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minfelix:
it will really take a miracle, i feel the 31 years record will be broken this year…The last non North African country to win afcon on the North African soil is Nigeria since the Tunisia 1994 Afcon

Tunisia 1994 =Nigeria
Tunisia 2004 = Tunisia
Egypt 2006 = Egypt
Egypt 2019 = Algeria
Morocco 2025 = ?
This Morocco team looks ordinary to me jare, if Mali can play them that way..they are not too good jare…

Every antics will be deployed to ensure that trophy doesn’t leave North Africa. Morocco will do everything under the sun to host and win just like Ivory Coast did last Afcon. Even those wey get tickets no go enter stadium watch match 😂

9JAMac10:
Watched Algeria vs Burkina Faso, and all i can say is that AFCON referees favors North African countries in this competition. Any small contact yellow they gave a yellow card or check for a red card.

So you think Afcon will be hosted in North Africa and they will easily allow any sub Sahara country to win it. It will take serious prayers and fasting for any non North African country to win this Afcon. We should thank God non of our players was red carded on Saturday night especially those bad tackles by Ajayi and Nwabali

do4luv14:
And for diving carry am give Victor Moses, bro dive pass divers sef

Na true o bobo Vicmo na fine actor. I remember the penalty in a friendly against Poland before the 2018 World Cup even Lewendoski hala 😂 e no believe wetin im eye see

TheSuperNerd:
Correct Info. Elyte football na Haram route one.

Kati Kati Pro Max.

Haram route kwa 😂

elyte89:
At DLAW dis man needs letter ✉️…..please serve him

You go explain explain tire! You overdo I petition FIFA

SymphonyRad:
Be like say Cameroon dey use new players, I can't recognize majority of their players except Mbeumo and a few

We need to petition CAF I Dey suspect mercenaries 😂

1-1, even mbappe Dey feel that goal

Civ 1-0

daveP:
Thanks for this. Cos i think subconsciously many of us do make the mistake of mentally fitting tournament football to league football. In League format, the next game is another chance. You can overlook errors and underplay funny subs. But not in tournament. In tournament the mentality gats shift. Nonsense should be called its name not excused. Any best team can be out in barely 75seconds of tournament football. Add that luck factor too. Na why we no fit ever forget Mbappe even though Messi also played that final.

We still praise Jpes for last AFCON approach. It worked and got us far. Nobody go remember anything else again.

Imagine you dominate play for over 80 mins and leading by 1-0 then the opponent score two goals in 10 mins to win by 2-1 who will remember you dominated for almost the entire game? Imagine it’s a knockout game it’s that not the end? Burkina Faso 1st game with Equatorial Guinea was 0-0 until the 80 mins or so then Equatorial Guinea scored first but in added time Burkina scored two and won 2-1 but today Burkina has lost to Algeria imagine they didn’t get 3 points in their first game. Who is remembering who dominated play now?

BankyGee:
Okay, I don come back from my basking in our well-deserved victory against Tunisia 🇹🇳

I've seen a lot of people bashing Éric Chelle here and there, left and right, front and back, someone even called him a fool! A fool that dominated a whole Tunisia and almost turned them to São Tomé e Principé? We had 250+ passes in the first half while they had 87, like 8 and 7! For a team like Tunisia... We dominated them as hell, over dominated them seff.

Now, the subs Éric Chelle did removing Onyeka was bad, we know, and it collapsed our midfield, we also know. I thought hard to look for a reason for it and this might be it – both the Moses Simon and Ejuke's sub changed the game against Gabon and Éric Chelle has tried it more than once after that game. We were leading Tunisia by 3 goals and I feel Éric Chelle wanted to test something with those subs. What's the worse that can happen at 75 mins with a 3 goal lead? Last last 3–3 draw. I feel he wanted to see if the sub will be impactful or not, which it wasn't. I don't think he'll do it again. He has seen what he wanted to see.

Éric Chelle is a good coach and is one of the best we've had in years, he has good knowledge of what he wants to do against every opponent and has made us play good football that we've not seen in a long while.

Let's calm down on the way we bash him. Like I always say, he has a lot of improving to do on himself and his game management, but I trust him more that all our previous coaches and he knows how to get the best out of his players. Look at all the trust he has been putting in Lookman paying off massively now, we dey always shout, bench Lookman, bench Lookman, but Chelle was seeing greatness where we were seeing loss of form. The man is good.

Every game is different and this is a tournament and not a league format of home and away games. You’re up by 3 goals, 3 points is what you need, excellent goal difference already so do you need more goals? So what the hell are you bringing in offensive players for? All we needed is wound up the game by keeping possession, bring in more defensive minded players and slow down the game which super eagles are well know for and Iwobi was doing just that. Against Benin in the wcq we needed more goals to get to the playoffs so wingers can come in no problem but what do we need players like Simon and ejuke in that game yesterday for? Chelle is showing some rigidity here and it will surely cost us in more crucial games if he doesn’t watch it. Good football is not everything, game management and common sense of adaptability matters in a tournament and our coach inexperience is showing too early. You don’t have much opportunity to experiment in a tournament. We were lucky to escape last night despite dominating for 70 mins. The final result at the end is what matters no matter how long you dominated play.

elyte89:
lol …obviously not from me

Your own na kati kati with mixture of haram soccer 😂

Mujtahida:
Very popular bro. 😂😂😂😜😜Rumor has it that was from this thread that Finidi got his line up and soaked up tiki taka football philosophy from one of the veterans of this thread. Whether it was his improper digestion of the philosophy or the philosophy itself that led him astray, I cannot say but the rest as they say is history. That misadventure cost us world cup qualification.

😂 delaw allow sleeping dogs lie na, we sha Dey soak up knowledge now even though na bp things

Danielnino00:
Burkina Faso are using their physicality to their advantage,but still lack that cutting edge in the final third....

