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TheLoneCitizen:
A one goal ties the GD.

They are on 12:7

If we beat them 1-0. That's 12:8

Identical to us.

Disciplinary records will be checked

Unlimited22:
I think fifa and caf use gd before head to head.

They are +5 now, we are +3 so if we win for example 1-0. They will be +4 and we will also be +4. The goal scored and goal against will be the same. Then Disciplinary measures will be checked. From my count Benin has received 14 yellow cards we have reviewed 12.

Imagine

hatakekakashi:
We need to win by 2 goals. It's possible. The hard part is South Africa dropping points to Rwanda

Not 2 goals, any kind of win against Benin we will go above them. The issues is, can Rwanda hold SouthAfrica?

Spainever:
I saw SA won by 1.0

SouthAfrica drew.

Mybettingtips:
we need to beat Benin 2-0 not 3

No any win against Benin Republic we will top them

Unlimited22:
That Zimbabwe draw is going to be the game that costs us the world cup.

Exactly. If we had won that game, we would have simply won Benin and qualified.

Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 did us a huge Favour by drawing SA

QueenJazz:
Nwabali OUT

Ekong OUT

I don't want to hear any rubbish. Get these two comedians out of my team!!!

I have said it several times, Nwabali is the first person that is supposed to be replaced in our team if we are Serious.
I swear if that guy face proper European or SouthAmerican players he will be exposed

TheSuperNerd:
Stanley Nwabali, it is like u want to lose that number 1 shirt today!!! That was stupid. Who are u punching to??

If I am the Nigerian Coach, the first person I will kick out of Super Eagles is Nwabali.

Ekong will just be there for Vibes.

Goke7:
Lesotho knows we need more goals hence their time wasting. They are surely in solidarity with SA

Exactly they started the time wasting from the start.

Zimbabwe has collected Red card. Nawao

Ekong nearly lost that PK sef. SMh

Joebie:
Chelle was praised so much in this thread for how he carried Mali in the last AFCON. Even many people still believe say we go win the next AFCON.

Same Chelle that gis team was leading Ivory coast 1-0 with 1 man down, and yet lost the game and he started pouring water on his head. SMH

maidaboi:
I am not seeing that urgency that we usually see from teams playing for a win

No urgency at all. This is a sign that the coach is not good enough

lbrichman2:
I wonder why they are asking for Lookman to be taken off.
Dude has been one of our better players this half

Dont mind them, only him and Osihmen are showing Urgency

You see that Alakodare, they should never invite that guy to national team anymore

joelsteron:
Eric Chelle switch that formation to 4-3-3

Take off Lookman/simon , bring on Chukwueze.
Bring on Alhasan for Tolu Arokodare.
Allow Iwobi move forward

Remove which Lookman? Simon should never play again for Super Eagles. Remove Simon put Chukwueze. Remove Alakodare put Onyeka or Uche

-Only Osihmen and Lookman are showing any urgency, But lookman is very rusty.
- Alakodare is not national team quality.
- Iwobi has nothing else to prove in Super Eagles. He should be benched henceforth. What a discouraging performance.
- Kai Ekong should leave football as football has left him.
A better team would have punished us because of Ekong.
- Onyeamachi is a very below average player.

minfelix:
Last time Osimhen faced Lesotho
Lesotho 2-4 Nigeria (Osimhen 2goals) in 2021

If Aubameyang can score 4 Osihmen can score 5 or 6

Danielnino00:
You want to beat Darling daddy Rohr 5-0

We beat them 3-0 the last time they came here. Now we need goals, we should adopt every crude tactics to score plenty goals. Trust me if this is north African team. They will feed Benin Lasagne and trash them 5-0. But na only us for Africa sabi do diplomacy

solonnachi:
Chelle will work on Mali for us.

Good but we beed goals at this point, we need to beat Lesotho and Benin at least 3-0 eash

Elock1:
At this point ....i'm hoping we can somehow qualify as the group toppers, going through the playoffs looks more difficult

From making it into the best 4 runners up to the play off itself

Omo

I swear to everything i know, if we make it to the play offs we will qualify

Its Gabon, Cameroon, Dr Congo and Nigeria if we manage to see off Burkinafaso.
Trust me we will win any of these people. The play off is a mini tournament in Morroco

minfelix:
Burkina faso is on +4goals, Nigeria(assuming we are on second) we will be having +2 goals if we get into the play off table…we need to win lesotho with 2goals and tie on points and goals with Burkina faso

We don’t need to tie we need to go above them on GD. We need to beat Lesotho 3 zero to go above them. Because they scored more on GF. We also need to outscore them in our match against Benin Republic compared to what they might get against Ethiopia at home. The good thing is they play on Sunday we play on Monday we will know the number of goals we need at that time.

When Benin come to Nigeria, no Brotherhood oo, we need to apply every trick in the books to score plenty goals against them, 5-0 sef if possible

mekabuachi:
Nigerian football fans are actually the best in the world🥹

Imagine despite all the twists, frustration and disappointment we are still calculating, believing ... Kudos to everyone on this thread we're the real MVP fr👍

This is our country my dear, we don’t have any other one. Italy failed to qualify for 2 straight world cups, does that mean, they fans no longer exists?

