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charlesemeka85:
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U need a win, got a goal around 70 minutes and still maintained a lean midfield of 2 men knowing too well that the opponent will try to push forward with all they hv to get an equalizer? This is the area I think Chelle got it wrong

I think Chelle knows how careless our players can be reason he was trying to get one more goal I can’t blame him Shebi na tactics Abi no be so 😂 but wetin our players sef Dey look dem no wan go World Cup?

Kog45:
A friend called me immediately Zimbabwe scored and said ORE(friend) I go kill Ekong today,eagles don cut my ticket😄

A 0-0 score line won’t have been this painful but to just close legs and lock shop don become luxury for our foreign based stars. Dem lucky no be Lagos dem play yesterday na that stadium pitch dem go sleep till this morning with full body guards 😂

charlesemeka85:
At work yesterday when I got the notification that 9ja hv scored via LiveScore with around 20 something minutes to go I was like “Yes it’s done” with hope that the win is sealed,done and dusted

Got another notification and I was like 9ja don score again only to check my fone and saw 1-1 90 something minutes baba my mood change immediately

To me make we just comot mind for this World Cup matter and focus on afcon cus its mission impossible 🤦‍♀️

Same here I went to pick my wife from work around the 80th min cos I was so confident 3 points was in the bag only to check my phone when I got home to see 1:1 the thing do me like film o. Away to Rwanda that is even high altitude we held them all through the second half to secure the 2-0 scorline. It was just sheer carelessness from the boys, same as the Rwanda game in uyo when they came from behind to win us 2-1 no wonder the Zimbabwe coach had the audacity to say if there was more time they would have won us yesterday. All games against SA, Rwanda and Zimbabwe in Uyo were all under different coaches but similar results, we should all note this before we turn on the coaches or nff

mekabuachi:
See as other countries dey laugh us😪😩

Na wetin Dey vex me pass, ndi foreign based wey Dey count leg 😂

charlesemeka85:
Many are mentioning names of players that failed yesterday but to me the person that should take 100% of the blame is the coach and his crew

Didn’t watch the game yesterday due to commitments but from the info I got after the game Chelle bleeped up big time

You desperately need a win which is 3 points which u were on the verge of getting but ignorantly threw that away. As a coach managing a team in such desperate position in the group what matters for now is winning your games but not destroying your opponents with mind blowing score lines like 3-0,4-0 etc, what matters most judging by the teams position in the group is winning as much as they can

When the team got the goal in the second half the ideal thing to do is sub in more bodies to the midfield and defence to protect the lead as well as hit the opponent on counter attack when there is opportunity for that

Chelle is a good tactician but the problem he has is he is desperate to impress his employers and super eagles fans by winning pretty with big goal margins forgetting that his major focus should be on getting 3 points in each game by hook or crook ie by any means

He is new to the job and it will take a bit of time for the players to adapt to his tactics and philosophy but till then he should focus on winning games in this ongoing WCQ series and pray that other teams in the group drop points

Oga charles you be my man but this coach blame format don cast o e no Dey work again!

Which tactics remain make we Dey concede for 90th minute does the coach need to remind the players of the importance of the maximum 3 points? Abeg na we don blame paseiro, finidi, eguavoen all coaches them including nff. If a player is tired Shebi he can make signs to the coach to be substituted or kuku fall to the ground to waste time, Oga charles coach no follow for this one o

do4luv14:
I miss the days of Osaze and co,

Especially Osaze, cit to the left, cut to the right, send ur marker to the market, and let fly at goal a thunderous shot,

