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Very good sub from Maresca
One more goal

Something is gonna happen today

BlueMann:
You can forget about seeing Estevao and Caicedo against Burnley.

Why?

Gucciboy:
A lot can happen in 13 matches so it's open season. Any club that comes out on top after this period wins the league.

Definitely

Gucciboy:
There's 8 premier league games between November 22 and January 1st and 5 games in January alone. 13 in all before February,2026.

This is where the battle will be decided.
I'm very happy Cole Palmer will be fresh during this period because last season, we suffered a huge blow during this period.
Palmer, Delap will hit this period

Same line up should be maintained aside Ndidi not featuring.

Ppogbae:
This Ndidi matter is really worrying me. I hope that we have cleared this with FIFA.

Left to me, I won't list him in the matchday squad to avoid stories that touch.

Give us this day.

mekabuachi:
2 hours to go
A bit nervous 🌝

1 hour 26 minutes to go

Today is the day.

Deltamani:
Top 4 seeding for the Group Stage should be Morocco as Host, Nigeria Defending Champions, South Africa and Zambia as 2nd and 4th place ranked team in Africa..


4 teams to qualify for the World Cup

1• Nigeria
2• Morocco
3• South Africa
4• Ghana

Among this 5 teams two will be Best losers to go for Intercontinental playoff

The women's world cup is still 32 teams?

1• Cote’d’ivoire
2• Cameroon
3• Algeria
4• Senegal
5• Zambia

The women's world cup is it still 32 teams?

I expect a changed 11 tomorrow in the champions League.
Estevao Willian and Jamie Bynoe Gittens running the flanks and Liam Delap starting the game also.

4 - 2 - 3 - 1 formation

Sanchez
Gusto
Acheampong
Chalobah
Cucurella
Caicedo
Enzo
João Pedro
Estevao Willian
Gittens
Delap

Deltamani:
𝙉𝙚𝙬𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙖𝙮 🗞️

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐋𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐐𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐖𝐀𝐅𝐂𝐎𝐍 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔 🇨🇲🔥

The CAF has confirmed the expansion of the Women's Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) from 12 to 16 teams starting with the 2026 edition. 🏆

👉 As a result, the four highest-ranked nations in the FIFA standings among those eliminated in the final round of qualifiers will be reinstated to complete the list of 16 participating teams.

💚 Among them is Cameroon, ranked 66th in the world ranking! 🇨🇲

The Indomitable Lionesses thus join Côte d’Ivoire 🇨🇮 , Mali 🇲🇱, and Egypt 🇪🇬 on the list of qualified teams.

This expansion not only preserves Cameroon's proud record of participation at the top level but also aligns with CAF's broader vision to enhance competitiveness and inclusivity in women's football across Africa.

Expected this, 16 teams is a very good one.

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.

Very difficult to sail through.

Too many missed chances due to lack of composure and the turf a big cause of it too.

The defence is very shaky, we need to look for alternatives in the central defense and also a staunch midfielder to back up Debbie.

The forthcoming games are die hard games and must win no matter the scoreline and manners of winning.

It will be a fierce jam body affair, if the boys embodies that zeal of playing in the world cup, I see no team stopping them.

Esther Okoronkwo leading the super falcons frontline gives me confidence. She's a very domineering player and very creative with her set pieces.

I would have loved her to be crown African best but that Barbara Banda will just nick it from outside view.

A Girl That Rejected You Today, Will Give Birth To A Girl That Would be Your Sugar Girl Tomorrow.

Then the law should also determine the paternity of the child.

Game day.

What's your prediction?

Chelsea 3:1 Sunderland
João Pedro
Garnacho
Estevao

Starting well, maintaining that form and finishing strong will determine if you will end up with a trophy.

Chelsea started last season very well but lost touch in the middle of the season but finished strongly and won two trophies.

Liverpool started well and maintained that form last season but finished poorly because they have already won the trophy.

Can Arsenal maintain this form or finished strongly?
It's just 8 games played thus far, the gap is not much from City and Liverpool (though I see them out of the title race).

Chelsea will come in strong in the middle of the season which will be very good for us to sustain the team to the end of the season.
Chelsea will likely win a trophy or two this season.

Expect a changed 11 tomorrow in the UCL.

James should be rested while Gusto takes the day.
Guiu should be given the nod in attack since Joao Pedro is suspended and not George.
Central defence pairing expected to change too same as central midfield.

Expect a 4:0 victory tomorrow.

Last season, after 8 games Chelsea was on 14 points same with this season. The interesting part about this season is that compared to last season, without Palmer Chelsea finds it difficult to win a game but this season, the case is very different. Chelsea has better chances of winning games irrespective of the player on the sidelines. This is a very huge step moving forward.

Gucciboy:
Andrey Santos wasn't injured. Maresca should try 433 with Santos,lavia and caicedo in midfield and Garnacho , Joao Pedro and Estevao in attack.

He was injured but will be back this weekend.

Maresca doesn't look like a coach that will take such risk. Lavia is not 100% fit and will come in from the bench in the second not to rush him.
Badiashile is not likely to start also.

Expect to see changes in Saturday's early kick off against Forest.

Likely Enzo Fernandez will miss Saturday's game due to swelling on his leg.

Hopefully Santos is fully fit to play again.

To me, Super Eagles are not qualifying for the 2026 world cup.
My focus is on the 2026 AFCON.

His wings have been clipped already, any little thing, summon to Aso rock.

drisham:
Remove Neto and gusto

Take James back to rb

Own goal and pk conceeded


I believe this team and maresca

Remove which gusto?

Trevor012:
You cannot beat us. Don't allow today result deceive you.

We will see

Let's see what happens on Wednesday.

If we don't defeat manure utd on Saturday, I'll be very pissed cos now is the time to beat them.

StarchAndBanga:
January or summer?

Summer