BankyGee:
Nigeria 🇳🇬 has moved from 34th to 32nd on the FIFA Rankings after beating Angola 🇦🇴. If we beat South Africa 🇿🇦 next tomorrow, we'll move up to 25th and if we win the finals, we'll enter Top 20 sharp ✅ probably 18th or 19th.

Let's go boys 🔥🔥🔥

Top 20¿¿😯

Are you sure about this?

Astra101:
I don't know why her face always gives me an unhealthy erection

She is so beautiful and attractive for her age.

And she's lucky that she has less fat.

komekn:


It's like people are afraid to say the obvious.

VO greatest strengths are his relentless, never stop work rate, the raw determination and blind rage he uses to play . He is like a man on a mission that overcomes his handicap by his unparalleled mental attitude and single minded aggressive force to succeed. In this regard he is the best.

However, against equally fast, physically stronger 💪🏿 more robust and highly determined black African muscle head defenders he is struggling.

World class players use techniques,skill, deceptive play to overcome obstacles. These are not the attributes of VO.

VO relies on his aforementioned unique attributes, it's not going to be very successful in the AFCON that's now proven.

It's time for Moffi to come and maybe Victor can come in as a substitute to replace him or even complement him as second striker. Right now AFCON defenders have read him , he does the same thing he is not unpredictable.

He is still absolutely essential but we need to try Moffi and see what he can do. It's avwin win if Moffi does nothing for 45 minutes.

Then unleash a refreshed and full of running with greater determination VO, for 45 minutes of non stop aggression I think he will score at least two in such circumstances.

Particularly as players always tire in the last 40 minutes of a match .

What if we are chasing the game by then? Yoo weel naw bring in Victor to come and perform magic abi?🙄

Don't you know that victor is the reason opposition defenders are always low in confidence such that they're prone to commit errors?

You think his intimidating presence and workrate is not working? You think they're not reflecting on our favorable scorelines? You think it's only the defenders alone?

Wait, so if you're a sane coach, in this crucial stage as the semi finals you'll bench your most feared striker? You are funny if you don't know🤣🤣🤣

Emmy450:
90% luck?, LMAO.

Four penalty saves out of five is also 90% luck??.. he also went the right direction for the one he didn't save..

If penalties are 90% luck, then why do players train and device strategy to come out as winners?

If the south African goalie was so good that he's sure of saving four penalties in one match why is he playing in South Africa?

The very first time I played betting I won the "ticket".

In fact there was a day I played four "tickets" same day which I won three of them. But for the past four months I haven't won one bet slip!

And this is despite the fact that I even intensified my forecast and increased the amount of bet slips I play at a go.

This is equivalent to penalty shootouts.

It's 90% luck I didn't say 100%.

Joezinho:
I laugh when some people say that, without Osimhen, we wouldn’t have gotten to this stage of the competition. Are you guys playing? 😅😅

Put some respect on the names of your fvcking defenders!! Someone is even calling us ungrateful because of Osimhen.  😅😅

Our shots-on-target stats have been dismal in this competition so far. Even if he isn’t scoring, at least he should be hitting the targets ffs!!!

Some of y'all get high blood pressure whenever Osimhen is criticized but put the likes of furo iyenemi and uzoho for that defense and see if una body nor go don tell una..

Can you point out anyone that said the defenders are bad... We're talking about the attack last time I checked.

I bet you even lookman wouldn't cherish the idea of victor sitting on the bench because he knows what the benefits of his off-ball movements and workrate.

You guys are not getting it. Una just day watch match with emorions and zero observation.

Emmy450:
Another clip of Nwanbali saving a penalty in the South African league.

https://twitter.com/therealdankoli/status/1753137897874629106?t=Ihf7jFmHaFpzWG2FrmMZ9w&s=19

If the game drag's on until penalty shootout,. (I don't see that happening tho) I believe we're good.

Penalty shootout is 90% luck oga

Blueelf:


Nope

Tbh, I even predicted the SE to leave in the group stages

But think about it. Do you think osimhen would've scored that lookman's goal against Angola?

He would be too eager and would baloon it over the top bar. I've noticed that about him

Hustle can I ly take you to a certain point and after that m, as a striker you would need to be clinical. If he does this nonsense in the PL, he would be benched after 2 games irrespective of how much was spent to buy him. He is even a black man again and they won't have as much patience. Ask nunes that's even south American.

You people should talk true.nobody will shoot you. Odimhen has been wack this tourney. Even Gift orban will score most of those chances he missed you can't tell me that KC Nacho isn't a better finisher or doesn't have better most off the ball

You people should remove sentiments. SA game is one where the SE can't afford to miss chances . Their defence is equally disciplined.no wahala. Na here we dey

Man, I must say your football knowledge is below par.

Osimhen is the major boost in our attack,
goals or no goals. Go and make your research. The proof is there.

"He is super deadly!", as a commentator would say. And if you dont know, every other team has this in the back of their mind that's why he's the most marked among all our players and this pulls focus to him. I've lost count of how many times commentators have exclaimed this.

Do you think a sane coach/player will be foolish enough to overlook him just because he's not scoring goals? Leave him and you pay for it!

He's one of the few players (Three of them I'd say) that has made this team this dangerous and high in confidence.

You think it's Peseiro?or you think it's our defense alone? Lol

Victor isn't scoring goals which is not good but this guy bullies defenders and frees up space! for others... most especially Lookman.

He is involved in most of the goals, aren't you watching the games?!

I won't explain further... If you don't grasp, that's your problem.

mrwilliams9:


Never! I want SE to beat them here, and home and away in wcq. We shouldn’t even joke with wcq. We should look at each match as a knockout game. Must win games

You seem to not understand his input.

