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lbrichman2:
On Chuks

One thing I like Chelle he defends his players no matter what. One major reason I want him to stay on and the major reason I don’t want our local coaches! Period!

Dannyxy:
my point of exactly… we could not even build without any interruption from the ref, all the Moroccans had to do was fall, the crowd will shout, the ref blows, how could we even build momentum, clean free kick, corners, they refused to give, yellow cards to for legit offenses in the game where not given. We could have won that game in good time, the host needed to go to penalty more, they knew that’s where they stood a chance, you have to actually watch with keen eye to see this .

The Moroccan fans had their own whistles according to one of the Nigerian content creators in Morocco he even did a video advising the Senegalese fans to troop into the stadium in the final with their own whistles too and blow whenever the pressure was on their players he said that’s what the Moroccans were doing to distract the referee and that was the mistake they as Nigerians in the stands made without having whistles to blow their own back. It was an eyesore and anyone still saying the Moroccan players were better on the night need to do more retrospective.

Amedino99:
this woman won zero trophies during the period under review but somehow she merited the award over justin madugu that won WAFCON and even got to the top 5 ranking of the ballon dor coach of female national team of the year. Morocco is very deliberate about this. They are hosting caf competitions and they are making sure they get something out of it whether by hook or by crook.

It’s so terrible especially coming after a dubious semi final match! This is laying a bad precedence and we will all suffer for it as a continent.

Blueelf:
I agree about the officiating but we could only register 1 shot on Target and 2 shots overall..

This is the same thing the Algerians are saying that we condemn them for. Blaming the ref

I'm not a coach but elven I expected the ref to be very boased. I mean it's obvious that Morocco will be served this trophy on a platter

Was the ref biased? YES

Was chelle tactical enough? NO

In the first half, you saw we were figured out and didn't make the necessary changes in the 2nd half early enough.

Although i .Just give kudos to the marked impr9vementa we saw in the team this AFCON

But he needs to be willing to take a bit more risk in making changes as soon as possible

I'm of the opinion that if he'd switched to wing play with Ejuke subbed in, we would've hit those guys unexpectedly and may have snuck away with a win

As foe the officiating, let Morocco continue. Sheba world cup dey come, let me see them wiggle their way to the finals with officiating..nobody send their papa

All those our attacks that ref was breaking all in the name of fouls would have resulted into more shots on target so I don’t buy that excuse of we only could get one or two shots. The whole officiating was targeted at our dominance pattern and am now actually questioning the notion that the Moroccans were better. See that run that Bruno was making and he got pulled over by Diaz that definitely was heading for a cross to our strikers what about that run too from Ademola that was cut short by the ref all in the name of a throw in that was never was. Those kind of runs gave Ademola the number of assists he has in this competition so the match was a script well acted not any tactical game. That was the only way the morrocans could contain us yet they couldn’t score. So how was Chelle tactically beaten?

The Moroccans should forever be grateful to chuks and Bruno for their unfortunate loss of pks that saw them through

daveP:
na even for q/final dem for jam sef i think. They got their chance and luck joined. Same with how Argentina won France.

World cup slot will make us forget all of this in a jiffy. But i also hope we go like we mean it. We need to do it better than Keshi's 2013 led set.

Egypt wey no play anything na im knock them out and the civ team this year was far better with likes of Amad than the one that won the last Afcon. If they brought that same team from the last Afcon i doubt they will make it out of the group stage.

As for the World Cup am indifferent as our drama off the pitch is beginning to irritate me especially all these bonus allowance ish

daveP:
Anyone expecting Senegal to revenge on our bequarter are wasting time. They did all that to Nigeria and na Senegal wey go miss 3 players dem no go do am to?


Just forget, this is the peak KissAs Afcon. Morocco will lift their thing. Infact the wafcon too, the women team will win it too. Complete sweep. Lol


This Egypt game is inconsequential. Let the team B get afcon minutes abeg. The only reason they might want to win Egypt is cos Chelle go need something to put for CV. Else, let Egypt just take 3rd place. We have too many already.

