₦airaland Forum

i sat in the viewing centre on Friday in our match vs Angola,i met a particular and typical Nairaland ekuke fans screaming “this our boys are F**king slow in build up and transition, Iwobi is rubbish midfielder always slowing game pace for us” bla bla bla, i confronted him and told him “Guy farabale!!! Guy resst!!…do you expect Nigeria to be running kitikiti katakata with the pacey angolans?…so as they are running at us we should be running back at them?”
na so we dey argue as we carry eyes up Iwobi don throw long pass that connect Moses Simon and boom weve scored…na so baba shut up!.

Like can we just chill and understand that we are not the best team in the world? and that we have a formula thats pulling us to a direction of success?

1. some fans are having this pride of should osimhen not be scoring?, our African best, a whole african best. i think i can still reason with those fans(but then calm down its football and the guy is 100% active in al our games)
2. some fans here are just nothing but having beef for the guy, not really that they are not happy he is not scoring…they are very happy is not scoring..so that they can rub it on peoples faces that “i told you that guy na otu striker”
Lastly if you never believed the team will get this far just dont come and give us any ekuke analysis ir suggestions… just wait if we win the Afcon, divert your bad energy and attention to world cup and keep wishing the team bad…then if we sadly or unluckily lose to SA you can come out and laugh at us and say “i told you guys your eagles are fraud and carpenters “…for now the Association of super eagles fans dont need your dry opinion

The analysis i will read and agree to here is “sub osimhen at 70something for Iheanacho or Moffi”.
i dont just know why people are just unnecessarily looking for ways to distrupt a winning formation and winning team….what is this scoring goals scoring goals bla bla bla you guys are using to “deafen our eyes”…must osimhen score to satisfy una soccer urge?.
can u guys just keep staying behind the team and support the winning formula..heey wey scored 2goals against cameroon oo…una want make osimhen bury all the chances and so we can lift Afcon with all our games ending 4-0, 5-0, 3-0…abeg make una go sit down one place…ighalo score 5goals and branch to bronze medal…oh oh because hes the African best he must be leading the scoring chart?🤣…All the Angola,EQG,CPV,Gha, that score 20goals where are they…all this people here dont know the meaning of we winning our 4th Afcon ooo…all these yeye excuses holds no water at all…peseiro wants to by all means bully his way to the final una dey find make them bench osimhen for moffi….where was all these players against lesotho and zimbabwe..why them no score 5-0 and 4-0 in those games?
Na until them start Iheanacho and Moffi then we score goals and stil jah to 3rd place una body go calm

Curtisaxel17:
Yes we were. Last AFCON. We played sweet sexy football and smashed all the teams in our group with ease. Without Osimhen.

We would have beaten Tunisia too had Okoye not had his moment of madness.

Check all the games we fumbled recently or struggled to score. Whether against Ghana or our loss to Guinea Bissau in Abuja. Osimhen played.

And also Against Lesotho and Zimbabwe, osimhen played 90mins na that we were unable to score.

suddenly one nonsense plastic fans/badwisher here has turn to someone giving us advice to bench osimhen so we can win…we played EQG, he said CIV will beat us, we beat CIV he said GNB, imagine ooo GNB will beat us, and we wont cross group stage, we advanced he came with dirty mouth saying cameroon will send us packing, we pursue the pepper nation…he now realized that his bad belle is already becoming unnecessary noise…Now you are telling us to bench osimhen so we can be scoring goal…Na tiger 🐅 go chop your fingers…you better go back to your cave with and be watching like your brothers guSTARVE and AFONSHI..cos those ones are currently loosing weight in their waiting cave.

Hanibal:
If Nigeria wins this tournament, some people here will still complain that we didn't win "properly"

Many here including me wrote off this team, but here they are in the semifinals, complaints still full everywhere
Na wa

i started rating this super eagles team from our draw against lesotho..though we played a draw, but just go back and see how we pinned them down till final whistle, shame we came out with a draw..that still boils down to no using chances and poor goal keeper then…when the “lets do it again” cliche started goong round i knew this team will go all the way to the final…as for SA? abeg forget those people jareee!
na make all our brothers living in SA just dey careful..those guys are extreme football fanatics

akwesenana:
South Africans sha. Them dey talk say 'we don't play better than Cape Verde or Morroco.'


Make Super Eagles just do this one, abeg.

I no go even mind silver sef.

All i know is SA met Mali who plays west african football like 9ja what was the result?…let them keep comparing us to morocco.
No matter how good we are, teams like Tunisia,Egypt,morocco,Algeria will always have a way to edge us in a Afcon knock out stages….inversely no matter how poor we are are we cant go down to all these COSAFA teams(Angola,SA,Namibia) in an Afcon knocl out stage

SA keeper na wizard walai

This Afcon, we die here!!, we are not doing any nonsense Extra time football…every end in 90mins

Mali vs CIV match should make u all respect ✊ jpes.
wait Nigeria will be leading 1-0 a redcarded @ 88mins in this afcon and jpes will now be doing 4men substitutions at once🤣🤣?…iffa hear say the opponents cross that box18 mae i know wetin cos am

That CIV path to the final has potential Afcon winning teams..but then dont play…9ja go show dem shege

Marjoribanks:
Ekong has lost every Semi finals he has participated in for Nigeria.

