₦airaland Forum

Bossoflife25:
Lol! I predicted we will defeat Benin and South Africa will draw Rwanda which is normal going by the results of the previous match by those countries. Our main threat will be Gabon does not equate to we will lose to Gabon! lol

ok oo no wahala😅🙏

i really dont know why this Gabon game is not freaking me like the
Nigeria vs Benin and the outcome of SA vs Rwa….i was highly tensed that last month….

i could remember at the afcon when we where about meeting Cameroon my body was vibrating with fear, after the game i wasn’t freaked about the Quarterfinals vs Angola, but my trembling returned when we were to meet SA

Bossoflife25:
I predicted we will beat Benin 2 nil. So what are you on about! Watch football abeg, don't be emotional!

even your prediction against Benin has an element caution and fear…you don’t believe we could maul them by the required 4goals to topple burkina faso…you 2-0 simply mean we cant break into the playoff…

Gabon cannot be our biggest threat..you see that DRC/Cam thats where spilling of blood will be…cos any team in that stage is as good as qualified to the world cup, if any of Nigeria,DRC,Cameroon wins the playoffs they will just have 1 match against a minnow country to play in the intercontinental playoffs….Gabon will give us SA vibe and we drew that SA match due to absence of Osimhen and early injury to Aina

Bossoflife25:
If you think the game against Gabon will not be tough, you need to fasten your belt and rethink again.

Gabon will be our biggest threat! They almost defeat the Ivorians home and away. Infact they struck the goalpost both home and away.

And in Auba, they have a threat we have not faced in years!

If we beat Gabon, nothing else will stop us!

na lie, if we beat Gabon, you will come and still preach fear of DRC and Cameroon to us…if we beat any of those two, you will come and preach Bolivia and Curacao to us🤣🤣

them don sack this werey

Good morning from Gabon…see you all on Thursday

Ademola Lookman really battling emotional war with Atalanta, as he deletes every post regarding his club on instagram….omo no wonder he is not performing at all, omo no b to injure physically oo, just don’t pray your fave player is not injured emotionally, it will show on the pitch oo….see i will suggest he still come from the bench against Gabon and let Chukwu/Simon start abeg….Lookman is not psychologically sound for now

come i hope this is not true🤣🤣🤣,why SA ref?….what happened to Ref from North Africa, Namibia,Zambia,Ethiopia….anyways no shaking

The goal now is for Osimhen to be fully fit for playoff and Afcon oooo…i pray against negativity oo…News
like Osimhen to miss play off and will be fit for afcon or Osimhen Qualifies Nigeria for the intercontinental playoff and goes back to his club for matches, next we will now hear is has picked up injury in his club to miss Afcon…God abeg nullify all this ooooo

Emmy450:
okay, they're officially a top 8 contender, sitting on 9th place with thesame point as 5th place PSG separated by goal difference.

they are going to upstage Newcastle on that table, atleast thats their mate for now in that top 8

elyte89:
We all know 90 percent of d players already on d list ..so y re we so bothered about it ..

i tire oo…like say na new players go prosecute playoff games….you already know them, why not chill and wait for it to be published

9JAMac10:
Our game is 8 days away , where’s the list for the playoffs. Why do our football federations love the fire brigade approach so much. Since the days of Ibrahim Galadima. For those who remember him. This clown man infamously said the World Cup is not our birthright.

you guys should calm down on this list na…the koko is does the players already know they have been invited?…im sure the answer is YES!!….we the fans should chill and wait for it to be published…nothing like fire brigade approach here…you are talking asif the players by now don’t have idea that they have been invited…even new invited players will by now know they have been invited…make una calm down..just give me Osimhen,Bassey,Frederick,Onyeka,Chukwueze,Simon,Lookman,Iwobi and others…we are good to go

See as Osimhen turn Gala into fearful team in this UCL…where are those people tagging him as seriki at the beginning of season…


