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Abeg how many teams will qualify from the African version of the playoffs?

And I will reiterate; nothing can ever make me to be worried when facing a team coached by Gernot Rorh

Olakunle's leg no dey touch ball?

Nwabali caught the ball, and was not fouled, but because he felt he was the boss he had a personal belief that after he confronted the Benin player that the ref was already on his side, so he stupidly dropped the ball on the ground.

It was the ref that saved us there, because that goal was supposed to stand.

We need to drop this guy. He has caused us enough troubles already. He was clearly the reason we lost the final against CIV when he started picking up unnecessary fight against Adingra and being childish when we were one goal up.

Remove Simon, push Iwobi to the wing and put Uche into that midfield. Simon offers nothing

Moses Simon is useless

Chukwueze and Osimhen are rolling back the U17 combo years

Simon offers nothing as usual

Let's allow Benin to win. That will be better than allowing SA to make it.

BascoVanVeli:
The last time we won a game without Bruno in the starting lineup was the AFCON.
At least Zaidu is the one taking his place sha

Bruno is a serious suspect.

DrYa:
E no show for my side

Download FIFA+ app and enjoy the match bro.

Good line up if Ajayi would be playing as a right back and not centre back. Ajayi is error prone, I don't trust him.

Chelle obviously doesn't rate Uche, and in all honesty, Uche hasn't covered himself in glory with the few chances he has gotten.


I'm confident of a win today, but I'm worried about what will be happening in SA.

It seems I'm the only one who isn't worried about our game tomorrow. I'm only concerned with the outcome of SA match against Rwanda.

Nothing will ever make me worry about a team coached by Rorh.

kennysville:
Akor Adams score today now, people rush discard Tolu Arokodare, in a team that has never enjoyed a blissful midfield since 2019. NA so we dey do. The next shiny toy

Who discarded Tolu?

elyte89:
If Rwanda 🇷🇼 can hold South Africa 🇿🇦 till 60th minute …o ti lor 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Unfortunately I don't play bet, otherwise I would have played Rwanda to win or draw.

Rwanda govt is very angry with SA for their role in DRC and I'm quite sure they would go at any length to cause SA pains.

Mujtahida:
Our qualifiers is in Chukwueze's hands if only Chelle will play him now that Lookman is out

As crazy as it may sound, I'm glad Lookman is out. He hasn't been effective.

Since Simon has the coach's nude, play him on the left and Chuks from the right.

I'm not worried about Benin. I just want Rwanda to either win or draw against SA.

hatakekakashi:
You're right. Knowing South Africa, they're not afraid to use any means possible to tilt that game in their favour. They'll likely play in that potato farm they used against us.
I won't even trust our team to get any kind of result if we were in Rwanda's shoes

Playing in Potatoes field will simply mean playing into Rwanda hands because majority of Rwanda players play in leagues with Potatoes pitches.

Psittacus:
Is as if nobody is seeing Rwanda has nothing to play for anymore. Why would they go and die for Nigeria in South Africa, when we actually crucified ourself.

Rwanda and SA are real enemies due to the problem in DRC. Rwanda doesn't want anything good for SA.

SA got red carded too.

Hanibal:
Benin go wipe this mumu team

Na lie

Nwabali na yeye man

I would rather Benin than SA.

charlesemeka85:
nwabali wey body dey swt like 16 year old girl wey start to straff newly

Bring back Okoye pls

You just gave a perfect definition of that guy.

Mujtahida:
That's what these foolish coaches always do. They'd experiment something and it will work in a friendly but you will never see them try it out on a proper match day.

Rohr boldly used 3-5-2 to wreck Argentina in that famous friendly where we came from 2-0 and eventually worn prior to the 2018 World Cup. When the tournament proper came, the man stuck to his limp method and we were beaten by Croatia and Argentina.

I just tire bro. I'm very angry here.

The invitational tourney in England provided us with an avenue to improvise and look for solutions to our creativity problem, you tried out Chukwueze and it was a success, then suddenly you relegated him to the bench for some clueless Simon that can neither complete a take-on nor make a single decent cross to save his life? Aswear this Chelle na confirm tozo.

Why are we playing Simon on the right when Chukwueze is on the team and the team is lacking creativity. A swear this coach is beginning to annoy me.

Maybe it is delusion due to patriotism but I keep having this feeling that Nigeria will eventually emerge as the winners of this our group.

Sugarboyy:
Always add Bassey and Aina when mentioning Osimhen and Lookman

Na Aina own pain me pass sef. I was very angry when Rohr dropped him in 2018.

Bassey is still 24

Bold of us to think that if Nigeria goes the best loser route, the guys are capable of defeating other best losers from other continents to qualify.

I'm really pained because of guys like Osimhen, Aina and Lookman, but my confidence in this team is zero.

TheSuperNerd:
It is not a lie. We commended Fred and Abel Ogwuche during the tournament but afterwards, what happened? How many more mentions of them by these same folks who watched them?

How many times did you guys run the hype on Frederick post-tournament? Tell me? How many times? How many times was he touted by many here as a truly defensive pearl for the future even after we crashed out?

I talked up Frederick everywhere and my posts on TwitterX are still there if anyone browse the name "Benjamin Frederick".

A few of us actually do the due diligence of following up on these youngsters and not only remembering them when we have a tournament.

Or is it not you who comes asking where is this player or that player??

It is easy to take the criticism role or start talking which regions has the ballers. I will never go that route. It is so cheap.

We see talents and we RECOGNIZE talents, not everyone is interested in following the talents post tournament. Did we recognize their talents? Yes we did. Today, my pick is Ochoche, and I hope he comes good.

TheSuperNerd:
A few years from now, one or two from this same set will emerge and and most monikers here will be amnesiac by then to recall when they called each and everyone of them rubbish.

The trend on this thread is the same every time.

A youth team starts doing well and everyone rushes in claiming to have a good knowledge of the team but the moment they falter, they go mute.

A team does well, and everyone knows every player and calls all talents.

But a team does not do well and the whole team is condemned.

This is how Benjamin Frederick was not taken so seriously on this thread until 2 yrs on, he got a Super Eagles call up and then everyone is taking notice.

I believe in seeing the talent before others catch on.

#FlyingEagles2025.

That's a big fat lie. Fredrick was always rated as the shining light in our defense along with the other boy from Benue State.