But no na to dance Atilogwu and Awilo combine, chaiii, it is well ooo

😂 e no go better for tikitaka

minfelix:
if you like come and beat me or insult me on this my take, i go swear for you….all of you can blame NFF and coach but i will blame the players…if you interview osimhen, going by his rage yesterday after the game he will tell you his team mate are 100% to be blamed…that game was ours yesterday to win
Iwobi ballooning ball inside box 18 anyhow into the crowd
Chukwueze ballooning ball inside box 18 anyhow into the crowd
Ndidi only sweet opportunity inside box 18 could not aim and target at goal
Lookman though was very active but trying to play and score those kinda solo goals he scores for atalanta but failed at it severally
Ekong no fit clear ball or charge a striker off our box 18, till they got a goal…
Super eagles let themselves down….
CHELLE was on point with his substitution, nothing wey anybody wan tell me.
These same players went away to beat Rwanda.
When they win it is obviously Osimhen effort, when they play poor game it is NFF and coach mistake…tufiakwa!!…for Chelle to success all players need to be a fighter like Osimhen.
There was a particular point 3defenders try to all their best to wrestle Osimhen, the guy was fighting back…see this is Africa and thats how everyone on that squad should play…fight aggressively
fight!
fight!
fight!!
If you like invite Uche,Dessers,Onyeka,Orban, if they cant fight aggressively like Osimhen, na NFF las las una go stil blame…
Anyways im entitled to my opinion, we are 1point behind 2nd and 3rd team and 6points behind SA with 4more games to go…..
Until match day 10 before i go comot eyes for world cup….you all can prepare for Afcon oo its your choice, but as for MinFelix, im still playing my WCQ to win games starting from the;
Nig v Rwa(play well and beat them) to SA v Nig(play well and draw them) to Les vs Nig(Play well and beat them) to Nig v Ben(play well and beat) o pari…if Afcon time reach i go start dey prepare for that one

The blame of nff and coaches is always an excuse by some people here for their crap favourite players to continue to get invited. They just want status quo to remain, nonsense and ingredients 😂 players wey no fit dive head ball like osihmen na players be those ones? Make we continue Dey lie to ourselves

opes:
Remember there was no smartphone and Internet in 1994..those set are also full of ego..Mafias..

While these current generation no even get liver to be mafias 😂 chai see wetin chicken and chips don cause

chrisooblog:
Chelle has his faults for yesterday's results but the damage was done way before he came. Eric is a decent manager who I think will improve the team but he needs to remove players who can't deliver asap.

How can a group of supposed experienced players not have the sense and urgency to lock things down in the 89th minute!!? So all the Haram football they learned last year counts for nothing?

SMH again!

That’s why those blaming the coach and nff are not fair, we should be 2nd in the group now. Nff and coach alone can’t take the boot for this lai lai

Kog45:
Oya tell me Zimbabwe club side that's making waves in CAF champions league and confederation cup....

Leave them sir to be making silly excuses, we play with countries whose club sides are no where on the continent but our own must win CAF champions league for their players to be invited to the national team. Pure crap!

codemaniacs:
it is the coach that is meant to create the formations and game plays that leads to the players scoring goals and how they defend and how they keep possession..

that's why in my paranoid mind I believe either Eguavoen ( the technical director ) or a group of people in the NFF are the ones forcing the coaches to use certain formations which end up giving the SE same bad results.

Please stop this, abeg don’t bring Eguavoen or nff into this, nobody can spin this. The players brought us to where we are today and if by the next game half of these players are still invited then we are not serious as a country. A game like this must have consequences and must begin from the players taking full responsibility. Our mediocre players cannot continue to hide under nff management and coaches to produce such crappy play. I will even have more respect for players who decline invites than to come and counting their legs for us.

yinkeys:
The world isn’t producing prolific players like the 90s and 2000s anymore
Have you seen a Roberto Carlos with crazy free kicks in modern times
Although Isak gives a little Thierry Henry vibes
We don’t have Ronaldinho dribblers anymore
Lagos fans would’ve destroyed their bus by now lol
Some of our players are not mentally tough
I don’t see us beating South Africans
I feel for Osimhen & a few hardworkers in the team
Blame NFF
It’s a corrupt body. Everything from coach selection to players selection
They’d probably cut the coach’s salary too for commissions
Crazy

Tikitaka caused the mess and some great players of the past has said it. The over emphasis on teamwork which is not bad in itself over what individual brilliance can still bring to a team is responsible for the lack of enough prolific players these days as players have become more robotic in their play, there will always be debates but that’s the damn truth. For the first time I found the last euros so boring except for the heroics of yamal.

As for the mental toughness of our players that’s been an issue for some years now but can we blame them much? cos you can’t give what you don’t have, simple it’s time to call it what it is let them give way to others who can try just like they were given the opportunity too

codemaniacs:
It is the coach that has the power to substitute players...

if the coach would rather be stubborn and leave tired players on the pitch to defend when there are fit players on the bench then it is the coach's fault..

