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9JAMac10:
No Osimhen no Nigeria.

Honestly what can we do without this guy

Joebie:
I wasn't expecting SA to slip to Benin. Maybe the slip I saw had to do with the deduction of 3 points. For now we just have to win even if na 1-0.

I hope the euphoria of the possibility of a 3-point deduction has not cast a spell on this match

toluxe0075:
Even if it’s 1-0, I’ll manage it. Ejor

half goal sef if it will give us 3 points

Odunayaw:
Rwanda scores.

Iku de

double wahala, this group tie wrapper no be small

TheSuperNerd:
While we look for our goal, SA has taken the lead vs Benin.

Rwanda also leads vs Lesotho.

If no show here, we may as well say a final goodbye to the World Cup. Still praying for something to change

Boys, you can do this. take your destiny into your own hands

My hope is that the Zimbabweans would probably tire out in the second half; they did too much to keep our guys from scoring in the first half

TheSuperNerd:
About time Chelle bins this 442 diamond rubbish vs the Zimbabweans. It worked against Rwanda but everyday isn't 442 diamond Christmas.

We just wasted 45mins experimenting against a side drilled in movements and positioning. We have created but not so much. Osimhen and Chukwueze probably came the closest to scoring.

And Ndidi. What a horrendous half. God! Chelle get serious please and make this a 3 man midfield and let Lookman and Simon/Chukwueze play closer to Osimhen, more like a 4-3-2-1 Pyramid.

Let the fullbacks stretch the plays if needed in tandem with the wing forwards operating between the half spaces and wing channels.

That first half was so low in intensity. Chelle better be giving them hair dryer treatment at half time.

We just must win, I hope the players themselves can disobey the coach small and push forward. Our midfielders were too in a hurry linking with the attack

Joebie:
Chelle does not have the best personnel for this formation in the middle. But I expect him to switch things up. I want to see are forwards our once click and combine together. Not too impressed we the passes to the forwards.

I don't just want to talk. You see, this tikitaka we want Chelle to do, I hope it will not ruin us. We just need to win, later we can switch formation and experiment

Samueltemi337:
Calm down
We are winning this match

I agree we will win

Truidstarr:
Too many rushed passes. Lookman and Simon should switch positions.

I thought I was the only one who noticed. Hope we see improvement in the second half

our midfielders need a little patience

Odunayaw:
Recoveries has been top notch

Yeah, we just need to connect midfield to the attack more

We need to slow the transition from the midfield to attack

Mujtahida:
I dey get draw vibes oo

back to sender, goals are coming

We may need to slow down the game

BankyGee:
2 hours, 52 minutes go go 🦅🇳🇬

Can we focus on the match, enough of yellow cards wahala

minfelix:
South africans are coming with counter attack ooo🤣🤣🤣🤣…we will all confuse ourselves before the match this evening today🤣

Reason I want us win our match today first then by tomorrow morning we can fire on with this yellow card issue. I know our players they can easily be distracted. This was how siasia missed out on Afcon qualification looking for more goals when a draw would have seen us through, he and team had the wrong info. Let’s make our team win today’s match abeg. These players are always on their phones!

daveP:
I've been Hammering on this ineptitude and incompetence for a while now. They probably feel they're just there to spend dollars, arrange meetings and matches without carrying the handbook, while also being terrible at appointments. They need close marking in the media so they can sit up. This is the most comfortable NFF set ever as regards administration. Nobody dey mark them.

We have never been too good when it comes to using off the pitch moves to advance our cause in the game. Look at the Libya game but for our captain Ekong and his social media awareness nff won’t have taken up that matter to CAF

mekabuachi:
This out group get too much drama
SA Will definitely hate Nigeria more 😂

I fear for our match in SA! It will be a bitter one for our hosts!

jedisco:
The whole system is becoming commoditised and with a more interconnected world, falling birth rates and remote working, labour would increasingly become more transferable. This has its pros and cons. It's for each to understand they're not here on account of a diversity visa.


