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Egypt 1-0

Odunayaw:
Na another team we play against for friendly?

Na their u-17 team we meet for friendly 😂

oloriooko:
is this egypt team nigeria go meet? with our yeye defence? walahi dem go load us tire

Like they did during the friendly?

Odunayaw:
How dare you talk about the positives from that game

When I no be oliseh or werey? 😂

Beautiful equalizer by Zimbabwe.

Honestly Afcon is bae

Mujtahida:
Lookman's goal is superb. Nigeria doesn't score those kinds of goals.

been long I saw a goal from outside the box or the edge sef from Nigeria. That’s what makes that goal special. I want more of such cooking.

Kog45:
Nigerians gave Sunday Oliseh wotowoto o and the man was forced to open up

So because he has served Nigeria for 40 years he can open his mouth anyhow then what should folks like segun Odegbami or okpala say or do too! make e go siddon one place

Napoleon55:
Joy to the world
The Lord is come
Let earth receive her king
Let every heart prepare him a room

Merry Christmas to all of us
Let the Love,peace and happiness that the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ brings be with all of us

Merry Christmas 🎅 to you too and to all comrades on this thread

Goodenoch:
Merry Christmas everyone.

Here's an early Christmas gift for you: https://www.instagram.com/p/DSc3UZojNAA/

Merry Christmas bruv and to all comrades on this thread

😂 May our day and the days ahead be more filled with peace than gbas gbos from patriots!

JohnBullMySon:
This Cameroon game was a triller sha.

Kudos to that Cameroon defence dem try

TheSuperNerd:
Be honest, u had Goke7 in mind when u typed that line. No lie.

e get plans for me gan 😂

No wahala I go swallow am like that

Joebie:
Kudos to the big teams. The first games are usually the hardest. Expect no upsets.

Gabon can try make we see this last game today

Bossoflife25:
Started playing when Ivory Coast removed its star players? Team that suppose chop like 6 today.

Ivory Coast keeper only made one save!

Mozambique actually played well in the first 20 mins or more in the first half. Inability of Ivory Coast to score in the first half showed that. Quality was what edged it for Ivory Coast

SymphonyRad:
Mozambique is the only minnow team that has actually impressed me so far, they have been solid

They were indeed solid but for the quality of the Ivorians this would have been a very difficult game to win

mostob:
Those countries really added beauties to the last AFCON. CAF should have given them automatic slot sef

They would have but because of your plans 😂

JohnBullMySon:
A real gee must never lose on both sides

- Aristotle

I will petition CAF, he’s an ineligible player 😂

Kilishihunter:
We really need to change our setup or maybe some players if we want to go far in the tourney, we can't be open like yesterday

Our coach has an attacking philosophy I doubt he will change that

Kilishihunter:
Thanks chief. So he even lost to our own junior team. Na wa

Shebi once a Nigerian team fail we are always quick to discredit and discard them instead of pointing out newly discovered players for the future 😂

It was right here on our soil in Nigeria during the u-20 World Cup in 1999 that players like iniesta and xavi were discovered

Enoughpull:
Someone compiled Osimhen videos yesterday.. What a stinker.. I was like what will big clubs even think if they watch a video like this.. I felt bad for him

We should take it easy on osihmen he could be back to score a hatrick in the next game and whoever compiled any videos will just be put to shame. We didn’t even lose the game so what’s all the noise about the striker for. Stinker in a game we won? Plsssss people should get a job if they don’t have one.

We should compile one about Lookman too cos before yesterday game he wasn’t giving much to the team for a long while. abegi

kennysville:
The problem is during transition into attack, there are no numbers in the opponent's vital area which goes back to the over reliance on Osimhen because we assume he has the lungs to press for every ball. By the time the ball is released, Osimhen has a good amount of ground to cover and in the process gets isolated which leads to tame effort on his part. He also needs to be more clinical. In fact, the team need to be ruthlessly clinical with precision. Look at the chance that fell onto Chukwueze's right side which he had to shift to his left, when he could have just hit it one time with his right. This is why I hate the idea of inverted wingers

If chuks had scored I doubt Chelle would have replaced him at the time he did

Boom amad makes it 1-0

Kilishihunter:
Both young and explosive. We need to either work on our defence or go outright defensive like last afcon when we start to meet these kind of teams in the knockouts since injuries have disturbed the backline

When Jpes deployed that tactics in the last Afcon we think say na AI

minfelix:
Marvin Anieboh the Equito-Guinean scorer was born to a Nigerian Igbo father

Oya nff we must petition this one o where is our lawyer 😂

Amad and Diomande! What manner of players Omo dem sabi

TheSuperNerd:
Burkina Faso's very very late comeback vs Equatorial Guinea is the stuff of True Resilience.

EQ Guinea took the lead on 85mins. For most, that is game over but the Burkinabes unleashed the never say die spirit. Goals on 90+5 and 90+8, winner from Leverkusen's defender, Edmund Tapsoba turned it around and left the Guineans feeling regretful for not defending a bit better.

