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Spainever:
Nigeria better score more goals if Mozambique score 1 now the pressure will increase and coach may make wrong changes

Especially now that we have 2 yellow cards now

We don’t need more yellow cards now oh no

mostob:
Akor should be scoring that. Hope these players know we're leading by just one goal sha

or should have passed to Lookman

What’s the yellow card for nididi all about

Lookman should have gone for goal there but he decided to be unselfish

We just need to keep possession, that’s all no carelessness please

Iwobi is a play maker. Respect

Lookman is just the man

Benin should hold their heads up high losing the wcq to Nigeria and then in Afcon to Egypt. That’s not a disappointment in any way

I hope they keep rohr

Mo Salah is just the man

World class finish

Wishing the eagles all the best tonight!

mekabuachi:
Omo this AFCON go hard, omo
Whoever wins it 100% deserves it

It’s the hardest Afcon in recent times no easy win for the big boys.

jihday:
if you are mentioning Ikpeba Kanu Mikel then Benny and Radebe too deserve to be on the same table. At his peak Radebe was probably a top 5 or maybe top 10 defender in the EPL, McCarthy had a fantastic career at Ajax and Porto, had the type of career most exeagles can only dream of

Very true. Liberia is not a major soccer nation but that’s the only African country that has produced the only ballon dor African winner to date. That South Africa don’t have much talents doesn’t mean they haven’t produced exceptional and world class players in the past. I just wonder what the argument is all about. I don’t give a damn about SA but we shouldn’t be saying they haven’t produced players like benny, radebe and pienaar who dazzled the world in their own time and way.

FiveFootNinja:
I've been watching Colin Udoh since last night. South Africa loss sweet am pass anybody. The way he's been pressing banana banana necks ehn

You don’t want to know what these guys face from their fellow African journalists when Nigeria loses 😂

What a miss 😂

Danielnino00:
Benin are giving Egypt the business.....

This Afcon Dey one kind 😂 you will expect North Africans playing in their region to dominate games but hey the reality is different

Mujtahida:
Them dey wipe SA cord. Kai social media bad. In time past, if you lose, you lick your wounds in a corner, hidden from the international football public but not so anymore.

Once you lose today, your pain becomes the song for other nations who'd gloat and mock you.

E dey pain. May God deliver naija cos I know they are waiting for us to slip.

The day we lost in that wcq play offs see how the SA sports minister troll us 😂 Omo no be small. Me I don grow balls we lose yab me you lose I go yab you, case dismissed

BankyGee:
Victor Boniface had one of the biggest downgrades in world football in 2025... Tough times for the Nigerian striker.

Some players are just unlucky. I hope he can still salvage his career, but if not, he should take solace in his previous achievements.

Makes me remember Carl Ikeme. Imagine that health condition never arose, with this stature and personality that was like another Peter Czech that never was. Life, at times, is just cruel, and we just have to move on.

yarimo:
Always speaking like a fool

I don't usually respond to stuff like this, but you're right. It's disappointing to see educated men speak this way. If you can't win or contest in an election, it's foolish to admit that INEC and the judiciary will just award the winner.

This is gaslighting, and the man, as you said, is indeed foolish

CapitalCee:
Lol. You don reduce am to great player 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Steven Piernaar is just a decent average player, he is not a great player we all watched him at Everton.
Its not about plenty of great players. We are talking about quality. Ghana is a smaller country than SA they have produce far better quality players all round than SA. Likewise Senegal and Cameroon. My main point is naturally SouthAfricans are not just good in football its a genetics thing.

That is why I mentioned earlier that SA may need to do like France or Belgium to tap into the talent pool of their huge immigrant base who are already SA citizens to boost their national team football, and then mix with their lean local pool.

Enough of this SA conversation sef, we get match today

CapitalCee:
Lol. You don reduce am to great player 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Steven Piernaar is just a decent average player, he is not a great player we all watched him at Everton.
Its not about plenty of great players. We are talking about quality. Ghana is a smaller country than SA they have produce far better quality players all round than SA. Likewise Senegal and Cameroon. My main point is naturally SouthAfricans are not just good in football its a genetics thing.

He was Everton's player of the season around 2010; in another season earlier than that, he was the top UEFA Champions League top assist provider, which can never be an average player by all standards abeg. Go and listen to Yakubu in one of his interviews and see how he showered praises on the player. He was indeed world-class. SA may not have produced more players like him, but he stands out. Injury even affected him, as he would probably have played for bigger clubs.

CapitalCee:
You must be a joker to think Steven Pienaar is a world class player.

You guys should take it easy, SA has produced huge talents in the past, yes, they are not plenty like Nigeria, but to say Steve Pienarr was not a great player is just bad belle, ask Yakubu Aiyegbeni, that was the guy feeding him assists in their days at Everton.

charlesemeka85:
the same Fortune that was a reknowned bench warmer for over 4 seasons at Man United?🤣

The only known players SA players are Mccathy and Radebe 🤣🤣🤣

I also think Steve Pienaar was decent, if not world-class, in those days at Everton. The problem of SA is a lack of talent. If they are smarter, they should take advantage of the huge immigrant diversity in their country to beef up their national team football, like France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and, in recent years, countries like Canada and the US. I hope they drop their local champion mentality soon.

TheSuperNerd:
The Super Eagles vs Mozambique's Mambas

This is the referee lineup.

Camerounian Refs and Tunisian/Libyan VAR officials.

We cook as always.

Chai Tunisia and Libya var officials?

FiveFootNinja:
The funniest thing be say na Cameroon and South Africa play, but na Nigeria dey banter South Africa on behalf of Cameroon, then we come still dey drag Ghana on top.

😂 😂 😂 make we just Dey win Dey go cause we go hear am no be small from SA once we lose any game but for now this one sweet our belle wella.

Mujtahida:
Watch. I don laugh tire

I thought the greatest African Football analyst told us South Africa will win the AFCON #cameroon #southafrica #AFCON2025 #sportsontiktok pic.twitter.com/f10ixAOLIn

— KOMBO™ (@ultimate_kombo) January 4, 2026

😂 😂 😂 na real otele dem be

FiveFootNinja:
Moroccan fans booed South African players in the stadium and were rooting for Cameroon. That's what you get when you're xenophobic and strut around like you're the best when realistically you haven't achieved a quarter of what others have. With this performance, they'll be lucky to win a single game this summer at the World Cup. Las las fake life no good.

😂 I don laugh tire, people online Dey advise SA make dem pack their load on time so they can still catch the same plane with Tanzania say their plane go drop Tanzania first before dropping them finally in SA as the last stop 😂

Odunayaw:
Like host no chop am in 2019

Make Morocco zuzu first

This Morocco no easy like that o, if the game hard, penalty go just show from no where

naija journalists just dey yab SA on Twitter from Colin udoh, to pooja, and osasu, na so SA vex people reach? chai

Mujtahida:
Not at all. No connection whatsoever. It's Hugo Broos' comment that ticked off the Moroccans.

Oh yes, that comment angered the Moroccans

Odunayaw:
This type of display does not deserve to go beyond QF but Morocco must be dumped out of the competition.

as hosts e go hard o

Joebie:
What a save!!

great goal keeping