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Nomyth:
Should we beat Portugal and allow Morocco sneak into the top 5 FIFA rankings and obliterating our proud record?

Or should we lose to guide our record?

Dilemma

5. Portugal 1763.83
6. Brazil 1762.66
7. Morocco 1756.94

They have to first beat Brazil in their opening match at the world cup, then hope we beat Portugal, otherwise they are not smelling that 5th position

Amedino99:
We have really performed suboptimally in the world cup as a continent. Cameroon for example has been to the world cup the most, 8 world cup appearances, played 26 matches yet it couldn't crack more than 5 wins. For a football crazy continent this graphic is such a poor look for us.

Its so so so bad for us as a continent, thats why i made earlier post some pages back that after match day 2 just watch how almost all 10african countries will be dragging with lowly places Asian teams and SouthAmerican teams for 3place finish in d group….
watch how all those mid table European teams will line up behind world soccer powers in first and second position…na only Morocco,CIV and maybe Senegal go put up small fight

Morocco might win Scotland and Haiti to break our record and topple us
Senegal win over Iraq will equal our record and maybe win over norway to also topple us
Ghana win over Panama will equal our record

lets see how it goes

mind you Morocco and Cameroon have been qualifying way before us ooo

Odunayaw:
This time next week I'm still celebrating the shege SA has seen and anticipating the mauling of Morocco

Massive celebration 🤣

chrisooblog:
African teams I can almost never wish to do well at international tournaments Ghana (obvious reasons), SA (not because they are good but annoying), Egypt (honestly can't say why), and Morocco (again obvious reasons).

Countries that I cheer for despite us being rivals include Cameroon, Ivory Coast, and sometimes Algeria (if they are not being annoying).

I don't really send Senegal but I don't beef them.

I so hate these ones eehnnn…they do not even hide their resentment for Nigeria both in soccer and all rounder

Goke7:
May heaven not be far from you! 😜

🙏🙏🙌🏻🙌🏻😄😄

Sugarboyy:
All other Africa countries fit win the world cup but make Ghana, Congo, S/A and Morocco nor pass group stage.

And somehow we dont have any beef against senegal, just that they are gradually crawling into that “giant of Africa” status..

I dont need to wish Egypt and Tunisia badluck…those ones worldcup badluck dey always follow them🤣🤣

Sugarboyy:
You be winch, if you nor be winch you won't hope for Ghana to return home with even a point not go talk of reaching the SF. God forbid bad thing Ghana win a match

omoooo🤣🤣🤣…this world cup go tie wrapper

AndSunGorilla:
Abeg is our match holding in Portugal or North America? Give the world cup starts next week?

African fixtures from next week stretching into upper week
July 11 Thursday
Mexico vs SA

June 13 Saturday
Brazil vs Morocco

June 14 Sunday
CIV vs Ecuador
Sweden vs Tunisia

June 15 Monday
Belgium vs Egypt
Spain vs Cape Verde

June 16 Tuesday
France vs Senegal
Argentina vs Algeria

June 17 Wednesday
Portugal vs DRC
Ghana vs Panama


Only Ghana is starting against a not too fancy opponent…if them like make dem draw or loose to Panama🤣🤣…England and Croatia go too patch patch them….if dey win panama dey may sneak into round 32 as 3rd best team

AndSunGorilla:
OO9
Ashawo man!!!

vamos Cabo Verdo🙏🔥🔥❤️😄😄❤️💃🏼💃🏼

FiveFootNinja:
Thunder fire Cape Verde. Make all of them go warm eba. 🤣🤣

🤣

Mujtahida:
My bad belle prayer is for all of them to come home after first round.

The story is told of three men who found themselves in hell. The devil told each of them to make one request and it will be granted. The first one promptly asked to be with his family.. The word was barely out of his mouth before he found himself cozying up in the warmth of his home.

The second one requested that he wants to be on a cruise ship in the pacific ocean. Fiam, he found himself on a cruise ship and began partying.

Well, it was now the turn of the third guy. Do you know what he asked for? He requested that the devil bring the two other guys who had left, back to hell.

His request was granted.


We Super Eagles fans are in the hell of disappointment now. My bad belle request is that all African teams must come back after first round. 😂😂

chai🤣🤣🤣🤣 i can only have soft spot for Capeverde

FiveFootNinja:
Thank you jare! I was coming to say the same thing.

