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Goke7:
They will cry blood today

Now they are 1-0 down 😂

They goofed up big time. If they were a little bit clinical, they should have been two goals up by now. Two empty nets missed. Who does that?

If this is what Morocco wants to play in this AFCON, then the only teams I'm scared of at this point are Ivory Coast and DR Congo. This cup is ours to lose.

Tanzania will likely still lose this game sha, but I love how they are making Morocco work for it. It turns out their narrow defeat to Nigeria and hard fought tie with Tunisia wasn't a fluke at all.

Oboy the way these small teams dey rush big teams for this knockout stage. Hmm. I know how shaky we can be at the back o. Make Mozambique no go wipe us wetin no good. We need to control the pace of that game because Mozambique go wan dey form speedsters on the ball.

Tanzania not letting Morocco breathe in the first couple of minutes.

They somehow missed an open net too. Unbelievable.

isan:
Instead of Tunisia to stay on their feet and play football they prefer diving all over the pitch

Omo na part of wetin make their defeat sweet me. Dem no come play ball, dem just come dey find fraudulent fouls upandan.

jihday:
😃 for me it’s the opposite, I prefer you blast it wide. As big as the post is what do you mean by you gave the keeper a chance to catch the ball

But the post is right in front of you na. Idk sha but you easily look more silly and useless when you shoot off-target/ off-point. Your steeze go just shrink.

SymphonyRad:
Tunisia sacked their coach, same man who qualified them to the world cup with an impeccable record...I guess AFCON is a different type of dish.

Ahh. Dem no even reach house first?

If Mali's attack were a bit more lethal, I could have seen them upsetting Senegal in the quarters. Unfortunately, I don't see that happening. Best case scenario, it goes to penalties again, except it may not swing in their favor this time.

Powerhouse abi greenhouse Tunisia don gbesome

1 North African country down. 3 to go.

Knockout stage never reach 24 hours we don dey play penalties.

oloriooko:
Karma is a bit..ch
Similar handball against Nigeria came back to bite Tunisia in the Behind

E sweet me die.

Goke7:
let them just approve it, this game does not deserve to go extra time jor

Na the extra time we dey see so.

Extra time it is. Now that goals have been scored, I hope both teams can now come out guns-a-blazing and we get a more entertaining game.

If they don't award this penalty, na that time I go really vex.

I'm highly disappointed in Mali. I mean it's obvious now that Tunisia is terrible, but I can't understand how Mali is somehow worse.

Finally a goal. Looks offside to me though.

Goke7:
na the people dem call powerhouse be that o

The game just dey vex me.

This Tunisia team is unbelievably average. Almost making it look like our win over them wasn't that big of a deal.

Boring game in my opinion.

Senegal 2-1 Sudan

So basically these guys just gave the Sudanese "Quarter final view once".

mostob:
See plain dive 🤣🤣🤣
That guy should be fined. Wtf

Very shameless, criminal diving.

Senegal will score sha. They're putting pressure now and the Sudanese are looking nervous.

Pour me water. Sudan don score Senegal.

Pour me water guy!!!

Odunayaw:
Abeg we fit smuggle am come back?

I'm telling you. Like what Morocco did with Hakimi: keep him around till the knockout stage where he'll likely be fit.

BankyGee:
I swear 😂😂 if any country do Nigeria that thing I go hatewatch them for my lifetime 😂

I pray it happens abeg because the banter dem dey try banter us now dey burst my brain. They must cry blood.

BankyGee:
Walahi... Make we win DR Congo for quarterfinal, win the AFCON, win the case against DR Congo for FIFA panel, then win intercontinental playoffs... 😅

DR Congo fit send military enter Nigeria 😂

Na the biggest insult be that. Country wey never see World Cup since the 70s, then you come destroy them from all angles like this after their first ray of hope in 50 years? They will never forgive us. E go be times ten of wetin Uruguay do Ghana.

mekabuachi:
With the recent controversies surrounding north Africans and referees... It's quite normal to suspect foul play with both VAR abd referee all being Egyptians😑

I'd come back to this comment Sha when Algeria gets a dubious penalty, or Dr Congo's goal get cancelled unjustly

Part of me actually thinks it may be the other way round. From my viewing experience, I don't think there's any rivalry in Africa as toxic and vitriolic as Egypt vs Algeria. So it will be interesting to see how the Egyptian referee prosecutes this game. If there's bias involved, it could swing either way, not just Algeria alone.

Odunayaw:
This settles it that Chelle is an attacking coach. I really hope the man stays post AFCON

We need to pray he at least makes the finals because the NFF in all their incompetence and incorrigibility are too thick to note all these progressive milestones. They will sack him regardless if he doesn't get to the finals.

WarHammer2000:
Talking about branding, Osimhen needs to find a signature goal celebration. A celebration you see and immediately think of Osimhen. Think Ronaldo and his siuuuu. Martins and his summersaults.

Look at Ndidi's celebration. That's a clip that would be replayed for decades to come and has already made it's way into the books of naija football folklore — that's the power of branding.

Mention "Rashidi Yekini", and I bet the first image that comes to your head is Yekini clutching the net, celebrating his iconic World Cup goal. Branding.

Osimhen's current celebration which typically involves pointing at his teammates (or sometimes, the opponents' coach😁) or just jumping and punching the air, isn't remarkable at all. I no go lie, e dey vex me sometimes 🙄.

I mean, it's nice you scored, but how about hitting a unique celebration that thrills the fans and further builds your cult of personality?

I swear. Like the gun celebration that Mali did when they scored against Morocco, or the one Zimbabwe did against South Africa. Something unique and memorable.

Amedino99:
we lost to a covid ravaged tunisia team.

If we lose to Mozambique it's because the players or the coach (or both) flopped, not because of what happened in 2021. Statistics and history is good for reference but their predictive abilities are limited. There's always a first time for everything. This might very well be the first AFCON where we win every single game to lift the trophy. Algeria did it in 2019.

Amedino99:
the last time this happened. Omo make i think positive things abeg

There's no way in hell Mozambique is stopping us sha. I don't care what they did in the group stages. We've arguably looked better than both Cameroon and Ivory Coast in different moments and those teams still squeezed a result out of Mozambique. I can almost bet my life on it that we will breeze through that fixture.

It's from the quarter finals that we should start getting worried to me. Both Algeria and DR Congo are stronger than all the opponents we've faced so far, Tunisia arguably included. We can exit from there if we're not careful.