Ekong, Iwobi, Bassey, Lookman, Aina are foreign born players which means they cannot handle 90mins of Nigerian heat or African heat on the field so them playing more than 65 - 70 mins should be an abomination...

Nigerian players with the attitude of Onyeka who can run all over field should be the ones getting invited.

Foreign born players are good but they should not be allowed to play full match especially since they will start the next match.

NFF and most Nigerians don't consider players fatigue and tiredness from previous matches can affect their performances..

For how long we will continue blaming coaches, the same eagles lost to Rwanda in uyo, drew SA in uyo haba! different coaches but same result of inability to win at home!

And if we have players who can’t cope with our weather does that not mean we need a new approach for selection of players? Apart from the World Cup proper most of our competitions and matches will always be on the continent and with African opposition so where do we go from here? Keep inviting players who can’t last for more than 65 mins and keep losing games at home?

mekabuachi:
I'm pissed fr

Morocco abd Egypt wey get white players sef... Dey play under hot sun, not to talk if us with black players
Dem dey play fir the same Europe with our boys too ooh
Mtcheew

The current generation of eagles are too over pampered, always on their phones, some are even content creators all manner of shenanigans and what do we get? Ikpeba some few weeks back threw a jab on these players even yabbed them they can’t play before Lagos fans, I was one of those who thought he was too extreme but after watching the crap played yesterday I think ikpeba is right. We shouldn’t be blaming the 94 set for being too proud and despising the generation after them.

mekabuachi:
Leave coach or nff
Make we focus on players now
Why other countries ivory coast, Egypt others
These players dey play like say na life and death... Abd Dem get European club too ooh, this one no be home based again

So wetin dey motivate them.. why can't our players play their life out
You want blame nff?
Is it nff that made them concede in the 90th minutes..... You no fit hold on for just 5 minutes
Omo nawa

Don’t mind them, that’s how we always deflect so we keep inviting these mediocre players. Players wey no fit play by 4pm in naija come still fall your hand join, tufiaka

Kog45:
Hmm,if we removed Iwobi who should we put?this is the reason why eagles will continue to fail.....Kai Iwobi I watched against Zimbabwe,walahi I will replace him ASAP with even NPFL player

😂 some people no wan hear about any NPFL player here sir. They are not yet tired with all the usual nonsense we are still seeing.

COOL10:
If we fail (and we most likely will) to qualify for the 2026 World Cup, it won't be hard to predict exactly what's going to happen in the future.


We'll most likely go ahead and employ another Grade C foreign coach who's going to be successful in qualifying us for the 2030 World Cup.


After we get knocked out in the Round of 16, we're going to tell him that we don't need him anymore and also tell him that the only reason he was able to qualify us for the World Cup was because of the plethora of "star players" that we have 😂. We won't remember that he saved us from our inability to qualify for two back-to-back World Cup editions. We won't remember that he qualified us with relative ease. It'll be a repeat of the Gernot Rohr situation but with more emphasis on World Cup qualification/performance.


After sacking the new Grade C foreign coach whilst still owing him a lot of money, we'll go on another unsuccessful spree of employing mediocre local coaches who do nothing impressive to improve themselves apart from waiting for the National Team job to fall on their laps.


This cycle will keep repeating itself. The fact is we don't deserve any better. We deserve exactly what we're going through right now. We are not ready for progress. You can disagree with me all you want but it's not gonna change anything (Zilch, Nada).


THE TRUTH IS INDEED BITTER, and we're in this position because some people (especially those in the media and NFF) have refused to embrace it for what it is.

We are a bunch of arrogant people who will never give credit to whom is due but continue to deceive ourselves and you’re right we will keep driving away coaches who have indeed improved our football all in the excuse of boring football and looking for a tikitaka that we don’t even have the players to execute. It’s a cycle like you said and I did predict it here after Afcon and it has happened. You see that media they are the greatest culprit always misleading Nigerians on what they think is best for our football when in truth they keep damaging it further.

Joebie:
Let's not forget NFF in all of this.

