Odunayaw:
That free kick could have beaten anyone. Thank you.

From that distance?
Anyone like who?

Napoleon55:
Osimhen is just unlucky to be among this present crop of players,
I wish he had come earlier.

How is he going to win trophies with the super eagles,or even break Rashidi's record?

Abeg rest.
Wetin you want make Haaland do?

https://afr.score808v2.com/football/2498644-zimbabwe-vs-nigeria.html

Try this

It's reported that the security of the Uyo Stadium delayed Amas Obasogie at the gate because they didn't recognize him. So embarrassing.

🚨BOMBSHELL!!!! 🤯🤯🤯

Enyimba’s head coach, Finidi George Fires At Management For AFL Exit

“Out of 19 new players that were brought in, I had knowledge of only 4 of them. When I saw the quality of the players that were brought, I called Ekwueme the Sporting Director and asked what the target for the season is, he said it is just to stabilize in the league as the focus is to settle down first”

“Ideally, before registering players for any competition, the coaches must be consulted to submit the list. But that wasn’t the case here. For whatever flimsy reason, we were not consulted and they did the registration themselves. As a result, some of the players we would have needed were not registered. It was much later that the sporting director just sent us the list of players that they had already registered.

“After the first leg, they dropped some players from travelling for the second leg in Casablanca, claiming that they couldn’t get them visas. We had to protest it strongly before it was rectified. We later found out that there was more to it.

“Can you imagine that we went for such a game without the goalkeeping and fitness coaches? Myself and Yema were the only coaches that travelled for that game. That is very strange to me.

“Everyone has to put the interest of the club first because until this is done, we would only be joking.”

“We arrived Uyo on October 17 with the idea to have as many training sessions as possible on the grass pitch in Uyo since we are more used to our synthetic pitch. But we couldn’t really achieve that because the management failed to make the right arrangements with the stadium authorities. As a result, we improvised and had one of our training sessions at a primary school, while another training session was cut short because of the same poor arrangements.

“In fact, we played a team that was more used to the playing surface than us, the home team. It was obvious that we were at a disadvantage as a team used to artificial pitches and this really affected us.

“Also, we had only three trainings with the AFL match ball, meanwhile, our opponents had enough time to get used to it. That was why you could see my players struggling with their control, passing and shooting.”

“It is sad to see such statements being released when all hands should be on deck and things should be more organized to enable a positive environment for all. Yes, there have been issues, but I remained patient because I believed that we could harmonise efforts and work things out; but here we are.

“The issue with the team is obvious, and it has nothing to do with the coaches. The same coaches won the league with less goals conceded and highest goal scored. We won the best Super 6 ever organized, scored the highest and conceded the least number of goals,”

Finidi George told selected journalists in an exclusive interview.

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wetin we no go see on this thread.




Una don hear? Na to dey greet people first before quoting them. And make una try dey add Uncle and Bros o

The question is, must you quote them?
There are some people I will never quote no matter how interested I am in their comment.
Anyone full of abuses, insults and curses on top ordinary football is a no no for me.

minfelix:


2010 Afcon we conceded 2goals against them…make we rest abeg

Not true.
We beat them 3-0
Osaze got a brace.

Them don cancel Mozambique red card?
I no dey understand again o.

AndSunGorilla:

Uzoho has had good games for us too, for exa.ple he had an almost faultless WC and he was excellent in the friendly against Brazil before he got injured. Major thing is he needs to find a new club where he will playing and not be on the bench. Staying in Cyprus ad #2 doesn't speak well for him. E beta make he find any club that would of course feed him and at least give him the chance to play week in week out.

Let's not forget that it was something that sent him to the bench in the first place.

Bannedlargedx2:


You must be mad. Iwobi that you guys keep disrespecting us one of our best midfielders of all time. You guys claim that, the midfield is atrocious yet game after game, numerous chances are created and aren’t converted by the strikers

On top football naim you dey abuse me ? Abeg, if you are not emotionally balanced to engage in an intellectual debate, just read (that's if you must) and pass my assertions.

charlesemeka85:
and na this same midfield jpes will deploy only iwobi and ndidi against? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Mk una comot hope for this afcon cus the heart break will be severe

Before nko?
Thank Peseiro contract is tied to AFCON performance. I doubt that guy go survive past Quarterfinals.

Bannedlargedx2:


my guy, it’s not about how many goals you scored but the importance and quality of goals that you scored. For example, I ranked emenike ahead of so many Nigerian strikers simply because he WON and scored many important goals. In the short time that aghawowa played, the guy scored few but important goals especially in 2000/2002 ANC

Few but important goals to get bronze medal abi?.
Emenike would have done nothing with this midfield duo of Ndidi and Iwobi.
Give Iheanacho, Awoniyi and the rest a midfield trio of Mikel Obi, a prime Onazi and Mba and watch them score many important goals too.
My point is many of those former players with the exception of just few would have also struggled in this age of modern football and our present set up (with Jose Peseiro ).
Are the past generations actually better than the present ones? This is very debatable in my opinion.

