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Exactly, that was the save Enyeama made in 2002 world cup against England's Paul scholes ...this is where Enyeama is better than Okoye. He could have done better. I feel Okoye will always improve. Look after the Tunisian blunder, he has proven himself greatly in his league. In the game today he made two massive saves . There are little pockets of spaces in terms of improvement for hím to fill. I believe we've made a good choice and it's left to the newly added goalkeeper to make a name for himself

minfelix:
Na save wey Enyeama use retire Ike Shorunmu b that oo….
Okoye is an amazing goalkeeper, but somehow somehow sand dey always pour for him garri🤣🤣…
Even that game against Tunisia at afcon 2021…He made one sweet save like that, but that samd dey always find him garri….
Another thing again i will blame the players around that position to have allowed that polish guy to pick a spot to shoot

This is the quickest damage control game here. Osimhen is really leaving Gala. Chelle is not a child, Chelle was sure he was working on leaving . And this has actually not been taken well by gala fans. If he was not going to leave ....this line will have been in the statement he issued..'my heart and soul remains with gala, blah blah ' he has not stated this emotional line because as it is, it is not what it is . He has rather stated his future commitment to Chelle's Nigerian team.

opes:
Osimhen has responded

Cape Verde 3-0 Serbia
A big result for the little west African island.

Poland 0-2 Ukraine
Our next match opponent lost to their neighbour. They will definitely want to make up for the loss in their next match . It is up to us to further drill that stake into their hearts.

Definitely

TheSuperNerd:
The end of the 2026 summer window will reveal if this is all lies or all true or with some twist in between.

We will have the strong benefit of hindsight come September 2nd, 2026.

Nope, he might want to leave ..but having Chelle say ít might have caused an uproar and panic amongst Galatasaray fans, hence the damage control by on his X-Men influencer

Amedino99:
This is an even bigger indictment on him if true. So he is not in the process of changing club but he just decided to pick the match to play. Not looking good at all

If his British passport allows him to make the trip, that's fine. It cost us nothing to have him in and gain some experience for himself. What he makes of that experience is up to him. England will have nwaneri as well as Rio join their team to train. Let's have someone whose heart is with us as well train with the first team. I hope whatever he learns from that experience can help define his career and build his confidence in future.

ChrisKels:
So, a so called Owen Oseni that could not even get up to 10minutes of action in the unity cup is listed as one of the players to prosecute our matches against Portugal and Poland?

SymphonyRad:
Alhassan Yusuf doesn't get enough credit for how good and composed he is, Onyedika gets all the hype but I think Alhassan is the better player tbh

This is a very good observation. For someone who now plies his trade in the USA. He clearly is the better player in midfield

It was Olisah Ndah back when he was in Orlando Pirates. Before his long spell with injury

Papi85:
the way una observe Bassey, even many saying Tanimu was better than him 🤣😁

This story is very true. Olise even posted the freekick goal Daniel Akpeyi conceded in the hands of Mahrez. He will later delete the post but it was well known. I guess he was younger back then and a bit immature or insensitive.

ChrisKels:
Olise never wanted the super eagles. His choices were France and Algeria. The NFF went all out for him and he said no. If Algeria had put in the type of effort the NFF put in, Algeria would have bagged him. Dude was even celebrating Algeria's win over Nigeria in 2019. Don't let the name "Olise" deceive you, that boy doesn't identify with anything Nigeria.

Truidstarr:
After Paris St-Germain’s masterclass a day earlier, the quality portrayed by Bayern Munich and Real Madrid further mocked any notion that the Premier League is currently Europe’s best.

Premier league still tops all this league. It's the CL , who else can France and Germany boast of than this single teams who occasionally do well when the big English sides numbering four , fails to perform. Have you not seen Aston villa, Forrest who defeated Porto in the Europa league. It still says a lot that the quality of England is above the rest.

You are right.

Goke7:
This is a friendly bro the coach has achieved what he wants with these games we have seen what other players who are not regulars can bring to the table and that’s what it’s all about

Same NFF gave us this Chelle . They didn't deny us this one.

minfelix:
NFF really denied us of so many things meehn…especially not qualifying for the world cup…Chelle would have swept pass that group, maybe with just an exception of drawing only SA in their potato bloemfontein..
If he had started that qualifiers

I think his shot stint coaching one of those Arab cluside in Algeria opened his eyes to the inner workings , style , system and mindset the Arabs play with.

minfelix:
Chelle no wan use eyes see anything arabic…
Algeria
Tunisia
Egypt
Iran
Jordan

if not for that stupid Ghanaian ref, Morocco for chop am for afcon

Don't mind all this assumption permutations

mank1234:
That means Argentina own is in the gutters as they played Mauritania this FIFA window.

