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Shame no dey catch us? Anyway it's not about the graphics, but the players in it.

So who will win the Nations Cup of AFCON squad graphics?
Let's start with the first contestant -- Nigeria.

Listen to Busayo Saka:

'But I’ve seen the process of how England are transforming and I think in the future they’re going to do great stuff. I feel like it was right for me to choose England.

Several months after he said this England got to the final of the Euros.

I no blame any foreign born when turn down Nigeria.

Seyi Olofinjana, speaking to BBC, on why he turned down the NFF Technical Director role.

"It was difficult, but at the same time, easy,"

"I think the federation made it a little bit easier for me to make that judgement call. There were certain questions I asked of the federation that they weren't able to answer.

"What needs doing? Where do they think we are as a nation? Where do we need to get to? How quickly do we need to get to those places?

"I didn't get answers to those questions and that is the day-to-day job for me. If there's no clarity, there's no going forward.

"Do I regret saying no? Absolutely not. Is there a part of me that thinks it could be a good opportunity for me to go and put myself in the history books and try to help my people? Absolutely! I'm still looking for that opportunity

"I'll continue to knock on the door. Any day. I don't know the day. I'm Nigerian. I can't change that."

The player that was "overhyped" in the championship last season

First Crystal Palace player in the EPL to come from the bench to score and also bag an assist

He is just a prophet who dreams and sleep football.
50% of his prophecy will fail and nothing will change his seer status.

Samueltemi337:
osimhen will sign for Madrid while ndidi will sign for United


Na only sports vision the person dey see

Ivory Coast, having already lost out of the World Cup qualification race will be out to redeem something. But I would watch the group stage to see if they mean business.

He has been consistent in what in the Championiship? Dribbles? End product wise he was not better than Olise last season.

Astrid4:
He has not earn wetin??
Why una dey analyse football like
Emmanuel Dennis had how many goals with koln last season?? Zero goals now he is the hottest prospect in the biggest league in the world (EPL) He has been consistent in the championship for the past 3 seasons he is arguably one of their best midfielders,he is on course for greater things he is just unfortunate to be in a very stupid team, he had more dribbles than danjuma last season in championship now danjuma is playing in laliga,Reading is a non ambitious team,olise was just fortunate cos of his age and of course media hype that's all.

Make una leave Dennis matter. He is indifferent.

Ejaria na my boy, but fact is he has not earned it. After his wonderful brace he has been almost non existent in the Championship this term. He has not made any progress since living Liverpool.

Astrid4:
E no go better for person who supply you mkupuru mmiri,ejaria championship flop? I no blame you nah reading wey no dey in form I blame despite all this he is still best midfielder behind John swift.he has bagged two goals already this season.

out of form for club, but Eguavoen may be looking at his latest showings in SE. I can't remember Onyekuru doing wonders since leaving Belgium.

andrewbaba44:
Replacing osimhen with an out of form onyekuru is bias nah

As for me, I will assess our chances during the group games. It works for me most times. With our quality (considering our population and focus on football as a sport) a Semi-Final appearance is ALMOST always guaranteed if the coach knows what he is doing.

safarigirl:
Whatever level we reach in AFCON has come as a surprise for at least a decade now.

I do not recall a time of recent when we have gone for AFCON with very high confidence or when that confidence has been justified. It is always doubt.

Like I said, generally, I expect anything to happen after group stage. I also said that a team can win all their games in group stage and lose to a team that could only win one, so, minus Keshi sef, we saw what happened to Morocco in the last AFCON.

The group stage is the main thing, anything else is hit or miss more often than not

Eguavoen has been the technical director for the most part of Rorh's stay. He is part of the system. We can only expect few changes.

komekn:
Quality players are quality player's, arguement no deh, it's national team.

New Managers come in and within days the team cohesion has changed and it seems like a new team winning games that they would otherwise have lost previously.

Consider the immediate and dramatic change of fortunes at Tottenham with Manager Antonio Conte appointed 2nd November. Did he know any of the players ❓ Knowing players prior, can be a disadvantage, because you become sentimental and emotive as opposed to measured objectivity.

It's not safer to go with the mediocrity that you know than the quality that is available, because you don't know them.

That's not progress, although its how we do our things in Nigeria, PMB has appointed people he knows, look at where we are now.

That narrative may suit the various competing interests in the NFF but it's not a recipe for success but the opposite.

haha.. I no understand that statement when u dey agree to

andrewbaba44:
Agreed

haha..
if you get wife or gf and she dey misbehave at some point you have to step back and assess her objectively, else na heart break oh. No love like that.

modified
Don't forget I was among those believing Rohr was playing his card to his chest during those pre WC friendlies

Triniti:
Y Where you keep talking about us losing a match when it’s yet to be played.

That one na possibility but he did not come to deny my suspicion. So we have an OGN agent with us. Good for us!

Clint02:
He go save the page as offline page then copy am.

There are exceptions to almost everything. We know our AFCON win under Keshi came as a surprise.

safarigirl:
Our 2013 AFCON winning team had a very useless group stage. We barely qualified.

Knockouts is different. It's hit or miss. You can finish with 9 points in the group stage, and your first knockout games, you will be knocked out by a team that barely scraped through.

Anything can happen in Knockouts, so, I do not really agree that group stage is all that telling.

