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daveP:
Imagine having this setup for NPFL😆😁😁😁

These guy is such an analyst. Jamie Carragher can never!!!

He's broken down two major things i overlooked so far in this tournament. No Nigerian analyst fit do this one. Maybe Bolarinwa or Kiiibati sha. But i no dey see dem lately. SuperNerd go soon take over🤣

The ish is which team wants to exploit that Iwobi aspect now? That means we need to give the Angolan coach his flowers. If he had better technical players, they'll have done it more than twice.

the iwobi aspect is easy to see, he lost the ball that caused the goal against E-Guinea, and he also lost concentration causing the chance the Angolan had which hit the bar. Perhaps the reason the coach is playing him deep so the defenders can easily cover for him. No team is 100% perfect.

The South Africans too are not that technical which is where we will hit them with our more technical players. It's Nigeria's game to lose honestly

Amedino99:
na nostalgia.

we all have nostalgia but let it be with some small wisdom, I listened to Taribo the other day, and he admitted that the current Super Eagles defenders are more physically fit compared to the France 98 team, but if we start that argument here now, may folks will just write off the current defenders compared to the defenders we had then. phew

Amedino99:
the better finisher argument is funny cos osimhen has more SE goals with 15 games lesser. Osimhen also has double of martin's serie a goals with just 8 more games. This debate is just filled with nostalgia, there is no basis to it.

it's arguments like this that retrogress Nigerian football, we always feel the past is better, too many emotions in our analysis. That's why a coach will do well, and win trophies but we will still feel another coach who has not won anything is better. A player whose goals have won trophies we still feel a player whose goals could not win laurels is better, It's just funny with the excuses we make for such silly arguments

Barryseal:
So Osimhen will start ahead of Crespo, Adriano and Vieri? Anako

and because of crespo and co martins is better than oshimen, you see your logic?

Barryseal:
He wasn't an automatic starter at Inter Milan. It's even a miracle how he gets on to the pitch at all with legendary strikers like Adriano, Vieri etall. A testament to how highly rated he was.
The move to Newcastle was a bad one. Valencia was supposed to be the better option where he could have played with David Villa.

If he was better than those strikers, he would be a starter and perhaps score more goals but he wasn't better. Oshimen was not only a starter but the best in Serie A. It's that simple

elyte89:
Been a serie A champion and top chart scorer; breaking so many records has overshadowed whatever martins achieved in his career….in a nutshell osimhen better pass martins

all because oshimen has not scored more than one goal so far in afcon, martins is now a better striker, the funny things we dey read here aaah, I fear my country people

Marjoribanks:
I don't agree, bruh! Obagoal was underwhelming for Nigeria! No AFCON or World Cup highlights! At club level, Osimhen finishing is on another level! Past things always seem better than it actually was!

You Dey mind them, I just hear names anyhow simple question is what trophy did they win for Nigeria. Na so person Dey argue say Yakubu Dey more clinical the same Yakubu wey miss open net like like Moses parted the Red Sea. Yeye comparison. I love Martins but please you got to mention strikers like emenike before him, those are winners.

Eazzzii:
They say we aren't better than the Cape Verdians or the Morrocans.

Na Cape Verde I blame

Starboytwo:
Na the new way be that. confusion things. i hope it wont backfire.

Lets start Moffi. Uzoho, Musa for this crucial Semi final to completely confuse Southafrica. Osimhen can enter when Moffi tire small.

at this stage even Finidi George go comot shirt enter field for this semi final

Icon4s:
Excellent! I am yet to see any Nigerian TV analyst with this in-depth knowledge of the way this Nigeria team is set-up. Peseiro has really done well for this team

I watched this analysis, far better than those citi sports guys, in fact towards the end was the most excellent analysis I have ever seen using stats to explain how Ola Aina completely marked out the Angolan striker, Gelson or what's name, dude had no shot at goal at all. They were all wondering where all the Angolan strikers went to, that past was so funny and exciting.

charlesemeka85:
we go win dem comfortably for regulation time

Yea but no one should scare us with pks, the boys know what's at stake

EEGA:
After watching the game, I discovered Neco Williams weakness.He saved all ground PKs, but couldn't save the one that ended at the top right corner.

Let's not give him ground shots tomorrow.

Go Super Eagles!!!

Ademola Lookman sabi that one wella, that goal against Angola especially

Mujtahida:
It would be a mistake for SE to get sucked into desperation to see the game not drag to penalties cos of the exploits in the SA keeper.

