insidenaijasblog: Super Eagles coach, Austin Eguavoen has spoken about Nigeria's loss to Tunisia in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations round of 16 which took place on Sunday January 22, Newspremises reports.
Recall that Alex Iwobi was shown a red card in the 64th minutes, after the referee upgraded his yellow card to a red one following a VAR Review for a bad attack.
Eguavoen in a post match conference, said that Iwobi didn't deserve to be sent out of the match since he was a first time offender. He also said the attack wasn't intentional so shouldn't have amounted to a red card.
The interim coach added that Wilfred Ndidi was mashed right in front of the referee but he didn't call a foul even though Ndidi complained.
Eguavoen also congratulated Tunisia for qualifying for the quater finals adding that the Super Eagles did their best even though they were knocked out by The Eagles of Carthage.
paulolee: no campare both atall, iwobi was unlucky n it looks like a mistake coming from a man dt wants to guide his ball bt keita own was pure stupidity , going ahead to hit a player for no reason atall..
Does Alex Iwobi's red card effect in the match equate that of Sani Kaita's red card during the World Cup years ago?
As some of us remember how Sani Kaita stepped on a Greek player when the ball went out for a throw-in. That immediately got him sent off... and eventually ended his career in the national team.
In today's match that Nigeria lost to Tunisia (knockout stage), one of the highlights was the sending off of the Everton player, Alex Iwobi, barely five minutes after he came in as a substitute. Could this affect his career in the national team of the Super Eagles?
What are your opinions lalasticlala , Seun and other NLders?
ajl: I think you are right. he has better skill than Awoniyi but Sadiq just need to learn to control his body because he falls down a lot and that rub negatively against his game. I wasn't really convinced about him before this match, but the little time he had in this match he made a lot of difference. Awoniyi doesn't deserve the No. 9 position.
We missed Osimhen
And Sadiq can Position well... reason he gets those balls. All he needs is to build confidence and work on his finishing. Awoniyi is just there. Nothing special.
Then when we get set pieces close to the box, it should be well executed. I think Chukwueze or Nwakali is good on that. Moses wasted the one chance we got. There's room for improvement boys
Bamzyriches451: Iwobi red card, Iheanacho yellow card. All the time they have been playing this never happened. Why is it that it is the day they spoke to Buhari that these series of unwelcome events rained on us!
Energies are very contagious. Avoid negative people!
Ighalo wants to use this team for his favour. The team doesn't need him. Do you remember who got that penalty he scored in last AFCON, making him surpass other contenders to win highest goalscorer? No one does... but that was what made United go for him as AFCON golden boot winner