And guess what the result was?

Assuming assuming....since we are assuming, let's also assume south Africa will see us cut that lead and beat Zimbabwe too instead of playing the draw. We lost out, square and fair. Forget assumptions

Damioduso1:
The draw against Zimbabwe in the word cup qualifiers in uyo cast host the world cup ticket South Africa finish 1 point ahead of the super eagles of Nigeria



Assuming we won that game the super eagles will finish on 20 point and South Africa will finish 18 point

The ongoing war in the middle east is sort of mental. Qatar and the UAE cancelled theír friendlies. But two main protagonists, Israel and Iran have refused to cancel theirs .

I remember this period, because everytime lille played I will be looking at live scores hoping Enyeama doesn't concede. His 11 games consecutive çleansheets run made him second in all time league 1 consecutive cleansheet run. His later deputy and ríval goalkeeper in lille is now current french and AC Milan number one shot stopper mike maignan

TheSuperNerd:
Throwback Thursday: Vincent Enyeama, 🇳🇬 G.O
A.T. GK


Do you know former Super Eagles goalkeeper Vincent Enyeama still holds the record for the most clean sheets in a single Ligue 1 season?

In 2013/14 season, he kept 21 clean sheets for Lille. He also kept 11 consecutive clean sheets, lasting 1,062 minutes 🇳🇬🧤

Note, it was also a 20-team ligue 1 and 38 games season. So na full package season. Lille finished 3rd on the table that season.

https://x.com/i/status/2035999412774748272

Chuks4041:
you are absolutely right but also absolutely not knowledgeable enough to know the reason orban is yet to play for us. Baba really want to play for us. The same issue with players real nationality is the only factor withholding gift orban invitation. The guy for don play for Nigeria since but it's not yet verified if he is from togo or Nigeria. NFF yes, can be very annoying about our sport development but you can't take away the fact that they understand the politics of the game by being careful. Reason this DR Congo case will chart a new path. Some of these players that chose other countries over us were contacted. Besides Chelle is looking for players that fits his philosophy and at least will challenge or even bench our current players.

I think Orban is more Togolese than Nigeria. And the NFF knows this . He speaks better french than English

minfelix:
if this current Gala dey EPL, the will be in top 3. Table will be like:
Arsenal
Mancity
Galatasaray

the rest no reach, dem go collect wotowoto 🤣🤣🤣

Second leg is in a couple of days time

When it was time to face Haaland and Semenyo. It was then he remembered he had a Bassey. So why was Fulham's coach playing a Russian roulette all along after Bassey came from AFCON he should have reinstated him to the starting lineup. Bassey sadly seems out of form in that game. He kept Semenyo on side for the first goal. But he did perform better in the second half

Since Taiye Taiwo left Marseille, I don't recall any Nigerian playing for them.

ChrisKels:
Our in-house Fabrizio Romano dey hot this season oo.

Top-top transfer stories


Mekus D' Mekus.

I'm reading up ..I hope you've not created confusion with this post. Because u know what you doing.

Whenever you guys are on other social media platform, go there and give credit to the referee for doing a good job. Do not let the one sided narrative of the opposition overshadow the good side of the referee.

TheSuperNerd:
Ismael Saibari, the Moroccan #11's goal was the 2000th goal in Afcon History.

Wow, how time flies, I remember reading complete sports in 2004 when J. J okocha scored the 1000th goal against South African. That very match we beat SA by 4 nil .

Sarsaparilla524:
BREAKING!!!

Super Eagles captain, Wilfred Ndidi has promised to pay all winning bonuses at the AFCON if the NFF fails to pay before Saturday.

Source: @oluwashina.

They will put this poor boy under pressure simply because he is captain.. ...

Osimhen this , Osimhen that.
We need him in this tournament. And he knows it, we need him fully fit as he is a distraction to the opponent in our next 3 matches. Let's all focus on tactics.

The Algerian side seems to be wary of our team. I'm predicting a 5-2 scoreline in favour of Nigeria.

