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our guys need to calm and remove anger from this game…the ref will surely infuriate us with wrong calls but they should calm down and play this game.
Lastly I feel Simon Moses should start this game, chukwueze is non existent here

CIV with the initial gra gra…ok. na here we dey

theophilusj31:
I have never seen Nigerians this optimistic b4 a match we were not this optimistic when we played Cameroon Angola or SA

omo bros, for SA match over Optimism wan wound ppl

even After Afcon, if them invite am, he go still honor🤣 mae una dey play

Amedino99:
Update

im happy with this cancellation, abeg make we rest for duel with Argentina, lets look for other tactical and technical teams
Belgium
France
Spain
Croatia
Japan

Goke7:
were the deaths related to VAR? shebi it's because we still won the game, imagine it was 0-0 and we scored and it was canceled and 1-0 for naija became 1-0 for SA, do you know how many deaths we will be recording now? I can bet some researchers at FIFA are already looking into this

Make we no argue too much, Euros is coming up in June, we go see how it will go there.

or imagine that south african defender scored that rebound from Nwabali’s punch…many people for perish die to cardiac arrest that night

caprikon:
AFCON 98 was the last time an AFCON final ended with more than a goal margin.

Expecting an edgy encounter, either 1:0 or 2:1.

We are yet to score more than a goal in a game so far. Boys need to be at their clinical best as chances no go too dey...sad hearing loss of lives cos of the tension of yesterday's game.

no b 2-0 we beat cameroon?

Joezinho:
I dey tell you baba. My hood for surulere go don scatter by now. 😭😭

bro u no lie oo…fire works every where for surulere ooo
masha
shitta
stadium
ojuelegba
Akerele
Tejuosho
Aguda
every dey under real fire cracker works now oooo

the reason why are not trailing is because of Nwabali

our defense becoming porous

omo iwobi is not in this game at all

is osimhen fit at all…hmmmm

yinkeys:
After the tournament
Coach needs to fine tune his team so that they can play dynamic football (not just 3-4-3)
The coach needs to look for a third choice goalie who is extremely good with penalties
A world class creative/box to box midfielder
A free kick/deadball expert
It’s tiny margins like these that make a team special

Has Nwabali been tested whether he is good in penalties or not?

BankyGee:
After first game, Osimhen said something like, "I want to win the AFCON for Nigeria, when I do this, I'm done"

Make e be prank abeg o 🙏🏾

Let him try to achieve what other legendary 9ja players never achieved make he leave that im done wey e dey talk oo…Worldcup Quarterfinal, Semifinal and final dey there to achieve ooo..he shouldn’t be done oo

Goke7:
it's arguments like this that retrogress Nigerian football, we always feel the past is better, too many emotions in our analysis. That's why a coach will do well, and win trophies but we will still feel another coach who has not won anything is better. A player whose goals have won trophies we still feel a player whose goals could not win laurels is better, It's just funny with the excuses we make for such silly arguments

bro trust me if this super eagles set wins Afcon, people wil still rate 1994 set far far above this set..it will take like 20-30yrs from now before the THEN generation will idolize this set of eagles..as for this contemporary they will never rate anything about this eagles…people are just sentimentally nostalgic…bad performance didn’t start today..1980,1994, 2013 afcon winning sets all played nonsense ekuke football at some point

Danielnino00:
I've never seen South Africa fans so confident before a game against us

Bros when they had shakes mashaba they were very over confident whenever there is fixture with Nigeria, also when they had stuart baxter…they still dont wanna believe we have been dominating them…in all their pages they usually make one particular statement
“there is nothing special about Nigeria”

ChrisKels:
If Osimhen isn’t healthy enough to start, then move Lookman to the CF position, play SiMoses from the left and Iheanacho from the the right.