Honestly now I wish CIV made it to the final to face Morocco so they will get their own taste of the medicine they also served us in the last finals.

All these talk of they were the better side we for know whether na true or not!

Blueelf:
Chelle was figured out in AfCON

You think other world class coaches at the world cup won't figure him out?

Boss, they won't do more than second round

In our game against Algeria our coach was dynamic make we no lie he had different approaches for that game. The terrible officiating in the semi finals affected whatever approach we brought.

villagereporter:
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Exactly Baba Morocco has to win at all cost, and it becoming a shame. CAF is becoming a stooge for Morocco's football or how do you explain a coach that came third in CAF women champion"s league to be d best women's coach of d year and left out d one dat won AWCON.

Or is there a criteria dey use dat we are not aware off. CAF is a disgrace dis year.

Motsepe just Dey sell awards and titles to the highest bidder they guy no even send whether the optics look good or not. I can imagine if he was a Nigerian how he would have been tagged as just exhibiting the corruption image Nigeria is known for.

We keep accusing our own nff as corrupt but this motsepe own na premium or nothing 😂

lbrichman2:
I'm backing Senegal to pull a shocker against all odds!
They have to win for football sake
They have to win

You don't know the North Africans, the bus wey go carry the team go stadium on Sunday fit breakdown or delay!

Nomyth:
This is exactly my sentiment.

If we don't conspire to self destruct, this team will peak in a beastly mode come 2027 with just a little tweak here and there.

Neutrals insist the Super Eagles are the best team in this tournament just unfortunate that they lost a scripted match.

Interestingly, they seem to mirror the trajectory of the 94 Eagles that we all love so much

Everything started in 1989 when they narrowly lost the World Cup ticket to Cameroon. The following year, they were Afcon finalists .

Two years later, they got the bronze but the signs were already there. By 1994, they had peaked and we all knew they were going to win that tournament.

This team is towing the same path. Final 2 years ago and probably bronze this time, by the next Afcon I believe they would have jellied so much to make them very formidable.

omo you know history, we got silver in 1990, bronze in 1992, and then won in 1994. If we don't self-destruct like you pointed out, we are surely on our way to Glory. Unfortunately, this Afcon was held in Morocco, we would have won it but God dey! We can't have two APOTYs for nothing; it's supposed to count.

AAA593:
See ehn Ref and CAF will not allow Senegal to play good football against Morroco. They will frustrate Senegal on Sunday.

If Senegal do anyhow, dem go chop red card, kudos to our boys for even keeping their head cool despite the provocations from the ref and the fans. But the Senegal I know is more physical than our guys and cards go flow wella for that game cos Morocco has to win at all costs.

Mujtahida:
If I am a player, you can never catch my penalty. It is either you break your hand or I play it wide. The venom with which I will hit it ehn, no be person go tell you to comot body.

Na tiki taka don spoil football, soft play and placement 😂

TheSuperNerd:
TheGoodJoe, I know you said you have accepted the ref disrupted our pressing game and rhythm again and again but kindly see this compilation done by Kurotams of FootballFanstribe.

Last night NIGERIA 🆚 MOROCCO was an absolute disgrace to African Football. CAF needs to act right. pic.twitter.com/OD0rsW8NpN

— 🧸 κυяοταмѕ (@KurotamsJustus) January 15, 2026

Just leaving it here for the records and to show that bad officiating consistently ditched out moments after moments and after moment in a game does affect a team's rhythm, flow, momentum and gameplan.

International commentators even asked.... "where was the foul?" in the Simon vs Hakimi battle on the left.

When a commentator is forced to ask “Where’s the foul?” on live broadcast, it tells you everything about how poor and biased the officiating was. Unfortunately, that single line captured the story of our night.#AFCON2025 #AFCON #AFCON25 https://t.co/SuU1QSdknc pic.twitter.com/Tma923quLU

— Super Eagles Supporters Club (@official_esclub) January 15, 2026

Note: I have left this plane but I drop these here as evidence so no one will come tell us months from now that the ref didnt impact how the game went.