They deserve a draw in this game they have played well in the second half

CornOak:
There's another Ayinde on the Burkina Faso bench.

Another petition loading….

Joebie:
Wasn't diving. But I agree some small simulation from us won't hurt

Na Kanu Nwankwo sabi this thing those days he no Dey dive but e fit carry ball put for person hand inside the box, badt guy 😂

Spainever:
I watched the highlight of the Nigerian vs Tunisia match. Bright Osayi did very well . Why are Nigerians condemning him ?

No be Nigerians for you? 😂 the person we suppose face we go divert pour am for innocent person.

The coach was the culprit. For the first time I have no player to blame yesterday. And thank God osihmen scored he would have been the main scapegoat.

lexyman:
i just fiinished watching Nigeria vs Tunisia again ... Iwobi was the unsung hero...his ball distribution was good

Iwobi has been excellent, at a time in the match when we were so much under pressure he slowed down the game shielding the ball, showing leadership. I was impressed and that’s what I had always wanted from him. I hope he continues this way!

Oshoala no get chills, she give am one time to osihmen 😂

FiveFootNinja:
No wam. Hopefully Zimbabwe will chop banana banana and put him out of his misery. 😂

😂 be nice for once

Odunayaw:
I don't want to believe a better per capita economy like Morocco don't have citizens with disposable cash to see games. I think it's the Arab aloofness to the rest of Africa.

Shebi some people think say na dem fit host Afcon pass anybody. No one has it all

Hugo Broos not feeling Afcon in Morocco 😂

Bafana coach Hugo Broos NOT feeling Afcon vibe here in Morocco. pic.twitter.com/6APE1ea6XV

— Mahlatse Mphahlele (@BraMahlatse) December 28, 2025

joelsteron:
When it's time we'll discuss what exactly those two NFL coaches are doing for Eric Chelle. Because I only see the white guy talking to Chelle.

Maybe they're in charge of wrong subs.

Chelle is stubborn he doesn’t listen. If this team gets knocked out early am sure there will be lots of revelations.

Even if we are leading by 5-0 he wants to score more goals and he’s ready to remove defenders for that. He is a personal glory hunter!

charlesemeka85:
From a Tunisian fan via X

“ have to say playing against him is genuinely scary and frustrating. Our centre backs aren’t usually this bad, and we rarely struggle this much when defending crosses. But this guy is an absolute monster.

Right now, I genuinely think he has the best box presence in world football. His movement is extremely intelligent, he knows exactly when and where to attack the space, and physically he is on another level. His strength makes it almost impossible to duel with him, his jumping ability is insane, and he always seems to be at the end of every single cross.

With all due respect to Galatasaray, he’s seriously wasting his prime years in Turkey. He deserves a better team in a top league”

Shebi the people for epl say e Dey vanish for days like spirit and e no get character 😂

Mujtahida:
Definitely. It was a sweet goal but na God save am say he score oo because both Osimhen and Akor were free. It shows his level of confidence and composure.

I thank God say the goal enter osihmen for wire am slap 😂

charlesemeka85:
he was just better than he was in our first game

He doesn’t bomb forward and was easily turned in and out on 1v1 situations severally against Tunisia

Dude is wack

Bomb forward against a Tunisia who was waiting for a fast counter? Abeg o 😂 he did ok jor. Make we accept am like that, he’s not Bassey or Fredrick

Samueltemi337:
I nor know wetin Osayi do some people

Osayi was massive last night. He helped us to keep possession. Sometimes previous errors of players just keep following them. Same with Nwabali apart from that unnecessary tackle when ref has blown his whistle I too don’t understand all the attack on the keeper for that 1st goal conceded, he simply slipped due to the pitch soaked in rain! But previous errors just make him an easy target for any slip up.

Mujtahida:
Who is our highest goal scorer across the editions of Afcon?

Yekini -13 goals then okocha with 7 I think. Lookman may surpass Okocha if he scores 3 more

Mujtahida:
Na wa. Which similarity. None! Okocha that dribbled from one end to the other thrice is what you want to compare to Lookman who basically did his business in one spot. I'm not trying to downplay Lookman's goal but they aren't similar.

Rather the build up from the right side with the flicks is similar to our last goal against Cameroun in the 2018 WCQ series.

But bro he sent some people back to Tunisia sha before putting the ball into the net make we talk true 😂

Arizoner:
So nobody here saw the similarities between lookmans goal and okochas goal against oliver Kahn in the 90s. I'm highly disappointed. We have a lot of Gen Zs here

I did observed some similarities, thank God e enter sha. Still annoyed how we ended the game but Lookman was massive.

minfelix:
if Chelle had started the WCQ qualification, we for don qualify tay tay before we go even dey dream say SA field ineligible player….no team in that our world cup qualifiers group will collect 3-0 from chelle and come to draw the match…las las SA can just fight like tunisia….na 1-0,1-0 all of them fit equalize

Na so 😂 even Zimbabwe we couldn’t beat them in uyo. Continue

mrwilliams9:
While true, we did not need to sweat at the end.

And let’s be very honest. Tunisia is a “powerhouse” in that they are consistent qualifiers for the AFCON and WC but they don’t actually play ball.

They’ve won one AFCON and been to two finals.

Yes Naija dey gall hand but we really arent in the same tier as them.

To be honest. I really only see Egypt and sometimes Algeria as North African powerhouses, especially at the AFCON.

Qualfying for the tournament and doing well in it at two different things.

I don’t even know when Tunisia became powerhouse even if its club football on the continent with likes of Esperance I can understand but national team football? I laugh 😆

lbrichman2:
I called this earlier before the match

You were spot on the Ndidi/oyeka partnership until the coach went mad