We can’t continue to blame nff alone, those on the pitch yesterday had no business not getting the full 3 points.

jihday:
correct, I’m sure next time he’ll replace some players. Now i understand why 3 coaches rejected the chance to take this job, see how people are blaming Chelle for inability to qualify.

Anyone blaming Chelle is unfair, and this is what we always do. Am one of those who never wanted Chelle but what happened yesterday has nothing to do with the coach. The players let us down like they did against Rwanda in the same Uyo, why is this difficult to understand?

TheSuperNerd:
Osimhen's fire and fiery passion has been there since his U17 days. He is the lad with the biggest winning Mentality in the team. The one who will run 90mins+ non-stop. The only other player on this team who can run 90mins+ non stop like Victor is Frank Onyeka who wasn't invited.

Victor is the perfect archetype of the warrior you take into your biggest battles.

I feel most sad because unless some miracle occur, we won't see Africa's best and most dreaded Number 9 at the World Cup.

10 slots should not be this hard in all honesty. But it is what it is due to stupid decisions we made as a football nation.

There’s a science and philosophy to our football and that’s what a player like osihmen represents, I watch his goal today and I wonder how many of the other players can take such a risk with that dive. We keep complaining about his behaviour and attitude but the ones we think has better attitude what are they really offering us Abi na like this who go Dey Dey! Before that goal it was as if he wasn’t in the game but sheer resilience and inner strength still came out from him, is that too much to ask from the other players? gosh!

yinkeys:
Okocha threw shades at NFF
Randy Waldrum also said in 2023 that we won’t qualify with the way we run our football
Chelle could’ve easily won the match, he failed to read the game properly in the second half
Fatigue: Ndidi, Osay Samuel & Ekong messed up. Boniface that was fresh from the bench could’ve been running like a mad man to help the defense was just jugging like what I don’t know

I said here that my fear was that in the second half these players will start thinking about their clubs so why Boniface no go jug,

Danielnino00:
Oya, name 5 home based players you will call up to the team for the next round of games.... If you are so sure that the home based players will do better, you must have some knowledge of some good players in the league that can be called up...
Oya, name them

You guys should continue while we continue to be disgraced by players who can’t cope with the weather in their country of origin

daveP:
Lol

Its now those that can't best the clubs i called that will step onto the pitch with their lack of technical abilities and become Marvel and DC Avengers or Team Avatar Aang and bend every element till they grab the ticket??


Name one club in NPFL that can convincingly beat Mamelodi Sundowns home and away or get 4points in a 2 legged affair in the here and now. Pls do.

You have a set of tech guys having problems and you feel just cos this ones are in computer school they'll outperform the tech guys with international ability? Dey play.

It is not an excuse. They have half a dozen tournaments to prove themselves home and abroad and they failed.

That's who you want to hand over the job to?

You want to build a house but its unprofessional builders you want to give the job to.

This is not Afcon o. WCQ. Substandard building and e go collapse and you go dey dia join to complain pass.


Let them do the needful back home and in caf competition.

Pls, i need a club or two that can beat Mamelodi Sundowns in a caf club competition.

Your guys in Europe can’t even beat the mamelodi Sundowns players so wtf!

daveP:
The NFF goons are too comfortable. We reward failure, mediocrity and incompetence too much in this country. What then is the metric for excellence? What are the standards that every one needs to meet? What happens to those that fail to meet the standards? Are they rewarded with more time? Do they fail and have no looks over their shoulders? Do they sleep at night so well?

Those guys are failures. Wafcon is around the corner. If we have a good outing and win now, they'll take the glory. Tueh

I made this point earlier but someone was asking me what criteria of success am I talking about.

daveP:
Goke7 abeg bury this Homes based talk. It is stale. Since all these wafu and chan and what not tournaments etc, we still never see 1 or two that are good enough to displace players in the current setup. Pls no bring that Sunday Mba talk either. The usage of that angle is stale too.

We see how the NPFL teams are terrible in caf club competitions b2b with some of the best legs in the league having lack of technical and tactical setup over and over.

If they were the ones that played ghana in Abuja that night, the riot for worse pass that one.

Let them show improvements and then go far in the Caf CL and CC and we can start that discussion again. After all, we got Enyeama from there. That's how solid it should be. They should step up.

