₦airaland Forum

Goke7:
We Nigerians are the problem castigating our nation so badly on social media and singing more praises of other countries who can’t lace our boots so the world out there thinks we are a finished country with scammers and bad governance in terms of leadership in short they think we are like Somalia or any war torn nation so when they see us do well in sports they are kind of shocked and wonder where the magic is from. See that Benin guy cursing osihmen as he can’t believe that after we struggled to beat Lesotho we came out to hammer his country 4-0.

We too need to stop overrating these countries over Nigeria and give the impression they are better when indeed they are not. Even Ghana in recent times has not done better than Nigeria a country who last won Afcon in 1980 or so. I even see some people here hyping South Africa and tomorrow if we hammer them then the hating will start again. Even CIV despite winning us in Afcon are not head and shoulders over us. Only Senegal and Egypt(which we can still beat) I can say are ahead. A country producing two APOTYs in a row is still a powerhouse even if the team flounders at times.

asin eehn even Libya sef dey beef us till now….Gambia,Namibia,Eswatini,South Sudan and the rest will soon join….and these countries will be beaten like tiff by morocco,Algeria and egypt of this world and they will take their losses in good faith…bit if na 9ja beat them serious hate go start

QueenJazz:
Apart from Cameroon, Morocco and sometimes Ghana, we should be infuriated at the audacity of all the other teams to think they can banter with Nigeria in soccer, especially given our pedigree.

Dem don really see us finish.

its so so annoying, from the days CAR started beating us at home to these days where Lesotho will he holding us to a draw…

BankyGee:
You should say like 100+ odds 🙄

For percentage:
The lower the percentage, the lower the chance.
The higher the percentage, the higher the chance.

For odds:
The lower the odds, the higher the chance.
The higher the odds, the lower the chance.

So, basically:
That 👆🏾 your statement means that 99% of the time, Victor Osimhen's goals for the Super Eagles will dry up.

chai and i no quickly reason am that way😂😂😂 thanks jare

Goke7:
Don't just go there. Lookman has been the star of his club, even after his Europa heroics, right up until he started having issues with his coach and the transfer saga, which has led to the psychological downturn currently affecting his form. The same happened to Osihmen until he found joy again in Turkey. We also know all sorts that were said about Osihmen right on this thread when he was going through all his travails.

If Osihmen's goals dry up again, so we will go back to what we are trying to do with Ademola now, abi. Nigerians na wa for una. Fair weather people!

the chances of osimhen goal drying up for super eagles is like a 1.01 odd ooo

in the last 5-6-7-8yrs any african team we beat suddenly become our enemy on social media and they start to heavily beef us and wish for the our downfall
SA
Ghana
Cameroon
Zambia
CIV(started during afcon group stage)
Morocco(wafcon effect)
Bfaso(playoff saga)
Lesotho
Zimbabwe
Angola(during afcon)
even tiny Benin don dey dey wish us bad…

But i observe if these teams face each other and beat themselves they dont hold that grudge/beef for long…like this now eehn all of them just gang up now dey hate anything Nigeria all over social media….wetin dey sup na….
Anyways i will blame super eagles generation from 2015 till date that has given most of these teams a head lifter that we are beatable hence whenever we beat them it pains them like we are not suppose to beat them…

we really underrated and came unprepared against teams like Lesotho,Zimbabwe and Benin at the start of the qualifiers…now we dare not underrate Drc,Gabon and Cameroon…
Nigeria and Cameroon were the sleeping giant of the group stage, Allowing teams Like SA and Capeverde top the group to qualify….DRC and Gabon is understandable, cos they had Senegal and CIV to contend with respectively….so it wasnt gonna b easy for them….i see both giant Nigeria and Cameroon waking up form to dispatch those teams to reach the final…
Nigeria vs Cameroon will be cr@zy….they will be very stubborn this time around

November 13 don reach ooo, Eric Chelle,Super eagles, hope you guys can maintain the winning streak oo…omo i no even want make we enter penalty ooooo, this playoff na unity cup pro max oo.
Gambia 3-4 Gabon
Gabon 2-0 Burundi
6goals scored 5goals conceded
W,W

Togo 0-1 DRC
DRC 1-0 Sudan
2goals scored 0conceded
W,W

Mauritius 0-2 Cameroon
Cameroon 0-0 Angola
2goals scored 0conceded
W,D

Lesotho 1-2 Nigeria
Nigeria 4-0 Benin
6goals scored 1 conceded
W,W


Osimhen,Chukwueze,Onyeka,Bassey,Iwobi,Akor,Lookman etc….plss stay injury free ooo

Also note that Semi Ajayi is on 2yellow cards now(Vs Lesotho and Vs Benin), plss guys who can fill in for him agains Gabon, i no wan see Ekong for that starting 11 ooo😭

Elock1:
Until you jam Venezuela before you know say football no be cho cho cho again .

