₦airaland Forum

QueenJazz:
Cameroon can be notorious bottlers sometimes, so this one can go either way. Although to me this Angola side are not looking as impressive as they were in the last AFCON

Cameroon needs just a draw to make playoff. I don't see Angola beating them in Cameroon.

Cocony:
Burkina Faso 3 Ethiopia 1. Now we need that 4:0 victory over Benin Republic. Firstly, most of you forget that Burkina Faso has more goals scored than Nigeria that is why majority of you were clamoring for 1:0 or 2:0. Thump Benin by 4goals margin or more and leave following other results. It is so simplified.

Lolz. Benin would be sleeping abi?
We have just one route now - which is direct qualification. Except Cameroon loose or CDR draws/loose.

mank1234:
Nigeria should not make the mistake of beating Benin for South Africa to qualify.

Playoff will be Carbon, Cameron, DR Congo, Burkina Faso. No team from our group will make it to playoff
Cameroon will eventually represent Africa.

I posted this earlier.
We cannot make playoff.
We should just pray for direct qualification. Else make Benin Republic qualify. I no wan hear saw we help South Africa qualify.

QueenJazz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAztThyMeyA&pp=0gcJCfwJAYcqIYzv

See what these otondos are saying. "Indigenous coach!" "Indigenous coach!" ... as if the reason we're struggling to qualify is not because of these same indigenous coaches.

I told you guys the vultures will soon show face. They are after the coming AFCON and probably world cup

NIGHTMARE0O7:
Both of una don craze

Yes sir. We were using made in Nigeria calculator

uniquetechng:
The minister openly said there is nothing like per kilometer cost in construction, that Rufai have no idea what he was saying.

That to me is embarrassing, especially coming from a man who considers himself a professor in practice in engineering. Per kilometer cost is the standard metric for road construction and Rufai's questions were valid.

In China for instance per kilometer cost is always made public, why us everything different in Nigeria ?

Going by the said N15trn for 750km road then we can assume the road will cost about N20bn per kilometer, and that's outrageous.

It's not outrageous. The total includes bridges (for the road itself and the future rail path).

For reference compare the world averages in the attached. Convert it to Naira.


It will be more than that eventually.

minfelix:
omo lets just win Benin well and hopefully find ourselves in the playoffs,
cos this mumu Rwanda i dey fear their carpenter players, this is second time we are needing a favour from Rwanda to help us stop a COSAFA team, they failed us in the first in 2006WCQ
Angola 18pts
Nigeria 18pts
Rwanda plsss help us win or draw Angola, them mumu go lost 0-1 in their own home against Angola, while we needed to beat Zimbabwe wellaa

But it was the last game in Nigeria government hat cost us.

mekabuachi:
Benin Republic🇧🇯 manager Gernot Rohr :

"I don't think they will qualify (South Africa🇿🇦), we are better than them, and they play poor football. I think Lesotho🇱🇸 is far better than them."

"We look forward to a grand match against Nigeria🇳🇬 in Uyo."

#ATMSports #FIFAWC2026


Hmmm 😂

Psychological warfare. Lesotho better than South Africa? Anyway Benin may just qualify with a draw.

semid4lyfe:
Not quite. Only 1 - 0 works.

Benin has scored a total of 12 goals.
4 away goals.

Nigeria has scored a total of 11.
6 away goals.

Even 2 - 1 no go do. Only 1 - 0 scoreline works for us in this context.

Noted

semid4lyfe:
Tiebreakers

In the round-robin and tournament formats, the tiebreaker criteria are as follows (Regulations Article 11.5):[21]

1. Greatest number of points obtained in all group matches (3 for a win, 1 for a draw, 0 for a loss)

2. Greatest goal differential in all group matches

3. Most goals scored in all group matches

Should two or more teams still have equal rank after criteria 1–3 are applied, then the following criteria are used:

1. Greatest number of points obtained in all matches amongst the concerned teams

2. Greatest goal differential in all matches amongst the concerned teams

3. Most goals scored in all matches amongst the concerned teams

4. Most goals scored away from home in all matches amongst the concerned teams

The best team conduct score using the following table:
◾First yellow card: –1 point
◾Second yellow card/indirect red card: –3 points
◾Direct red card: –4 points
◾Yellow card and direct red card: –5 points

Only one score will be applied to any player or team official in any match, e.g. a player who receives a second yellow card will only have –3 points applied and not –4 (–1 for the first and –3 for the second).