My main grouse with the fees is how it goes on to affect attainment in many migrant communities. It's tough enough surviving but then after having paid all these fees, its an uphill task to start living and building wealth for many. What's driving most of the Torygraph articles is first hate and then the realisation what the otherside might look like. Most of these outcomes are quite stark when you look at most health or wealth data. Only a small cohort of Asians have been able to break the jinx.

What can they attain after a family of five or six would have spent like 20k on ilr, this is what will even make so many settle to remain on benefits and the same system or govt will start grumbling again about people relying so much on welfare. You can take so much from people and not expect them not get so much back. The whole thing does not encourage productivity in the long run. It’s a mess.

jedisco:
Hehe.. I knew this would come up.

For starters, I can guess what you're thinking, no be 9ja be dis. The first thing you do when you come into the UK is understand the system you work in. First, what is your understanding of someone not being fit for work. Then secondly, what is your understanding of the benefit system?
As a medic, you soon learn your job is not to be a fit note police -been there, done that, na you go tire that is if you no enter wahala.

Look widely, there are children wards where not uncommonly upto 1 in 5 kids admitted on an average day are not there because they have a physical health issues but because of mental health related issues i.e they are not eating, took paracetamol overdose, self-harming e.t.c. What would you do if you encounter such kids who would ultimately grow to become adults? You support them. In this country, hospitals would pay 4 people to sit all day and only be brought into action if a child refuses to eat. Abi is it the one of a hospital building a house for someone so the person could get off the ward. Or those that have called out an ambulance visit them over 200 times in a few months cos they keep threatening to kill themselves. Outside health, what happens when you see folks looting a store- do you start boxing them? Even the grocery chains sack their staff who accost thieves. If you have not worked in public facing roles, then there's the part of British life that'd take a while to understand.


It has nothing to do with inate strength. Some of the things you see as work, others see as suffer. If you have the system you have here anywhere, it would get abused overtime. The govt knows what to do to make it sustainable but again, this is Britain.
A colleague of mine completed a work assessment for someone in Canada, chap had lost part of a limb in a freak work accident. Their DWP equivalent callen the chap in for an assessment and afterwards told him to go and be a motivational speaker - him self weak for the guy. Here, outcome would be different. If you want a free for all, you get a free for all. Benefits are there as an essential safetynet. It maintains human dignity in a society but everything has a cost.

😂 I remember sometime at work just because I mentioned how I felt about someone raising their voice at me, omo na so dem tell me make I go on sick leave ( like two weeks), they even went to approve it without my asking, I had to beg them that I was fine and no need! So doc I understand where you’re coming from 😂 e get as e be!

Chai abeg make win today’s match first o before we begin yellow card matter. Let’s get our 3 points first. Let this not become a distraction to the team.

jedisco:
Hehe... don't let it bother you. It's the usual Torygraph speak. KS has been quick to put Kemi who should have been championing such narratives in a cupboard.
So far, it does not appear Labour is giving thought to any of that and the Cons can't shout too much eitherway. By the time the next election is due, most of the Boriswave crew would be Brits. Na so e dey be

It will even have more devastating effects cos it’s not even a smart thing to continue to increase ilr fees and same time then increase the timeline eligibility. Folks are getting wiser now, where elsewhere I can get permanent residence faster and even cheaper. But you know that arrogance of this is Britain and folks won’t mind waiting for 30 years to get ilr but by the time the reality of how they are losing highly skilled workers and revenue hits then that cycle of another wailing will start like we see in the case of international students. I won’t even mind them testing the waters sef make I check something!

All of them are just making noise common to rally their people to oppose state of emergency in the National Assembly they all went mute, is opposition all about making speeches and press conference?

BankyGee:
Just went to watch all our AFCON highlights again 😂

Who say Iwobinho no good? Mad passes everywhere, there was the through pass to Osimhen 🆚 Equatorial Guinea which Osimhen missed 1-v-1, there was the counter pass to Moses Simon too 🆚 Côte d'Ivoire to set him 1-v-1 too, we no score, the quick passes between him and Ademola Lookman and Bassey to cook that second goal 🆚 Cameroon, the pass to !Zaidu Sanusi, which Zaidu sent to Simon to setup Lookman for the goal 🆚 Angola... Omo 😮‍💨

Alhassan Yusuf 🆚 Equatorial Guinea seff was another passing beast! Na injury do am strong thing, very intelligent player, launched as sweet pass across the box that created an empty net which Zaidu Sanusi missed!