The best thing is to try and see that we wrap things up in 90 minutes but if it stretches beyond that, fine. No need to be desperate because we are afraid of their Gk.

Their Gk too has his weaknesses. Study it and exploit it if it comes down to penalties. In that way we too are prepared.

When the bird learns to fly without perching, the hunter learns to shoot without aiming.

Cunny man die, Cunny man bury am.

Thank you o, I thought am the only one thinking this way. Penalty shoot-outs are part of the game if you can't score in regulation time. The best approach is to prepare for all situations and scenarios. All this talk of taking chances is all assumptions, what if the keeper keeps saving all your efforts in regulation time, won't you fight till the very end? Looking at Cape Verde, it's obvious they didn't prepare enough for penalties while SA prepared totally. From the knock-out stage, teams are expected to prepare totally for all scenarios, we have even seen teams missing penalties given in regulation time which still reflects preparedness. Imagine Ekong missed the penalty against CIV, no be abuse we go abuse am? We got to be ready for all scenarios jare

Starboytwo:
we have passed the era of "take am like that"

This is a championship team. This team will rule.

Osimhen is APOTY. The 8th D'or, just behind Halland and Mbappe in the strikers league. No other living striker come anywhere close. Me don't really bother about the anti-osimhen crew, we actually need them.

As a striker, you need the negative reviews, the critics, the doubters, etc. They help fuel you.

If osimhen bags two tomorrow, hopefully they'd rest small.

we pray so o but this generation that can report Grammy account and shut it down, hmmm may God help us o

Starboytwo:
This is funny.

1- Jpes leaves or stay, we are force to reckon with post Afcon. Infact I predict a back-to-back afcon title with this current setup if we win.

2- Toxic? Nothing new. Nigeria as a whole is toxic. I cant remember when things were not toxic. Nff toxic, fans toxic, Apc toxic, naira/dollar toxic. Forget that one.

3- and why would we not qualify? Just cause you say it? Or you privy to something we don't know.

which set-up, the one the anti-oshimen peeps don't like?

see we don't manage success well, and that toxicity is too much for any sustainable progress, let's win this afcon and add to our other laurels, anything we see after, make we take am like that.

dijon:
SE will be crowned 2023 Afcon champion.
JP will leave immediately. The environment, NFF, fair weather fans, Journalists and crude analysts too toxic for comfort.
SE will not qualify for the World Cup 2026.

This is my fear and it may happen whether we win afcon or not, cos after afcon a crisis awaits us. I even hear some of the senior team members are waiting after Afcon to announce their retirement from the national team, reason they want to win afcon and leave on a high

All you anti Oshimen peeps just wants the team to lose so you’ll be back here to say we said it.

From the comments here it’s obvious you guys don’t mean well for this team, let’s not deceive ourselves, only enemies will prefer lesser quality players to replace a better player, ahh nairaland I fear Una.

Danielnino00:
Those who wanted Osimhen dropped might have just gotten their wish...

Awon village people their plan no go work

Mujtahida:
We are loud mouthed ingrates. Always believing that we can get something better. When he goes and we fail to qualify for WC and Afcon 25, our eyes go clear

It was after Afcon 2013 I knew how wicked Nigerians are. Some said keshi won Afcon based on luck including educated people, terrible human beings.

Mujtahida:
I guess this is directed at Odegbami who a commenter here said Peseiro should be let go. I have searched for the interview, I no see am but if indeed Odegbami said that, it was a rash and unwise thing to say at this point.

Let’s not deceive ourselves many people are just waiting for the eagles to fail either at the semis or finals to finally nail the coffin of Paseiro especially the anti Oshimen gang. Even if we win Afcon he will still receive the keshi treatment. Paseiro should leave after Afcon whether he wins or not. Am sure he will, he not signing the contract extension is a signal. Dude don upgrade im cv.

Blueelf:
That was Yak's only clear-cut chance. Look at it again

And what happened to the clear-cut chance the same Yak had at the World Cup in 2010 abi Yak convert every chance for there?

mrwilliams9:
1. I disagree that the point is laughable. Celebrating just getting to the SFs should not be enough. Remember, only 2 of 16 SF appearances were when the tourney was expanded to 24 teams. Prior to that, it is was when the tournament was 8/16 teams.

2. Nigeria should be going into every AFCON with the expectation to win. That’s what big nations with expectations do! Brazil will never go into a WC just targeting to reach the SFs.