Unless Hugo Brooks has something interesting up his sleeve, the bafana bafana I've been watching for the past 5-6 months may finish dead last in that group. For all the hype surrounding them since they made the WC last year, they've underperformed massively.

asin ehhn we really snoozed before chelle came oo…
imagine after match day 4 the group looked like this
Rwa 7pts
SA 7pts
Ben 7pts
Les 5pts
Nig 3pts
Zim 2pts
couple with SA playing large bulk of games at home, it was gonna be difficult to catch up with them.
With the hot chase we gave them it was not enough
SA 18 (+6 goals)
Nig 17 (+7goals)
Ben 17
Les 12
Rwa 11
Zim 5

so so unfortunate 🤦🏽‍♀️

ThunderFireAgba:
Just watch as E.U Males will hunt him

The transformation is still in progess(like 60%) very soon we go soon be a team less dependable on a star player…God’s willing

Philosopher1979:
All said and done, we are i think less than 20 years away from an African team wining the world cup.
Cameroon broke the psychological barrier in 1990
Morocco broke another psychological barrier in 2022.
So what is next
After semifinal it is final.
We just need an organized African team without the usual administrative problems and it is possible.
The fact that football is a team sport gives African teams a fighting chance.
As long as your players are at least above average. Like the 65% in quality then you can win.
You only need 2 to 5 world class players to win the world cup.
You dont need 11 players in Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Just 3 superstars and players in average teams in the top 5 leagues of Europe and players in Greece, Turkey,
Belgium, Portugal and even a good African league like South Africa.
With that, an African team can win the world cup.
Most African teams are like that anyway.
It will be an upset manner.
Like greece wining the euro in 2004 or denmark also winning the Euro.
I HOPE PRAY AND BELIEVE IT WILL BE NIGERIA.

seriously ooo…Nigeria is a country that has the ability to go toe to toe with elite teams…our system is really limiting us…just imagine Zadok yohana on the street hustling as at last year…now see teams jostling for that guy’s signature….

we are a big footballing nation..Thats why till date we have the highest win ratio in worldcup games(though the record may be broken by Morocco, cos they have one win to equal that record)
Imagine Morocco and Cameroon started attending world cup before us and yet we toppled them on that record.
If we were in that Morocco shoes of 2022WC walai na final we for end up…

Damioduso1:
Morocco will beat Scotland abd qualify has second place team behind Brazil or even too Brazil self



Senegal may finished second or third in the group they will also qualify


Algeria may finished Second or third and qualifier has best losers if they can beat Austria

The. Likes of Ghana, Tunisia, Cape Verde, DR Congo group stage exist likely

Senegal has to up their game, France will surely struggle against Norway…Senegal will have a mountain task to climb beating Norway

Algeria beating Austria is also slim oo😀😀, its only Nigeria and maybe Cameroon in history of world cup that can handle all this midtable decent european nations like
Czech
Poland
Serbia
Bosnia
Iceland
Norway
Greece
etc

Amedino99:
agree with your sentiments. South Africa also has a chance to make the next round through the best 3rd place route

That SA is very group tough ooo
Mexico host country(they will do everything to keep themselves in that tournament oo
Czech republic these guys play like Croatia and Portugal all those their “IC” ilic, zigic,fucic,vidic players are very sound soccer players oo
Then you see South Korea okokobioko!!!
go and watch their replay of
Russia 2018
Korea vs Germany

Qatar 2022
Korea vs Portugal
Those guys are flash…beating those top guys hands down
Korea and Japan are Asian menaces

SA is a team that ride on the poor form of giant nation to bully lesser teams to top a group…
They really benefited from our poor start and used the opportunity to extend lead against us by beating low teams like Rwanda,Lesotho and Zimbabwe….Dont be deceived by their qualification to the world cup,they are not a solid side to face technical teams….even at afcon they could only beat Zimbabwe and Angola in group stage when they met Egypt they lost, in round 16 they met Cameroon and were booted out

After matchday 2 watch how almost all African reps and low Asian countries will be fighting to be on this table just to advance to round 32🤣🤣 na our ways b that

France’s loss to CIV saw Argentina move to number 1 team in the world
Argentina
Spain
France
England
Portugal

Fra 🇫🇷won 98WC and exited group stage in 2002
Bra 🇧🇷won 02WC and escaped humiliation in 2006
Ita 🇮🇹won 06WC and exited group stage in 2010
Spain 🇪🇸won 10WC and exited group stage in 2014
Ger 🇩🇪won 14WC and exited group stage in 2018
Fra🇫🇷won 18WC and escaped humiliation in 2022
Arg 🇦🇷 won 22WC they have to be wary of inform Algeria, technical European Austria and stubborn Jordan else they will jah from group stage

daveP:
I don't expect much from the CAF reps in this World Cup despite the 10 slots. Based on their groups quality and personal acumen, i only see 2 going to the KO stages

CIV and maybe Algeria


The group Senegal and Morocco are in will be dicey.