5. Drawing of lots by FIFA

Edit: only 1:0 or 2:1 or 2 or more goal margin is good for us.

This is because with a goal margin we will be tied on points and goals for. The next criteria will then be the matches between both teams

semid4lyfe:
I just re-read the tie+break criteria. and I think you're right.

Anyways make Rwanda do us a favour and make we win by 1-0 scoreline or a 2 goals margin.

No. Yours was correct. I've edited this post you quoted.

robosky02:
When you see a Siasia team you can easily see the coaches input

Even when they lose you can thomps up the team for an impressive display

But Eric Chelle even the win is too scrapple
A team that bost some of the world best attack

Osimhen, Ademola, Boniface etc
Can't find the back of the net

Yet they are playing pressing game


Check the like time out when Eguaveon lead Nigéria vs Benin it was a free flowing attack and the result resounding 3-0

Same Benin Republic same coach Genot rohr
I hope Eric Chelle can repeat what Eguaveon did to qualify nigeria

It's same we here that glamour for a substantive coach to be employed after we failed to Tunisia and Ghana. Hope you remember.

As much as I love Siasia's style, he is not good under pressure. We lost to Eqgyt in a last group match under him. We lost our(I think drew) to Gambia in Abuja in a final group match too that made us not to qualify. Chelle is managing this pressure better

I think the game against Benin we had already or were almost qualified. The scenario is different. There is always so much pressure when you're far behind in the table

In 2010 we beat Kenya 3:2 away from home in the final match but it wasnt an easy victory. Luckily the other team that was hoping the group lost or drew at home.

mekabuachi:
Hugo Broos: "I think we tried everything against Zimbabwe, we didn’t have the luck either, one moment on the ball line saved, one on the post, you also need a little bit of luck in such games and we didn’t have it in our side."

😂😂

When he was winning it wasnt luck.

semid4lyfe:
If South Africa loses or draws against Rwanda, any 1 goal victory (2-1, 3-2, 4-3 etc) will see us go through because we'd be tied on goal difference with Benin Republic and the tie breaker will be:

Most goals scored away from home in all the group matches between Nigeria and Benin.

Currently, Nigeria has scored 6 away goals while Benin Republic has 4 away goals.

Edit:

You're right. Just checked the tiebreaker again.
If goal difference is same, most goals in group matches comes next.
After that is matches between both teams.

So any single goal margin is enough provided South Africa doesn't win.
Edit: this information is wrong

Hugo Broos: “Maybe Benin will lose in Nigeria or maybe with goal difference. I don’t have a good view on that at the moment. But we just have to go for the victory against Rwanda and then see what happens"

"We have to play just like against Zimbabwe and try to win the game. Then try to see what happens if everything is as it has to be"

Everybody is now humble. The people that use to pray for Nigeria to loose, now pray for Nigeria to win. Such is life

QueenJazz:
TheSuperNerd, BankyGee, Mujtahida and other pundits in the house. Are you sure we shouldn't play this game sitting deep and hitting on the counter? We must not concede any goals at all o.

Like we sat against CIV in the final.

minfelix:
The 3 play off contenders you mention here do not have any better GD than us
Burkina has +4(12pts) play home to Ethiopia
Uganda has +3(12pts) play away to Algeria
Madagascar has +3(13pts)play away to Mali
Nigeria has +4(12pts) play home to Benin

We have +3 currently not +4.

Nigeria should not make the mistake of beating Benin for South Africa to qualify.

Playoff will be Carbon, Cameron, DR Congo, Burkina Faso. No team from our group will make it to playoff
Cameroon will eventually represent Africa.

MetalJigsaw:
Benin will Still top the group with lesser goals conceded. I never expected us conceding

1:0 will put Nigeria on same points across the conditions except for discipline. How will they then have better against record if we win by 2:0?

Arizoner:
go and siddon. SA are in the driving seat

They are not. Benin can win Nigeria and qualify irrespective of South Africa's result

All 3 teams are in it.

Rwanda being out is good. Its easier to play as a spoiler than wanting to qualifier. No tension vs tension

The mistakes Nwabali made is down to tension.

