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FTC. First time in history.

I pity Atl Madrid, because dem don already reach house as it stands.

I really feel for Chelsea tonight. Their fans no go fit sleep till daybreak.

It's like it's a gang-up! How could all six English teams play and none won

E be like say other country teams carry EPL teams for chest!

FIFA must hear this! Na juju!

gracias124:
But here where I reside thats how all wives are so I dont see anything wrong in that

I guess, that must be in the North, for that's their norm.

Everybody dey collect 3points or one from Wolves. E reach LFC turn, they dash them the 3 points.

Tonight, Arsenal kissed the EPL, goodnight! Because, to me oo, I don't know what magic they'll use to lift it.

So, so unreliable!!!

That's a beautiful song and video up there.

Love800:
Very lazy left back, abi na right back em dey play dat year. No pace. No accurate vision.

Which good!

Very lazy right back? For real?? And he played for my beloved team, Liverpool, and later got signed by Madrid

Bro, make we no lie for ourselves: if he was not good as a player Madrid wouldn't have signed him.

An important player of the squad that year for Madrid. Dey play.

When he left, Liverpool struggled defensively, before we then got Glenn Johnson who was now able to fill his shoes.

Lukuluku69:
If you are a Club Legend, never take the Coaching job. It doesn't always end well.

Sorry sir! Says who?? Pep was not a club legend?

Zidane was not a club legend?? And he didn't do well?

Abeg rest. No cap wetin no make sense.

Baba, hala Madrid!! It's too early, nah. After all, Xabi was not doing badly.

Not that he was trailing Barca like 10 points behind in the league! Not that they didn't play well yesternight.

Aba! E no easy to beat Barca ooo. I'm just disappointed, kawai.

Madrid no try abeg. How many good coaches dey market now?

What about Victor Ikpeba?

bunmioguns:
Look at these professional mourners. 😂
​From "Desert Foxes" to "Desert Cry-babies." You didn’t have a single shot on target for 90 minutes, but you have 100 sentences for a petition?


​The Bitter Truth:
​Referee: Didn't stop you from playing football.
​Clean Sheet: Zidane’s record was deleted like a bad habit.


​The Penalty: Only exists in your imagination and on Al-Jazeera.

​If you people spent half the time training that you spend at the business center printing petitions, maybe you wouldn't be heading to the airport today.

​Stop writing letters to CAF and start writing apologies to your fans. You were outclassed, outplayed, and sent home. Whether the referee shakes your hand or not, the 2-0 is already on the scoreboard and it’s written in permanent marker.

​Go home and rest. Use the petition paper to wipe your tears. 🚮🤡



​Up Super Eagles! 🦅🇳🇬

Yes sir, you killed it! Can't just stop laughing.

Who remembers what the Algerians did to us that year after Mahrez scored that excellent free-kick?

Some of their children recreated that scene, and in the coming days, used it to mock and taunt us. It was all over on the internet.

E come be like say, make we revenge now: make our children recreate how Akor dribbled their goalie, and without looking at the goalpost, he just chipped in.

E for sweet wella. Make we pepper them.
Lolz.

Hezzyluv:
People that didn't get one short on target for 90minuts plus dey vex for ref. head

I tire for them ooo. Na ref cause that one?

A very big congratulations to the SE, and to us, Nigerians.

That trophy is coming home.

Honestly, I've been seeing football matches these days courtesy of the fact that I'm less busy at the moment. (Especially this Afcon!)

And just like in real life, the moment a particular team entertains fear against an opponent, just know that, that game is over for them. They are going to lose, for sure.

When fear comes, then comes defeat, or failure.

After two minutes into the Nig-Alg game, you could literally see fear in them. They were highly tensed. And our SE kept pressing.

No, no, no, this is not because I read Psychology in school, but the obvious fact. Even Zinedine Zidane seeing the match felt the heat; his mood and facial appearance spoke volumes of uneasiness.

Mind you, I saw all Algeria's games from start to finish, and how he looked and really smiled and laughed, especially in the first three match es.

His son Zidane, the goalie, was largely unburdened, unstressed, and uncalled-upon in their previous matches, and that was why he had kept three clean sheets. In fact, all the entire team didn't feel "one" heat - defenders o.., midfielders o.., forwards o.. they beat their opponents with ease.

But today, lolz, I pitied them. Under ten minutes all of them were sweating profusely. I was just laughing.

Wo, whatever you do, or want to do, just remove fear! Fear is a disaster.

Remember: when fear comes, then comes defeat.


(If you saw their match against Congo, you would realize that Congo didn't play well because they were scares of them.)

The ref bin taking sides like kilode! I think say na only me notice am ooo.

But our sister country no try today at all. They didn't put up a real fight.

Hope they will not be praying for us to also exit 2moro?

Wahala, wahala, wahala! in Porttable's voice.

placeofallure:
He can't use those starlets, E reach to fear Arsenal. As per winning the league last season, Ọmọ, na AI.

As in ehn...na AI oo

I no kukuma understand this Slot. Since others no dey available (Ekitike, Isak and Salah), why not play Chiesa as top 9, and Rio as 11, or you bring up as a sub for Gakpo. If him no use dem now, when him go use them? I just for him!!!! What about Nyoni, another young dude?

The match would have been most interesting if he had played those available guys.

Everybody dey use their starlets once in a while, e reach Slot turn, him leave them for bench?

That guy just make me lose passion to watch my team play.