Biggest mistake in football.
Underestimating any team

oga we don beat Venezuela well well before…under Keshi in 2013….na 3-1 we wire dem goals from
Brown Ideye
Nosa Igiebor
Ogenyi Onazi
They are not threat to us

Goke7:
Were we not victims of the head-to-head rule introduced for the 2006 World Cup that saw Angola qualify ahead of us? Make Burkina Faso go rest jor, na we suppose dey complain pass with SA playing most of their games in the same stadium, city, and country. Make no person provoke me, abeg. Is play-off automatic qualification?

play off is a huge life line naa

caprikon:
I feel his pain cos we could be on the wrong end of this rule at some point in the future.

CAF should ensure all the last games of the WCQ are played at the same time for fairness.

hmm this is also a good option

TheSuperNerd:
It is not unfair if the system applied to all. Same metric. Same rule. You forget that as at 3-0, we were on our way out. If BFA had bagged results or scored more against other sides, they would be in better position.

Also, the letter addressing and reemphasizing the rule was sent since March 2025 or so. So it did not take anyone by surprise. BFA should go rest and prepare for Afcon.

yeaa true

QueenJazz:
Abeg Burkina Faso players and fans should rest abeg. They're bloody hypocrites. I'm sick and tired of reading their complaints online.

It's the audacity for me: accusing CAF and FIFA of systemic bias when you're attacking a rule that was explicitly designed to ensure equitable comparison across nine groups with unequal number of teams. Just lets you know they don't really care about justice. They only care because they got the short end of the stick.

The teams in the 5-group category, no thanks to Eritrea's withdrawal, would have faced an insurmountable mathematical deficit if Burkina's "easy wins" were counted. Do they care about that? No, because that's not their problem. Afterall it's not their group.

Isn't it funny how people only seek justice when the system doesn't favor them? When it favors them, they won't mind it at all, lol.

They should be livid and hostile towards their own football association (FA), and not FIFA. Their footballing government should have taken note of the Eritrea situation, and anticipated the possibility of getting knocked out of the second place table, and go all out in their last two games against Ethiopia and Sierra Leone.

Abegi!

😀

Lionessza6:
Fair submission.

And those with turf fields should also be regarded the same...they have no football fields .

Atleast our potato farm pitch try small 🫣

oh yea

charlesemeka85:
maestro is linking up play with jaw dropping through passes in the midfield of Barnsley’s 2nd team 😊🤣

kai this baba na savage🤣

BascoVanVeli:
Only thing I didn't like was allowing Benin to have the ball for way too long. That style of play isn't sustainable. U are basically asking the other team if they have the quality to beat you.

sir, so long as African football is concerned, there will surely be moments like that, we cant have it all 100% accurate….Benin came into this match as group leader ooo….everyteam will surely bring their A game.
Benin also have europe based stars that can also run us riot….At confederation cup 2013, there was a time in the game vs almighty Spain, that we held the ball more that than d spaniards

charlesemeka85:
what is life without maestrooooooo 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

🤣🤣🤣

CapitalCee:
I have checked it tay tay. There are still 2 mathes to play in November. Honduras is on 8pts Costarica is on 6 points.

14/11: Nicaragua vs Honduras
19/11: Costarica vs Honduras.

For Costarica.
14/11. Haiti vs Costa rica
19/11. Costarica vs Honduras (possible decider).

Meanwhile Costarica needs to be careful oo or else Either Suriname or Panama can overtake them in second team ranking. They seem to be draw specialists like Nigeria.

For me if possible let Caracao and Suriname come out from cCONCACAF.

Surname and Cocoa industry

Though that system favoured us, but so unfair to many teams oo🤣🤣….CAF/FIFA going forward need to look for another way to balance things…Steve Yago is nearing his career end with grudges….this guy go soon comot cloth inside bathroom swe@r for CAF/FIFA just like Joe erico and Oliseh did to super eagles🤣🤣

Oga Charlesemeka and Coach Elyte….hope our “seriki “is really doing you both proud🤣🤣🤣…Anywhere my Osimhen goes i follow🙏🙏…Just as fans followed messi and ororo to wherever they went

TheSuperNerd:
It looks like you want Charlesemeka85 to combine attending to his newborns and standing guard against any Nwakali talk. 😂

But Nwakali has not featured for Barnsley's first team since the 25/26 season began so he cant be an option.

