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"We qualified for the World Cup"
"We qualified for the World Cup"
"We qualified for the World Cup"
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Oya how e come be? World Cup never end? Eternal minnows. 🤣🤣🤣

Watch how Morocco or Netherlands go chop this smelling Canada team alive.

We keep telling these xeno clowns, football is not your calling. 😂😂😂😂

Wheres D'Law? 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

cc: Mujtahida

They couldn't even get past Canada. I'm dead. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Lol. South Africa is useless abeg.

It's time to go bek. 😂😂😂

Odunayaw:
This game don't deserve an extra 30 mins. Save us this drudgery

I don laugh tire. SA go carry ball run katikati reach Canada box, Canada go collect ball like say SA na small pikin.

Same thing, Canada go carry ball run enter SA half, nothing come out. 🤣🤣🤣

Two swegbe teams. They should just skip straight to penalties.

Odunayaw:
I'm thoroughly ashamed of them. Especially that South Korea that flattered to deceive with their first match.

South Korea another massive disappointment. AFC no be am at all.

This is making me worried about Japan. They're my team for the tournament. Who knows if they'll start exhibiting their own madness from this Round of 32.

Brazil might have their foibles, but they certainly won't be a pushover.

Honestly it's not a good look on South Africa if they end up losing to this horrid Canadian side. You're not playing Germany or Norway for God's sake. This Canada team, with their amateur football can't seriously be holding you hostage.

Mujtahida:
A dreadful thought just entered my mind. What if SA wins Canada and goes on to win the WC?

Calm down D'Law. Not in a million years. These bums I'm watching right now aren't beating Morocco or Netherlands. Except there's a miraculous upgrade from the nonsense they're playing today. 😂😂

Qatar conceded 6 goals to this Canada? Qatar? Asian Champions?

This World Cup really exposed the AFC. Their slots must be reduced by 1 or 2 and given to CAF abeg.

Meanwhile, South Africa is such a frustrating team to watch. They clearly play good football as a team, and know how to knock the ball around. But once they get into the opponents half, they suddenly turn into secondary school stragglers and don't have any clue what to do with the ball.

The team is like a paradox. They're simultaneously good and terrible at the same time.

Wouldn't it be interesting if this ended in penalties?

It's like watching Sunday League with these lot.

Jesus Christ these two teams suck. Neither will make it past the Round of 16.

JohnBullMySon:
Hate watch SA at your emotional risk.

Dem fit win oh.

Personally I'm watching the game void of emotion, and just focusing on the football. Hot take but South Africa football can be fun to watch sometimes. The issue is always just their limp and toothless attack. I expect them to win this game.

Canada is obviously the better team on paper but they already look shaky and nervous. Playing in the US may not work in their favour. I imagine it's like Nigerians playing in Ghana or vice versa. Lol.

SolaFide:
NFF ,Madugu over to you.

The same Madugu that said "the older the better"? Lmao. Why do you think people like Ngozi Okobi and Francesca Ordega are still in the team despite people clamoring for new legs?

No worry. E go clear for una eye very soon.

Joebie:
Stop focussing on how many AFCON wins and get serious about the world stage.
And this applies to ever sphere of life. arguing about who is the best African country when the imperialists see you all as the same and they keep f'ing you over and over again.

Okay. You've made your point.

Therefore the AFCON qualifiers is useless.

There's no need for us to prosecute them. We can forfeit all our matches and lose our spot to either Guinea-Bissau or Madagascar.

We don't need the AFCON. No more AFCON competitions. You're right. Wow. Such an intelligent suggestion. Why didn't I think of this before?

You're very intelligent.

AndSunGorilla:
Let me quote Olamide Badoo, "Story for the gods".

Nigerians and reductive thinking. 5 & 6.

This geezer again. 🤧

It's official. South Africa are winning tonight.

EElopa:
The Dr. Congo coach is an elite-level coach, and I will be shocked if he stays with that team after this World Cup. Some of these Middle Eastern countries will throw the kind of money at him that Dr. Congo cannot just match. They still have some top attacking talents coming to them after the World Cup, like Senny Mayulu of PSG.

I don't know if he will choose to stay and chase the AFCON title and perhaps a real run in the 2030 World Cup with some big attacking talents that are on their way. The Democratic Republic of Congo will be a problem in Africa for the next foreseeable future.

AFCON, to me, has now established itself as the second most competitive continental tournament, only behind the Euros. He is milking out every ounce of ability in that Dr. Congo team. I love Eric Chelle, but he tactically outmaneuvered him in that playoff finals. England struggled with Ghana's and Panama's low block and physicality, and they can give England problems.