I really wonder which juju him use win league last season.

Understood, Osi get right to be angry or react, but e overreacted. Shikina!

In tertiary education, they award degrees in CHARACTER and Learning. Never you downplay the importance of character in anything you do.

That guy should just grow up and go work on himself. Period. After all, Ade already gave you two goals. What more do you want? Na only him wan score??

Woo, him never play with Salah before that's why. Na premium tears him for dey shed every match.

Truth is, one of the reasons Mane left Liverpool was because Salah would not just give him the ball to score even the former was completely free to do so.

So, make that young man be calling down at least, small. Na my own be that.

What arrant nonsense!!! Just left the field just like that, no respect for anybody - for coach, for fellow teammates. Mtcheww...

Usmanovic95:
Its an open secret that odegaard is Arteta's preferred option for the number 10 role, no one is disputing that but eze not getting a single minute of football in the last 4 games is a questionable decision from Arteta. Eze has not had a below par performance this season, he has 4G + 2A which is a 6goal contribution in 15appearances while odegaard has 1G and 4assist. Arteta might have other metrics for assessing individual players tho but eze deserves some minutes to also improves his game.Arteta is a good manager but one of his limitations is his ability to manage a large squad effectively,he is good at managing a small set of players, over use them till they lose form or get injured.For Eze to get playing time, odegaard need to either lose form drastically or get injured but the fans will expect the same player who had barely get some minutes to start performing wonders and miracle; as how na??!

Well, you're correct, too. I completely agree with everything you said.

rolams:
Ok ooo!

I nor kukuma understand that Slot. Even if you want rest Ekitike, why not use Chiesa for starting lineup? What about Rio, that starlet winger?

Hmmm.... honestly, I wonder what magic he used to win the league last season.

giacomogiovanni:
That person is an APC supporter. Tinubu has collected their brains and used it to collect loan.

Na true you dey talk, bro. No mind their papa. I wonder which pos don come out that time. That dude almost got me with that stupid deceit. APC, hmmm.

Usmanovic95:
I think we need to organize a family meeting to know what's up between Arteta and eze. Four straight matches and no single minute of football for eze. The only reason why media have not been dissecting the issue is because results have been in our favor lately.

For me, I already knew it would be like this. The major reason Eze was enjoying game-time was because Odegaard was absent (injury) as at when he made the transfer to Arsenal.

Same to Merino. Now that G. Jesus and Harvertz are back, watch as his game time has dropped drastically. (Although Merino is a midfielder, he had often played as a top 9 when both strikers were away through injury.)

Truth is, there are so many options in the mid-field. Zubi is on-form, Rice too and then Odegaard. So it's hard to reason his matter.

For the left-wing, Mattinelli and Trossard are back on-form, unlike when the season had just started when they thought they were going to be sold.

So, where you want put Eze? For Saka wing??
Just a reminder: even Norgaard, former Brentford's skipper and key player no dey see shirt for EPL and UCL. Na Carabao cup or so ha him dey play often, together with Kepa, Chelsea former goalie.

So, again, where you want put Eze??

ReacherSaidNoth:
They lost too many players in defence, now they're about to lose Semenyo too.

Very true! Lost key defenders, and are still going to lose another good defender in this January transfer window.

That is really why they're struggling, defensively. However, they actually tried in today's match.

abidem4real:
That's long overdue. That coach doesn't know his job at all

Even though I'm not a Chelsea fan, this your statement is not it at all. He doesn't know his job and he won Club World cup, Conference Cup, and returned Chelsea to UCL. You think is beans?? For the CWC, you think it was easy to beat PSG?

It's CFC's character to always part ways with any manager who's not doing too well at the moment, even if the fellow had won them a million trophies a month ago. It's just them.

And, to me, this character or behavior is not entirely good because in football, you win some and you lose some.

CFC don't have patience. They want to win all the time. Iro! A time may come and no manager would want to coach CFC for all the money in the world.

Cmanforall:
Osimhen plays for himself
He sees himself as Ronaldo
Pride

Look how he touches others on their head when celebrating, as if they are his boys

Hmmm, this one made me smile. As if you took it from my mouth. True talk.

At the viewing centre when the match had only started, some Arsenal fans were just shouting, "No Rice, no Rice? What happened to him?"

In my mind, I was answering... "At least, there is stew!!" Guess? Trossard!!!

Only the gunners had "White, Rice, and Partey!"

But the party don go.

Usmanovic95:
One of Arteta's best decision this season was extending trossard 's contract at the start of the season.

Btw what kind of experiment is Arteta performing with eze, not giving him playing time will kill his confidence .

You hit it right! Not allowing that guy to leave during summer is really paying off. Guy has become a beast in the squad.

A big congratulations to Arsenal!! But sincerely, I knew without a doubt that Villa were going to lose today the moment I saw Emery's formation - playing Sancho as no7, a position he's not mastered; Buendia, in no11. Like how? In this type of crucial match?

If you observed very well during the first-half, the Villans struggled to attack, and as for me, the two wings were not really functioning.

It was as if Rogers and Sancho were confused about their positions , and as such, they didn't really link up well.

If only Emery had brought Sancho to his already accustomed position (no 11), leaving Rogers in no 7, then Buendia left mid-field, the game would have been completely different! Gunners wouldn't have dominated all through. Yes, for real.

As for Timber, he too wouldn't have had a field day, because Sancho would have terrorized him.

Anyways, congrats to the gunners once again.