Lookman makes good runs as an outright striker and Iheanacho can always find him with those passes.

we can still play Iheanacho as the top 9 then flank him by Simon and Lookman, abi wetin you feel☺️

Finally osimhen gets medical clearance to play tomorrow

Nigeria has lost her next match after beating SA bla bla
Ekong has never won a semifinal match for Nigeria 🤣🤣 bla bla
Nigeria has never won the trophy after beating cameroon 🤣🤣..

then we sef go bring out our own;
Nigeria has always lifted the trophy after beating CIV
Nigeria has always lost to north african teams after eliminating cameroon (so now no north Africa)
south africa has never won a tournament that Nigeria plays…

wo mae ina carry all this yeye record pack one side abeg

DarkJeddi:
And who you be ?
You think because you stick around here more often,you are somehow an authority in anything?
Nigeria has a habit of losing knockout matches after beating South Africa, based on all of two matches?
Ogbeni,park..

oga make una calm down for all this history wey una dey carry come abeg…your sounding asif its it’s something that has happened more times like 4 to 5times…this type of record applies when talking about meeting Cameroon in a final match, or meeting Argentina and always losing…we lost won SA in 2000 semifinal and lost in final to cameroon, we beat SA in 2019 quarterfinal and lost to Algeria…na only those two times it happened, stop making an issue out of it…na so one person come say remind of another record of Ekong not winning semifinal matches..like say ekong don play 10semifinal matches for us

Goke7:
no be the same 1-0 the game end? was that the only chance we had in that game?

bros im sure that guy na those secondary school student wey dey always argue champions league football with spit coming out from the corner of his mouth

Bannedlargedx2:
The problem here is people and their sentimental biased. For example, Zaidu primary responsibility is his defensive duties and thus far, he has been solid defensively while horrible offensively and people are suggesting that, he should be replaced. Similarly, starboy primary responsibility is to score goals and while he hasn’t scored enough goals, he has provided work ethic, hustle, never say die attitude and critics has been kind. As for me, I wouldn’t drop starboy but would start replacing him earlier if he doesn’t start scoring. You cannot have potent finishers like Iheanacho, moffi on the bench without giving them a chance if your main striker isn’t scoring. In our analysis, let all of be partial

this analysis is fair enough ❤️

Goke7:
dem get eye? shebi we still dey argue why okocha no win APOTY till today

person wey dey fast and pray hard make we lose so that he go lie down in green pastures

Blueelf:
Okocha role was not primarily to score goals but to open up defences.

Also, okocha was a set-piece specialist.

You can't claim to be a world class striker and be bad at basic things like positioning, first touch and finishing

You think Mourinho would've continuously started Osimhen if he were the coach despite liking him?

How many defense okocha open up for 2002? How many set pieces okocha score for 2002 Afcon?..
no b so so 1-0,and 0-0 we dey play sotay we branch go 3rd place.
How many set piece he score for 2006?

Blueelf:
Osimhen is not as good a striker as he is touted to be. He is overrated

Anybody that doesn't like this statement should hug the nearest transformer

He has been figured out and in the Serie A, the same thing would happen. If they could do it in AFCON, then serie A defenders are just waiting for him

He should be benched. Yes, I said it and I own it with my full chest

Simple!!!

thank you sir, oya crawl back🤣

Mujtahida:
Shebi you dey hear nonsense talk

🤣🤣

BankyGee:
Una no notice say madmen no dey plenty for street again? Na social media 98% of them dey now

🤣🤣

mostob:
The issue is not beating SA. The issue is we have not won the next match after beating SA. Hopefully we will break the 'jink'.

except you will say in knock out stages…but for 2004 na 4-0 them chop and we went to next match beat Benin and proceed to also beat the pepper nation😁

Mujtahida:
Many Nigerians at viewing Centre na can talk rubbish. They watch EPL every week but hardly understand football.

Another one was blaming Osimhen for allowing CAF to deflate his youthful exuberance, he said the doping testCAF had on him was what discouraged him from pressing the Angolans🤣🤣

na the one wey boldly come out and call all of us “Delusional fans” for supporting the carpenters and fraud eagles🤣 dey even baffle me🤦🏽‍♀️

Hanibal:
At this stage of the Afcon all the teams have been training together for close to a month; that means the football is now almost like club football.
The team with the best players will win at this stage 8 out of 10 times barring unfortunate events like red cards and injuries to key players. That is why all the "underdogs" doing initial gra gra have been eliminated.

Do a South Africa/ Nigeria combined Eleven... Only the south African goal keeper will probably get in the team; we have the better players hands down, training together for almost a month! South Africa will need a miracle to drag us into penalty shoot outs which is a lottery.... That's the only way they stand a chance of winning.

gbam!…trust me SA go hear am…im happy with the way they qualified so they are very sure of beating us…like this now Nigeria is the biggest threat in the semifinal