I don catch you!

Ikanium:

what did I do?

Triniti:
Hahahahaha, nobody here likes dude, belle go just dey sweet all man, please Joebie, don’t do that thing you did during the 2018 World Cup.

maybe Mourinho brother no go look him side

Odunayaw:
Cheers to hoping this is the last callup

that na the koko -- World Cup!

12large1:
Omo no time for punishment. We must select Dennis and osimehn in our final round of WCQ.

Do not expect magic. One can easily assess a team's chances after the group games. It's easy, just remove your emotions and affinity to any team. After the group games, I will know our chances.

Na only that player I dey complain about. There is CLEARLY no merit in him named to this team. Good riddance.

Triniti:
Las las, Shehu don go. The wailing go subside here small.

We may not be going with a full-strength team, but Nigeria has capable replacements at least at the African level of the game. I am dreaming of the WC already.

We can pull surprises though. Don't put that past Nigeria. Let's see how the group games go.

Danielnino00:
We aren't ready at all..

9 days to go. It's safer to go with players that have been with the team at some point at least.

I just want to see exciting football again. Rohr's selections was not bad but his football get as e be.
At this point I don't care about names. I wanna see the TEAM perform.

Subzero047:
The man has made 3 decisions that were arguably worse than Rohr who was chopped up and sacrificed yet you are using 'corroborative' and other bogus English to defend him, you can't even recognize wrongs anymore lmao

This guy you dey work for own goal?
How u take copy and paste as OGN block that capability?

Ikanium:
NFF COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT                   
 
Health concerns, injuries constrain changes to Nigeria’s final 28-man list for AFCON 2021
 
Lively forward Victor Osimhen’s positive test to the coronavirus pandemic a couple of days ago and injury to the versatile Abdullahi Shehu have constrained changes to Nigeria’s final 28-man list for the 33rd Africa Cup of Nations starting in Cameroon next weekend.
 
The goalkeeping department is untouched, but the forced exclusion of Cyprus –based Shehu, who can slot easily into sections of the defence and midfield, has made way for hard-as-nails right back Tyrone Ebuehi, now with Venezia in the Italian Serie A, and England –based Oluwasemilogo Ajayi returns to the group for Africa’s flagship football championship following injury to centre-back Leon Balogun. Ajayi can also play as a midfielder.
 
Osimhen’s absence paves way for Greece-based Henry Onyekuru who was also at the last finals in Egypt. In-form rapid raider Emmanuel Dennis, whose English Premiership club is baring fangs, has been excused to provide room for Czech Republic –based forward Peter Olayinka.
 
The 33rd Africa Cup of Nations finals will end on 6th February.   
 
SUPER EAGLES’ SQUAD FOR 33RD AFCON CAMEROON 2021
 
Goalkeepers: Francis Uzoho (AC Omonia, Cyprus); John Noble (Enyimba FC); Daniel Akpeyi (Kaizer Chiefs, South Africa); Maduka Okoye (Sparta Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
 
Defenders: Chidozie Awaziem (Alanyaspor FC, Turkey); Kenneth Omeruo (CD Leganes, Spain); Oluwasemilogo Ajayi (West Bromwich Albion, England); William Ekong (Watford FC, England); Olaoluwa Aina (Torino FC, Italy); Jamilu Collins (SC Padeborn 07, Germany); Tyrone Ebuehi (Venezia FC, Italy); Zaidu Sanusi (FC Porto, Portugal); Olisa Ndah (Orlando Pirates, South Africa)
 
Midfielders: Frank Onyeka (Brentford FC, England); Joseph Ayodele-Aribo (Galsgow Rangers, Scotland); Wilfred Ndidi (Leicester City, England); Chidera Ejuke (CSKA Moscow, Russia); Kelechi Nwakali (SD Huesca, Spain)
 
Forwards: Ahmed Musa (Fatih Karagumruk, Turkey); Samuel Chukwueze (Villarreal FC, Spain); Henry Onyekuru (Olympiacos FC, Greece); Moses Simon (FC Nantes, France); Sadiq Umar (UD Almeria, Spain); Taiwo Awoniyi (Union Berlin, Germany); Odion Jude Ighalo (Al-Shabab Riyadh, Saudi Arabia); Alex Iwobi (Everton FC, England); Kelechi Iheanacho (Leicester City, England); Peter Olayinka (SK Slavia Praha, Czech Republic)

I am hoping for the best in this AFCON. Actually, I am excited about the new faces and what they would bring.

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Mujtahida:
Like IDENNA said prejudice needs no qualification. Contextual usage will tell if it is positive or negative and nowadays it is used more in the negative so that qualifying it as negative prejudice when the context already depicts that it is used in the sense of bias against a thing or person or circumstances is superfluous.

but positive prejudice dey na

Mujtahida:
Great, great. Komekn for someone who lives in Britain, your English should be impeccable oo. We should be learning from you rather than you corrupting our English with your English oo.

I have 10 days to train I will trust a proven player in a higher league to adapt to various tactics if I plan to be dynamic.
This man has one way he wants to play. Don't expect dynamism.

Elock1:
honestly I understand your point... It's not always about the club the player is in, but some people don't seem to understand.

Skill set, players mentality(needed by the coach) and so many other attributes

I only read, I don't comment here but people done too misunderstood you.