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fun fact
since 2023 whenever osimhen is absent, midfielders and defenders come to the rescue
Nig 1 -1 Les(No Osimhen) goal by Semi Ajayi
Zim 1-1 Nig (No osimhen) goal by iheanacho
Nig 1-1 SA (No osimhen) goal by Bashiru
Ben 2-1 Nig (No Osimhen) goal by Onyedika
Nig 1-1 Libya(No osimhen) goal by Bashiru
Awoniyi, Boniface and other replacing strikers are coming to sell pure water on the pitch😀😂

mekabuachi:
Benin won 3-0 wowwwwwwww
Rohr dey hot

this is a more reason im happy that our chance to qualify for WC is still bright…
Rwa 7pts
SA 7pts
Ben 7pts
Nig 3pts
walai thise 3guys go beat themselves till we catch up with them…na make we just manage dey scrape even if na 1-0 in our next 3WCQ matches…na that series my eyes they…im not even bothered about these AFCONQ😁

Oasis007:


Una too dey post gibberish sha. Wetin else you need AE to do?!

wetin foreign coach wan do wey pass this one

charlesemeka85:
I still dey wonder how that Lookman goal take he offiside

CAF should do more by introducing VAR

same wicked error call when we played rwanda away…our NFF and coaches are suppose to raise concern issues…all our WCQ games from next year must have VAR, wether it favors us or not.
wrong call denied us 6points(against Rwanda) and also denied us a handsome victory against Libya…

I love how AE kept them on their toes till last whistle by pumping in more force power….if una hire guardiola, this is the same result we will see, with the the game plan of libya…you cant outscore them with more than 2goals…we even scored a clean goal dey ruled offside, also had a clean penalty call…lets just get ready to see games like this from lower african nations visiting us in our home…they will only try to come out and play us in their own home and thats where we should stamp that MANCITY-esque authority on them….all these guys are beatable and are all real ekuke teams
Benin
Rwanda
Lesotho
Zimbabwe are small kids to us, esp this current SE squad

Guys forget it,i will never fault AE style of play…the man plays 100% possession football…we are jus being unlucky with bad ref and absence of VAR..

Ref bad , and yet no VAR

Gernot is proving to be a good coach when playing against smaller team…
Ben 3:0 Rwa

see the way the goalkeeper feign like person wey don kpai🤣🤣🤣….omo this ones are professional time waster oo

we dont have any business drawing this match…this is exactly how teams will play us in the WCQ next year…if we dont know how to break stubborn defense, then lets just kiss the WC goodbye…our handlers just have to make use of this afcon qualifiers to study how to break stubborn defense…all our wcq/afconQ opponents are all familiar foes in terms of their football style and play, maybe a lil edge SA has over them
Ben,Rwa,Libya,Zimbabwe,Lesotho will all play us stubborn defense system of play over both qualifiers(AfconQ/WCQ)…we should start breaking these guys effortlessly

our striker should start taking their chances and stop making all these keepers look as if they are super human…na so them take make Rwanda look like prime buffon…now e don dey chop 1 against Benin

omo ref throway face shaaa

na we dey home,na we dey wear away jersey😀

zuchyblink:
Moses Simon is set to feature in his 74th game for the Super Eagles as Eguavoen changes formation to 4-3-3 for Libya.

Starting XI: Nwabali, Ola Aina, Ekong, Bassey, Bruno; Ndidi, Onyeka, Iwobi; Lookman, Boniface, Simon.

Kickoff is 5PM

walai Eguavoen sabi set starting lineup, na make this guys jus click and start to bully many teams in this Africa…im still so pained we didn’t win our 4th Afcon title walai…we have quality players to do damage to all this ekuke african countries

mekabuachi:
4-0 when👀
Thought it was 2-1 last qualifiers?

rohr did a double over libya in 2018 afcon qualifiers
4-0 home
3-2 away

aicon4s:
Even if we trounce Libya 11-0 in Uyo and Libya presents their second team for the return leg, Nwabali will still be favourite to start. When you have at least a good goalie like Nwabali, especially after the previous ones like Uzoho and Okoye disappointed, it is important you keep playing him to boost his confidence level and also to improve the Chemistry between him and the defence. Remember we are building towards the 2025 AFCON and 2026 WC.

asin eehn the clamour from some section of fans calling for Okoye to upstage Nwabali is just tiring…thats why i said, make coach kuku use am for return leg make those fans atleast rest small😃

Kog45:
Maduka Okoye chance to become number one is in eagles camp.

since some people dont want us to rest on this issue of Maduka Okoye taking over the no1 spot, i hope AE can use him in the return leg next week, thats if hopefully we can trounce Libya tomorrow

if going by this speculation of 6weeks, its means he’s out of the afcon qualifiers campaign…
6weeks maybe till around mid-November when we will be playing our last matches against Rwa and Ben.
anyways he should just play safe and be fit for March WCQ
we wish him soeedy recovery

elyte89:
It’s a pity …but e suppose fit fight am via him lawyers na..aw can u play just few international games and Dts it

no b same thing we are currently doing to dessers cyriel

MasterShanghai:
I hope Nwakali has saved up enough money from his football stint enough to start a business or fund himself into another career path, cause it seems he's not taking his football career serious anymore. If you are struggling to find your feet in a league 3 club, then it is really BAD.

so sad d guy struggled to aim for top with this football thing, its seem as if no b him calling, even his elder bro sef Chidiebere Nwakali…na wa for that family sha, im sure he must have saved a lot for investment and his after football struggles

