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Cyriel Dessier coming in now for Boniface will carry more "X-factor" than Umar Sadiq.
That's why having to call up right players means a whole lot

Goke7:
Carelessness is the word, both the players and the coaches should take responsibility.

The foreign coach advocates will be back.

It's only natural that foreign coach advocates will talk. Barring Eguavone's first match against Benin which he won 3 nil. Every other games have been a struggle. We couldn't beat Rwanda away, we scraped past Libya , we drew Benin on a neutral ground and here we are struggling at home to Rwanda again. How different will it be for the world cup where we now need an almost perfect result to qualify .

I sincerely doubt we could have beaten Libya on their home if we had played the match. Judging by all this results

zicky:
ena dy talk oh, make iheanacho create for himself, still be the one to shoot. Nawao

Chukwueze did it

Gernot Rohr right now 🤣😭🤣😭🤣😭🤣😭🤣🤣🤣

Rwanda will be more aggressive this second half. Perhaps with chukwueze in, we can score from a counter.

TheSuperNerd:
I thought you said he was better than the other two. Who brought Nacho into play for that strike? Watch the game. Leave sentiment.

Yeah.

Samueltemi337:
See the Iheanacho way them say dey anonymous

If not Moses Simon running to create that for him, Iheanacho cannot create such . And even when he shot the ball did he score. He was so hyped that after that play, he ballooned the ball over the bar.

ChrisKels:
Our 013 U17 squad was fire, but our 015 set has given us more quality talents. That 015, (including the dropped players) currently has 3 good players in the super eagles today in Osimhen, Chuks and Osho, and we should not also forget that Nwakali got some caps too

From 2013 set , we had Ndidi who failed MRI , kelechi Iheanacho, Taiwo Awoniyi, Uzoho, Isaac Success. All played for the national team.

The 2013 teams still supercedes the 2015 for me

Not forgetting Saviour Godwin and Dele Alampasu

Kog45:
Kenya are not minnow in the 80s,in fact they made Afcon 88 and i do not think Yekini had any goal against Madagascar, Comoros, Lesotho, CAR, Equitorial Guinea and Rwanda cuz it was not easy then in the 80s for these teams to face bigger teams due to strictly CAF features.

A well widespreads features would have seen Yekini scoring more than 37 goals but anyhow Osimhen is going to beat that record with ease.

South Africa came into the party late in 1991 due to aparthied but fast forward they won Afcon 96,meaning they are not amateurs....yes we beat SA, 4-0 in Lagos but return leg was war and it ended 1-1

Exactly what I'm saying. How dare teams like Cape Verde, Mauritania, CAR , Sao Tome (not yet), make their debut in AFCON in the 90. This counties weren't playing Nigeria back then. They get knocked out before they play Nigeria for AFCON qualifiers when we had four groups.

Our standards dropped. We suddenly missed out of the AFCON in 2012, only for us to return with Keshi in 2013and win it, then we will miss out again in 2015 where Ivory coast defeated Ghana on penalties, and 2017 where Cameroon defeated Salah's Egypt in the finals

It's almost like Ghana saying no minnows again. I think Ghanaian football has also dipped, but we are way better . The only time they had it recently was qualifying ahead of us for the word cup, which was solely not because they were a better team but rivalry football which is not determined by form.

minfelix:
Yes i agree, but note one thing these guys may be minnows but wont wanna keep living in those name tag “minnow”
comoros ousted Ghana from the afcon, CAR has beaten many top countries(Algeria,Egypt,Nigeria).
Lesotho waking up…in the next 10/15yrs teams like sao tome, south sudan,Erithrea,mauritius will also start proving a point.

There is so much imbalance in that idea of minnows. The era we had minnows was when we will win the Olympics football, AFCON ,play at our first world cup and give a solid impression.
We won two super teams in Brazil and Argentina on our road to Olympics in a dramatic style. We were able to match traditional football nations. Now someone says no minnows, because we can't beat poorer African nations handsomely. I think we are rather on the decline and not the way round. We have struggled with any consistency 5 year plan.

Who saw how Bruno switched to the midfield and iwobi moved far left, Bruno brought in a special style in that midfield. He will later interpass with iwobi to deliver a beautiful cross to Osimhen.