As great as Aghahowa was in SE colours, Iheanacho has equalled his goal scoring record with the national team.
I might be wrong but sometimes I feel we overate this past SE players.
With all the so called exploits in the 1900s, what did they really achieve?

Wail all you want, Uzoho will always move on with Eagles no matter the error he makes.

No consequence at all for mediocrity.

MetalJigsaw:
This NPL home advantages sha🥱

Did you watch the match? No need to be crying foul when there's none.

komekn:


What about Fikayo Tomori he is arguably the best defender in AC Milan.

The issue is not Milan but Chukwueze better team better player's he needs to step up .

Tomori is not a Super Eagle. We are only concerned with our boy. I'm sure the three lions will look after their player well.

charlesemeka85:
yes I streamed the match

His passes and touches distabilized the opponents midfield and defense

Abegi, na bottom of the table clash na. They go soon follow enter relegation.

Don't be shocked at the AFCON next year. I heard the facilities (especially the pitches) in Cote'd Ivoire still leaves much to be desired when we have less than four (4) months to go.

Gernot Rohr, the master of qualification getting dragged

isan:
Against farmers

Nigerians sha!
If na 2-1 be the scoreline, na una go allow person sleep

EXCLUSIVE: How I Convinced My Son To Play For Nigeria — Torunarigha’s Father


Ojokojo Torunarigha has revealed how he convinced his son Jordan to switch nationality and represent the Nigeria national team.

Jordan turned down chance to play for the Super Eagles at the 2018 FIFA World Cup despite strong plea from former Super Eagles head coach Gernot Rohr.

The centre-back played for Germany at youth level, but announced in June 2023 that he has switched allegiance to represent Nigeria.

Torunarigha is now in line to make his debut for the Super Eagles against Sao Tome and Principe on Sunday (today).

“He rejected the chance to play for the Super Eagles in the past, but I had to convince him to change his mind,”

“He was like I have never come down to Nigeria before, i don’t know much about the country.

“But I had to sit him down and tell him beautiful things about the country. I told him how passionate Nigerians are about football and how much they will appreciate him.

“So far, he is loving the experience of coming down here. This is his first time in Nigeria and we hope he will play for the Super Eagles for a long time.”



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Joebie:
Truth is Orban will have immense opportunities with Togo than Naija

This opportunities might only come in qualifiers. They ain't likely to come at the big stage like in AFCON and World Cup proper

No debut for Gift Orban tomorrow. He suffered a knock in training today. There's still hope for Togo and Benin Republic.

Rohr's Benin Republic will not be at AFCON.

WHY PESEIRO ACCEPTED NIGERIA'S SHORT-TERM DEAL


Nigeria head coach Jose Peseiro has explained why he accepted a short-term deal after his previous contract expired in June this year.


The Portuguese tactician’s new contract will expire at the end of the upcoming 2023 Africa Cup of Nations finals set to be hosted by Ivory Coast between 13 January and 11 February 2024.


Peseiro indicated that he wanted to continue as the Super Eagles coach and go on to win the AFCON title with the West African giants.


“Me and my staff did everything in order to stay here to train these players and reach the big goal – win the AFCON title,” Peseiro told Brila.


Nigeria are three-time winners of the AFCON title and the last time they lifted the trophy was in 2013 in South Africa.


Since then they finished third at the 2019 AFCON finals in Egypt and they were knocked out in the Round of 16 in the 2021 edition in Cameroon

Source : africanfootball.com

Gernot Rohr's Benin Republic suffered a last minute heart break💔 as they fell 3-2 away to Mozambique.

Jordan Torunarigha on Victor Osimhen;

"Osimhen is the best striker in the world right now. One of the best strikers in the world. And to be honest, I’ve never had something like this. I don’t know how to defend him. It’s weird.

"I played against Lewandowski and Haaland, and I figured out how to defend them. But for him, I don’t know. He’s strong, but he can keep the ball. It’s difficult, but I will find out."

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Carot:
Anybody that watches 2moro's have his brain checked at yaba. We have a league and you are calling foriegn based players to play lowly rated sao tome. Are we joking in this country

On the contrary, you are the one that's a joke. You want them to call players that will later go and play in Malta, Lithuania, and Hungary when we have AFCON in 4 months time?. Players that couldn't qualify for ordinary CHAN? The way we reason in this country is definitely different from other normal people.

Peseiro will be coaching the home based also. This is a welcome development.

Nwamazi8:

Why wasn't he invited to camp? some really dodgy stuff going on with NFF and certain players sha

How many people wan make this list sef.

charlesemeka85:
Imagine Doncaster winning Everton. Iwobi should get out of that club asap cus na only God fit save them from relegation this season

Doncaster lost by 2-1 na.