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TheSuperNerd:
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Me vs The Canada and Tani Supporters on this thread today...

Morocco is definitely winning France either in regulation time or penalty.
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What's your take?

Would Cameron have performed better than its replacement, Cape Verde?

Would Nigeria have performed better than South Africa and Congo DR?

It's hard to tell, probably Cameron would have beaten Saudi Arabia but loose to Argentina, and Uruguay; Nigeria would have performed better than South Africa but not Congo DR. Just my thoughts.

R16
UEFA 7
CONMEBOL 4
CONCACAF 3 (all host)
CAF 2
AFC 0
OCEANIA 0

Most of the CAF teams fell to UEFA teams and the 2 CAF team won on penalty. No improvement so far for CAF teams.

Ppogbae:
The gap between North Africa and the rest of the continent is getting wider.

I'm not even gonna bother with the Ghana match. I wish them all the best though.

Because they both won on penalty! There's not much gap amongst the top 8 African teams. Don't be deceived by these penalty win.

West Africa is stronger.

Odunayaw:
Save me God from vexation of spirit

What is this for God's sake. I left the match at 80' to check on something

I slept off between 70min and 80min when it was still 2:0 only to wake up this morning and see 2:3.

I felt like I was dreaming. I still dey vex.

Bluearrow:
You don't even need to select stock or do research, simply put the money in equity, it will still outperform mmf. Unless u just want to argue, anybody grounded in investment knows equity will outperform mmf long term. When an asset is classified as risky or aggressive, just know long term it will outperform a conservative asset, this is just basic investment principle. You arguing this bespeaks u haven't held both risky & conservative asset for long term, anybody that has done both won't even argue. I have done both & I'm telling u risky asset will always outperform conservative asset long term. If at all u want to compare, not in a country like Nigeria were inflation is running around 15% & u have most of the mmf hovering around 15%, that's not investment, u are just battling inflation.

I did an analysis a while ago 2008 till date.
Before Tinubu came onboard, MMF was doing better than Equity. Two factors contributed to Equity turning the table:
1 MMF rate was very low during PMB era
2 Equity growth has dwarfed MMF in the last few years due to inflow of funds into equity due to floating of NGN.

Equity funds are spread across many stocks. If one had the foresight to invest in Okomu Oil or Presco rather than Equity fund, MMF to these two stocks is like 1:100. Those two have seen tremendous growth in excess of 2000% in same period

Overall, the difference between Equity fund and MMF is not that much between 2008 and now.

EElopa:
If you watched the South African team this tournament and you think their only issue was lack of a number 9, I don't really know whether you actually understand football. Their decision-making in the final third, technical ability of their players in dangerous positions, and inability of their wingers to beat an opponent in one-on-one scenarios were glaring to see. Should I continue? What about their off-the-ball movements and ball control in dangerous areas of the pitch? Their players in the final third were often miscontrolling the ball, taking too many touches to control the ball, and constantly making bad decisions. Most of their attacking players were lightweight, and the way they were easily being bullied and shrugged off the ball was glaring for all to see.

Sithole and Mokoena in the midfield are just not good enough at this level, and I'm not sure either of these two players can make a match-day squad of any championship team in England.

With regard to their goalkeeper. I agree with you that he is good enough to go to some of the non-top-5 leagues in Europe, and he is also on a decent salary for Sundowns, which is probably better than he will earn playing for mid-table teams outside of the elite European leagues. He is not better than any starting goalkeeper in Serie A or any of the top 5 leagues because if he were, he would not be in the South African league. Football is not like a music or movie career, where you can be active in it for 50-plus years. In football, an average career is less than 10 years long, so every player wants to maximize profits before Father Time comes, and until you can give me a substantial and data-driven reason why Williams would turn down earning millions of dollars more playing in the top 5 leagues in the world as opposed to playing in South Africa, I am not buying any of your argument.

So many of this your argument have been punctured. You are right in some while some are fallacious.

EElopa:
Football is not rocket science, and when somebody tries to convince me that a player playing in South Africa is better than a player playing in Serie A, I just laugh at how ridiculous that sounds. This might have been the case 30 years ago, but football is now a global sport and a business for that matter. A lot of European clubs have extensive scouting departments, so if you are good, you will be discovered.

A classmate of mine in high school who was very good immediately left for a Croatian team called HNK Gorica that discovered him through scouting in Abuja. When a player is playing in the South African league, he is not there because he was unlucky or has a bad agent; he is there because he has been extensively scouted and there are so many deficiencies in his game.

