TheLoneCitizen:
Liverpool left established Ndidi and went for 52-year-old Endo.
What a fall.

Man why are we crying for Liverpool to go for Ndidi. The way Ndidi is, if he sees Saudi Arabia right now he should grab it with both hands.

Every time Australia concedes in this world cup they end up conceding thrice. Against Nigeria and against England.

BascoVanVeli:




There is a big difference between playing till 39 and playing in 6 world cups. That record is an undeniable fact.

About Onome's selection, stop the CAP. The same Waldrum that called out the NFF for trying to select his players. How did they then force Onome on him? Someone that started the last 2 friendlies before the world cup and scored a goal, which kind of talk is this na?

Oh boy Basco, leave this talk we, do u want to go there with a player to break world cup appearances or u want to go there with a full strong squad to win the world cup.

Well I know definitely you wanna win the world cup with a full solid team whereby when a player is hurt in the tournament or is suspended from next match you are very sure of the backups on ground. Please don't let people hate Ebi, she has had an excellent career. We appreciate her efforts. We appreciate her sacrifices. We appreciate all that she has done for the green, white and green. God bless her for her strong patriotism of wanting to represent us in the next world cup. However, 4 years time from now is a different ball game. She will most likely have a decline in speed and abilities and that's not want going forward. We want everybody in the team justifiably there to win the world cup. We don't want no records on appearances. What's really special about that to the nation. We need to medal up. Since 1991 we have been present in all world cups. That record sef don do.

charlesemeka85:
Napoli have put a 129.4 Million Pounds (about 150 Million Euros) release clause in the new contract of Victor Osimhen.

This is according to Sky Italia.

The clause will kick in from July 2024 for non-Italian clubs and 2025 for Italian clubs.

A release clause as well as personal terms were some of the issues that were considered in the new contract, which will run till June 2026.

Osimhen is the record signing by the Serie A champions after he joined them in 2020 from Ligue 1 club Lille for over 70 Million Euros.


The new contract will make the 24-year-old striker the highest paid player at Napoli with a salary of 10 Million Euros a year, which is more than double what he currently earns.

Meaning he earns 192k per week now.

Similar to what Kelechi Ihenancho currently earns in his final season at championship side Leicester city

E still dey pain me say we don jaah..
I can't look forward to the game on Saturday. How is wish it can be Nigeria 🇳🇬 vs Colombia 🇨🇴. How I so wished . So many whys buy we can only move. Why was Oshoala trying to perform bicycle kick on two occasions in that game. Just as Osimhen was doing against Ghana in our world cup qualifier. So many whys but then I hope this team spirit can be kept alive and burning.
I hope the NFF will keep giving this girls the support for invitational tourney in Europe asia and America. That is the only way we can keep up with this other nations. From there I hope we can fix our goal-scoring problem, we need clinical strikers. I remember the days of Perpetual Nwokocha, that lady was a finisher. We need a striker in the mind of South Africa's Kthalana. You can feel her spirit when she moves. Sadly Oshoala has tried. And there is no place to hide anymore for her. She is no longer it. She has played her part. We need to create a striker for this team's style of play. The likes of Sebastian is there, I still believe so much in her, technically she is up there, maybe her physique might not be too strong but we can slowly mould her.

ThePresenceWtf:


Everything you just wrote has nothing to do with what I was talking about... I ask yet again, did you actually read to understand or you just feel like replying?

Mtchew

lovewins:


Well said.

I understand people's frustration. A loss can be very painful especially when you played your best game.

But we have to count our blessings:

1. This is our best World cup performance so far

2. We played 4 games and did lose any in regular time. For context, we played World no 3 who are European Champions, World number 7 who are Olympic Champions, World Number 10 who are host nation and World no 20 and didn't lose any

3. We have the worst defensive record at the world cup. This time however, we conceded just 2 goals in 4 games. Read that again, we conceded just 2 goals in 4 games.

4. More importantly, we have a team to build on. About half of the team is 25 and less. We only need a few additions and subtractions and we'll have a better team

5. I can't believe I'm saying this.but I have to

"NFF, Renew Randy's Contract".

Give him the support needed and watch this team fly.

Explain to these people ..let them know. We have shows that we have the capacity of a top 10 team. But can we do it again in the next four years. That should be our goal. Can we perform at this level in the next world cup to show it is no fluke? What and what can we do to be more solid going forward? I can now believe that we can play any team with today's performance.

The real problem for me is the African mentality that makes us go back and relax without any concrete plan going forward.

Watch teams with concrete plans next four years like the USA. Watch where they will reach, they are more likely to end up in top four. That's to tell you they went to the drawing board to fix things. Let's also have the same plan like them, it's not so hard. This is what I define as a winning mindset that comes from consistency.

It's not the one we played today where we are supposed to be underdogs and still lost as underdogs. but the pain is quite understandable.