#TheRobberyOfRabat

I will continue to say it that the so called dominance of the North Africans in club football is a sham. If the acclaimed sports facilities they boast of can’t make them play fair then there is no point they hosting tournaments. African football will start dying slowly with these kind of antics. I remember when the Moroccans were knocked out in the last Afcon and how they accused CAF and everyone of racism just because they can’t compete fairly. We are in soup with these guys for as long as they are part of the continent. What a shame!

Kog45:
There is nothing Aina want to show than fitness.Osayi overall performance wasn't better than Aina performance in the last Afcon abi you don forget ni baba...Aina does it at RB and even as LB in the last Afcon...Osayi had not raised any bar relating to performance as RB,is like telling us Bruno has raised the bar too....I gave it to Calvin Bassey and he will be missed against Egypt

No one denies what Aina did last Afcon, but going forward, we should always let our players do the talking for themselves on the pitch. Ekong did so much last Afcon, too; he was even the man of the tournament. That Aina has nothing to show but fitness can't just be the criterion anymore.

Most foreign analysts are full of praise for both Bruno and Osayi, and that says a lot. Perhaps these guys were actually far better than what most Nigerians actually thought. Even Ajayi wey many of us no rate, has been highly commended too.

Kog45:
Oga Goke,una don start Osayi wey una no rate until Mozambique match,na only me dey defend the guy even before Afcon started...well a fit Aina will bench Osayi.

osayi was never a player I talked about here before afcon as he was never on my radar, and funny enough, I was one of those who started mentioning how the player did well against Tunisia when many still like Delaw, still doubted him (with their valid views). If Aina is better, he has to show it on the pitch, no cap, cos with what Osayi has done in this Afcon we no go accept anything lesser than that performance in that role, that's my point. No be by name any player go bench anyone for Eagles again. Lest we forget, Zaidu was still a starter in our first game in this AFCON. Today, he has lost his place.

Kilishihunter:
I wish he could play for my club I support which is Barça cause we are badly in need of center backs especially a left footer but we might be poorer than NFF at the moment

Make Una borrow more money 😂

Kilishihunter:
We'll keep on trying till we get the fourth star. It was over a decade before we won in 2013. African football is so tough atm that's it hard to dominate like that Egyptian side of old. NFF just have to run their administrative side with a serious approach

Egypt last won it in 2010 and since then e blur for them. The rise of nations like Ivory Coast, Senegal, Morocco and other mid level nations has made Afcon more difficult. And with the influx of foreign born talents for the francophone and North African countries omo Afcon will continue to get harder just like Euro where the bigger soccer nations now finds it difficult to win.

Respect ✊ that’s what am talking about

TheSuperNerd:
Fouls count disparity: Naija vs Maroc

🇳🇬Raphael Onyedika: 4 fouls committed (1 yellow) - Deserved (it was one he took for the team)
🇳🇬Calvin Bassey: 2 fouls committed (1 yellow)

🇲🇦Neil El Aynaoui: 4 fouls committed (No yellow)
🇲🇦Ayoub El Kaabi: 4 fouls committed (No yellow)
🇲🇦Achraf Hakimi: 3 fouls committed (No yellow)
🇲🇦Brahim Diaz: 2 fouls committed (No yellow)
🇲🇦Abde Ezzalzzouli: 2 fouls committed (No yellow)

This is pure evil. Lol

See the ref Dey shine teeth here 😂 I no know why these other guy no slap 👋 e head

“It’s football,” says the Ghanaian referee who officiated Nigeria vs Morocco after being spotted on the street.😒🤔 pic.twitter.com/xjpSiTRyhY

— Cleverly 💐 (@Cleverlydey4u) January 15, 2026

forgiveness:
I see, but don't be deceived. Aina will walk straight into Chelle's starting 11.