3. We are big footballing nation but we have to now have a winners mindset. No other nation has been the SFs more than we have, shows we are good enough to reach the final four, but it seems to be a disconnect in converting that into titles

If you’re better than the other teams you’ll win but if the other teams have more exceptional players than you that come to the party than your own players how will you win? In 2019 we fell to exceptional play of Algeria’s mahrez, In 2000 in the afcon we came from behind twice in the final to level with a Cameroonian team that parades eto, mboma, Vivian foe, rigobert song you wan try? In 1992 we fell to exceptional brilliance to Ghana Abedi Pele and co. No emotions if you’re good you’re good.

That no Nigerian striker has surpassed Late Yekini’ goals record shows the quality of strikers Nigeria has been producing over the years. The Brazil you’re talking about when last did they win the World Cup? even surpass quarterfinal when? Your expectations will be limited by the quality of players you parade as against other competitors.

We have a big chance now because nations with exceptional players that can really give us headaches have already exited the competition. It’s what it is, motivation talk don’t win competitions you got to be better indeed than your rivals

ThunderFireAgba:
Guys South Africans don come o

see wetin Grammys don cause ba

charlesemeka85:
even as I Nigerian I go leave the job if I win the afcon

That alone will open more doors for jobs with better salary package

Nigerians are ungrateful people no matter what you achieve with the national team. Keshi too should have left immediately after winning Afcon though he wanted to go to the World Cup. But if am Paseiro I go pack my load after Afcon.

Mujtahida:
They didn't say that Angola will beat us. They wished it and desired it and that's fair enough cos if Ghana is in our shoes, I'd wish they get beaten. That however doesn't detract from their brilliant post match analysis in which they give full credit where it is due. No one in our media matches them.

They felt the Angolans were more technical than the Eagles, you can see they admitted how we neutralised their dangermen

there's nothing special those guys are doing, this is what the likes of Deji Omotoyinbo and the late Deji Tinubu (God bless his soul) were doing those days. Na because na social media analysts full naija now like the ones on this thread dey make these fellows look like experts

Blueelf:
See Yakubu's goal against mali

Osimhen would not score it if given the chance


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXIJAfcIBS4

no be the same 1-0 the game end? was that the only chance we had in that game?

Mujtahida:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw08qHL8EU4?si=SCWbkSjc_F5-gDSA
Make una Enjoy Ghanaian analysis

The same people who said Angola go beat us

charlesemeka85:
if na u nko?

I go japa straight with all the gbese salary wey nff dey owe, no time. After all no be say the country people kuku like me, their fada

charlesemeka85:
https://owngoalnigeria.com/2024/02/05/peseiro-will-leave-super-eagles-after-afcon-agrees-deal-to-handle-egyptian-side/

no wonder e no sign extension with NFF. The man na guy man, Zamalek is surely not his main target but to use as a transition to another top team in Africa or elsewhere if this news is true.

chrisooblog:
All this tears and shalaye because of what

Ok. sorry sorry Osimhen is useless infact he's the worst striker in SE history. Happy now or you need pacifier.

Oshimen is our messi whether we like it or not, anybody wey no gree like our oga above has said for himself can drink sniper,

we ain't buying stupid narratives here

Blueelf:
I am not saying he isn't an asset

But if you watch SE AFCON games without sentiments and judge all our attacking situations, Osimhen has been the weak link in most of them

It's either he is offside or he balloons the ball wide

But it is a defender (Zaidu Sanusi) that is their problem. Moses Simon who has been playing well has not gotten any recognition because he is not Osimhen

You see bro, I want to point out their hypocrisy that stinks to high heavens

Do you know benching osimhen would throw the Southies off their game plan because it will be unexpected?

even Paseiro go know say this na village people things

mrwilliams9:
Same thing I said. 16 SFs for 7 finals and only 3 titles is massive underperformance.

There should be 1 title for every three SFs imo

This is laughable and not a mature point. Nigeria is not the only footballing nation in Africa. If you're indeed the best team in a tournament with the best of quality players your chances are higher with exceptions of biased refereeing and other factors. A semi-final finish especially now in a 24 nation-tournament will always be a big deal. You guys should relax, the NFF that gave Paseiro a semi-final target knows this.

Yes, we are a big soccer-playing nation in Africa but we've never been the best and that's a fact. How many times have we won the CAF Champions League, what's the state of your local league for you to have won Afcon 10 times?