Cocony:
I WAS THE FIRST TO MENTION THE POTENCY OF AKOR ADAMS AND VICTOR OSIMHEN COMBO. IT IS PAYING OFF. I PRAY ERIC CHELLE NOW KNOWS HIS IDEAL ATTACKING COMBO.
AFTER THE WORLD CUP QUALIFIERS GRAFT IN EJUKE OF SEVILLA AND ELETU FORMERLY OF AC MILAN INTO THE TEAM.

NEVERTHELESS, WE NEED A 3RD GOAL IN THIS MATCH AND NWABALI NEEDS BETTER COMPETITION AS HE IS NOT OUR BEST NUMBER 1

Na that Nwabali howler go make naija no make world cup the or playoff because I don't see Nigeria winning Benin Republic by 2 goal margin.

Edit: 1:0 will likely be enough to make playoff at least.

Benin Republic just need a draw in Nigeria to qualify.

Our play doesn't give confidence. Shouldn't we just allow our brothers to qualify?

That was clearly not offside. This linesman nawa

BigDickProblems:
Bro you don’t get the point.

What makes one knowledgeable and informed is the ability to hear or consider every opinion and decide which one to apply. Even if you are making a good point, why try to shut down your opposition (him)?

Some of these things you said here can be countered, the same way, his own. But is it fair to say that you are capping rubbish? No, or you should shut up? No. Any wise person here will know what to decide for themselves when they see all opinions. No one is an island.

While not ideal, his style is being used on him. Abi no be him dey call everybody with diverging opinion marketer?

Opinions can be presented without insult and rancour.

opes:
This is good. The results obtained from the bottom team will not count, even the goals scored, I guess. Burkina Faso, for example, scored a total of 10 goals against Djibouti (the bottom placed team in group A).
Apart from the 6 points, will the goals scored also be removed?

Yes. Goals will be removed to rank the teams on equal basis.

If it's CAF alone I doubt they would have taken this route. That 2017 AFCON miss was a robbery.

JohnBullMySon:
Niger is yet to play. If Niger loses to Zambia then this your point might stand if best losers are 19 points and above. Else the deduction will likely happen.

I think this deduction thing is rubbish honestly. It might benefit us, but it is still rubbish. Instead, FIFA should just award games that have been cancelled as no show.

And lastly, Eritrea should be banned forever from FIFA. This is like the fifth time this happened. Does this not count as govt interference?

Exactly 3 points 3 goals for all teams against Eritrea to maintain the integrity of all groups. It would be criminal for Nigeria to gate crash into the playoff

2026 WCQ: Super Eagles fail to make list of runners-up for playoff - Daily Post Nigeria https://dailypost.ng/2025/10/09/2026-wcq-super-eagles-fail-to-make-list-of-runners-up-for-playoff/

What kind of journalism is this - the title is misleading. There's still mathematical chance of qualifying as explained in the body of the news but the title is off.

kennysville:
The above is not why we arent doin well. You cant assemble players one month to a major tourney and say they should make magic happen. As how na? I can promise you that the Argentine team are probably the same set of their immediate past U17 team. So there is understanding

This is the best point so far this evening.

In 2013 and 2015, the team camped for a very long time, played so many friendlies with local clubs. There was even a mini tournament involving all the cadre of the national team(with exception of the main super eagle)

The result was a well coordinated play at the world cup culminating in lifting the trophy in style

Now NFF doesn't want to spend money not work but wants to reap where they did not sow.

typicalgamer:
The team is not rubbish you can’t expect us to be gifted technically as the argentines

Our selling point over the years in youth tournaments was over Age and physical growth

But now everyone has matched up to us physically and we can’t bully them anymore and they’re technically better so what do you expect

Are you saying the 2013 and 2015 set were over aged?
Iheanacho and Osimen's set.

How we stylishly excuse NFF ineptitude is funny. Everyone forgets that MRI was equally used in 2013 and 2015.

TheSuperNerd:
Even the commentators agree that the Argentine goal came against the run of play. All 3 goals were avoidable especially as Nigeria even started the second half strongly. They said as much which shows that a few of us not keen on cheap criticism (coz anyone can criticize) are right and truly analysing what is on display.

#FlyingEagles2025

You're a die hard fan. I love your energy. Keep it up.

If Nigeria U20 lose by 2 or more goal margin they'll be home.