comodo:
CIV dominated the MF game and pressure was on us. SA dominated the MF game and pressure was on us. It's time to fix our MF. Full stop

I'll stop watching the Eagles if I don't see ball-playing midfielders, until afcon I had stopped watching our games. Na wetin dey raise or bp be this. It's not fair on Nigerians

Omanambala:


All I am saying is we need ball playing midfielders. If they like let the elevate Iwobi to a god status, that midfield will still suffer. Iwobi is not a midfielder. Iwobi is a minus one in that midfield

Summary of the entire matter.

charlesemeka85:
The trophy no fine 🥹

bad belle no good, e fine well well

Odunayaw:
Not like they gave him any service

service from where? oshodi?

lbrichman2:


And what exactly is wrong with optimism and positive expectations?
We were in the final
Should we expect to lose?

I wonder o as if na we dey pitch

Barryseal:

Alot of people were living in denial. We got to the final to play the host, a power house like Ivory coast, came to the thread all I was seeing was talk about spanking Ivory coast. On the back of the South Africa outplaying us in the semi final.
I think it was the moniker Forgiveness who said we should stay humble, that God rewards humility.
As a people I hope we take home a lesson from this episode.

see we had beaten CIV before so it's normal if folks are confident, there is no sin in that. The fans are not the ones on the pitch but the players, All our best players so far from Aina, Bassey, Lookman, and Oshimen were all poor today. Only Ekong, Nwabali and maybe onyeka tried. It was down to the players, don't bring the fans into this, our role is to support the team.

Ron williams is holding two awards, wetin he win again?

CornOak:
EKONG is The Best Player of the Tournament.

I know he will win it if Oshimen refused to show up in the final

CornOak:
Ron Williams wins the best goalkeeper of the tournament.

He deserves it, He single-handedly won two games for SA

Oasis007:




Bruh.......CIV deserve it more than us. Forget Ref, he wasn't really bad as we really wished. We too like to blame Ref anytime we lost in the final. Let the gentleman breathes.

JPes?! He has no business coming back to Naija. He should fly directly to Lisbon from Abidjan. LOL!

looks like the ref was spoken to at half time cos things looked better in the second half

Barryseal:
On balance of play we simply didn't deserve to win. We even got lucky Ekong scored from that set piece.
The defence didn't trust the midfield, they kept lumping it up to Osimhen.
The fans themselves were over confident. Where all the confidence was coming from, I had no idea.

who dey midfield?

safarigirl:
No need to blame anybody.

What has happened has happened.

Oddly enough, I don't feel bad about this loss as much as I thought I would. That our loss against Tunisia pained me more than this one.

I feel bad for some players like Nwabali and Ekong, but as for the loss, I feel nothing. It is what it.

same here o, Nwabali and Ekong are children of destiny. I wish them well in their future career. Imagine a defender our top striker

Ppogbae:
The coach surely got his tactics wrong, but is it worth it to get rid of him? Do we go all the way back to square one again?

of course, we would be back to square one, even if we won, it would still back to square one. We have no development plan for our football. We've had this midfield problem for a very long time, but no plan for it

TheGoodJoe:


The strength of an attack lies in a well coordinated and oil midfield. If we can't get a sound midfield set up, we can't flourish in attack.

I agree.

Operation fix the midfield, SA exposed us and if we don't fix it, let's forget about qualifying for the World Cup

TheGoodJoe:


We can do far better than this. This is not our best.

That's why I thought it may be fatigue, Bassey, Aina all look tired

Kudos to the boys, you have done your best

COOL10:
Nigerians don't understand how hard it is to play in a final against the host team with over 50,000 fans against you. I don't even think the Nigerian fans are up to 5,000.


The boys have tried abeg.

we didn't play well, no be fans

could it be fatigue?

Guys cool down, we've been outplayed, can't give what you don't have

too poor

Congrats to CIV

CornOak:


Iheanacho on for Lookman

Yusuf on for Iwobi.

coach always too slow to react

when is our coach making the substitutions?

we need all the fresh legs now

Ppogbae:
We are not playing well at all. We are letting them walk all over us!

could it be fatigue?

COOL10:
As usual, Iwobi will always be the scapegoat for Nigerians.

Has he played well?

whoever score now wins

Rockyrascal:
We can't keep defending. We need to do more attacking

It's up to our players now

komekn:
Unfortunately no surprise we are too defensive

The 3-5--2 is not working

Where was Zaidu asleep ❓

SA exposed our defensive game and CIV has continued from there

may be Bassey needs to come off too, many errors by him

forgiveness:
Coach should have substituted Iwobi.

Exactly, we need Yusuf in now