I never rate Chuks to start because he has barely impressed in green white green. Na una dey overhype players.

Did you see me make any comment about Onyedika? I don't discuss with I am not sure of.

The problem now is osayi don raise the Standard whether we accept it or not and anyone else including Aina who plays that role now and drop the standard will raise concerns

forgiveness:
Please, don't drag CAF President and CAF. We still get appeal for FIFA ooooo.

CAF did very well in the organization of this tournament. The officiating was superb.

no be so we dey beg and praise Ghana yesterday because of the ref upon all we still collect, make CAF getat

forgiveness:
Is there any report Osayi played with injury? At least, we heard about injury of Aina and after that final, he went missing from Nottingham Forest starting 11.

Osayi had to pass a late fitness test to play the game yesterday. I heard it from some foreign analysts, in fact, in the game against Algeria dude was limping to complete that game.

My point is, Aina can't simply walk into our starting line-up easily again; he has to fight for that shirt now, and the team is looking more competitive as we now have more options. Who would have thought that a whole Chukwueze will chop bench tire at this afcon. Na this overhype of some certain players dey affect us at times, see the Onyedika we thought was class, now we know he can't displace Ndidi easily. Aina is welcome back anytime, but he must earn it now.

forgiveness:
So, you are not aware he played with injury.

how injury free where those who played yesterday, including osayi

forgiveness:
In a big game like this, Aina would had done better offensively and defensively.

Aina wey see shege for last Afcon final from a teenager that didn’t make the current Ivory Coast team 😂

Blueelf:
Chelle had no plan B

He had been tinkering with the team and finally found a working for.ula but alas, he had no plan B

His fault

Meanwhile

We can give him a benefit of a doubt if he spends one or two more years with this team we will become more dynamic

Watching that mane goal against Egypt again now if it’s our strikers na to find who to pass to. Please we must learn abeg. Big moments matters

Kilishihunter:
You wan rob Cameroon under issa hayatou their own? 😂

naija sef dey forbid to be CAF President? if we win 3 AFCons in a row that one not too much na

minfelix:
omo this one here strong oo, while super eagles were sleeping southy were busy plotting
SA vs Nig (in front of SA home crowd)
SA vs Ben (in front of SA home crowd
SA vs Rwa (in fromt of SA home crowd)
SA vs Zim (in front of SA home crowd)
SA vs Les (in front of SA home crowd
Les vs SA (in front of SA hole crowd)
Zim vs SA (in front of SA home crowd)

omo doz people really see us as moomoo oo🤣🤣

they come carry una go potato farm pitch on top

minfelix:
Lets try and beat Egypt on saturday and take their fifa ranking spot abeg lets move up 3rd

I agree we can finish this AFCON without losing a match in regulation time, good for our rankings, so we can be top seed again in the next afcon

minfelix:
why we no fit influence ref to manipulate that match na😅 atleast by now we go dey on 4afcon

we be big brother africa We no dey do that kind thing

That's why I laugh when they say na we corrupt pass for this world, see how South Africa use wayo on our head qualify for world cup and how Congo use mercenaries to play us a whole naija be like learner

Our players set out from Fez to Marrakesh to Rabat and finally to Casablanca, where they will play the 3rd place match

Na only them waka come? how many venues in days chai

minfelix:
even we sef for 2000 we really acted “suegbish🤣”, how did we just allow Cameroon come steal Afcon in our backyard…we are too nice to other nations in this africa simply becos we love football and we are built mentally to be fair in football matters…..im sure you will see Nigerians blasting ref or feeling petty when ref support us over our opponents on our own soil.

you will hear talks like
“why will ref cheat them na”
“we dont deserve this win, the ref was so bias with us”

na overconfidence kill us for 2000 until Cameroon started scoring in the final match, a game that shouldn't have entered extra time, again raising our game in moments that matter.