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Eric Chelle don vex o🤣🤣

common maduka is trying in this game abeg

Im happy Okoye will grow to b solid…he’s been decent so far

akorrrr🔥🔥

guys Okoye is trying here oo…i pray he ends up this game with beautiful performance

Nice save okoye…🔥🔥

our midfield dey chase ball like spirit 🤣🤣…their legs no touch ball

Goke7:
You see why we needed every player here?

This is the real drill not Jamaica 😂 this is where our true resilience will be tested to champions stuff

i really love this test walai😂😂

omo we never touch ball oo🤣🤣

JohnBullMySon:
I think this has to be the very first match where I’m rooting against Nigeria.

Sorry guys. This match is not all that important for us. Ronaldo needs to be in top form coming into the WC. Make he paste Okoye like 2 make everywhere soft.

even if it was a world cup final, u go support Ronaldo to win am over super eagles…
una prefer the joy and record of 1 man over the pride of an entire Nation

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Napoleon55:
Okay o,whatever una say.

Everybody know say they are not our mate on football,
But we were paired with them on first occasion, they got the ticket, we didn't. On the second occasion, they still got the ticket ahead of us,and una insist say they no stop us na we stop ourselves.
Don't you think if we were able to defeat them just once,that we would have qualified ahead of them inspit of all those draw games we had?

I don't mind meeting them on knockout stages,but once it's a group thing, they will play every politics to qualify ahead of us whether by hook or crook.

Bro if you replace SA and Ghana with Either Burkina Faso and Mali in our group and then go ahead to fumble against the minnows in our group…Teams like Mali,B/Faso,DRC etc will capitalize on our fumbling and qualify ahead of us…its not peculiar to only Ghana and SA…we dont need to win SA or Ghana in our group, just pound the minnows in that group home and away…then a draw home and away with Ghana/SA will qualify us to any tournaments

EEGA:
te author=Truidstarr post=139670434] Na you talk this kind thing with your full chest?Okoye has let us down so many times.

I'm very sure Arthur wouldn't have conceded more than one against Poland.

Let's give Arthur a chance to stake a claim for a starting shirt in the SE against Portugal.

Arthur has 2 cleansheets in 2 games.

Today's game will be his ultimate test.

i wonder why people are resolving with the mindset of Number 1 choice to Either be Nwabali or Okoye….omo make una give Arthur chance against Portugal lets see if he can be our undisputed number1

Napoleon55:
But whatever anyone wishes, they should stop wishing to be paired with Ghana or South Africa no matter how strong our team may appears to look.
They have proving to be capable of stopping us in the past.

Those two countries have stopped us from going to world cup on two occasions, therefore,it would not be prudent to be wishing to play them so we can have our revenge,even though we can never be afraid of them.
The same way I can never wish to be paired with Argentina in any world cup,even though I believe we are capable of defeating them on a good day.
But if however we get paired with any of them,we can then boldly approach the encounter as boldly as we have always done,
But it's just better to avoid them altogether.

This na my own take.

Bro plss don’t nuture this mindset especially against SA…. I can agree with you on Ghana but you see SA, never were they the ones that stopped us from qualifying to world cup or Afcon
in 2015 Afcon Keshi’s (Defending Champions of 2013) team was busy losing to Congo 2-3 in Uyo, and losing 1-0 to Sudan in Khartoum but playing draw twice with SA (0-0 in SA and 2-2 in Uyo) The thing is we are to complacent and careless against lesser teams in the group and hoping to fight it out with the top teams in the group….why we were busy losing to Congo and Sudan, SA was busy dispatching them.
That was how we lost that ticket…in this case it was not SA that stopped us from qualifying, it was Sudan and Congo

Same thing in 2026 WCQ, we are losing to Benin and drawing Lesotho, Zimbabwe and then hoping to beat SA….
Baba let SA be in our in every qualifying editions if we underrate the lesser minnows we will pay for it, cos SA will capitalize on our poor form to pound those teams, SA knows they cant beat us so they will pound those teams and hope to hold us to a draw.
In this same case it was not SA that stopped us from qualifying, it was Lesotho,Benin and most especially Zimbabwe that stopped us

Imagine if we are doing our own pounding of those minnows home and away and draw SA home and away, walai we will still qualify to any tournaments case

Napoleon55:
Hope you are not trying to justify Nigeria's failure to qualify in a group where SA is our strongest opponent who is to a large extent considered as our wife in football.

The argument is which group is tougher in Nigeria vs Tunisia group?

