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groundnutoil:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0z2PoF9ej4 pls why have we not invited amoo

Beautiful highlight. I love when he scores with his head. For a short guy, I feel like when he scores with his head it should be counted as two goals.

He should keep developing in the Scandinavian league. He shouldn't go to Rangers, they play similar football with the middle teams in England and it's just boring.

I hope he ends up seria A or laliga. I think if he goes to England, he might just play like a short version of Adama Traore

He should go. The Napoli team is not gonna play to suit his style. He should go.

The only reaason why this defeat hurts me is that the hype on this team plus the expectation on them was too much to have them get knocked outt against a depleted Tunisian side

So this is how I will stop watching AFCON now. Too bad. But I'm happy that we changed a coach. Not Rohr losing at home to CAR, but however Rohr did say playing in lagos wasn't good because it allowed the players exposure to the public and their family which affects their concentration on the pitch.

The same thing played out here. Too many media activities around the players which allowed them to lose concentration. Worst of is the president talking to them at this early stage. And all these sort of media shenanigans Is propageted by one man for his own selfish interest . the man is "amaju piniki" blame him.

safarigirl:
We were just not the better team on the day

Forget one shot on goal. It was a moment of brilliance.

We did not have a moment of brilliance

We did not score

If you lose by a goal, you deserved to lose on the day

It is what it is

You were so sure Nigeria would win this match, do you still carry that much optimist against Ghana?

Elock1:
okoye way dem Don already loan

I know that before. He hasn't played for Watford yet .

Tunisia have sensed it, the long distance shot on okoye. They'd keep pumping him it. Keep testing him with it

So we all know that chukweze isnt himself in this tournament.

Simon doesn't even release the ball early enough.

Okoye especially doesn't deserve to start ahead of Uzoho. Whatever record of grass to grace he has enjoyed he wouldn't start for Watford, maybe they purchased him for life in the lower division where he would horn his skills.

Lastly however good ihenacho performs in training you need a solid midfield player in the capacity of onyeka. Push aribo forward and have onyeka doing aribo's job. Play either iheanacho or Awonyi play as striker depending on the opposition.

IDENNAA:
So , Mr Moderator! You were told you sounded like a blink man and you banned the handle...but this moniker called a person "drug addict" and they don't get banned.

Because you were countered you got into your feelings and used your little moderator power to show how hurt you were.

You have no semblance of integrity because on many occasions people have been reported for flouting rules but you kept mute because it's was not your person who is being attacked.


You are grossly incompetent and unethical! Enjoy your little power.

You are really a stubborn old man. Except you are laughing and enjoying displaying this crass sense of emotion wrecked behaviour behind your keyboard. If this is how you are really then there is a problem

semid4lyfe:
I don't put much stock on statistics.

The opinion I have formed from watching Nwakali in this competition is that he's just okay and not exceptional.

He's a midfielder with limited attributes and not versatile enough for the modern game.

He substracts more from our game than adds to it.

Somebody will soon tell you you know nothing about footie

JohnBullMySon:
Chai

Conspiracy theories really turns people brains to stagnant water. Common sense simply eludes them.

It's a confederation referee exchange program. It happened in Euros and Copa America.

Lol. We have many kinds of people here. So we must understand.

codemaniacs:
I didn't know the refs were already called up before the tournament started...

the other continental football organisations will never ever allow an African officiate any of their competitions ( unless I'm ignorant of the any African referee officiating outside Africa )... so CAF should never ever allow non-Africans officiate in CAF because they are taking jobs away from Africans..

Relax. There is some kind of referee exchange going on between football confederations. At the Euros last year, we had referees from south America. If you remember well too, the copa America was going on at the same time and we had referees from Europe participate in them. CAF also had referees from CONCACAF (I've come across Mexico, Guatemala officials acting in position of VAR and Centre Referees in this tournament personally ) and I'm sure that CAF referees are also invited to other football Confederate to officiate. So relax, the purpose is simply to boost and create and better officiating for matches. And give a different experience as well for the referee.

andrewbaba44:
Algeria to win Ivory Coast

Someone should quote me after the game .