Subzerooo:
I don’t see the use of Iheanacho if Iwobi will play in a two man midfield, Moses Simon can atleast fill up the space left by Iwobi if he is drawn towards the 18 yard box, Iheanacho is just useless

Inheanacho can as well play from there too. I believe they are trying to exploit Iheanacho's wing since they know all eyes will be on Lookman. Iheanacho can assist from there, he can pull out a screamer, he can as well interchange positions with iwobi , when it's a counter for us.

Subzerooo:
Wait, when did Okoye become our first choice

He said his list was based on his feelings.
It's not your own feelings

Ppogbae:
Yeah, he needs to leave soon cause he is levels above the competition there

Naso una go talk now, e go enter the boy head make e dey give club way rescue am last minute red flag behavior. When the right club comes, and it is just right for him to move, there wouldn't be too many rumors like he had the last time. It will be done quietly, amicably and professionally.

If no other team comes, he should enjoy his reign in turkey and if turkey becomes too difficult and the Saudis come, he should move there quietly. He seems to enjoy a large fan base in Nigeria, as long as he keeps contributing his quota when called upon he is good to go. And if tomorrow Nigeria has another great striker who can usurp Osimhen such is life. After all he has said it that super eagles no be for him papa. People come and people go.

Okoye is still a shaky keeper. He is good as our second choice .

ChrisKels:
We once paraded Nnamdi Oduamadi as a striker. Chai we have really suffered

He also played for AC Milan but when people are recalling Nigerians who played for AC Milan they don't remember him.

Fulham will finish in top 6 this season .

Deltamani:
A brilliant hattrick from Folashade Ijamilusi propels the Super Falcons to a comfortable friendly triumph against Algeria. 🦅🇳🇬

🏁 FT; in Onikan 📍

Nigeria 🇳🇬 (4)-(1) Algeria 🇩🇿

⚽️Folashade Ijamilusi 10' (1-0)
⚽️Folashade Ijamilusi 18' (2-0)
⚽️Gift Monday 45' (3-1)
⚽️Folashade Ijamilusi 18' (4-1)

⚽️Alouache Ouassila 42' (2-1)🇩🇿

We have really missed the glorious days of perpetual nwokocha who was constantly banging hattricks those days. Please when was the last time a player scored a hattrick or more in a match for us. God bless aunty mercy akide, those people gave us true joy. No African team was up to us.

AndSunGorilla:
The maestro is back!!!! Happy he finally made his cameo today. Played for the entire duration of added time!!

🤣😭🤣

mostob:
Please how many of the Adetokunbo brothers are atill active (Basketball)?

Cc Danielninho and other BB followers

All

AndSunGorilla:
Tanimu makes the bench today for Crawling after the int'l break. Hope to see the maestro at least listed for Barnsley today, he would have unlocked the Libyan defence easily in Uyo. I hope the maestro continued wilderness us not a ploy by the Europeans to rob us of the chance of winning the world cup.

Charlesemeka85 over to you.

😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Wetin be this one again.

Emmy450:
so much so for Nigeria doing the right thing.. you want Nigeria to do the right thing but this is what you're saying.

So we should just divert the plane of the Libyans from their planed destination "PH" to "UYO"
on a very very normal circumstance?? is that not foolish? We all condemned the diversion of our plane which was on a descending path with limited jet fuel in Libya,

but here you are insinuating that Nigeria should have diverted the Libyans plane to UYO to justify the unjustifiable. o some nigerians Nawa!!!!

Yes to have rerouted their flight shouldn't be any problem. If we hai a bad weather in PH would they not reroute it elsewhere. And if genuinely they wanted them in uyo even while on air they was always gonna be a way. Same as when we were rerouted while we were almost in Bengazi with short fuel. It's all talks and messages. Once the pilot was on our airspace which we had 2 hours to have made the call for such diversion. The idea of landing them in Ph was not necessary.

Ppogbae:
So InterMiami was invited to the Club World Cup? What happned to merit?? Money has ruined this game!

Are you a Ronaldo fan?

Charlesemeka85 your boy is not small. See how his club values him. They tweet on him

JohnBullMySon:
Because they’re likely the ones who should have ensured that there’s clearance.

Although Libya is also at fault for not telling NFF about the denied clearance maybe thinking that NFF was doing it on purpose which I don’t believe to be the case. The permit was denied before they left Libya.

Exactly. I think you are right here. They must have felt it was a deliberate sabotage by the Nigerian authority to deny them access to uyo.

