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If there's anything I've learned watching SE games for the past 4-5 years, whenever the game enters the final 10 mins, just grab your Bible and your anointing oil and start praying. Nigeria Super Eagles anything can happen in the dying minutes.

lbrichman2:
Portugal go kill Bewene for the RB position o

Omo. Eye go turn that boy. He gats guide for that game. Chop better fufu. 😮‍💨

Goke7:
Chelle won this game na the players play draw 😂

Gbam. Perfect summary. 😂

Clint02:
Why did I enjoy the C team performance more than this

Our C team na hungry men full there. Dem no get joy. 😂

This game was ours to lose. With our full squad, this would have gone way better.

And I really wanted us to get the W in this game because that Portugal game... Lol.

WarHammer2000:
Nonsense

Because of an Okoye howler? Get real abeg.

Meanwhile Algeria don hammer Netherlands 1-0 👀

Algeria and scoring late winners 5 and 6. 😂

Well, I'll be watching the rest of the game from NL.

Network woes.

God have mercy... Nigeria would have been a menace at this World Cup. 😮‍💨

Round of 16 guaranteed. Potential semifinalists.

Netherlands 0-0 Algeria so far. Just about 20 mins left.

^^ For people who were writing off Algeria just because we disposed of them easily at the AFCON.

Odunayaw:
I don't need to. What you're stating doesn't pass as an honest (meaning fair) review

The better word is "wrong" not "honest". I can be "honestly wrong" on something, doesn't mean I'm not being honest.

Starboytwo:
Dodgy as how??

You nor see all the passes??

I wasn't talking of the passes.

Mujtahida:
He's made himself the self appointed troll of this thread but lacks the personality and punch of Afobear and Blueelf.

As dimwitted as he is, Afobear is still the only decent troll on this thread. He doesn't try to play both sides. He's a full time hater.

Not these wannabe trolls that want to support Super Eagles one moment and then try to fake troll when things aren't going well.

Odunayaw:
There's no honesty in this thing abeg

Because you can read my mind abi?

Meanwhile Denmark vs DR Congo is looking like a stalemate. 90+ mins and still no goal.

One thing I've noticed about this DR Congo side is that they're not the best playmakers. They're not even that good technically. What they have is good strength, immense stamina, dangerous counterattacking, and a defense that can frustrate the life out of you. That's why they're so hard to beat. Many of their games tend to end 1-1, 1-0 or 0-0 Lol.

To be honest, Okoye looks so dodgy whenever the Polish want to start pushing.

I fully expect us to beat Poland tomorrow. A team or F team notwithstanding.

Frankly, I might feel a bit disappointed if it ends in a draw, or worse a loss.

Mujtahida:
The way Tolu fell by the wayside. Too bad

Broooo!
Just vaporized into thin air

Predator87:
Its 2-2

Which match? 😒

Edit:
Ah, I see. Nvm.

Second Edit:
USA scores again. Back to 3-2 😂

Bruh, USA no really send our African champions like that. 😮‍💨

Edit:
3-2
Dramatic second goal for Senegal. This is about to be an interesting second half.

BascoVanVeli:
Flamingos vs Guinea Highlights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCkJyIO7ilM?si=Bso62sfibTfHrxI0

This is sensitive content. Absolute child abuse. The return leg was not necessary. 😭😭😭

SymphonyRad:
Senegal look very shaky in that defence

They just pulled one back. 2-1 now.

NasirIbnLaAhad:
I'm not quite sure of what to make of Osimhen's absence from the upcoming friendlies. Chelle's justification was that Osimhen "may have to change clubs." But if we're to go by the actual reporting from Galatasaray itself, the club confirmed three weeks ago that they have made a firm decision to keep Osimhen for the 2026-27 season, closing off any prospect of a summer departure despite reported interest from teams like Madrid and Barca. They also structured a multi-layered commercial financing model to sustain his €21 million annual wage package, sourcing funds from merchandise revenue and sponsorship agreements to name just a few. So as of three weeks ago, Galatasaray's public position was that he's staying, and I guess that was that. And yet somehow a transfer concern urgent enough to pull him from two high-profile international friendlies has materialised?

