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If the new boys won't be the ones to prosecute the match today, there won't be any point watching from this end.

I want to see Onyedika(Akin) and Nnadi starting.

I want to see Fago starting.

Onuachu should start.

Alebiosu should start.

Igoh Ogbu should start.

Uzoho ahead of Nwabali

These dirty people are already frustrating Senegal

https://x.com/Algeria_FC/status/2012341658566774871?t=wMoLbquYMV55mTcaAxBTQA&s=19

This Benjamin sef when him dey come back? Dude has been out for too long oo

Papi85:
U guys shouldn’t certify Benjamin as a Bonifide starter yet when others like Nwaiwu is yet to be tried

No disrespect to Benji but Nwaiwu is a very strong contender for that position unlike Igoh Ogbu, Awaziem and co.

Not a big fan of Ajayi but he did a good job in this AFCON.

Bassey, Benji, Nwaiwu and Ajayi are my choices for any team list for now.

Papi85:
and a whole Caf and fifa approved the pitch 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Also allowed SA to host home and away games for opponents in the same group with them 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Our NFF president na better dumbo.

Mujtahida:
Yes the officiating for CIV was good. But our fans saw shege in the stadium. I've read various accounts.

We - for all our bad character - never do that. We are always gracious to our opponents. When we failed to qualify for Qatar, our people destroyed the stadium but never attacked Ghanaian team or their fans.

We are too good for my liking. We ought to be giving back to these guys what we get from them. If only a wucked man like me could get his way to lead the NFF, wetin I go do SA, Lybia and others ehn whenever we have a home game against them, mouth no go fit talk am.

Mujtahida:
No ooo. You know I would never tow that line.
Nope. I tagged you on why I feel he sabotaged the team. And like I said, it's my opinion and I might be wrong but at the least, that's what I think.

Okay, I think that he's been feeling left out or sidelined in the team. On this I draw from his constant complaints (masked with comedy) about others taking time to speak to the media. About him doing his own when he becomes man of the match. I felt that was envy of some sort. Watching Iwobi's vlog, I noticed it but didn't put anything to it. It was also said that he was not happy to have been left on the bench for that long. And this is why his body language was off.

This is where I locate his malice oo. It's all down to what I think of him not his tribe and I don't support trolling him or abusing him.

Well, we move.

Goke7:
e don do, you don claim this boy tire na national property now! leave am for us!

Oh yes!! We don't claim, we state facts. And if those facts hurt anyone, we can never be sorry for that.

Mujtahida:
It appears that the latest trend is host and win.

If that's the way, then it's going to be a long journey for Nigeria.

We've been unfortunate to meet the hosts twice. Look at Senegal, all their opponents apart from Egypt were weak teams. But they are in the final.

CIV's win was clean. Morocco has no honor. They have cheated their way to the final.

Goke7:
really?

Mumu 😂

I said aggressive, not walk out of the pitch nah.

Mujtahida:
Truth is that I stated my opinion right immediately upon him taking that Pk. I thought I was off the road until I went on X and saw people mirror the same thing.

Yes you can be disappointed. No aggro with that but in all honesty, that's what I think.

The pain now is no less than the miss of qualifying for the WC. I didn't even say pim about the guys who missed the Pks during the playoffs. But this one was different.

Many people on that X also attributed it to him being Igbo and hence sabotaging the team for Biafra. Do you agree that he indeed sabotaged the team?


What exactly was his reason for sabotaging the team, since you guys said it was a delibrate act?

lbrichman2:
Osimhen was just trying to avoid a card in that game..
If he played aggressive, them for card am once once

I want an aggressive Osimhen in every match, if he gets carded, he gets carded.

Mujtahida:
You have the right. Wo, Odun fi mi le oo.

Calm down man. Your take on Chukwueze was off. Sabotage? Come on man!!!

I was gonna pounce until I saw the moniker behind such posts, men I was so disappointed. You should know better.

Kog45:
Are you talking about Calvin Bassey(Chinedu)

When I say Chinedu Ughelumba you should know I was talking about Bassey. There is no other Chinedu in that team. Chinedu Ughelumba is his government name given to him from birth. Bassey is a recently adopted name, in honor of his maternal home. No man uses his mother's surname as his own surname unless he was born out of wedlock and the father isn't known. So, yes I was talking about Ughelumba Calvin Chinedu "Bassey", the son of Ikenna Ughelumba and Eberechi Ughelumba.

BankyGee:
I too like this guy. Everytime he's called upon, he does his best. No noise. Big man Paulo 🫡

That's not true. He has his bad days too.