JohnBullMySon:
Man you see why I’m getting frustrated with you. When did I say or imply all this? Ehn?

You keep arguing on things I never said, meant or alluded to at all and by doing that you distort the whole point. I’ve been an MFS player for almost 8 years. Do you think I do not know how flight plans work? Let me break down my points into simple sentence lines

Libya wants to fly to Uyo. They inform NFF

Libyan FA asks their logistics team to arrange the travel.

NFF arranges an Uyo delegation.

Somebody at this point is supposed to sort out issues regarding special clearance since Uyo ordinarily cannot receive direct foreign flights.

Libya is most likely not aware of this fact. Even if they had a team come before, if they aren’t the ones who sorted it earlier, they may not be be aware.

The flight team requests clearance (most likely through a third party) it comes back denied.

NFF were not aware of the denial.

Libya at this point thinks there’s foul play.

Libya is advised to fly to PH instead so the flight is filed to PH.

Since NFF are not aware of the change in plan, they continue with Uyo plans.

Libya lands in PH and cannot find NFF delegation. At this point they’ve fully convinced themselves that it’s all on purpose.

NFF suddenly are surprised to hear that the Libyans are in Port harcourt and scramble to get there.

Libyans are thoroughly pissed as it takes NFF hours to relocate everything to PH. They swear to deal with us.

Now whose fault is it? It boils down to who is actually responsible for making sure foreign team flights can land in Uyo.

I don’t think it’s the Libyans cause I don’t see how Libyans would be the ones communicating with our federal agencies. They only know one contact: NFF

Now note that the minister of sports mentioned that NFF liaises with th NCAA for landing clearance. So did they ensure that clearance was obtained in this case?

Bro when a flight is on air, how long does it take to divert it's landing point if they were on air bound for PH how long will it take to call whatever tower to divert. The Libyans says it cost nothing than an "order from above call" to divert a plane even almost landing in Bengazi to AlAlqad. Do we still think there is no deliberate foul play on our side. There's always going to be contingency. Let's say there is a heavy storm while a plane is about to land in Ph will they not have easily looked for another nearest port to land. Why did we let them go to PH instead of initiating the flight to divert to uyo

Tessyy1701:
Played His best game under "goodevenin" man. I hope Villa signed him.

Ooh. Yes . Exactly

charlesemeka85:
AC Milan could listen to offers for Samuel Chukwueze and Aston Villa are one of the clubs interested.

@fichajesnet

"Good ebening" was his former manager.

Unlimited22:
They're going to rig this thing for this Moroccan, aren't they?

Where is this defeatist mindset coming from., no Nigeria is winning it back to back

lovewins:
A bureaucratic ladder none of the other team had a problem with including 2 clubs from the very same Libya?

I think that's the point he's making.

Because they followed protocols of carrying the host nation along with their plans before moving or boarding flight which will allow them to make the call for the special permit to land. but then when they moved they thought they could probably pull an element of surprise on us. And we said look at this fools, you're rather gonna suffer for your miscalculation. It's either you bear the extra cost, or wait till the next day. But they still insisted on moving that day to uyo. And they had to bear the consequences.

TheGoodJoe:
20 Points of a 20-hour ordeal on Libyan soil Pt. 2

NFF Media
October 14, 2024

11) At past midnight, it was learnt that there had been word from ‘higher authorities’ (Libya is a jurisdiction governed by two different administrations – a UN-recognized cabinet in Tripoli and a self-imposed team over Eastern Libya including places like Benghazi and Labraq) that the Nigeria delegation should be delayed for minimum of 10 hours at the airport for what they falsely claimed was done to their team in Nigeria. (All conversations between the NFF General Secretary and the LFF General Secretary on the match in Uyo, both written text and voices notes, are still in the NFF General Secretary’s phone)

12) The NFF team was shocked because the incident referred to in Nigeria was entirely generated by the Libyans. They informed the NFF that their contingent would be landing in Port Harcourt, and not Uyo, only two hours to the team’s arrival in Nigeria. Despite this, the NFF moved swiftly to get authorities to grant their aircraft movement permit from Port Harcourt to Uyo, but this was jettisoned as the LFF apparently did not cherish the additional fee dispatched by the charter company. They opted to travel by road, refused to use the buses hired by the NFF and instead hired their own, and disrespected advice not to travel by night. When they stuck to their guns to move by night, the NFF provided security. The NFF even provided the team training facility the day after the match and secured direct flight permit from Uyo to Benghazi for the delegation.