God abeg look Osimhen hard work and help Nigeria qualify for the worldcup….Osimhen needs to be at the world cup abeg

That Osimhen first goal look like the magical 3rd goal he scored against Benin

TheSuperNerd:
Africa at the Qatar 2025 FIFA U17 World Cup

Tuesday Nov 4 Results:

Cote d'Ivoire 1-4 Switzerland (Grp F)

Haiti 1-4 Egypt (Grp E)

Indonesia 1-3 Zambia (Grp H)





Wednesday, Nov 5 games to come:

Mali vs New Zealand (Grp L)

USA vs Burkinaso Faso (Grp I)

Canada vs Uganda (Grp K)

so far its only
Senegal (0-0 against croatia)
Morocco (4 -0 loss to japan)
CIV (1-4 loss to Switzerland)
these are real world soccer opponents, the rest african rep are yet to meet strong soccer nations…. those africans facing Haiti,indonesia,Bolivia, bla bla never start worldcup

TheSuperNerd:
Luis Diaz may just have knocked Hakimi out of the Afcon but we dont know for sure. The injury report will drop post match or so.

omo na Osimhen just dey my head as i watch him limp off the pitch……omo Ajax vs Galatasaray tomorrow…omo Osimhen abeg oo

CapitalCee:
Osihmen came from the bench in that match. However, lookman was very important that period for people to come and be shi.tting on him now due to club issues is unfair

me im not rubbishing lookman ooo, just my own point is he was not delivering much when Osimhen was away injured…he scored first goal against Benin in the first half, Osimhen came and double the lead, that alone self will discourage Benin to even think of a come back…that game was heading to 1-0 FT result or make Benin even fight back to equalize…but that Osimhen impact sub at 78th mins change the whole vibe of that game and goals started flowing…Lookman is good sha…but we need more of him to deliver us in tight games without Osimhen

CapitalCee:
You carefully removed the match agaisnt Benin were Lookman scored 2 goals.

i gallantly highlighted all the games 6 important games Osimhen missed while lookman was fully fit spearheading as the starman/poster boy of the team in those games….Osimhen also scored in the 3-0 match against Benin

CapitalCee:
Kills which attack? Guy go and take sit with this una agenda. The same Lookman that scored plenty goals and was carrying us when Osihmen was injured. [i][/i]Same Lookman that scored winning goals in AFCON R16 and quaterfinals. Same Look.an that assisted Osihmen only goal in AFCON is killing our attack because Akor scored on his debut agaisnst Lesotho? So if you be coach, if them keep Lookman and Akor for you as option you go bench Lookman? That shows our football knlwlwdge as fans

boss Lookman no score any plenty goals when Osimhen was injured ooo
Nigeria 1-1 Lesotho
Zimbabwe 1-1 Nigeria
Benin 2-1 Nigeria
Nigeria 1-1 SA
Nigeria 2-1 Ghana (Lookman scored 1goal here)
Mali 2-0 Nigeria
Lookman played in all these games oo while Osimhen was out injured

Odunayaw:
Nibo. Where is the water


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksvrY3-03ZY?si=Ig3YaQhNVHmpaTNv


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWGPCPm3mnk?si=QGFs9I9SgbacP87f

anytime you watch super eagles highlights matches, you will know we have quality players and we play good football…wether under Jpes, under finidi under Eguavoen and Eric Chelle, i really dont know how we usually not come out of games as super beast…why we are not dispatching teams like how the north african guys do is still baffling me.
Our loss to Benin under finidi, we played good game but we lost, our loss to Rwanda in uyo same thing….maybe the Osimhen factor in match days ensures we win games even though its not a dominant scoreline…just watch those highlights and see how Simon,Chukwueze,Iwobi etc are all dazzling from left, right and centre…hardly will you see opponents threatening us that much

Subzerooo:
Na only Osimhen I dey put, nothing concern me with the others

pray for bassey and Frederick ooo…no go whine that defense oo

Gabon will bring same game style the Jamaicans gave us at unity cup…super eagles pls oooo win these 2games and qualify for the world cup…those Bolivia, New caledonia bla bla na just to use them do friendly match abeg

lovewins:
My Suggestion on how the Government can Solve the NFF Conundrum without eliciting FIFA's ban

Posted this in the Super Falcons thread and felt it should also put this here.