Mujtahida:

Francophone West Africa

Cisse, Keita, Sissoko, Diarra, Toure, Traore...😁

Marjoribanks:
Ivory Coast will open up allowing Mali to score more goals.

Not easy playing 11v11 against this Malian team let alone 10 men!

Mali v DRC

Nigeria v Cape Verde

Who could have predicted this?

Some people and outright conclusion...

You should have waited till FT.

etebefia:
If Osihmen misses the next African footballer of the year, Lookman should get it. If both of them should miss it, Ekong should get it.

Ekong bawo? What are you saying...

Afcon alone isn't enough to win you the Apoty

Joebie:
Looking at the brightest side. We are the best team so far per SofaScore

hmm No Angola?

Mujtahida:

That's why I hate it so much because it turns our idea of football on its head. It's anti - football. Football is, you play, I play and the better team wins. No be to deny me of the ball by running triangles up and down in crisp fashion. I just don't like it at all. So sterile.

That pattern is also a tactical playing style. It's called possession game.

It's a motive to pull out your opponents from their positions and force them to leave pockets of spaces at the back.

ThunderFireAgba:
Do you think we can displace Morocco at the 12th position if we win AFCON?

Nope. The gap is too wide- 36th to 12th. I think thee highest we can leap is top 25

Oasis007:
Nigeria have participated in 19 AFCON tournaments and have reached the semi-finals 16 times.

We're giants of Africa for many reasons.

To those saying Nwabali hasn't been tested. Has he now been tested or not yet?

Man is an Enyeama Jnr👏👏

Kog45:
Last Afcon Simon Moses was our best player,losing to Tunisia was what make most of us to rubbish the team that got 9 points in the group stage.

That's not true bro. If he actually had no end product he wouldn't be so highly rated in that tournament.

If we went far I'm sure you wouldn't be implying this.

lbrichman2:


Iwobi.. 9/10
Stop criticizing what isn't there
Commend the guy for the good plays and leave it at that
Nothing will happen to you

Oga he's right.

No one is saying he's bad

Iwobi is sluggish his work rate in the middle is obviously overworking Onyeka. He's a midfielder midfielder na

COOL10:



Just a feeling, nothing more.

No lie u don peff somethin🤣🤣🤣🤣

COOL10:
A lot of people are going to laugh at this, but I see Onuachu scoring a bicycle kick in the 86th or 87th minute of today's match


All things are possible, to those who believe

What's the reason behind your prediction?

WantsandMore:
howfa your reality? Can we predict on sentiment now?

He even said "stamp the date" like say him be God🤣🤣🤣

People funny sha😂

maidaboi:
Musa is not useless after all

People are too quick to judge. Experience and motivation matters.

Mujtahida:
Ghanaians media people give the best match analysis. I swear. I enjoy them

link me bro

Curtisaxel10:
If Iwobi mistakenly get injury eh, na then wey all of una go respect am. Iwobi is the most important player in that team as far as I'm concerned. The only irreplaceable player.

If Osimhen gets injured, Moffi and Iheanacho dey. If Iwobi gets injured, we better just pack our bags because he is the only creative midfielder in the entire bloody team.

You're PARTIALLY right.

You know why? Not that he's that good its just that the team is almost like a "pauper" when it comes to that MF department.

You know that "one-eyed man in the land of the blind" adage.

Iwobi is still an average player nonetheless.

A step down for her career.

And would be hard to win African best from there.


Ajibade should step in

Oboto700:
people wey get dead ball finishers don go house... Wetin Dey worry una for this forum? Why most of una no get Sense?

This is just too unnecessary Mr

If you don't grasp the the reason behind his post, better to just ignore.

bisqit:
that guy is supposed to be playing for Enugu rangers. He's below average

So why is he a constant starter under all the coaches that are handling SE (even JP) ever since he joined?

Although he fluffed a series of scoring chances that would have made him a contender for the golden boot, Osimhen's intimidating presence and winning mentality is what has got us to this stage people! 🤷🏾‍♂

Even with only one goal😂🤔

It's still Osimhen's AFCON so we ought to be happy.🤣🤣🤣🤣

Nomyth:
Camerounians are saying on social media that the times we've beaten them in AFCON we have failed to make it to the finals.

Do they not also know that each time we beat Ivory coast we go on to win the cup?

femicyrus:

Availability can be on the bench.
We want him in the starting eleven.

Ihenacho has been available since his return from injury. Likewise the guy that replaced ndidi

I think those are just the coach's decision.

Those guys apparently don't fit into his current tactical plants. (Or at least he's not much confident in them)

Iwobi over Alhassan for creativity

Simon over Nacho for pace and defensive support.

comodo:
I have been meaning to say this all the while. It's worrisome that we don't have a dead ball player in SE.
1) We are not threats to opposition during corner kicks. We have gone 4 matches in this Afcon. Zero goals from corner. Zero goals from indirect & direct free kicks. We have giants in our team but we cannot convert even 1 corner kick. Not even goal aaaiiih!!. It's worrisome. Our deliveries are always very poor.

I am just clueless as to how a player of Iwobi's caliber with his postion will have no idea about set piece taking.

elyte89:


Na dt “stingy” defense Dey win tournament…eagles are playing in a highly organized compatible game,only a team full of individual brilliance can defeat dis team…it will be very difficult for any side in dis tournament to defeat eagles except if we decide to do d unusual;wc happens once in a while..dt Cameroon game was a confirmation,our opponents shld just drag us to d penalties and hope Dey win via penalties.

And they won't succeed. Because they'll concede at least a goal. We've never failed to find the back of the net in all four games.

Our front three have proven to be a handful for all the defenses.