South African players at this level just can not score or create chances. We can play another 24 hours; I don't think South Africa would have scored in this game. I don't even think they registered a shot on target against a very mediocre Canadian team.

When you watch them, you will see why they are in South Africa, and that is because there are deficiencies to their game. Their best player on the pitch, Mbokazi, plays for Chicago Fire, and you can see he was levels above his teammates, and with his performance today, he will probably be heading to Europe. The guy that scored the only open-play goal that they had in this tournament, Maseko, plays in Europe and not the South African league.

There are levels to this game, and this is why there is a strong correlation between the league a player plays in and his quality. A player playing in South Africa can never under any circumstance be better in any position than a Serie A player.

Their keeper is levels above so many keeper in Europe You're saying all this because they lost.

They are only lacking strikers. Dot. Forget this same team stopped Nigeria from qualifying. No disrespect.

R32
CAF 9/10 -90%
AFC 2/9 - 22%
UEFA 12/16 - 75%
CONMEBOL 4/6 - 67%
CONCACAF 4/6 - 67%
OCEANIA 0/1 0%

Africa leads even though none top the group. Hopefully, most scaled through to last 16 and beyond so we can ask for more slot if we transition to 64 team tournament.

We have the largest number of members and should also have the largest contingent of we are consistent.

AbosedeFalade:
He's actually a nice guy, and he's never ashamed of his occupation. So, I didn't mean to expose him per se, because I assume the way he's confided in me freely about his occupation, he must have confided in other people freely too. So, there's nothing secret about what he does.

Sis, you're a suspect. Is it you that he embezzled 17.5m on?

Meanwhile is Tiwa your relation?

realpoacher:
To add to what you all have said so far. We the fans, and Social media sports influencers and the NFF have a very serious and special off field politics role to play.


We were all here when SA was allowed to play 7 home matches in the Qualifiers, an "undue advantage" against its opponents and non of us here Called out CAF to rectify that anomaly when the Qualifier draws were made.

If the Technical Unit of the NFF would miss that, then we who are learned fans cum football analysts should have called NFF attention to it by making noise on the social media.

It was here on this thread that a quiet moniker called our attention to Mokeana Double Yellow card. We were the first to propagate it on social media before FIFA did the needful.

We should not sit down and allow any unfair advantage to any of our opponents for the next 2030 world cup Qualifiers again.


Any team without a good venue to host home matches, should look for a neutral ground to play their away matches. Don't take it to any of your opponents home.


It's an unfair advantage against other teams in the group, it doesn't matter whether you have more fans there.


I mean, common sense should be common.

That issue was pointed out here but no one took it serious because people thought South Africa was not a threat until it was too late.

Welcome back creditalerts.
Continue updating us with the rates.

Iran don score late goal.

Yeahhhhh. Goal chopped off

Senegal are through.

AndSunGorilla:
FiFA should dead the talk of 64 nations WC. Yes they will make more money but it will lose its appeal.

64 is better than 48.

There won't be best 3rd place finishers, which to me is rubbish. A team that did poorly at the group stage can end up in the final or close.

richforever123:
Check this out

Is coronation really 20%+?

JohnBullMySon:
I don’t know to explain it but Sweden haven’t been playing badly per se. They’re just being out classed both in Defence and attack by the Dutch.

And their wingers want to score in situations that a diagonal pass would do

Napoleon55:
You like to joke a lot.

You have the assortment abi assorted meat of players to beat any team in the world but you failed to beat SA or Ghana for over 360 minutes of football to qualify for WC back to back.

Nigeria need to learn how to humble themselves and accept their failures so that we can be champions again.

We have lost to Portugal fair and square two times now but you still think you are better than them, stop all these your jokes abeg.

Leave meliforme. Na Okoye and Ejuke him wan take be number one team. Team wey dey gas out after 80min.

Meliforme:
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We are saying the same thing.
The emoji is my way of saying that's all he has to show

Meliforme:
Chidera Ejuke still remains the most technical Super Eagles player.
PSG vs Arsenal UCL clash, i saw PSG players failing to pull dribbling maneuvres that Chidera Ejuke would normally perform.

His time will come.

He's better than Yamal at displacing players

Kog45:
Okoye na modern keeper and Nwabali na gbegiri keeper abi,wahala dey o

Just say modern basket

What I noticed about the Moroccan team against Brazil.

Off the ball, everyone is behind the ball.
They pressed from the front.
They can string passes very well.
They are strong in all departments.
They are Europeans.; they play as such.
They won't attempt long range shot.
Only a top team can beat them.
They will go a long way if they avoid a top team and are lucky.