Look let me tell you all here, even if we had played Denmark it might not have been any different at the knockout for us.
Four years means a lot, we can hit the quarter-finals or semifinals there. Back to back we have played round 16 now. We have shown consistency there. Last time we lost 3 nil to Germany. Today we lost via penalty kicks. Thumbs up. And we can't take away some credit from the glass house for this too. But then we are more than satisfied with the round 16 result even when we play Germany, the USA, Brazil or England again in the next round I want to believe our game should be on the ascendancy. That's all.

ThePresenceWtf:


Did you actually read to understand or read to reply?

Bro nothing u said there did I not understand. And u are limited by your own knowledge.
We played Morocco at WAFCON we were two players down and Morroco did everything and couldn't break us down even after extra time. We still had the threat when we attacked. Why did u think it played out that way, we are always ahead of Morocco in female football and we were not gonna give in to them even though they were the host nation and seemed to enjoy some officiating decision. In fact that tournament was our worst outing we probably wouldn't have qualified for the world cup for the fact that we finished 4th. Here is a similar situation with England whose football level is ahead of ours and you talk of breaking them down because they are a man down, however bad England played today and we couldn't get the kill punch we needed doesn't take away anything from our girls or those of us who support them for trying. It takes consistency. Today they were lucky we had them on the edge let's consolidate on what we have and work on it, it was good game play from. That's what we are saying. We want to be at the top of the food chain, and that comes with continuous grinding and hard work. I'm sure if we play England tomorrow again we can now beat them. Today before the game was played I never expected that we will have them on the edge. Based on their reputation in comparison with ours. All we have to do is work on what we have today to fear no team again. I hope we keep closing the gap at least and not expecting us to win a game we weren't
favored to win. That's my own point.

ThePresenceWtf:


When you never expect yourself to accomplish anything, nothing will ever be accomplished. The bar and metrics of success and expectations is just too fucking low in this country... Like we never expect anything from ourselves and our country. Whenever we see a slimmer of success or progress, it feels like Jesus just came down from heaven or automatically Nigerian.

This game was literally there to be won and it's possibly the best the super falcons have ever had since participating in any FWWC...But we gotta make excuses and think we've achieved beyond what we can achieve. Smh.

With this mindset, we can never become whatever it is we are to become.

We hold some of the worst records for a team in the world cup, most goals conceded, least number of goals etc. How u want to define progress again now that we are out. We kept another clean sheet in today's game.
Sometimes how do you people talk and reason? What bar of expectation? Progress is born out of consistency. 9 world cups for us and this is our best. In 1999 it was quarter-finals because we didn't have a round of 16 then. But in terms of performance this is our best performance in the word cup, yes now that we are out It is our best performance. We left undefeated in 90 mins of all games.

camri:
Randy out

The worst decision the NFF will be making. All of a sudden we have a team playing the European Champion toe-to-toe and we are screaming Randy out. So we could bring in our local coaches who don't have this high and fine level of technical refinement.

Unlimited22:

Ebi, Ordega, Oparanozie... Make them just follow Ngozi Okobi Dey go abeg

Funny how we didn't end up missing Ngozi Okobi in the world cup. But how I wished we had a player like Deborah Abiodun in the extra time of this game things might have been different. Because she can go forward and create as well as mark, I guess that was why we had ordega.

elyte89:
Na alozie penalty vex me pass,her composure her movement,style prior to her kicking d ball ⚽️, I knew she would play rubbish

We defeated ourselves…no cap 🧢, my World Cup ends here ..ciao 😎

After the first game against Canada, Alozie had gone to tweet saying two more games to go. That was her mindset. She didn't picture the cup. She could have said six more games to go. That tells u the mindset. She is quite ok with her performance.

klexycole:
We had everything lined up in our favor but we blew it.

From the penalty ruled out to the red card and their first penalty miss, we couldn't take advantage of these.

In my opinion, the team was set-up to defend rather than attack and score.

Anyways, better luck next time.

Exactly the team was set up to defend. And that is why we are so hard to beat. We shouldn't be thinking of setting up ourselves like USA, and other offensive European nations, if not we will be playing like south Africa because we cannot match them for now.
But we can become more brutal in our defense and work better on counter. When we play in Africa we can develop and explore offensive styles that suit the basic background of our defensive team.
I enjoy the fact that we don't concede goals, it is very relaxing for me. And we can work on little errors of the opponent to punish them like our third goal against Australia.

JohnBullMySon:
No matter happens from here....

Super Falcons have done an excellent job at this WC.

Certainly. We played as a team. And we played like true competitors. Randy has given us a good platform to progress. The rest is left to the decision makers.

BascoVanVeli:



She has done good work.

You get better football eye. You read the game well. She brought in the experience for us defensively. Plus we know she is not as sharp as her early days but you could see she gave it her all.

skallion7:
Sorry if I'm doing Africa Unite with you guys, I want South Africa and Morocco out because most African countries don't wish us well also

Did watch the last women wafu played in Ghana with ajakaye, Esther, flourish and co played. Ghanaians cheated our girls just to win that cup

So Bleep all this African countries, I wonder how you love and rate all these countries when they don't like you guys at all

Whatever you've just said makes u sound like the group of people from the other country that hates their other African counterparts. I choose not to be on that table. There are still millions of south Africans, Ghanaians and other African nationality supporting Nigeria when they are up against other continent .