Morocco will chop Scotland and Haiti like fufu….Senegal group is tough sha(France and Norway)

omo Africa get work to do for this world cup oo
Morocco just have Brazil to contend with

CIV just have Germany to contend with

Senegal just have France and Norway to contend with(gonna be tough for them)

Algeria just have Argentina and Austria to contend with(tough match for them)

Capeverde have Uruguay and Spain to fight(tough one for them)

DRC have Portugal and Colombia to fight(aint gon be easy for them)

Egypt have Belgium to fight

Tunisia have Netherland,Japan and Sweden to fight, omo they can’t survive abeg

Ghana have England and Croatia to fight(omo tough one)

SA has Mexico,Czech and S/Korea to battle with(omo tight corner for them)

This is exactly how Portugal will play us nextweek….if we are solid it will be a tight match

ThunderFireAgba:
Leave these people make dem dey deceive themselves. Na you get time.

OKOYE INTENTIONALLY LET THAT GOAL IN.
Oya E.U Males Make una being Cry.

abeg wetin b E.U🤣

SymphonyRad:
8 out 10 odds that Portugal will beat us, but unlike the embarrassing eyesore Peseiro served us last time we met Portugal. I expect us to be more competitive this time and give them a good game, it definitely won't be the 4-0 type of drubbing we got the last time...I can see maybe a 3-2 type of result for Portugal cause we will surely score goals with Chelle football.

Yea 3-2 is a decent one for us, but i see us shocking Portugal….i see Portugal chasing that game to equalize us

Damioduso1:
It will be interesting match to watch how are wish Victor Osmihen, Ademola lookman and feni Azeez play against Portugal next week Wednesday




Tonight game Ivory coast vs France

I also wish Lookman and Osimehn plays…

lexyman:
Interestingly, we’ve never managed to beat Portugal in all our encounters so far.

I’m hoping the Super Eagles emerge from this game unscathed and, most importantly, that Chelle’s unbeaten record stays intact. Fingers crossed!

I think weve met Portugal only once(i may be wrong about this) and that was the disgraceful showing from Jpes and his boys in 2022.
Period when Jpes was starting his job as super eagles coach trying to adopt a play pattern for super eagles which he latter settled for the conservative style he used at the afcon 2023.
Emmanuel Dennis lost a penalty in that match when the score was 2-0…that penalty would have changed the psychology of that game…cos before the penalty chukwu eze was already becoming a terror to the portuguese defense

yinkeys:
Ok
The day no far again
No be for mouth

Algeria dey beat Netherland, DRC dey draw Denmark, Portugal no fit beat Morocco…na this particular Nigeria team with a different approach dem go come beat 3-0, 4-0🤣🤣

yinkeys:
3 or 4 nil will be an embarrassment
Im sure Christiano may not play that game
Let’s hope Bruno is on the pitch
Not Onyemaechi o, i mean Fernandes

Portugal will beat this our hustling super eagles
3-0,4-0🤣🤣never!! its not happening una go shock same high intense game Poland gave us is what Portugal will bring to the table… This current Super eagles will make world class friendly match look like “we are not satisfied with the kinda opponent we played”
we want more

Subzero047:
Portugal is one of the favorites to win the world cup but Netherlands isn't, I'm not opposed to a win or a draw but I'm not giving myself reasons to be mad at the end of the match

with this our form we suppose drag with portugal…this super eagles currently deserves a world cup spot
Nigeria 1-1 Brazil(first team played)
Nigeria 4-2 Argentina (first team played except Messi)
A serious and well coached super eagles outfit should be winning or drawing portugal in a friendly

yinkeys:
Algéria just beat Netherlands, I would not be okay with a loss
A draw would be decent
They should win before going on holiday since we aren’t at the World Cup

I didn’t watch this game, i decided to watch the highlights, and im asking how did Algeria manage to come out with a win here….from beginning to the end of the highlight i can just count like 5times algeria attacked compared to almost 20+ back to back attacks from the Dutch and Dominating the game as it should…Algeria really win this game as a Ghost

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDdQxIJQ4wg?si=VUYSbV1wYg-n8Ih8

Subzero047:
It would have relegated Nwabali to the abyss, Nwabali should go and thank him

asinn ehhn Nwabali would now be substitute keeper for Penalty shootout🤣🤣