At least back in the day you can have hope from just reading Complete Sports that a npl club can defeat a Tunisian or sudan or Egyptian side. Now, we can't even boast of any npfl club that can best a congo club in caf cl.


Abeg abeg.

No we can’t and never bury the home based talk if our foreign based players can’t win matches at home. Far from it, we keep using the excuse of how poor our league is to justify the invitation of foreign based players who we keep shifting the time of our matches at home to 5pm or 6pm so they can cope with our weather and still they can’t carry their legs to get us 3 points. It’s a mess but let’s continue to live in denial sha

TheSuperNerd:
Ball playing midfielders.

Uche is one. Akinsanmiro is another. Nwakali in EFL League one is another but let's forget him.

The first 2 are ball playing midfielders who will do a good job, I am convinced but no... we keep snubbing this "conundrum" coach after coach nd after coach.

Even Eguavoen mentioned this when he failed to bear Rwanda at home and also knew this when we failed against Ghana. My problem is that they know but still don't get proactive on the solution.

Am sick of all these using stats in Europe to select players that will face African based players wey we no know their stats. We need to be more talent wise in our approach to selection. How can we be struggling to beat Rwanda and Zimbabwe at home just how?

Odunayaw:
Where this gets problematic is you make the only other option to be that home based stars will whip teams. That is false.

Make I even see what you regard as criteria. Pray tell

This conversation will continue for as long as we continue to struggle against teams except we want to chicken out by saying there are no longer minnows in African football which is a big lie. I will prefer home based eagles being beaten by fellow African teams than parading two APOTYs and other big names in Europe falling like a pack of cards.

TheGoodJoe:

I can't be critical of Lookman because he is adapting to a totally different role and it does not give him enough liberty to express himself offensively.

Let us give the manager some few games because it is really a tough demand on the players. He is also getting to know the players too.

We keep experimenting in crucial games and we think our football will develop. For every World Cup missed represents a big set back in our football. We will never use friendlies to experiment but crucial games where we need maximum points, we well so?

mrwilliams9:
I know we are frustrated with that result, but some of my permutations now that things have settled.

1. The talk of Uyo being cursed doesn’t really hold weight to me. We had enough chances to finish this match off in the first 45 mins. If we really think Lagos should be our main stadium, then it behooves the NFF to rehabilitate it and bring it up to FIFA standards.

2. We really need to scout for a ball playing midfielder that can take the pressure out of games in the end. Kill the tempo and secure points.

3. I don’t think FIFA will deduct the 3pts from SA for fielding an ineligible player. I think Motsepe will do some behind door politicking. Regardless, our players need to focus on winning out and giving themselves a chance, no matter how slim that chance is.

4. We should push on with Chelle through AFCON and beyond. This constant chopping and changing of managers does no one any good. WCQ will have finished by the time AFCON comes around. Barring an early exit, he should be given time to develop a system and pattern of play for AFCON 25 and 27.

That lack of ball playing midfielders or players has been our bane, reason I will never fancy tikitaka which we keep forcing down on our team. If we were more direct today we would have secured the 3 points

Odunayaw:
There is no over dependence. Leave this stale dichotomy of foreign and home based.

Ismail & Ihefu fc are recent examples of not being up to scratch.

It is enough to critic players without the unnecessary dichotomy of foreign or local

Bro if our foreign based stars can’t whip African teams even at home what are we inviting them for, we need to set criteria for success instead of dashing places in the national team based on what they do in Europe.

Bazkanova:
The NPFL is a joke. If our foreign-based players are 'overrated,' our local-based players are twice as overrated.
The biggest problem facing Nigerian football is its incompetent administration.

How competent are other African FAs? The issue is more with the kind of players we are featuring these days who can’t risk it all for the national team. How many players can risk that diving header by osihmen

9JAMac10:
Rip the big boss Stephen keshi. Even with all the odds stacked against him. He won the nations cup and qualified for the World Cup with a majority home based team. Guys until we go back to the drawing board we may not even qualify for the 2030 World Cup

He’s was the only coach who understood what it takes to put on the GWG. He went for players who had zeal and ready to risk all for the team. He went for brawn over skill and got tremendous results. He was castigated for his selections but got the job done. Even with the home based eagles he soared. African football is power and resilience not all these social media skits.