The way I see it, there's a clear and obvious discrepancy here. The optimistic reading here is that something has shifted dramatically in the last few weeks with top clubs like Barcelona pushing hard (which is possible given the noise around him). The pessimistic reading is that Osimhen simply didn't want to come.

I'm not sure which angle is more credible at the moment, but do I blame people for piling on Osimhen about this? Not really. Let's look at the pattern here.

When we had our decisive World Cup play-off final against DR Congo, Osimhen hobbled off at half-time and we struggled in his absence. We went on to play rubbish and lost on penalties, missing a World Cup for the second successive time. Obviously, not his fault. He was injured. I personally have -- and will always -- attribute that loss to the poor physical condition of the players who refused to train because of NFF's politics and the poor timing of the strike. As for Osimhen, he had already missed 2-3 qualifying games due to injury, when we had become far too reliant on him during that campaign. Then at AFCON 2025, even when he was there, in the round of 16 win over Mozambique, Osimhen was seen in a heated exchange with Lookman after a misunderstanding. He asked to be substituted and was also the first to leave the dressing room when the teams were leaving the stadium.

Now, to his credit, Osimhen responded in the very next game against Algeria with a complete centre-forward performance , scoring, assisting, combining effectively with Lookman, and winning Man of the Match. Any talk of division was firmly put to rest by the unity Nigeria showed on the pitch. That's the complicated thing about him: on his best days, he is the heartbeat of that squad. The quality is not the question. The question is reliability and engagement. It feels like he misses out at the most crucial moments, and I understand the grievance of the Nigerian fans who feel some type of way about this.

Some people here will say, "Well what about Lookman?" And I would respond that there is genuinely nothing to fault with him here. He had a serious season with a club that has been proactive and formal in protecting his workload. He played his heart out at AFCON, and even though he had a poor WC qualifying run, I could see the passion in his play, even though his form was terrible. The NFF arguably had this coming after ignoring Atletico's concerns in March. Lookman is not the story.

For Osimhen, the picture that has built up over the last 18 months is of a player whose relationship with the Super Eagles is increasingly conditional. The injury absences during qualifying -- some genuinely unavoidable -- the AFCON incident, the early dressing room exit, and now a transfer-uncertainty excuse that doesn't fully square with reporting from three weeks ago. I mean, surely it's not hard to see why people are upset. What it says about Osimhen is not that he doesn't care. I personally don't think that's true. We've watched him show up and performs at his best when he does show up. But there's a growing pattern of his club priorities, his commercial situation, his personal circumstances taking precedence over Nigeria duty in a way that goes beyond what even other elite African internationals accept.

Sadio Mané played in a World Cup qualifier days after his father died. Didier Drogba turned up for the Ivory Coast through chaos. Osimhen is a generational Nigerian talent who, at 27 and in his prime, has chosen not to play against Poland and Portugal because of..... a transfer situation that his club publicly says doesn't exist right now?

I mean, come on.

I'm just happy that the team is finally learning how to produce results in his presence or absence. We're no longer a one-man team. And to be honest, he needs some serious competition in the CF position. So far, I can't see anyone who's really turned up as a huge threat to that position.

Eric Chelle has unlocked Alhassan Yusuf and potentially put an end to the quota system narratives. That guy is a monster when he's locked in.

minfelix:
The more chelle wins, the more i dey vex why we no go world cup…This super eagles of Eric chelle is capable of advancing to world cup Quarterfinals and even attempting a semifinal sef

Kai. This World Cup thing will never stop being painful. 🫠

Jamaica don dey join SA to become our customer. I foresee a more bitter rivalry in the coming years. 😁

kingphilip:
I'm seeing C team up and down, which one is the B team?

Onuachu, Dele Bashiru, Onyedika, Fernandez, et al

As long as NFF no allow devil use them, we gat this next AFCON and WC qualifiers in the bag.

BascoVanVeli:
Jamaican frustration

Body go tell them. I like how Chelle has groomed our squad. Compact and resilient. If you like run like road runner, you no fit maneuver our squad.

Thank God it's Otele. For a moment I thought it was Oseni. 😑

Nnadi. See movement. I too like this guy. 😂

lbrichman2:
You know book

Is this Jamaica's main squad? Don't really know any Jamaican players besides Dixon and Palmer. I know Dixon is here but Palmer isn't.