Just another reason why we watch the Afcon.

And CAF wants to make this kind of spectacle every four years! Na wa o! Who go draw CAF ear bayi

TheSuperNerd:
Zinedine Zidane in the stands watching his son Live vs Sudan.

A proud Dad there! May we live long to see our offsprings thrive right before our eyes. Priceless

Just like George Weah as president watching his son playing in the last World Cup he never featured in Zidane here is watching his son playing in an Afcon he never featured in

Bossoflife25:
This why we love AFCON!!! 2 GOALS IN 2 MINUTES! BURKINA LEADS!!

I watched this game to almost 80mins thinking it will be a dead rubber game I went out and came back to watch the Algeria and say let me check scores of the previous game and I saw 2-1 I though my eyes was seeing double I had to check the the time the goal was scored Omo two goals in added time chai. That’s what makes Afcon thick

9JAMac10:
Anybody else think the North African or the Mediterranean African nations should be the only African countries hosting the Afcon tournament. The ambulance and pitches in Morocco 🇲🇦 reminds one of the European soccer leagues. Abeg let Egypt host the next one then Tunisia then Algeria then back to Morocco hahaha

Please Dead this agenda, Ivory Coast hosted an Afcon per excellence and that’s what Morocco is trying to build upon. Ivory Coast spent a billion dollars or even more to host an Afcon event the Europeans were full of admiration about

semid4lyfe:
There are two commentators in football matches, the Play-By-Play commentator and the Colour commentator.

Play-by-play commentators are those who run commentary and narrates the action as it happens. He speaks constantly during the match, describes who has the ball, where it is, and what is going on. eg Corner kick to Nigeria. Chukwueze takes it short to Lukman. Lukman passes back to Iwobi, wobi floats in a cross, Semi Ajayi rises above his marker, and nods it into the corner beyond the reach of the goalkeeper, and its a goal. Play-by-play commentators are usually professionally trained, experienced and are expected to be neutral.

A Colour commentator on the other hand adds interpretation, context and explanations. They are mostly not commentary professionals, and are usually coaches and retired footballers. They talk during pauses or after key moments in the game. Their commentary is mostly subjective and biased. eg. Chukwueze run dragged the right-centre back away and created space for Osimhen, and Osimhen has to be finishing better from there.

Sunday Oliseh, Daniel Amokachi, Victor Ikpeba et al have all being colour commentators.

Watching the game yesterday, especially in the first half. we were playing so well, controlling the game and to my shock, Oliseh was praising the Tanzanian team as if they were the better team. It was incredulous to me. And to worsen matters he was overtly critical of the Nigerian team and I think he didn't fully grasp his job description.

As a colour commentator he is allowed to be biased. The fact he's Nigerian is even the reason he was selected to commentate the match. I felt he thought he was supposed to be unbiased and in wanting to do that he overcompensated by being too critical of the Nigerian team.

Also, hin change mouth many times during the course of the game, which many people viewed as hypocrisy. One minute Nigeria was poor, next minute we were dominant. No clear line. No consistency. It came off confused. (You need to listen to his post match comments which was a complete contradiction of his match commentary).

Lastly, he kept doing deep tactical and technical breakdowns in the middle of live play. That is not colour commentary. That is post-match analysis. That level of detail belongs in a studio, with clips and pauses, not during a flowing game.

That is the real issue. Nigerians were not angry because he criticised the team. We criticise the Super Eagles every day. The problem was timing, tone, and role confusion.

As a colour commentator, his job was to add flavour, context, and insight without killing the moment. Support the team emotionally, even while pointing out flaws.
Oliseh spoke like someone afraid of being accused of bias, so he swung too far the other way.

Football commentary no be exam. Na conversation with fans wey dey watch the same match as you. Many Nigerian fans accessed the game differently from his commentary hence the backlash he received.

😂 oliseh thought it was his normal podcast show where he berates the nff, players and the entire nation. Dude no sabi the job description as you clearly stated. He carry activism go match commentary, ode!

Beyond the pitch dude got nothing more, a divisive character per excellence. His eloquence is what makes people thinking he’s got anything extra. Today he will support tiki taka tomorrow he go change am to parking the bus. Phew

minfelix:
thats why we go still dey argue dey go na…so no dey tag my own as Amnesia or PSTD, you dont also expect me to reason like you na abi?

💯 👍

FiveFootNinja:
Which business? 🤔

Bed shaking business 🫨

Arizoner:
I saw the highlights of the match. I didn't watch the match cos I had private bedroom business I had to attend to. But boy nwabali is becoming ann onanna in goal. Has anybody notice it? The way he concede goals is rather alarming beside his ball playing abilities

We can’t blame Nwabali much o he probably thought it was an offside, btw let’s be easy on this keeper he still get the job done some how some way he made a great save yesterday in the first half. He remains our number 1. A keeper who is an Afcon silver can’t just be discarded. He’s an experienced goalie