Sugarboyy:
Please remind us the last time Chukwueze contributed to a goal or scored for the GWG.
Let's not even go too far, remind us the last time he won a MOTM for the GWG... Is that also too far?
Remind us the last time Chukwueze had a special highlight playing for the GWG.
Even at AC Milan, oga has returned to the bench and night be sold to a lesser team at the end of this season.
Simon brings more attacking threat to the Eagles 🦅
He had an assist in our match and against Benin Republic and he is far better than Chukwueze assisting the team in defending

i swear many ppl no sabi ball at all…chukwueze better and preferred to Simon?
i guess that person did not watch Afcon…the last time i enjoyed chukwueze played for super eagles was on afcon 2019…since then the guy dey play rubbissshhhhh.
Simon on the field has more push and power and creates lot of chances and assists

jihday:
no he didn’t

He started the WCQ campaign and ended it

jihday:
no he didn’t

oya na wikipedia go settle this one las las

elyte89:
This message ought to be pinned on eagles WhatsApp group(if any)

we just need to be on 100% best…all these our opponents has shown they are whack to some extent..normal normal that south sudan wey SA dey struggle win 3-2, if 9ja on a good day catch dem na to pound them like fufu

Mujtahida:
That's his strength. Some goalkeeper have this knack for being at the right spot. Carl Ikeme had it. Such gks are hard to beat

Aishi Manula of Tanzania did it against Nigeria away in dar es salam…he was jus catching all our ball like bird in that 0-0 encounter , when he came to uyo Kelechi Iheanacho hang him papa for last angle with a sweet television goal

mrwilliams9:
The same thing I said. We need more looks at them for WCQ. We now know the Rwandan keeper is one to watch for.

Our performance against Rwanda away will give us confidence we can beat the home and away in WCQ and flip our fortunes around.

The way SA has been playing in AFCONQ also has me believing they will drop more points. It was two very very late goals that salvaged a point against Uganda and a win against a poor South Sudan.

We’re in a hard spot for WC but hope dey.

if we can hustle patriotically with our star talents on their red hot forms to win our two matches in march 2025 away Rwanda vs Nig
and in our Home against
Nig vs Zimbabwe we would close up on these 3guys that are on 7points
Rwa 7pts
SA 7 pts
Ben 7 pts
Les 5 pts
Nig 3 pts
Zim 2 pts
cos while we are busy winning our 2matches others are canceling out each other

MD 5(March 2025)
SA vs Les (Likely win for SA)
Zim vs Ben (Likely win or draw for zim)
Rwa vs Nig (Hopefully we can nick a 1-0 win)

MD6(March 2025)
Nig v Zim(Likely win for super eagles 1-0)
Ben v SA (Likely win or draw for Benin)
Rwa v Les (Likely win for Rwanda)

By the end of this 2match days…the group leader maybe leading us with 2points
Then we will have September(MD 7 & MD 8 to play our heart out…..our boys just need to play to their topmost level all these teams no reach, na we dey jonz
September is the best time to overtake, cos we will be playing
Nig v Rwa (Likely win for eagles)
SA vs Nig (sure banker draw match)

Mujtahida:
In the Benin match, when Ademola tried to beat the keeper and failed. The old generation of players would have chipped the ball over his head when he rushed out.

E easy to talk for mouth sha.

same with osimhen one on one also

charlesemeka85:
What Mikel said about Eguavoen



I know the interim manager now, Augustine Eguavoen who managed me when I was a kid. U17, he was my coach, took us to the World Cup.

"Fantastic guy, lovely guy, a manager who gives you all the freedom in the world to express yourself, speaks to you really well.

"He reminds me so much of Carlo Ancelotti, no jokes about that, his man management is top. He speaks to players really well. He is so humble. He communicates with players really well, puts his arm around you.

"He gets his players on his side, that's so important. You could see coming in short notice and getting the team to play so well. You can't teach them so much is such a short space of time.

"It's about the communication, it's about the man management of making the players so relaxed so they can perform and that's what I saw when I watched the game because the team performed really well, the first game, and also the second game. Of course we didn't win it but there was so much positivity.

"The team played really well yesterday and I thought we could have won the game."

i think he also gave Mikel his first senior team call up in 2005 and scored his first afcon goal against Zimbabwe in the group stage under AE

potland:
you did not see keshi. Keeping skipping

Keshi was employed fully
He started AfconQ campaign from 2012 and ended and led the team to Afcon 2013 and started his WCQ campaign from beginning to the end and led the team to R-16 of the WC, He was allowed to continue till we lost Afcon ticket in 2015

humility33:
Besides Amodu I can't remember anyone else

Amodu was employed in 2001 and was relieved in 2002 meaning he oversaw the team’s qualification to world cup and Afcon from beginning to the end
also the 2010 WCQ and AfconQ he started and ended both campaigns…not as if he was drafted to lead the team and perfom magic for two remaining matches just like how they use to do eguavoen
in 2006 WCQ and 2022 WCQ

do4luv14:
Question or not, there are those who had been send on such missions and had performed by qualifying us,

Buh can same be said of AE??

no vex oo who are the those…for years our qualifiers has always been started by a coach and seeing it through to the end, na only when we get k-leg them go bring in AE
is it Amodu?
Is it keshi?
Is it Gernot Rohr?
is it peseiro?
Is it Westerhorf
Which qualifying series AE started and finished biko?…remind me

do4luv14:
Pls the call for AE to take the Job permanent should stop ooo

For all his years as a TA, what was his achievement, also almost all qualifys he had took charge of as a Coach, he hadn't qualify us for any ( someone prove me wrong )

I stand to be corrected

“almost all qualifier”, the question is which one did he start from beginning to the end