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do4luv14:
Smoked indeed,
Make Una dey take am easy biko

After 120 mins, and PK in the semis, cope with playing with a know, he was smoked,

If e easy go try am

thats the more reason why he was smoked, he was used and worn out in that final…Adingra turn am inside out at that afcon final

BankyGee:
Penalties na penalties. "near catch" na save?

Salah and Marmoush played good "far catch" PKs, how far na? Make Egyptians dey drag them say them play rubbish PKs? Who go miss go miss.

Expected goal for a PK is 0.87... Open net o with just one person standing to stop you. Anyhow you play am, there's that 0.13 possiblity of miss, ALWAYS.

Baba that thing Salah play na catchable…u see that type lookman and that last egypt guy scored…those are classy penalty…hanging the ball in a top corner of the net…i never see keeper wey catch that one

Oizee:
lol, Sir which one be voom voom?

😂😂🤣🤣 voom🔥 worldcup ticket don burn

Nigeria is now smelling around the afcon trophy, we we will lift that trophy either 2027 or 2028

same way we romanced around the trophy from 2000 to 2010 before winning it in 2013
2000 2nd place
2002 3rd place
2004 3rd place
2006 3rd place
2010 3rd place
2013 WINNER

we are coming again
2019 3rd place
2023 2nd place
2025 3rd place

CAF/FIFA top 5 ranking should be
Morocco
Senegal
Nigeria
Egypt
Algeria

SymphonyRad:
Hopefully Chelle builds on this cause we are finally solid in defence and goal keeping, Arthur Okonkwo will join soon as #2 to Nwabali and Benjamin will miss his defensive best friend (Bassey), Ajayi is in his best prime and will provide effective leadership till he retires with a gold trophy in AFCON 27/28 insha Allah.

The foundation already looks good, the only few tweaks needed will be for Chelle to inject new prospects (as he promised) like Durosinmi who will be the next big #9 for us to understudy Osimhen and build a partnership with Akor (who is learning a lot from Osimhen already). We need them as reliable strikers who can hold it down when Osimhen is injured etc

Lastly the North curse seems to be broken under Chelle, we beat every North African team in this tournament except Morocco (arguably the best and most complete team in Africa at the moment) we didn't lose to them in regulation time, it took PKs with all the dodgy officiatings and Chukwueze's gaffe for them to beat us.

I make bold to say that right now, no African team can talk to us on the pitch except for Morocco, Senegal and maybe Ivory Coast.

baba you see this one, dem go collect beating for our hand if we meet again…i can only fear Senegal and Morocco as the number 1 and number 2 teams….Egypt was very lucky our second 11 started this 3rd place match….if this game was a semifinal serious match, we for don tear Egypt apart

rewatching how Nwabali saved 2 penalties against DRC amd we still went on to lose that our play off spot……Bassey voom!! Simon voom!!, Ajayi Voom world cup ticket voom😩😩

Ihenzy:
Oga you no fit understand the technique behind that Iwobi penalty

na because he score…so make i agree with you🤣🤣…remember Bashiru scored the last one and lost in this one…if keeper follow Iwobi own, he go catch am…forget😂

even Osimhen sef, go and watch all his penalties, they are mostly “near catch” penalties 😀😀

FiveFootNinja:
On a more playful note, we need to shelve the white jersey for now. Na the green jersey dey give us good luck.

But last Afcon we use white Jersey beat CIV for group stage, dem catch us for Final with our green jersey, Adingra smoked Aina like tilapia fish😂😂😂🤣

BigManDesigns1:
God bless you for stating the facts... As far as I'm concerned, if bono had dived in the opposite direction, chukwueze's pk would have been considered a very good one. In fact, Alex and Simon were even more non chalant with theirs

Yes naaa bro…it was just the pain for losing that spot kick and losing the semifinal after world cup heart break, that made people blew Chukwueze’s agenda out of proportion….Chukwueze wan calm down place that keeper just as Simon and Iwobi did, but he was so so so so unlucky Bono read his body movement….if Chukwueze had played those roof hanging penalty even with that his body gesture, dem no born Bono well to catch am…our Penalties are just too cheap and catchable…
It either you learn the roof hanging penalty or the Ekong/Taiye Taiwo/Nsofor centre level ferocious shot penalty…..
That thing Kenneth Omeruo played last afcon na comedic rubbish…God save am say Ronwen Williams jah the opposite side go buy crayfish

Use your striking options yo play penalty, u carry defenders and skillful wingers dey play penalty….even against DRC, i was expecting
Lookman
Akor
Iwobi
Osimhen (Though injured)
Ndidi
to take penalties…..
one more thing i observed, our penalties are catchable if keepers dive towards the ball…our boys should learn to play those classy European/South American style penalties…all this grass ball will always put us in trouble…..
we are just blaming Chukwueze, calm down and watch Iwobi,Simon penalties, they should just thank God the keeper did not their direction.

