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BankyGee:
NO PLAYOFFS ❌

The maximum number of points Nigeria can bag in the 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualification is 17.

elyte89:
Na dis mumu Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 Una wan bank on 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Amedino99:
I thought this brother was on our radar. Can anyone confirm if we have called him up before?

solonnachi:
So you mean if Eritrea's absence counts and FIFA dock points from bottom teams like Zimbabwe, our group will now become like this

Benin- 14-4= 10pts
Nigeria - 11-2= 9pts
South Africa - 14-6= 8pts

God too like Naija abeg. 😃

joelsteron:
Eric Chelle didn't call up 9 strikers for fun. There's definitely a game plan.

Secondly, Chelle is one coach who learns from his mistakes, and i haven't see him make same mistakes. Ekong as case study, so lets not all worry about 4 midfielders issues. Chelle is not dumb.

The guy is desperate for World cup just as we are... Feel free to come back to this post after qualifying for world cup.

lbrichman2:
Chelle updates the list..

Diavolo:
you play lookman who's Africa best in a wrong position because of Simon. Indirectly you are saying Simon is better than lookman. If he wants to play both of them. Just play a traditional 442 with 2 dms,Simon on the left and Iwobi on the right,then lookman and oshimen upfront. Simple. No he will rather play players out of position. It's crazy

Odunayaw:
I don't think calling up a new face like Akor for a stacked role over Uche in a department in dire need of options is defensible. It is 6 points or nothing.

Meanwhile Seun and mods should put the notifications of numbers after the words as it was before.

Philosopher1979:
We can easily surpass morocco. We have the basic. Football academies produce players at a fast rate. We just need.
1. Good coaches with food tactics.
2. Stop selecting okayers based on bribery and man know man.
I suspect this u20 was selected partly based on bribery. Like 30% were based on bribery. Even at that there is a 16 year old kamaldeen wanted by Chelsea and who is touted as the next okocha in this u20 team. I hope our coaches will start him. I'm not joking the boy is wanted by Chelsea and some Belgium clubs. The funny thing is whoever is our coach might not start him in our next match.
3. Also our coaches in the Super Eagles should encourage young players into the team. Players like ebenezer akinsanmiri, even the 16 year old kamaldeen. Just anyone who shows some stuff. We can at least try them out in friendlies. That's all. The academies are doing fine job. There is also one winger called elijah odede in troyes in French division 2. Chelle our super eagles coach needs to be proactive

robosky02:
Nigeria's last two matches 🇳🇬
Lesotho - Away
Benin - Home 🏡

South Africa's Last Two matches 🇿🇦
Zimbabwe - Away
Rwanda - Home 🏡

Benin's Last Two matches 🇧🇯
Rwanda - Away
Nigeria - Away

I believe Nigeria can get all 6 points and South Africa will lose to Rwanda who now believes they can qualify and had beaten South Africa by 2 goals in the first leg.

Benin won't get away from Rwanda easily and at home, we can beat them.

This is football, anything can happen.

QueenJazz:
You see that part in yellow marker? That's the part I've not been able to solve in my head for the past couple years. Maybe I've missed something but I really want to know what goes on in the head of coaching staff during our international outings. I really want to know how difficult it is to play a player according to his strengths and proven track record in a particular position. It's hard sometimes to imagine that we hate ourselves this much to self-sabotage our own efforts with the most insane and ridiculous decisions.

Mujtahida:
Almost as many times as SE. From 2019 till now they've had 3 coaches. SE five.

Mujtahida:
Hope dey, hope dey, to qualify. That's the song on repeat. Hope dey yet we bottled our lead against Zimbabwe and drew SA with serious struggle.

Thing is that these players lack self belief and aggression.

The old eagles, always fought hard until the last blast of the whistle even in marches they lost.

We remember Taribo (it was said that he hated losing) playing with a blood soaked bandage on his head, bleeding his heart out in our match at the world cup 2002. We remember him weeping profusely when we eventually lost.

In those days, even if Nigeria is losing 4-0, we the fans will still be pumped up with hope and anticipation that we can turn the tide. In fact we were more dangerous after conceding.

Afcon 2000, we fought hard and came back from a 2 goal deficit. In 2004, we fought hard, came back from a goal deficit and broke the jinx of Cameroon.

Today it is only the Falcons who embody that unyielding warrior spirit. Super Eagles have lost it. If they are winning, we go dey fear. If they concede, we go just give up because we know they don't have it in them to fight.

Sometimes it's not tactics. It's mentality, a winning mentality. Sadly our team doesn't have it. That's why I am now indifferent regarding our world cup hopes. I still pray they qualify sha.

TheGoodJoe:
Thank you for checking up. Just been busy and a bit distracted since I lost my faith in the Super Eagles.

QueenJazz:
Even if those points are docked by FIFA, then what? At this stage, how does it benefit us? Are we seriously expecting South Africa to lose to either Rwanda or Zimbabwe?

This 3-point deduction stuff was more interesting when we hadn't played SA yet and there was a chance we would actually win all out remaining matches. Right now I find it hard to be excited about it. Should they deduct it? Obviously yes, if they don't want to appear shady and commit robbery in broad daylight. But how does it affect us at this point? How does it salvage our position?

On an unrelated note, please who the heck is Abdullahi Shitu that is supposedly from Man City playing for us in the upcoming U-20 world cup? Never heard of him. Plus, he's non-existent on Google apart from recent news reports of the Flying Eagles list. Which Man City is he playing for? Is it the one in England or somewhere else?

elyte89:
Check dis out …the 3points debate is getting hotter


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEC2cGji2Oc?si=VjrBieEJv1IrkAin

elyte89:
Check dis out …the 3points debate is getting hotter


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEC2cGji2Oc?si=VjrBieEJv1IrkAin

caprikon:
There could be a possible twist here.

Benin could sneak in when SA get their points deducted and SA might be the ones slugging it out in the playoffs.

This group is still a very open one.

QueenJazz:
As for me, I know wan hear anything about World Cup again. Na AFCON I dey after.

Throw away the calculators and go home.