Kog45:
Zimbabwe wey dey lose to Lesotho

When those mid table/decent african teams lose form most times those lowly rated minnows usually beat them….thats why sometimes even eswatini can shock burkina faso an afcon finalist…
compare our group to Tunisia group
Nigeria = Tunisia (Nigeria is better)
SA = Equitorial Guinea (SA is better)
Benin = Namibia (Benin is better)
Zimbabwe = Malawi (Zimbabwe is better)
Rwanda = Namibia (almost same strength)
Lesotho = Sao Tome(Lesotho is better and stronger minnow, not because we drew them…but go and check games against big teams you will see thet saotome always get drubbed, Lesotho is closing in on those teams above them now.

Tunisia was placed in easy group

Kog45:
But Nigeria played Zimbabwe and Rwanda nau...

SA and Benin are decent African teams, regular afcon participants compared to Liberia and Namibia….even Zimbabwe will beat those 2countries….Tunisia was ina very easy group

Moniter0:
Some people for no let us hear word if that Portugal's second goal fired from outside the 18 yard box that the Chilian Goalkeeper let in was conceded by Maduka. But some people that have seen it are doing as if not happened while waiting and lurking around the Internet space for the next time a goalkeeper will make a save from a longshot outside the 18 yard box and rush to post the link here in order to spite maduka


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmxTq0WyB9w?si=iDhMcXbPrXgvneuf

You sef dey all over social media waiting to see outside shots that beat goalkeeper so you come and protect Maduka here abi😅😅😂
This particular goal is usual outside shots we see that scores goalkeepers

daveP:
these two may not do much in the world cup even if i also expect their pedigree to show. I hope so too.

Like this im even limiting Morocco win to only vs Haiti🤣

This Portugal team is not exciting jare..abi shey na d match boring?

Joebie:
but this one no dey end na.. who hold the record for first WC title go brag for a long tim.

make we start from afcon first then carry d bragging enter world level

AndSunGorilla:
Fear on top friendly? If dem beat us 10-0 sef, doesn't matter to me so long as we expose one or two good talents.
Regardless of the results against Poland, Bewene is a new talent, Nnadi endeared himself to us, Otelle made some good moves (needs to work on his final balls), that's what matters in friendlies to me.

omo bro for the confidence and growth we dont need any disgraceful result ooo…else na tomorrow dem go start dey discuss how to remove Chelle from the job to bring in Eguavoen for afcon qualifiers

do4luv14:
Bia nwokem which one is ground exist, asin March ground and exist 😁😁😁

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Meliforme:
It is now 5:0.

na Belgium wey Egypt wan beat b this?🤣🤣🤣 Pray for Egypt next week

Goke7:
Make Una no make mouth too much o na Portugal we go face soon o be careful how you yab other teams 😂

almost 1yr now i don avoid betting companies…u see this game…im betting Super eagles win or draw

France 98 Tunisia (group stage exit)
Korea/Japan 2002(Tunisia group stage exit)
Germany 2006(Tunisia group stage exit)
Missed 2010 and 2014
Russia 2018 (Tunisia group stage exit)
Qatar 2022 (Tunisia group stage exit)
USAMEXCAN 2026(Tunisia ground exit)
6 editions in out of 8

Benin,Mali even Burkina faso and zambia with this back to back appearances would have done a great job

chrisooblog:
If I was coaching Zadok and want to suggest players to watch clips of and copy I would promptly point to Finidi, Beckham, Figo, Mahrez, and Di Maria.

A productive winger to me is one who uses his dribbling skills to create that slight space to deliver a cross or shot. A high IQ winger for me is one who is smart enough to know when to cross or shot instantly instead of pointless dribbles that allow defenders time to get into shape.

Zadok is young and still has time to refine his game and avoid Ikedia, Maduaeke, Chukwueze kind of wingers play sets.

Chukwueze not hitting his highest potential in soccer is not tied to his wing play pattern….its just simply shows that’s the height of his ceiling and limit of him wing play destiny….
I would want Zaddok to grow into the Neymar/Lamine Yamal shape(players that can delete you one on one turn your stomach in and out and mess you up and still deliver beastly crosses and assist aswell as adding beautiful goals to his game

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1HskAn9Zok/?mibextid=wwXIfr

watch this extended highlight between Nigeria and Morocco semifinal….omo forget Nwabali is worthy super eagles number 1

Joebie:
na first African country to win World Cup make sense. Make una continue to chase who be first for AFCON class.

Baba, first command respect from your hood before outsiders give you respect or before you begin dey eye wetin d world dey eye….all countries wey don win worldcup are worthy champions their confederation..
Win Afcon, command respect from africa then go on to the world to show them

Sugarboyy:
How many points comes with winning and which position will the SE be if we win Portugal?

From FIFA website👇🏽

How are rankings calculated?

The FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking is determined using the Elo Model. This method adds or subtracts points for matches to or from a team's existing point total. The points which are added or subtracted are partially determined by:

relative team strength
match importance
match result
expected match result

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