Okay

Papi85:
But to be honest rohr clipped the wings of this team ooo


See as bois Dey fly with freedom and swagger. Simon Moses is too good to be in Nantes, he deserves to be playing for any Lyon,Marseilles,lille or any decent team in the epl

Ndidi so far hv been my most valuable player. Dude hv been a rock in midfield with good ball distribution and energy.

Awoniyi have shown that he is a worthy cover for osimehn

Resurgent ekong and omeruo in our first 2 games were unplayable but seeing Ajayi against guinea got me confused on who is better among the trio

Oliseh nda was too smooth and calm on the ball. He needs to leave the SA league ASAP for Europe

Eguavoen is on the right path and shouldn’t allow sentiment or egunje taking to disrupt this good work he has on ground at the moment. Even if the team fails to win the competition I am satisfied with what I hv seen so far

The nff should shelve the idea of brining in another coach for now and back Austin to continue with the team atleast after the World Cup his appointment can be reviewed for renewal if the team performs decently at the world stage

Charles what of Nwakali? we won hear your opinion

sophtcopy:
Lol...z
These ones just wan put smiles on the faces of casket sellers ...I pity their lives

I know it's wrong to talk about or encourage betting but my colleague for office knack 200k on Nigeria straight win and over 2.5 and I stand with am gidigba

Stand well-well to console the colleague too oo

andrewbaba44:
Rivarly doesn’t make them a powerhouse

They are four times champion. One more than Nigeria. Don't forget that too. We suffered our highest football defeat against them too.

Yes the national team hassnt won any afcon since the last 40 years or so. But then they got to the quarter-finals of the world cup in 2010, the last African team to achieve this. They've equally won the under 20 world cup. The only African team to win at this level. At the under 17 I think they've won thrice ( Nigeria has five, that's rivalry with us) that's good enough to make them an African powerhouse.

Danielnino00:
We tend to give Ghana more respect than they deserve when it comes to football.. Probably because they have a better H2H than us . But truth is, they aren't much of a football powerhouse up to our level..Maybe they have been unlucky Sha..

They might not have the big players names team since Michael Essien you know. But there is just this thing about rivalry, it goes beyond one team being traditionally bigger.

Secondly, over the last 15 years or so for a team with not so many star players look at how painful it was recently when they beat us in Angola nations cup, prior to that at they beat us at the 2008 nations cup in Accra ( I think that tournament we were pretty poor, with the German coach Berti Voigt who is the only manager to have dared put Vincent Enyeama at the height of his career in Israel as a second choice keeper behind Austin Ejide, reasons being that he thought Ejide had a better physical frame than Enyeama, and to be fair to Ejide he was pretty good that infact if we have an Ejide of 2008 now as an alternative to the current crops of keepers we have he is ×100 times better)

Mujtahida:
And we having foreign born players dates back to the 70s. Ghanaians like also played for the Nigerian national team like Anas Ahmed who chose playing for Nigeria over ruling on his traditional stool, Sani Mohammed, Yakubu Mohammed and others. Check this link:
https://ng.opera.news/ng/en/sports/amp/871b2cb7c3a4adc347ce92b1dad297b8

There are also rumours that has it that Rasheed Yekini's dad is actually ghanaian? Alot of Nigerians from Ogbomosho and ilorin traders had earlier settled and even married Ghanaians. Till Ghana had the Nigeria must go first incident, which yekini's mum who is Nigerian brought him back to Nigeria

Im currently rewatching the highlights of yesterday's game. The commentator said something really baffling that further supports safari girl position on the Nigerian Eagles ofthe 90s as the most solid team ever. Yesterday's game was the first time Nigeria would score two goal at the first half in AFCON since 92 when Yekini scored two first half goals against Kenya. I mean for all the good soccer we hype the 90s team on, they didn't score two goals easily when opponents were dummies in soccer unlike today's football that has weaker teams of the 90s catching up fast with the continental giants

How was siasia able to utilize sadiq

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Subzero047:
This guy is intelligent

He is probably on this thread. Citi tv is Ghanaian.

somehow:
For a number one team in Africa, I guess they have met your expectations.

Algeria ?

We've got some crazy (good) goalkeeping heroics. My gush Comoros Gk was really superb

somehow:
What they played without "if" has been shambolic so far for a country rated no 1 in Africa.

Lets work with that.