They are now playing with house money. They have nothing to loose anymore. They have outperformed expectations, and all the pressure in the world will be on England on that day. The world will expect England just like they expected Portugal to tame them, but it is now up to Dr. Congo to shock the world like they did against Portugal.

Strong disagree @bold. Eric Chelle actually solved DR Congo and quite easily too. What failed us against DRC was fitness + Osimhen injury. Watch the first 15-20 mins of that game against DRC. We wan kee them. We scored in the first 3 minutes. 3 minutes!! Remember, prior to our game that day, DRC had not conceded any goal that early. One of the most common talking point in previews that time was how difficult it was to score against DRC. In fact, DRC usually scored first against their opponents in the qualifiers. Even the game that Senegal beat them 3-2, it was DRC that was winning 2-0 before the game turned on its head. So we were basically the first team to put DRC one goal behind at that point in time.

And like someone else here said, that Ndidi + Chukwueze miscommunication was going to be our second goal, clean. If that second goal had entered, we would have ran away with that game just like we did with Benin and Gabon.

When we lost footing was towards the end of the second half. The 120 mins we played against Gabon prior started working against us and we started making elementary school mistakes that we don't usually make. Mistimed passes, poor positioning etc. Then Osimhen's injury happened and we completely lost the plot. Confidence plummeted to zero and DRC smelt blood, so they pounced. The only players who bothered to put up a fight that day were Benjamin, Bassey and Nwabali. Every one else was checked out mentally and physically.

Let me not even get started on Arokodare and how he flopped that header that would have effectively changed the game if he had buried it.

Or the penalties that Nwabali basically won for us with two abi even three saves (can't remember how many) but we failed to capitalize.

Woh- we threw the game away at every turn. We had so many chances to finish that game off but we couldn't. Because physically and mentally, the boys weren't there.

Till this day, I don't say DRC won. I say we lost. We had that game in our hands and threw it away.

wayodude:
Let's be calming down with this 'making it through' talk. This expanded commercial world cup carried almost zero peril in the group stage. Out of 3 games a team (Senegal) lost 2 and beat ONLY Iraq to qualify! That's too easy and unheard of. In World Cup football, there are no second chances, no rebirth. You either win or come runner up in a strong group or you go home.

I remind y'all what WC groups looked like before this thing we're calling a world cup

Nigeria, Croatia, Argentina, Iceland
Nigeria, England, Sweden, Argentina
Ivory Cost, Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia
Ivory Coast, Brazil, Portugal, North Korea
Tunisia, England, Belgium, Paraguay
SA, Uruguay, France, Mexico
Cameroon, Netherlands, Denmark, Japan

.....and then only top 2 qualifies.

Now just beat a terribly poor AFC team like a Qatar, Uzbekistan etc and if you can scrape a draw somewhere else you are guaranteed to progress. On occasion you might not even need that draw and you're fine.

Anyway good luck to all the non xenophobic African countries.

Thank you abeg. Glad to know I'm not the only one thinking this.

As nice as it is to think that 9 out of 10 African teams qualified for the knockout stage of this World Cup, it's also important to remember that this World Cup is an entirely different tournament from the OG World Cup we grew up with. Let's assess things critically and objectively. Back in the days, you can ball your life out and still crash out 3rd in the group stage. Shit wasn't easy at all.

Now teams can lose two whole games and win just one game against one unknown minnow to qualify. Or draw all three games with a goals difference of zero and still qualify.

As far as I'm concerned, this World Cup doesn't start until the QF or Round of 16 at most. Any team still left in the final 8 is the team that will earn my respect in this World Cup.

How does owngoalnigeria still have any credibility in 2026? 🤦🏾

Truidstarr:
ALL the African are coming home after this round of 32.

Mujtahida:
After this first round. Cos what they have been playing is preliminaries.

Don't be surprised if
1) South Africa beat Canada (Canada is trash for me so far)
2) Senegal beat Belgium (I just have that feeling)
3) Egypt beat Australia (If Australia wins sef I'll be surprised)
4) DRC beat England (yes, I'm not impressed with the England team. Plus DeSabre's DRC is good at frustrating teams like England who play safe and rotate the ball endlessly, waiting for openings. I see them bottling to DRC.)

The other African countries might not scrape through.

Morocco are crazy strong and stubborn, but the Dutch are one of the few teams in this WC who I believe can stop Morocco cold. If the Dutch can't stop them, Morocco might be reaching another SF.