I know we would win by 3 goal margin. I hope we don't get any red card because that will be very bad. But for every other thing the Algerian side will throw at us , we are well capable of handling them.

MetalJigsaw:
Our big leap in playing quality actually conceals the abilities of our opponents in this AFCON,hence the widespread of opinion that we never met. real test.

If Mozambique had played any other team they wouldn't have lost in such manner. That's for sure.

I think it's a good benefit for the team. That the fans actually underrate this super eagles team keeps them on their toes. The players understand the assignment very well. We will not break a sweat against Algeria. Should Algeria score 2, we are scoring 5. That'd be how much margin we would take from them. The commentator in our last match called us champion in waiting. We are balling.

Zidane is about to get his hands messed up. It will be a bloodbath for him. Akor Adams, Iwobi, Moses Simon and Chukwueze will have significant contribution on that day.

Goke7:
I no go rest make Lookman try that shit against Algeria whether things no go blur for am. He suppose chop better slap for that yeye talk. I no get time. Where was the same Lookman when we played SA away in the wcq, where was he against Congo? If he no sabi talk make e getat.

Lookman was out of form . Same way Osimhen was at the last AFCON in ivory coast where he scored 1 goal.

As a Nigerian striker in AFCON you should be scoring 4 to 5 goals in the tournament. Ighalo did it in 2019. But when you want to talk you'd say work rate. As if work rate is the primary obligation of a striker. Then you'd make room for excuses on his blunders and misses, as well as his offside awareness. Nobody is perfect including king Osimhen

ChrisKels:
Adegoke rest abeg. We were in control of the game. Yes, Osimhen was right to call for more goals, but Lookman wasn't wrong to ask to take things easy as the shout on Bruno was disrespectful, but Osimhen was totally wrong to have reacted childishly the way he did.

When he couldn't stand it that someone stood up to him and asked him to calm down by reminding him casually that he had scored twice. His ego was hurt and he asked to be substituted.

It was a culmination of three different run of plays where he didn't receive the ball that led him to yell at Bruno. Ademola didn't release the ball to him at one point which was similar to positions that ademola likes to shoot from, the next was Bright not passing to him even when it looked like Bright was in a better position to shoot. The third that hurt him the most was Bruno's own. When you watch the replay ademola also waved at Bruno for a pass and the pass didn't come too.

But the king took it to heart and poured out his emotions. The only person who had the guts to look at him squarely and asked him to calm down was Lookman. He was hurt by the audacity, immediately he will turn back again to meet lookman and tell him football is a team game , that is to remind him of the moment lookman failed to pass as well , and in lookman quick self defense he made him realize he has scored two. Let the others play . We are in control. He was hurt because the rightful person to say those words to him put it to him. His heart couldn't swallow it, he will signal to the bench and asked to be substituted. While we had two more attacking plays, he failed to join in the play .

Then comes the end of the game , he will walk straight to the tunnel, leaving the team , this is the MAN (not boy)talking about team play.

His emotions will get the better of him that he would leave the team behind and go to the bus. While the other guy who could be hurt will muster courage and speak no ills about him. Giving him praises and kudos like he loves. Posting him on social media to show oneness and unity.

But what he failed to understand was the gravity of his action and how Nigerians will take it, he saw that we didn't take it lightly with him. We didn't appreciate how he shouted at lookman. He equally realized how much loved lookman is without forcing it. He realized lookman' soft power over his.

yinkeys:
Hello guys
Guess what
The old Cameroon is back guys
Cameroon will rough handle the hosts Morocco
Dirty football but win with physicality, overhead balls & setpieces
I knew this when they played Ivory Coast but wasn't too sure of it

I said this same thing when I watched the game against ivory coast. You could see the identity of the Cameroon I watched in 2000 and 2002 in the spine of this Cameroon side.

charlesemeka85:
the kind mending wey dem go collect for World Cup eeeeh 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Na after World Cup dem go know say to get exposed and experienced players for Europe matters a lot

They might actually pick up for the world cup. I think their manager might be having that gernot rohr syndrome where he is lost of ideas. They need a new manager who can continue from where Broos has stopped

typicalgamer:
How did we lost WC ticket to them ??

If i recall we played other countries too

They are not just a good side in this tournament. It is not as if they are a bad team. We have seen them improve but then maintaining standards has to do with building reputation. count on a team like Cameroon to wake up and show them they have the history and reputation to do that.