13) Infuriated, the NFF President reacted: “We anticipated some shocks here given the false account of what happened in Nigeria as narrated by their team captain. But we did not expect these shenanigans. What I am seeing is despicable and has no place in the game of football which is meant to foster excellent relationships among nations and bring peoples from diverse cultures, religious persuasions and economic and political interests together in an ambience of peace and joy.”

14) The NFF learnt that the Embassy of Nigeria in Tripoli had written, a fortnight earlier, to the authorities in Benghazi that they would want to welcome the Nigeria delegation on arrival. This application was said to have been rejected outright.

15) In a conscious effort to play down their frustration, anger and hunger, players and officials resorted to playing games, listening to music, chatting themselves up, scanning through the airport exit door to see if any vehicles had arrived, and generally looked forward to daybreak, which they hoped would bring much-sought-after relief.

16) Many calls were made to higher authorities in Nigeria to apprise them of the situation, and these persons all expressed fears for the safety and security of the team. These fears were real and justified given the plethora of threats thrown by the Libyans on legacy and social media in the days before and after the match in Uyo. At 2am, Captain William Ekong met the NFF President in the company of the NFF General Secretary to inform the President that the team may not be able to go ahead with the match, due to trauma, fatigue and body aches that resulted from lack of food, dehydration and very cruel and unimaginable treatment, which had led to some players falling ill.

17) The NFF repeated calls to officials of the Confederation of African Football, Nigeria’s FIFA Council Member Mr. Amaju Melvin Pinnick and higher authorities in Nigeria. It dispatched a letter to CAF in which it detailed the antics of the hosts and hoped that the continental governing body would go ahead to “punish this rare bestiality visited on the beautiful game.” It noted that the Super Eagles had traveled hoping to enjoy a great game of football but had been sorely disappointed and frustrated by the unprecedented level of hostility and poor attitude of the hosts.

18) At daybreak, Mr. Maurice Eromosele, president of the Nigerian community in Eastern Libya, arrived with words of empathy from the Ambassador of Nigeria to Libya, His Excellency Alhaji Muhammad Muhammad. He expressed shock at the treatment meted out to the Nigeria delegation, who were made to spend the entire night inside the departure lounge of the Al-Abraq Airport. He said His Excellency ordered him to get a few things for the team, and he later returned with plastic bags loaded with croissants and drinks. These served as breakfast for the team.

19) More calls were made and eventually, it was agreed by all parties that the team should not go ahead with the match, but return to Nigeria to await the decision of CAF (who were briefed in detail on the situation) with regards to the un-played match.

20) After spending many more hours waiting for the Al-Abraq airport authorities to sell fuel to refill the chartered ValueJet aircraft (which was initially proving to be some sort of robotic engineering), the Nigeria delegation departed the Al-Abraq Airport (not worth the toga of ‘international’ by any scale) at exactly 15.05hours, bound for the city of Kano, and onwards to the Federal Capital, Abuja.

We have all seen this like two days ago. Was it because you hadn't seen it yet that made you choose to make us cringe at your thoughts and opinions on the NFF

TheGoodJoe:
However, not much diplomatic headway was made during the meeting with the Acting Charge of Affairs, Imad Mohammed Matooq Aboud, as they insisted that it was not under the jurisdiction of Tripoli, which they represented, but that of the Eastern Government in Benghazi.

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It is not by abuse.

We went for a meeting with people that had no jurisdiction to help us because of lapses in our protocol arrangements.

Finito.

Good for the Eastern Government of Benghazi. Now the Nigerian government have their contacts. Their infamous action have been recognized but never forgotten. While the central government at Tripoli is the official one recognized by UN . We can't fault the Nigerian foreign affairs ministry for dealing with the UN recognized authority. At the end it will shape the two factions in their local politics. A big miscalculation for the Eastern Government of Benghazi.

I saw the spurious video put out by the libyan federation in a bid to save face of what they went through in Nigeria. frankly, it was their initial error that caused them that unnecessary hitch. But then their vindictiveness was a tad more extreme.

I also think they owe us an apology. But an apology means conceding to your wrong . And they are obvious hefty price for them. They will not want to accept it for one who couldn't even afford the extra cost of flying from ph to uyo