Now see the kinda penalty that Egypt guy played that beat Nwabali, despite following the ball…you can never catch those types

Only Lookman played the best Penalty this night

Nwabali os best goalkeeper after Enyeama

Morocco beat us in 2022 Wafcon semifinal and we lost the 3rd place match to Zambia….will the Morocco factor play in again today?

Last Afcon SA won DRC on penalties…who wins this one

Looking like the record of winning 3rd place match will be broken today…God abeg na

Goke7:
That’s why we no win e no score

but e no score against Uganda and we win na😜😅

andrewbaba44:
Tell him

Osimhen is our biggest striker no doubt, but lets us know that some games are actually beyond him…..if Osimehn like make dey bang in goals match by match, e get some games wey go humble am sef ooo😅😅😂
DRC
Morocco
CIV

Goke7:
Hope we can all see that we can’t score in big games without osihmen

but brotherly he played against Morocco the biggest game na😂😂

Chelle bring in your strong 11 jare…win this 3rd place and keep our record intact abeg….History has it that almost all our strong starting 11 in past afcon are always use to execute afcon 3rd place match…especially your strong frontline….
Ayegbeni scored against Mali in 2002 3rd place
Okocha and Osaze scored against Mali in 2004 3rd place match
Garba Lawal scored against Senegal in 2006 3rd place
Nsofor scored against Algeria in the 2010 3rd place
Ighalo score against Tunisia in 2019

abeg abeg carry Osimhen,Lookman and Iwobi enter for second half abeg

mrwilliams9:
One bad game does not invalidate a player’s qualities.

Onyedika is not SE midfield material….ok then, who is?

This is the same thing people said about Iwobi last AFCON….

Iwobi is
Onyeka is
Bashiru is(wont even be losing balls anyhow the way this Onyedika is losing balls and too much backward passes)
Ndidi is and so on and so forth🤣

one bad game against Morocco, this one against Egypt is now looking like 2bad games

Amedino99:
The pharaohs are dominating. Not something i expect to see from them as they are always defensive minded. Dem no rate us at all and our performance show say dem no wrong

them no born dem well to press the real super eagles in a semifinal match, na this Egypt i really prayed to meet after Algeria…..That Morocco was way too much for us

solonnachi:
CAF President Patrice Motsepe confirmed that the 2027 AFCON edition in Kenya 🇰🇪, Uganda 🇺🇬 and Tanzania 🇹🇿 will take place in August 2027.

See the way dey just messed up the iconic Jan-Feb afcon schedule….ahh omo back in those days football media/journalists will designe paper fixtures for people to buy, anticipate,follow matches and also writing the scorelines in the column after any matchday….how time flies..

U will now see pictures pose of all the national teams at the edges of the paper

lbrichman2:
I agree, he is not

the guy really fall my hand this afcon jare…i hope he will pick up soon….his backward pass too much abeg and always loosing ball to the opponent

Anyways sha, let me retrieve my words back, let me not condemn Onyedika, this was how Bassey too was jonzing in super eagles at some point…even Iwobi sef, there was time people wan use swear finish Iwobi, cos people were expecting to see a direct JayJay replica in him when he started new

AndSunGorilla:
and yet he has 2 goals and a MOTM award.

baba Akinsamiro sef go display MOTM performance against that Uganda wey use 3goal keepers in a match🤣…

When person don dey get hope to lift afcon, mean fixtures will just decide to come and rubbish us…with our invincibility, Egypt was the best opponent to face…not Ojorocco….even Peseiro defensive super eagles was so unlucky to face a re-invigorating host CIV, it should have been DRC in that final…Peseiro would have used his defensive pattern to lift that afcon…
Thank God B/faso ousted Ghana in the semifinal of afcon 2013, else Ghana for use past head to head ach-rivalry to edge us that year

omo forget, Onyedika is not super eagles midfield material jare, losing balls always to opponents like secondary school player

Kog45:
Abi no be here Dem dey write say Lookman dey sabotage the team,even said Lookman deficiency is more than his good work to the team,funny from a reputable contributor here,how many people challenged that reckless opinion...I stood my ground cuz I knew it was just cuz of Osimhen/Lookman spat.....on Chuckwueze I will never blame him, penalty you scored or failed to score... Chelle to be blamed...yes Semi and Bassey lost against Congo but i will force one of them to play especially Bassey cuz nobody will blame Bassey for anything in this tournament.

you see am

Odunayaw:
Shed more light

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Afobear:
dreamer in pain

see as this 🐀 just dey enter one hole to another hole🤣🤣….you get pain relief?

NFF APPLYYY PRESSSSSURRREEEEEEE🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥….and more PETROL, i dont mind going to world cup straight sef without playing the play off…cos the way im seeing it Jamaica may also be ineligible to play the playoffs as far as Nigeria is concerned