We didn't really play bad in that AFCON, goosebumps full my body watching all the games, Peseiro had a game plan and stuck to it all through and our players played to the best of that game plan!

Let's see what Chelle cooks again, December too far! 😤😤😤

those who keep saying we played badly at Afcon are just economical with the truth, we played some good football, our problem is always the first game syndrome, once we lose or draw we tend to use the result of the first game to describe the team no matter how much they improve in latter games, it was the same thing in 2013 we drew our first game and many even wrote off the Eagles, till today people stii say keshi's team was boring. Imagine the assist from Babatunde to Ahmed Musa for our first goal against Argentina in the 2014 World Cup, that was delightful to watch. Watch our WCQ games under Rohr to the 2018 World Cup, especially the game against Cameroon, the same Rohr we accuse of destroying our game, na tension dey make us talk anyhow most times. Even in our last game I know how some were already bashing the team despite the disciplined play from the Eagles. Reason I'm happy Chelle won his first game cos if it was a draw or we lost omo na different things we go dey see or hear.

Zahra29:
The bolded is incorrect. ILR fees were last increased in October 2023 to £2885. There was no increase in 2024.

Accusing the government of treating immigrants as guinea pigs is disingenuous. You talk as if immigrants are being specifically targeted when the reality is that nearly every household and business is facing tax and bill increases.

Fine, still an increase in less than one and half years is a kill and not justifiable as these people are also not immune to the other bills and taxes increases but of course it doesn’t matter because they are immigrants and they should bear the cost of being here no matter how much but tomorrow they will be still be objects of attacks of low wages, cheap labour, why citizens can’t get high wages and all those dumb stuff. Let the arrogance continue!

Zahra29:
Bills and taxes are going up in pretty much every sector next month - in some sectors by much bigger margins than most of the immigration fee rises - for example council tax, employers national insurance (which many businesses have been lamenting as unaffordable) , energy price cap etc
AND UK passport application fees are going up as well.

At the same time, benefit payments are due to be slashed or frozen for a large proportion of recipients, so I think it's quite disingenuous to make out like immigrants are the only ones facing fee increases or are specifically being targeted.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/changes-to-passport-application-fees

https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/news/2025/03/council-tax-increase-2025-2026/

https://www.sage.com/en-gb/blog/employers-national-insurance-rise/

Are immigrants exempted from those increases in energy, bills and taxes? How is this disingenuous? It’s just last year ilr fees were just increased to £2880 and now to over £3k so a family that has saved and planned with last year figure to apply this year now have to cough out more to cover for the new fees haba, so every year from now we will be seeing increase in visa fees, that’s new and strange.

mekabuachi:
This Libya no dey hear word 😂
Still kept Sudan in the airport fore hours, seized there passports

And guess what they came there to play another country not even then😂🤦

That country is still suffering from ptsd after their war, fifa and CAF suppose exclude them from the game for now. I hope it’s not until lives are lost before the football authorities do the needful

jedisco:
Immigration in the UK has been largely commoditised and increasingly seen as an easy way to generate revenue without the backlash other wider changes see. Many locals would even welcome this.

It seems the posturing is now to have yearly increases so big jumps come as less of a shock. For example, this rise has largely gone under the radar even among migrant communities

Rather I just see a Guinea pig scenario where once you’re thinking of revenue increase you turn on immigrants and when you want to rant on society ills you also turn on immigrants. So they are both your problem and revenue tap. phew!

jedisco:
Visa fees on the rise again. Increase roundly above inflation

https://www.employmentlawworldview.com/uk-home-office-announces-new-visa-and-sponsorship-fees-effective-april-2025/

It’s really shocking to see a fee rise just after a year of previous increases. What’s really happening, is this country that broke?

Mujtahida:
Rwanda is at a high altitude. That's why the players gassed out.

This excuse no follow o especially if you remember the game in uyo against the same Rwanda