The corruption and incompetence problem that pervades the Nigerian football federation isn't new, and it can sometimes appear like an unsolvable problem. This however isn't the case, should you have the person with the needed political will, it is one that can be easily solved without the appearance of interference that could elicit a ban from FIFA.

How then can the Federal Government solve this problem?

1. The President has to be on board for this to work? Without the President this may be extremely difficult as you need the leverage of his office to pull several strings for this to be possible.

2. The composition of the NFF board is largely political. 37 of the 44 voting members of the NFF delegate are state chairmen. These chairmen from the states 100% of the time determine who the NFF chairman is and they almost always pick amongst themselves the next NFF President.

3. How do State chairmen emerge? The state government almost always picks them. So the governor of each state of the federation indirectly determines who the NFF President is. They of course of a semblance of an election but the governor's choice is always the end result.

4. These positions usually are given as reward for party loyalty just like they do the ministry of sports at the federal level. I said this to say it isn't exactly consequential to the governors as they can easily cede the position with the right incentive.

5. With the political will, the President only needs to request for each governor to fire their state FA chairman and put someone of competence of his choosing. He doesn't even need all 37 to get the desired outcome, 23 governors are enough to get this done. With the right incentives this isn't a difficult ask from the president to any governor in the federation.

6. After, replacing them with the right people, you can either easily impeach Gusau following the NFF constitution, or just wait till next year and elect the person of his choosing as next NFF President as he now has the votes to do so. I'll go with option 2 as it prevents the need for court cases and the likes.

7. Upon electing the new board of competent people, the first goal will then be to change the NFF constitution. Item one will be to overhaul the voting process of the NFF, wrestling power from state FA chairmen as delegates and instead gives voting power to technocrats, player association, and career administrators. Include laws in the new constitution that incentivizes competence and makes changing bad leadership easier should it be necessary.

8. With a change in constitution, you remove forever the sway politicians have over Nigerian football.

There are other methods than one can use, but all boils down to political will.

then maybe after Afcon and a possible 2026 worldcup appearance, let’s everyone(the fans/government) go against the FIFA rules that restricts govt interference on soccer and radically interfere into our football and sport matters…
lets sacrifice being ban by FIFA to regain our football/sport sanity.

Thats even if the useless govt even care sef

M7even:
Will Our friendly matches against south American teams not be honoured again?

I know it boils down to funds, but we can create a team B with players like Orban, Akinsanmiro and many other prospective eagles players to execute the games. While team A Eagles are on world cup playoff duty.

which coach go come follow them go?…chelle will need all his assistant to avoid any excuses…or una wam send Ogumodede abi na Ilechukwu?….or ladan bosso and Eguavoen?

caprikon:
Gabon and DRC are the strongest teams in the playoffs based on the performances and results during qualification.
The SE have pedigree and momentum which counts during tournaments. It will be an interesting game but definitely not a walk over.

Gabon and DRC only swept aside the terrible minnows in their group…they could do anything against CIV and Senegal respectively…i know super eagles struggled against minnow in our group, but when they meet serious african teams that poses huge threat, we will treat their F up

Nehruvia:
The way people here and on Twitter are downplaying Gabon is crazy. They're actually the deadliest team en route to our spot in the World Cup. Don't be fooled by the game against Benin. We still had plenty of defensive lapses in that game. We gave Benin lots of spaces. Benin were just not clinical and that's why they didn't punish us severely.