Right now we need Ebenezer Akinsanmiro added to the team for the playoffs. Christantus Uche is there but his profile is different to Akin's. Chelle just haven't figured out Uche yet.

hahahaha Jesus oo🤣🤣

lbrichman2:
E be like say you like vawulence pass peace
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Like this now ehhn we have 3potential games left to the world cup🙏🙏🙏Give us these days oh lord

Akor Adams’ game time at Sevilla will give Eric Chelle the opportunity to simultaneously study Chidera Ejuke…if he puts up a good showing in this week’s return to club football , he might be invited for the playoffs…..abeg make una no press my neck for this question i wan ask ooo🤣🤣🤣

Una don forget Kelechi Iheanacho? and👇🏽
























































Kelechi Nwakali?😜😜😜🤣🤣🤣

charlesemeka85:
South America no be when e be Bolivia and others

We go chew dem like Sushi

🤣🤣🤣lol
Argentina
Brazil
Colombia
Paraguay
Uruguay
Chile
are the Conmebol teams that use to show us pepper, but you see all this
Peru
Venezuela
Nicaragua
Bolivia
them go chop am….lets just cross this crunch hurdle first, then we go take it from there

in as much as i wouldn’t wanna overflog the SA issue of the unfair advantage of having 7matches played in their soil….CAF needs to do better…if a team doesn’t have a home ground its better they are ejected from the qualifiers or go for a fair ground….

common meehn the fans also have a way to influence a match

with the way Eric Chelle’s Mali played at the Afcon, if he had started this Qualifying campaign with us, walai, our group leadership gap with SA,Benin and Rwanda would have been like heaven and earth..

This Eric chelle will beat all the teams in that our group home and away maybe a draw in SA sha, but you see all this teams…
The way he started his campaign against Rwanda away in 2-0 win was a ruthless one…Even without Osimhen in those first 4games there is no way Chelle would have lost away toBenin, or draw Lesotho in Nigeria….Osimhen was substituted very early in the first half against a stubborn Rwanda side but managed to get us a “Tolu” to do the job.
A coach that could identify talent and give a cal up to:
Akor Adam
Benjamin Frederick
Felix Agu
Tolu etc
will not rest until he gets an almost new starting 11 of new fresh talents…

CapitalCee:
It will be played in Mexico. Omo we need to do everything to avoid Bolivia oo, they play well in high altitude. They do well in high altitude. From your projection if we can play UAE that will be best.

omo i dey fear anything south america😅😅…God abeg lets breeze past this african playoffs first

CapitalCee:
If it goes based convention, i have looked at the fixtures, Honduras should go to play offs, Costa Rica should qualify directly. Just prediction though

go and check their qualifiers table…Honduras has qualified to the world cup already

Cocony:
Costa Rica might not come for playoffs as they might top their group and qualify directly.
In our simulation let us not forget the mistake of thinking about BRAZIL when we have not surmounted DENMARK a la FRANCE 98. THE PLAYERS WE HAVE ARE UP TO THE TASK AND GOD WILL HELP US.

Costa Rica and Curacao are the two teams coming to the intercontinental playoffs going by this table

Chai intercontinental play off in march 2026 go dey interesting sha, let me start my own simulated prediction 🤪🤪😜
Intercontinental play of teams
Conmebol (1)= Bolivia 🇧🇴
OFC(1) = New caledonia 🇳🇨
AFC (1)= winner between Iraq vs UAE 🇦🇪 (i pick UAE)
Concacaf (2)= Curacao 🇨🇼 and Costa rica 🇨🇷
CAF(1) = Nigeria 🇳🇬 (my prediction 😀)

Now this is how it will be arranged from fifa source:

2unseeded teams faces each other from two different brackets more like:

bracket 1: (New caledonia 🇳🇨 vs Bolivia 🇧🇴)
my pick : Bolivia to win
bracket 2( Curacao 🇨🇼 vs UAE 🇦🇪)
my pick: UAE 🇦🇪 to win


then winner from the 2 bracket of unseeded teams will now face the top seeded teams according to fifa ranking for the remaining 2slots for 2026 Fifa worldcup

More like:
Nigeria 🇳🇬 vs UAE 🇦🇪
Costa rica 🇨🇷 vs Bolivia 🇧🇴

My pick: Nigeria 🇳🇬 and Costa rica 🇨🇷 to be the 2 final qualified nations

CapitalCee:
Jamaica won today. Its Caracao thst will make. Jamaica will qualify directly

oh woow, let me edit my prediction again then😅

mekabuachi:
Since we would be playing Gabon in the playoffs
Is aubameyang available for the match on November after picking up that red card?
Abeg make start early now dey plan Gabon ooh😭

even Ajayi now has a second yellow card….mk dem tell Chelle oo