple positions, understand how they fare in uneven grounds so that when push comes to shove, instead of being clueless, you fix it on the field instantaneously.


From the first blast of the whistle, you could see that Morocco had studied your team to the minute details, they figured that if they close the holes from the midfield down to the final third, you midfielders and attackers will be useless I.E it simply means that once they can cut off supply to midfielders and strikers,
.. Otilo.

Now as a Coach, should you have done, seeing that for almost 60 minutes, you had no forward press not shots on Target,... Then you switch the formation to 4-3-1-2


Remove Akor for Onauchu
Remove Onyedika for Chucks

-------- Onauchu -------- Osimehn

------------------------- Iwobi -----------------


Lookman ---------- Onyeka ----------------- Chucks


Bruno ------- Bassey ---------- Ajayi ----- Osayi


With this setup, the Moroccans will certainly be deceived and run at you


Lookman and chucks are runners of the ball and will widen the field for Iwobi to operate


Onyeka has two oxygen packs glued to his heart and can handle the pressure with chunks and lookman supporting both Bruno and Osayi


The goal is to use both chuks and lookman on the wings and playing deep in our half to spread out the Morocco for Iwobi to play and for Osimehn to Pounce.


But what did Chelle do,... He stood there on the sidelines for 90 minutes watching helplessly like he did against Congo.

He might be a great pre-game tactician but very poor in-game manager..... Something Anceloti is a genius at


Frankly, as a Coach.... Ability to read games and change the tempo to your terms is very very important else you might not go far in becoming great

Lookman and chuks in midfield is a disaster waiting to happen

Replace chuks with Bashiru

We need at least 2 sensible midfielders that can hold the ball better and are physically strong enough to withstand press

But you're mostly right

Subzero0477:
Think there is a sense in which Raphael Onyedika is getting the short end of the stick for last night.

While he had a very poor match, able to neither impose himself nor get to grips with the intensity of the match, and was rightly pulled, it is important to acknowledge that, up until the semi-final, the Super Eagles had not faced a side as defensively and/or tactically astute as the Moroccans.

Would Ndidi have made a difference? Certainly. Being more tenacious in the tackle and boasting greater anticipation, he would no doubt have fared better and helped Nigeria compete more fiercely. But nothing he faced in the competition was remotely close to the standard the Moroccans brought. So it is not really comparing apples with apples. The same Ndidi was present while our midfield was overrun against DR Congo two months ago. Not his fault personally at all, but the point is that these things are not straightforward to analyse.

Different players have different skill sets. Onyedika is what he is; if, as a coach, you put him into the team in place of a different profile of player, you owe it to him and the team to tweak something else in order to allow him play. Last night, the Super Eagles needed to be even more patient than usual, knowing they were lacking something out of possession. Instead, the opposite was the case.

-Solace Chukwu

Chelle had no plan B

He had been tinkering with the team and finally found a working for.ula but alas, he had no plan B

His fault

Meanwhile

minfelix:
baba be celebrating our failures back to back and stop giving us(super eagles fans)advice to progress🤣🤣🤣…match day go be like 2days or 1 day to go….you start dey troll people wey you dey give advice to win games🤣🤣🤣….which kind human beings dey this nairaland sef….oga stay on one lane abeg🤣🤣
Aforbear can never come and post this particular thing you have posted.

im expecting you to come endless trolling posts like
“ moomoo fans of super eagles how una dey”
“una still dey support una ekuke team”


stop coming to tell us how to move forward 🤣🤣

Your brain is a little as the first 4 laters of your moniker, so no surprises

Can't do without quoting me. 😅😅😅

Look at this screenshot.

The same question i asked thesupernerd

The same thing the Moroccan coach noticed and we were knocked out

Hope it's very obvious now. Chelle had jo answer to this

The Super Eagles were too obvious in their tactics

TheGoodJoe:
When we met Argentina in Atlanta Argentina has Ariel Ortega, one of the best dribbling attackers to grace football. Hernan Crespo was a World Star. Claudio Lopez was a super star of the series a. I think Gallardo was also there. Javier Zanetti and a host of stars. We played them with guts and bravery.

I prefer we give them hell and lose than play like a chicken and hope to win. I have never known Nigeria for fear. How it is has become a norm baffles me.

For once, I agree with you thegoodjoe

Wailing and smashing of teeth

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

minfelix:
you banter with point like some of these 17yrs old around my area…im sure you be senior man for age…now wetin Mane do? because he successfully played an outside shot that scored…why Morocco no score same outside shot na….but Algeria also use outside shot score DRC, why dem no do am against us…we lose like this, you guys will just come up with points wey no even connect…if sunday reach and Mane no play shot to score, wetin u go do?…..oga stay 100% on your trolling of auper eagles, you dont have any serious analysis to add here of the team….i still even prefer the aforebear or whatever…cos we know that one is not a Nigerian and cant even wish us good…but your own, today you dey form Super eagles fans tomorrow you dey form Ghanaian/South african troll

.
Pain, is that you

You prefer afobear, yet you're engaging me with long epistle

Oya cry more. My bucket never full abeg

Insult whatever you want but at least you're doing it in tears. Makes me a happy man

😅😅😅😅

minfelix:
so who kwanu b the person wey go dey move box to box…if dem no use Onyedika, e sure me say u go come here dey laugh asif Onyedika would have made any changes…na Akinsamiro abi Nnadi wan unlock the moroccan defense?
Your serious moment has always faulted Nigeria, your serious moment has never profered solution….even when the team beat Uganda 3-1, u wan use pessimism finish us here say Mozambique bla bla bla….which time and year super eagles wan get am right for your eyes🤣🤣🤣…e sure me if we lift the afcon and we are to face Djibouti in our next match you will come and pre-mocking everyone here🤣🤣 like wetin dey sup gan gan….the other guy you are trying to form mocking alliance with is a Ghanaian, im sure you wont go to Ghana page to mock them their…abi Ghana sef no dey make mistake?🤣

I hardly rate any player in the SE

Because except for Osimhen, am the rest are average

I hate ghana bro. Na useless country. The only thing they have going foe them is electricity

yinkeys:
Mane didn't play against host nation
We know what happened when they faced ivory Coast 2 years ago
Wait until final

Okay na

Bookmarked my bro

Wait oooo


You w0eople shouting ref this ref that. Dis you not expect it?

Dis you not see it play out against Cameroon?

Oh you taught God in Heaven will spare you??

Because you prayed??

Lollllll

A world class coach would've worked around this

I'm a patient man

Egypt go still flog una
.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

"Ontyedinho", "Onyeball"

Na why him dey bench be that

Folks here taught because he scored against Man City in a UCL game, he was suddenly Yaya Toure

Lolll

Una must cry tire this night

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

minfelix:
what if Morocco with the aid of CAF come beat morocco before full time, what will you say🤣🤣…omo some of una troll here is too babyish and so childish….see as e sure u say Senegal go beat morocco….playing against the host and the officials a North Africa for that matter, desperate of a win after 50yrs?

See what mane did today

Do you have a player in your team capable of that?

A player that can provide something magical like a long range shot in the dying minutes of the game?

In this nigerian team, is there someone like that?

NO!!!

Trolling continues my guy
.afovear, I'm yet to see your hand. Press thwir neck very well

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