But of course local rivalry is allowed, I can't support south Africa or ghana when we have to meet within our region and that's fair and good for them not to support us when it is a regiona or continental derby ..

We should stop taking cheap hate poison it damages our lives and rationality.

If you've never watched South Africa play it is no hype, they are a good ball-playing side. They can create, they can entertain and that's why they play high-scoring games. And they can create chances.

Marjoribanks:
Gift Orban to Tottenham?

If this deal enters ehnn. Free bottles on me.

One would have thought Nigeria qualifying out of its group was a miracle. But Morocco! Damn. That's even bigger.

When Zambia beat Germany in the last friendly, they thought they had arrived. Little did they know Germany was not the standard they will use to determine their status to compete. I guess they went to sleep and relax.

Mhen this Moroccan qualified after conceding six goals in the first game against Germany and went on not to concede in the remaining two group matches.

Deltamani:
Wiegman made three changes from her starting XI that defeated Denmark 1-0 and moved James into the No. 10 role.

“[James] feels good, you can tell. She did special things today. Unfortunately, that one goal was cancelled. She flows over the pitch.

“We expected China to press high because they had to win to go through. But they just stayed in shape. They didn’t expect us to play this way, and they didn’t find a solution,” Wiegman told ITV after the game.

I hope Nigeria is not gonna concentrate too much on stopping James and forget there are 10 other players to stop.

Congratulations to south Africa.

First-ever world cup win that earned them a place in the round 16 for the first time.

They averaged two goals per game in the group stage.

In comparison with Nigeria who had a better defense but averaged a goal per match. We were in a comfortable position after our second game. This tells you what a good and solid defense gives you in a tournament over a free-scoring side.
Nigeria conceded two goals throughout the group stage. And south Africa conceded an average of two goals pregame.
The south African girls perhaps play in a manner that allows them to attack and it could have been different if they hadn't scored the winner in today's game in the 93rd minute. However there is need for them to improve on their defense.

Marjoribanks:
United will opt for Iheanacho incase Holjund and Kane bid fails!

They see him as a highly technical striker who comes with Premier league experience and can play several positions upfront. Cheap as well!

Very true, iheanacho is very technical. he may not be a perfect player as no player is perfect. But for what he plays and a team that could perfectly complement him, he still got a whole in his game.

Rockyrascal:
Nigeria 11 at AFCON 2004

Image: From CAF

I think this became our 11 after the likes of Agali, Babayaro, and Yakubu?? were sent out of the team camp for going out to flex with whores. To make their offense look calmer they said they snuck out of camp to party. This happened after the opening game against Morocco where we lost. And of course, a group of players chose that moment to display indiscipline. This opened the door for the fringe players in the team. The likes of Osaze and John Utaka. Both played key roles on our journey to the third-place finish. And this was certainly JJ Okacha's tournament. scoring some beautiful freekick and entertaining us with great football

If there will ever be a reason why Chukwueze shouldn't go to Saudi if that chance opens up now, it should be out of the need to secure an EU passport for himself.

typicalgamer:


You must be high on cheap wine

Chuks that is injured every now and then you want him to stay consistent and become world class 😂 😂

Or you think he’s 24 like football age say??

No chase the bag first

Is he better than those who ran to Saudi 😂

Exactly. If Saudi Arabian League offers him 200k a week for 5 years, that's huge. Where will he get that at in Milan for 3 years. After all those who think they know it all like charlesemeka is talking nonsense when Odion Ighalo said we play football for money. Milan wouldn't offer Chukwueze 100k per week sef. Chukwueze is still guaranteed his position in the national team for the next five years hopefully we win a medal at AFCON and that's fine with the national team. The national team is not gonna win the world cup in the next 5 years so don't waste time. We pray 🙏 to play in the next afcon finals which is a more likely reality. Add that to Chukwueze real age and ability. Who could have thought that Taiye Taiwo after all his exploit in Marseille will turn out to be a flop at Milan. Football is unpredictable and what we define as ambition differs.

Marjoribanks:
Hmm! What after his contract expires no clubs want him anymore. But with Milan, he can develop and win the Scudetto and champions league which could improve his market value in 3/4 years. Who could tell if the same Saudi club won't come back in 4 years to offer him a much better deal. He should go to Milan!

That sounds very good truly. This might just be a better deal or way to look at it.

charlesemeka85:
you no get sense

Bag that he still hv many years to chase

skoin skoin dey your own head already. Wetin you dey chase with your potbelly

Kalakulu:


You're actually daft. Thankfully Chukwueze isn't as unambitious as you.

You are a dunce how do you define ambition.

Marjoribanks:
Should Chukwueze follow the bag or not?

Follow the bag sincerely. I mean we've all seen him play, we know he is good, we couldn't tell how much he still got in him to develop to be world class or African footballer of the year. I'm not so sure he will attain those status, so I will encourage him to follow the bag.