Gabon is the game that will make or break the Eagles in the playoffs. If we beat them, we are very likely going to the World Cup.

if we manage to beat Gabon even with our “so called defensive lapses,una shift focus to the next team in the final….and una go come remind us again that Gabon was not that clinical and the next team will punish us…

yinkeys:
Time bomb waiting to poof

Ajayi is actually a decent defender, and also a scoring one for that matter…forget that time bomb whatever…the guy is solid

Joebie:
My AFCON Starters

i will take Ajayi over Tosin for a starter at the afcon if you must remove Frederick…there is no way you will bench frederick and still bench the gentle giant Ajayi

PDPGuy:
BREAKING 🚨

IFAB will reconsider Arsene Wenger’s proposal to amend the offside rule.

Under Wenger’s proposal, a player would only be deemed to be offside if their ENTIRE body (the parts that can legally be used to score a goal) is ahead of the 2nd to last player of the opposing team…

The potential amendment to the rule could drastically reduce debates surrounding the use of VAR on offsides..

na em b say players like osimhen goal score 100 super eagles goal🤣🤣…cos most of his goals ruled offside are usually very slim

if not for say we no wan dey do too much make dem no say our own too much, walai Osimhen suppose dey for top 2 if not top 3 APOTY ….infact win am again🤣🤣

TheSuperNerd:
Osimhen nominated for the CAF APOTY 2025. Nice to see. But we all know it is between Salah and Hakimi this time.

2 yrs in a row for Nigeria. We don try. We shall return in 2026.

all four playoff teams have atleast 1 rep in the nomination…omo

TheSuperNerd:
We will be here in 5 yrs and 10yrs and we would see how that stance ages. I see those comments and I laugh. SA talents that cant thrive in the best leagues have leapfrogged a county constantly exporting talents to the Euro leagues including some of the best leagues in the world, season after season, year after year? These are parts of the reasons SA would remain inferior to Nigeria in football despite their strong PSL league.

Is it not in this same continent we saw Egypt use their strong league organization and more to rule Africa at the Afcon for 3 straight editions between 2006-2010? Did heaven fall? Did they qualify for the WC? SA's last WC was in 2010. The one they hosted. They missed 2014, 2018 and 2022. They only managed to return for the 2026 edition because Naija didnt wake up sooner and SA played 7 of their WCQs games in SA.

I laugh really.

this thing na turn by turn…all this people doing development bla bla bla, taking over Nigeria bla bla are just being petty…in as much as i know that teams are on the rise and developing to become powerhouses, that one na for their pocket….Nigeria will keep on representing Africa at the global stage…the super eagles from Eric chelle’s june qualifiers will breeze all those minnows including SA if we had started the qualifiers with seriousness…chooping and changing coaches with players unseriousness and Osimhen absence is keepng is where we are today….if morocco like they should reach world cup final or SA like they should play back to back fifa club world cup, they cant dethrone perennial powerhouses…
Nigeria still represents africa at U20, U17, both male and female…we are not winning trophies now is simply becos we are not the only team in africa, some other country will/should also step up to win it….wait let another country win Wafcon and see folks here saying other teams have caught up with us and we are no longer powerhouses….asif them do trophy for only Nigeria…there is a reason why Nigeria 🇳🇬 is 5th in africa…that shows our consistency as powerhouses of african football…
there was a time ghana was qualifying like water to knock out stages at the world cup,but the past 3 editions(2014 group stage), 2018(didn’t qualify) 2022(group stage)…..NFF has being corrupt from time immemorial, that didn’t stop us from winning plenty Afcons,u17 wc, u20 wc success, senior world cup good runs, back to back wafcon trophies….
The only thing shaky and rotten to me in Nigeria is our football league….The rest of africa can do 100yrs development plan, they cant lace the boot of Nigeria’s aura and presence in africa…
Any african team wey qualify and win any trophy good for them, na their turn they wont even remain there for more than 5yrs….
Just gather boys wey sabi play ball from all over the world including local based and see Nigeria breezing past teams….no b mercenaries cape verde use qualify to world cup?….which development plan
did they do?
Togo and Angola that went to 2006 WC don return back to their ekuke level