It's time to rewrite history!

How many semifinal has he played for us, remind me pls

I am smelling a certain “Di Mateo” of chelsea 2012 in this CIV coach…sacking a head coach and having a makeshift coach going all the way to the semifinals..guys trust me CIV will edge DRC…the best team to play them in the Final is Nigeria…if they meet SA/CPV its gonna be an easy win for them

Curtisaxel17:
And how many goals has this "energy and presence" provided? I think we are the least scoring side in the competition at this stage, with the highest number of big chances missed. A striker's job is to score, not to be present and energetic.

It was in AFCON 2019 that Ighalo was banging in goals left and right even without any "energy and presence". That wasn't too long ago.

oga if Nigeria enter final, abeg you will have to delete this post…if ighalo scoring 100goals and we couldn’t qualify to the final, abeg let him carry his go put one side…if osimhen presence and strength takes us to the final abeg it’s enough

Mujtahida:
Why why why 😂😂😂😂

😂😂🤣

Goke7:
but on a lighter note, when these boys grant interviews, it's sweet hearing their English, there was a time in those days when some of our players dey grant interview omo na so we go just dey dodge bullet

i dey tell you..e get one of sanni kaita interview that 2010
press : did you touch the player
sanni kaita: “i doesn’t touch him”😂

Koboko99:
“Foreign born players are too soft and don’t have the physicality for African Gidigbo football”

I hope you guys can see what the foreign born players are doing for us at AFCON. Now we can finally die that silly take

bros chill first oo, let them win the trophy before you ask Nigerian fans to “die the silly take” ooo..if we jah for semifinal to 3rd place, the anti-foreign base player fans here will surface their heads oo

Curtisaxel17:
I kept screaming "Osimhen don tire" at my viewing center sotey people come dey look me somehow. Lol.

Osimhen himself knew he gassed out around the 70-75th minutes and could barely carry himself around the pitch and yet he insisted on staying on and jeopardizing the team's attacking chances.

Even after he was stretchered off and the coach wanted to substitute him, Osimhen used his "big star power" to force the coach to let him back on.

This is very terrible behavior from Osimhen. He probably thinks of himself as the Messiah and main character of the team while in actual fact, he is the most easily replaceable player there. It's not like he has been banging in the goals anyways.

I feel very bad for Moffi and Iheanacho.

oga he didn’t use any big star power, you people should stop looking for a way to rubbish that guy’s patriotism…he cant shut jpes up by refusing substitution…im sure the coach asked if he could continue and he said yea…he did not use any big star power kan kan…shebi dey later substituted him, why didn’t he use the big star power to refuse substitution

countries like Cameroon,Ghana just came to Afcon AN-GO-LA that empty handed

Guinea Bissau (group stage)
Equatorial Guinea(Round 16)
Guinea(Quarterfinal)

charlesemeka85:
Abeg Mk I ask again, who are we liking Lu to face in our next match?

we are facing the winner of Cape verde vs South Africa

Mujtahida:
I really don't like all this Guinea, Dr Congo, Angola at this stage of the competition. Unfortunately the big boys have gone home.

omo bros na them good ooo…any tournament we face our rivals or an African powerhouse in the final we always lose…Just let us meet those our small brothers and bully them all the way

Two foreign coaches in the semi final.
Lets see wether Hugo broos wins to make it 3…them CIV/Mal will now face themselves to cancel out each other

lexyman:
NFF Should be looking at the side of this Angola coach , he is one of the best i have seen in this tournament .gave his best , even brought the best from unknown names ...JPES is clueless ... what we are enjoying now is the individual brilliance of our players ...

oga the team is playing to jpes tactics/formation …nothing like individual brilliance

Marjoribanks:
The weather is hot. With this formation he should not be playing more than 80 minutes!

yes oo, i like the when he took a break out for some seconds outside the touchline to rest before coming again

Osimhen was not at his best today, maybe due to fatigue from cameroon’s game..hope im right sha..his major undoing is not finding the back of the net

i like peseiro but then he should be flexible..his substitution is good but too late and to onesidedly repetitive..
we need an iheanacho instead of an Aribo, we need a moffi instead of an onuachu…he should stop allowing opponents grow into the game in the dying minutes, we can not always be lucky ooo..

yinkeys:
I didn’t see that country in your list

read the post again, i said we only fear the North/West African teams in knock out stage

o ti set

Tinneh:
Shakes mashaba, Tokelo rantie, those names I can't forget

i tell you that rantie guy worry us

yinkeys:
The last time out it took a weak Tunisia to boot Nigeria out

Does Tunisia look like a southern African team?

SA made mistake sacking Shakes Mashaba..he was already building momentum of a psychological edge over Nigeria..if we catch this SA wey Rwanda flog 2-0, na correct afolenu we go give them…guys just sit and relax watch us go all the way..one leg Algeria, Tunisia,Morocco will find a way to send us packing.
A poor super eagles team will still beat this Angolan side….i remember in CHAN 2018 when we faced them in Quarter final with Salisu yusut as coach..them start gra gra, we still pursue them go house