Shambolic might just mean they've not met your expectations. I expect them to qualify from the group, perhaps not with this quality of football they are playing. I never expected them to come winning all their games like 3 nil or so. They were lucky with the penalty against Zimbabwe(of course penalty is part of the game). I think they are yet the click, there is just something missing perhaps we might find that spark in the knockout stage. I know they got some one or two covid issues too, but that's not enough reason not to play some exciting soccer. However, barring Nigeria who has played well in the first game the other nations are somewhat not settled in the tournament. Algeria equally did worse than Senegal. They played a lesser seria leone team. Having defeated ghana in the friendly too. We can only hope that our team keeps its upward trajectory going

somehow:
To dream of knock out stage, you're expected to advance from the group stage first.

What if they met more purposeful opponents during the group stage?

What "if" they raise their game in the group stage if they met such opponent

andrewbaba44:
Malawi leading Zimbabwe by 2 goals to 1

Who could believe this game would have produced 3 goals without a single PK

Malawi messed up big time in their first game against Guinea. they played quite entertaining, their end product was just sad as they ended up losing by a lone goal. Their coach knew they were the better team and said his team will work on their finishing in the final third after losing to Guinea. If you watching the second half of their game currently against Zimbabwe which is a regional rival whom they've lost more games to at COSAFA you'd notice that they've upped something about them in this tournament. I hope they are lucky enough to qualify for the knockout round

jihday:
still early days, don’t see it beating Mali 2002 record

Plus our coach then, shuaibu Amodu really gave us some boring football. Onigbinde came later to take the team to the world cup trying to play a total opposite kind of football from Amodu but I felt he was too daring that's why the result didn't favour us. The only good thing I liked about onigbinde was the introduction of long term players like Enyeama, Osaze Odemwingie and J.Yobo

somehow:
If we play these Senegalese, we'll beat them.

They are not compact at all.

It's the group stage, I'm almost believing that they have not settled well. The knock out stage is a different ball game. They can hurt any team even with their wobbly display

minfelix:
AFCON 2023 to be held from June 23 to July 23 2023
Good one

Lol that's just next year �

komekn:
When you are overcome with emotion and sentiment you become fanatical in some respects it makes you the quintessential fan, one without rational.

As a result well thought out objective appraisal with key identified performance indicators analysed , becomes an insult to your emotively overcome mind.

When something is taken out of context and then misrepresented, who do you blame

I made a comparison of two strikers who have been top performers consistently over many years at top level. One is Ighalo and the other is Aboubakar, they both play in the same league. However, Ighalo is the top Goal scorer in that league.

But somehow one Aboubakar is idolised, praised with great respect and appreciation across the nation of Cameroon. However, our Odion is disgracefully denigrated and abused by many you included here.

You have continued in this vexatious bad spirited narrative for too long. Like a woman scorned and filled with bitter resentment. He was the highest goal scorer in the AFCON you still have nothing good to say.

Ighalo is on the team list not just at the tournament and the context of my

You've virtually said NOTHING here beyond attacking her personality, that makes it further uncomfortable to have any logical ground of reasoning with you. You are rather committing the fallacy of "what about you"

There are three persons you've made mention of here, Abubakar, Awoniyi and Igahlo. Not two as you are trying to alter. Awoniyi will perform well in the next game, perhaps a goal to crown up the effort.

komekn:
Quality powerful striker Aboubakar is bossing the Ethiopians, two goals to his name. It looks like Ethiopia are going to be flogged and Aboubakar should get a hat trick.

After having a decent career in Europe he has gone to Saudi Arabia for the$£$££.

He is playing in the same league as Odion "Unbeatable" Ighalo who is the top goal scorer in that league. But some how there are some here high misguided that think he's not good enough for the SE.

That the young pretenders like Awoniyi and Sadiq are better.

Will you keep kwayet. You a grown up for crying out loud. Did Nigeria omit Ighalo's name? Abubakar is playing against Ethiopia, what the bejesus is wrong with you old man, if he scores a hat trick so what? How many goals did Oliver Giroud score for France at the last world cup which they won? Zilch! So long as Awoniyi keeps doing the right thing and as long as we keep progressing by the game that's fair enough.

PurpleHouse:
You dey crase?? Are you normal?

Did I mention when I graduated here?

Does talking about school battles make you a fresh graduate?

You call your papa age mate a fresh graduate??





You're stupid.