Like I said before we will fight and hope until our chances is Zero

TheSuperNerd:
Gambia 3-3 Gabon

Our main Challengers are Burkinafaso we need plenty goals. If Benin Repuplic can score 5 against Lesotho. Why can we. And we defeated Benin 3-0 at home in the last AFCON qualifier.

If we can repeat that and beat Lesotho like 4-0. And pray that Burkinafaso do not pour many goals against Ethiopia

minfelix:
from the update deductions, they need to beat Ethiopia at home with more GD to stand a chance
Then Madagascar need to beat Mali

Madagasger cannot beat Mali.

Our main opponents are Burkinafaso . We need plenty of goals. SMH

minfelix:
wow so FIFA has already made those deductions sef, im just seeing it now…on their main group their points remain but on the playoff table all necessary deductions has been made😀
so this means Burkina faso can finish on 15pts and Madagascar has to draw or lose to mali and Nigeria has to finish on 15points🙆🏼🙆🏼…omo

That Burkinafaso win yesterday was a big blow for us. Their next match is at home to Ethiopia.
The Dr Congo is Currently winning 1-0 against Togo if they win, we are in big trouble, there next match is at home to Sudan.

There is a Glimmer of hope for Gabon as they are losing now 3-2 to Gambia. Their next match is at home to Burundi.

Honestly to sneak in at this point, we need to score a lot of goals like 4 or 5 today and score Benin like 3 goals too.

So the key matches are:

Gabon vs Burundi
Burkinafaso vs Ethiopia
Dr Congo vs Sudan.


Even with this lifeline we are still in a dicey situation, something that looked very good few weeks ago, honestly results didn’t go our way this round.

minfelix:
one of This two nations (Madagascar and Burkina Faso) will be a sacrificial lamb falling out for Nigerian to sneak into play off spot
1. Madagascar on 19points travels to Mali for last match
A loss for them 19-6 = 13pts
A draw for them 20-6= 14pts

2. Burkina Faso on 18pts welcomes Ethiopia on last match
A win for them 21-6 = 15pts
A draw for them 19 - 6 = 13pts

Uganda on 18pts travels to Algeria for last match
A loss for them 18- 6 = 12
A draw for them 19-6 = 13

Also DRC on 16 pts with 2matches to go are still a threat


we just need to gather that 17pts and hope Zim gets rooted to the bottom of the group…

we are sneaking into that play off spot

The only way for Zimbabwe not to finish last is if they beat SouthAfrica. If they do that, then we leap frog SouthAfrica on GD with a Win to Lesotho. Anything other than that they will finish last.

owbabs:
Hope for DRC not to beat Togo.

If DRC wins, Nigeria is toast.

I was not Happy today when Burkina Faso defeated Seirralone, their next Match is home to Ethiopia. We should just pray they don't win that mtch with big margin.

Also DR Congo needs to just drop points to Togo today. If not we are toast.

Amedino99:
making an announcement like this before the final round of games will cause issues and accusations of match fixing since some teams know that avoiding a win against the lowest ranked team in their group will help them. Probably will be done after.

Avoiding a win against bottom place team will not necessarily help anyone, that it will not count doesn’t mean , it can’t count in teams finishing second. If we had won Zimbabwe we would have have more points in the internal group ranking, the subtraction has no impact

femianski:
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Thanks

femianski:
𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗖𝗢𝗨𝗟𝗗 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗚𝗘 𝗜𝗡 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗪𝗢𝗥𝗟𝗗 𝗖𝗨𝗣 𝗤𝗨𝗔𝗟𝗜𝗙𝗜𝗘𝗥𝗦:Eritrea's withdrawal from the qualifiers creates a total imbalance: Group E now has only 5 teams instead of 6.To restore fairness, CAF and FIFA are considering 𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗩𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗣𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗡𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗚𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗦𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗕𝗢𝗧𝗧𝗢𝗠 𝗧𝗘𝗔𝗠 𝗢𝗙 𝗘𝗔𝗖𝗛 𝗚𝗥𝗢𝗨𝗣 in the calculation of the best runners-up. This rule could [currently] cost several teams 6 points (Burkina Faso, DRC, Madagascar, Gabon).
Conversely, Cameroon (–4 pts) and Nigeria could climb the rankings and revive their chances for the playoffs.Official decision expected before October 14.

Where did you see the news that FIFA is considering it with decisions before Oct. 14

123jamessmith:
I listened to Amaju pinnick on Arise News.
he's still believing that Nigeria will qualify for the World Cup.
I understand he's now the Deputy Chairman of FIFA men's competition.
If he occupy such position in FIFA seat, why will that allow South Africa to play 7 matches at home in Qualifiers.
I just believe the NFF didn't do much on that issue.
FIFA would have listened to them if they put more pressure on FIFA.

He was just recently appointed, moreover I recently noticed that nearly half of the countries in African play their away matches elsewhere. NFF just need to play the politics. Try make Niger, Chad and Benin to play their matches in Nigeria too.