ChrisKels:
I don't know the criterion used in choosing the captains of the team but I think Bassey deserves to be our captain. Last night, when the team was down(tired), this guy almost single-handedly carried the team on his shoulder and took the team to penalty shoot out. He was never under pressure eventhough he was on yellow. He never loses his head. Dude just enjoy playing football and having fun with it. Very intimidating and bullish. Even our opponents were scared of pressing him because it was always an effort in futility, hence they always waited for him to pass to Ajayi before pressing.

Chinedu "Bassey" Ughelumba, the son of Ikenna Ughelumba is a solid rock in defense.

Back to this, the captain armband does not suit Osimhen because it obviously tames him. We don't need a tamed lion upfront.

Secondly, Victor tends to get weakened whenever things aren't going our way especially late in the match, but Chinedu is a complete opposite of this. Dude maintains same steam from the first blast of the whistle to the final one, that is the type of player you want captaining your team because when others see their captain soldiering on tirelessly, they get motivated to stretch themselves even more.

Another person who should be standing as an assistant is Nwabali. Dude has aura and can intimidate referees with his confidence and presence, but I will be skeptical because nna-gi's head dey touch. He could become power drunk and misuse it.

One of the few West African players who never went through their country's youth systems that could have gotten them subjected to MRI tests, yet played the game with his real age.

Mujtahida:
Chukwueze has been in the team since 2019, a veteran of 4 Afcons, that's more than the number of Afcons Amunike, Amokachi, Oliseh, Okocha, Mutiu Adepoju, Finidi had. Yet he treated the expectation of the whole nation with indifference. I say he was motivated by malice. I see no other reason. See how Mikel is down on his knees. See, just see.

Mikel Obi’s reaction when Nigeria lost to Morocco 🇳🇬🇲🇦🥲 pic.twitter.com/XIVzZN2120

— @𝗼𝗻𝗲𝗷𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗯𝗼𝘆 (@OneJoblessBoy) January 16, 2026

Would you mind explaining what the malice is about? How and what caused the malice?

Na utobos wey never play organized football before in their lives dey talk rubbish about Chukwueze. You think the boy was nonchalant because of the gum he was chewing or his facial expressions, what if I told you that was his own way of dowsing the tension on him. It just didn't work out, and that's it. The day I missed a PK for my team, I was smiling but I didn't know I was smiling because at that moment I was gobsmacked.

That PK wasn't worse than what SiMoses gave us against DRC.

Not everyone can handle that pressure, Lookman and Osimhen even had to run away.

PK is anybody's game, and not everyone is mentally built to take one. You can be the best PK during training, but the main challenge comes when you have to play it under tension.

Make una rest.


By the way, Zuchyblink I like your write up about him losing concentration especially as he has turned himself to the comedian of the team. My grandpa will always say, it is good to have someone who cracks jokes to entertain others in a group, but never be that person. Today, that is what's affecting Chukwueze, because everyone now sees him as unserious

Nwabali remains our undisputed number 1 goalkeeper.

Osayi and Bruno have been something else in this AFCON. Two full backs I never rated, suddenly turned to what I can't even describe. These guys were terrific and they were never found wanting or scared of pushing attacks from their wings.

I don't know the criterion used in choosing the captains of the team but I think Bassey deserves to be our captain. Last night, when the team was down(tired), this guy almost single-handedly carried the team on his shoulder and took the team to penalty shoot out. He was never under pressure eventhough he was on yellow. He never loses his head. Dude just enjoy playing football and having fun with it. Very intimidating and bullish. Even our opponents were scared of pressing him because it was always an effort in futility, hence they always waited for him to pass to Ajayi before pressing.

Chinedu "Bassey" Ughelumba, the son of Ikenna Ughelumba is a solid rock in defense.

This Ghana ref is very useless

Bassey

Clint02:
I feel Igoh Ogbu will be capable in Bassey's position.

Igoh Ogbu isn't good enough

Bruno and Osayi have been good

Papi85:
the boy deserves a top club

Ref noticed he was the wall in that defense and gave him a yellow on purpose to weaken him. Shame on that ref.

TheSuperNerd:
This intent narrative to paint Onyedika as bad. He has only been dispossesed twice. He is playing right in the midst of the most crowded area in midfield... you actually think Ndidi will survive this Moroccan press. Lol.

Onyedika has been generally good save for being dispossessed 2x. Iwobi has been dispossessed 3x already too and Bruno lost Hakimi for a cross... but I dont see knocks on that. So make una rest the Onyedika agenda. It is stale.

Rest

Bassey dey give me joy. Boy is too strong.

Onyedika is lost

What a stupid ref

I love this crowd because if we score first the silence in the crowd would be deafening.