Norway with Haaland in front is going to be a handful for Ivory Coast. Ivory Coast will surely concede at least 2 goals. The question is if they can score enough to match Norway.

Something tells me Ghana and Cape Verde have run out of lives against Colombia and Argentina respectively.

Switzerland Algeria will be close, but I think the Swiss simply have too much firepower for the North Africans.


But then again, this is football. Maybe all the African teams I said will progress won't progress, and the ones I said won't progress will progress.

Or maybe all of them will come home like you said.

Joebie:
Naija no go get bragging right for WC again. make we continue to drag who carry first for AFCON trophy. naija low self esteem disguised is loud confidence

What is wrong with AFCON trophy?

I never still understand this your argument wey you don dey yarn for how many weeks now. I guess according to your logic, there's no need playing AFCON, so we don't even need to qualify. Afterall WC is more important.

BankyGee:
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Chairman of Chairmen. Una no dey waste time. 😂😂😂

Mujtahida:
I watched Dembele yesterday curling balls into the back of the net and it made me think: why can't Chukwueze play like this?

If he attempts to drift across the final third, the ball gets taken from him. If he attempts to dribble, the ball becomes tangled in his legs or gets taken away.

He rarely crosses the ball.

We need a more effective player on that right. I prefer Azeez to Zadok. To me Azeez has that kind of Lookman's intelligence.

Dribble to the touch line like Ikedia irritates me. And that's how I see Zadok. I might be wrong sha

Most pundits I've seen online and offline insist that Zadok's dribbles are purposeful and decisive, as opposed to Chukwueze and Ejuke who dribble for the sake of it, and don't actually know exactly what they want to do with the ball moving forward.

I'm sha rooting for the lad. Anybody that can give Chukwueze a run for his money and make him sit up is a welcome addition in my book. We'll likely see him at the AFCON qualifiers later this year or at most the U-23 AFCON next year.

AndSunGorilla:
FiFA should dead the talk of 64 nations WC. Yes they will make more money but it will lose its appeal.

I honestly can't believe it's even a conversation. Expanding this tournament to 64 is the fastest way to ruin the appeal of the tournament. Imagine one third of FIFA's entire member countries participating in the World Cup.

Somehow I'm not impressed by this Senegal thumping of Iraq.

Did we overhype this Senegalese team?

AndSunGorilla:
Oga which Cape Verde bravery? Dey talk true, nobody go cane you.

Dem don catch Goke7 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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mostob:
All I know is that banter delayed is not banter denied.
Soup wey stay longer on fire go sweet pass.
Lala to roke, ile lo n bo.

South Africa, Morocco and Ghana... Na here we dey

Sha pray South Africa no win Canada. Cos if they do, it won't even matter if they lose in the Round of 16 cos they will already have something we don't: a win in the knockout stages of the World Cup.

Hey thanks again, NFF.

I'm seeing Senegalese fans on Twitter talking about dropping Pape Thiaw and stealing Eric Chelle.

It won't happen anyway, but it's the audacity for me cos they're debating it with all seriousness.

All these African countries don really see us finish.

kingphilip:
Wasn't it same one Sabi Kaita got an unnecessary red card when we are leading them 2:1?

Sani Kaita, yes.

PDPGuy:
Lmao

I can bet on Canada sha. The only team beat turned out to be a contender for worst team of the tournament, and they only beat that team 6-0 because it was 11 v 9 for half the match.

SA will equally match Canada in athleticism too. I mention athleticism because that was the main edge Canada had over Bosnia-Herzegovina and Qatar

SA will beat Canada. I've watched all Canada's games, including the one against Switzerland last night. Those guys suck donkey nuts. Unless they fix up before the Round of 32, or SA misbehaving spirit resurfaces, Canada might be heading out.

I'm not surprised South Korea lost too. I've noticed they struggle with African teams.

We nearly beat them in 2010 (it ended 2-2 but if Yakubu had buried that stupendously obvious open net, it would have been 3-2).

Ghana beat them 3-2 in Qatar.

I didn't watch their game with SA, but they've lost that too. I enjoyed their game against Czechia and it looked like they kicked off to a good start but when I started doubting them was after they lost to Mexico and after I remembered their track record against African teams at the World Cup.

I think it's safe to say that AFC has been the worst performing confederation at the World Cup by a huge margin. Imagine Asian champions Qatar losing 6-0 to Canada.... Canada! Lol.