Mujtahida:
I started watching football during USA 94. As a child of the 80's I was already conscious of Brazil being a superpower in football. When I seriously started following football, I fell in love with Romario, Ronaldo de Lima, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho but somehow I never supported Brazil and I still don't support Brazil.

It however hurts me that Brazil has now become like any other football team. Morocco is Brazil and Brazil is Morocco.

A sad spectacle for football. Chai

Morocco has improved and that is good but Brazil has become mediocre. It really has nothing to do with Morocco. Brazil no longer strikes fear in the heart of their opponents. See how Morocco was knocking the ball around with the Brazilian players rooted in between like training cones.

Kai Germany,Una do this one. That 7-1 defeat in 2014 before their home crowd in Rio spiritually decapitated Brazil.

Brazil needs to look at their league for few players that can perform better in certain positions. Casemiro is just past glory.

Timsco90:
TINUBU HAS FAILED NIGERIA MAY HER SOUL REST IN PEACE

How did Tinubu cause this? We blamed GEJ, Buhari and now Tinubu.

This is the product of a failed society. When wealth no matter how it is gotten is glorified, what do you expect.

I learnt Nigerians beg bandits for money online. That itself is enabling.

comodo:
Wake up from your sleep. Nwaballi is. Club less. And get ready to switch off whenever SE is playing cos you will still see these players till next world cup. Or better still change nationality.

That's the dilemma. Our best keeper is clubless and coaches don't fancy such. He should downgrade to Ikorodu United.

ThunderFireAgba:
Team: Chelle has not lost a game in a full 90mins.
Let me see what they will say now.
Maybe you will hear: Chelle has not lost a game in 1st half.
Bunch of clowns.

Is there any coach that hasn't lost a match before? I'm proud of the coach.

Meanwhile, I thought we lost to Egypt in the friendly before AFCON.

Nice sequence of passes from Nigeria.

We are being pinned down this half.

Okoye has been excellent. Good ball distribution and not under pressure when with the ball.

The defender failed him for that goal he conceded. Defender sliding may have blocked that.

FiveFootNinja:
Firstly, you even misquoted my intent to make a point that doesn't land. I never said it was guaranteed, I said it MUST happen. That's a target, not a prophecy.

Second, the fact that you can't tell the difference between an arrogant or boastful comment and one of aspiration is simply a stark indication of how unbelievably stew.peed some of you guys on this thread are, rushing to quote people's posts to give absolutely stew.peed takes that nobody asked for.

And you even had the guts to talk about antagonism. Read your absolutely 🧠 dead comment that you initially sent to me and tell me if my response to you wasn't warranted. Rubbish!

Your brain is filled with idiotic football fantasy that on the left side nothing is right and on the right side nothing is left.

Firstly, that declaration that you must win is disrespectful to teams that have outclassed you in recent times.

Secondly, until a match is played, you cannot be so certain of the outcome. Go ask France in 2002. Go ask Spain in 2014. Go ask Germany in 2018. In 2022, I wanted us to meet Ghana in the playoff because player for player we were better, but the result was disappointing after my wish can true.

Thirdly, you believe your team is numero uno. You're not among the 10 teams representing Africa yet you're still arrogant.

Lastly, I won't dignify you with any further response. From your response, I know where you belong and I won't allow you to drag me to your level

FiveFootNinja:
Sometimes make of some of una dey engage una brain before you talk. No be by force to put mouth.

What's even the point of your reply? So if I don't play, I don't have any right to wish my national team well?

Not supprise. Typical of gutter football fan. Always antagonistic and full of insults.

"We MUST win it. And every African team we jam must collect heavy beating from us next edition.

And I want us to jam at least two of these teams -- Morocco, DR Congo and South Africa -- on our way to the title. We have serious scores to settle with them."

How is above quoted text a wish? It's full of boasting. Anything can happen in a football match. There's no certainty that we will beat the aforementioned teams even if we parade the best squad.

FiveFootNinja:
Just went back to watch the highlights of the previous two AFCONS and how close we came in both, and the heartbreak that followed.

Abeg this country don too suffer. AFCON 2027 is non-negotiable. We MUST win it. And every African team we jam must collect heavy beating from us next edition.

And I want us to jam at least two of these teams -- Morocco, DR Congo and South Africa -- on our way to the title. We have serious scores to settle with them.

Is it you that will play? Those countries will stroll on the pitch, abi?

Agbalowomeri:
FCMB is twin to ACCESS

Too much outstanding shares. Any small change in price, it's opportunity to dump.