Barryseal:
Happy to hear Pedro Goncalves is in the running for the Super Eagles job.

No brainer IMO, never disappointed throughout his career.

Deltamani:



If they’re all in form, this would be my 18players list..
Goalkeepers
1. Chiamaka Nnadozie
2. Tochukwu Oluehi

Defenders:
3. Osinachi Ohale
4. Ashleigh Plumptre
5. Oluwatosin Demehin
6. Michelle Alozie
7. Rofiat Imuran

Midfielders:
8. Deborah Abiodun
9.Halimatu Ayinde
10. Christy Ucheibe
11. Jennifer Echegini
12. Rasheedat Ajibade
13. Toni Payne

Forwards:
14. Omorinsola Babajide
15. Esther Okoronkwo
16. Ifeoma Onumonu
17. Asisat Oshoala
18. Uchenna Kanu

Is Nicole Payne injured?

CornOak:
Iwobi needs to go off.

Not only Iwobi has been sub par in this game, Bassey, Aina, Zaidu, Osimhen too

Goke7:
we missed zaidu

Crazy fact

Mujtahida:
I don't like Ola Aina playing on the left.

He has done it for years at Torino, Fulham and even for us, he’ll be fine, don’t judge by that match.

Ihenzy:
Hugo Broos : " That was our worse performance at AFCON."

"We have to be strong against my friend Jose Peseiro who visited our country to pretend like he wanted to visit a Goalkeeper, but actually He wanted to spy on my Bafana camp for World cup qualifiers. Myself and Jose Peseiro we are the only two men who in the Continent to be hated so much by the media. But we communicate and remind ourselves that we are in charge,not you journalist who fuels supporters anger and criticism. All the negative begins with you before the fans can have a say. Football fans are the most important and innocent people in this game. But journalism always double cross the relationship between coaches and their fans. They call my team Sundowns to bring hate . They call Jose Peseiro team weak midfield. But we are with my friend to the semi final. Unfortunately one of us needs to go home after Wednesday. I hope we met in the Final"

"Nigeria have a golden Generation in Africa who can turn things be very quickly, meanwhile our goal as South Africa is to market our league to lead Africa and show them what is done in Europe can also be done in Africa."

This man has so much knowledge to be considered dangerous

Goke7:


I don't know why Aina always makes me remember Celestine Babayaro

Aina is a special player and we’ll only appreciate it more when he retires. Nigeria is blessed with players, but unlike the Brazilians and English we are not blessed with players like Aina, will be hard to replace him.

Who do they think renard is? . He better no come and destroy is legacy in Africa

Daninya33:


Stubborn and obstinate Jpes
I saw the line up,I no shock.

Same line up he will deploy against Guinea tomorrow,I believe.

I don't think he has plans to field Nwabili tomorrow.

Okoye is out of National team duties to improve himself and get better. His second start in the Italian Seria A.

If Uzoho fumbles he should forget about dorning the green white green again.
Self worth and respect would have made him stay away from the team with the array of blunders he has committed that has caused us games severally.

I’m really upset with Uzoho’s performances for the past two years, but then I rewatch the highlights of Man UTD and Omonoia years back when he had a deep motivation against his childhood club and I become to understand José Peseiro’s perspective. Anyway it’s still dumb sha until we’re proven wrong

MetalJigsaw:
What about Sadiq that is being invited ahead of Moffi? You think Sadiq is better than him?

Sadiq might not be a baller, but he can do magic

zuchyblink:
Yellow bip team is our first eleven

Nice 👍🏽, but hope the pitch in Côte d’Ivoire will be this good cos it would be better to train in a similar pitch to the standard of afcon

elyte89:



Dis years afcon will not be interesting cos d quality pic will not be top notch ,since dstv is not airing it …we go watch am like dt ,if we c am watch

Don’t overhype Supersport bro, in Francophone and Lusophone Africa, Orange and Canal+ does
amazing picture quality too (even better). As long as it’s not NTA or AIT, should be good.

Cecco90:
25 man list is out

From this list one problem we are going to have is that Jose Peseiro is actually naive in AFCON affairs and for the first time since Berti Vogts in 2008, We'll be going to AFCON without a coach with prior experience. In AFCON, naivety can be more costly than mediocre tactics. Jose's selection is based on pedigree, but in AFCON it is quite important you select players you'll need, we needed more midfielders, but Jose thinks its more of the level you play than who can actually do the job. in reality, a second division player will outshine a premier league superstar as long as its AFCON or African football affairs.

chrisooblog:
Based on our current player availability this is my starting Xl for AFCON.

Inshallah

Osayi Inshallah Bassey Zaidu


Onyeka Ndidi Iwobi


Boniface Osimhen Inshallah/Moses Simon?

Interesting.............. just curious to know why most people don't realize Aina is the best RB and LB currently in that team.

Damioduso1:
It he could have add Terem Moffi and Kelechi Nwakali to make it 27 men squad list. I know Olorunleke Ojo will make the squad.



Starting 11 for Afcon

1. Stanley Nwabali
2. Samuel Osayi bright
3. zaidu Sanusi
4. Semi Ajayi
5. Calvin Bassey
6. Wilfred Ndidi
7. Alex iwobi
8. Kelechi Ihenacho
9. Moses Simon
10. Victor Boniface
11. Victor Osmihen



Sure bet

Let’s face reality, Uzoho is going to man that post and the only thing we can do is pray.
Stanley Nwabili isn’t as good as you expect though

grandstar:


That's zoloft. That's drug abuse

Ok

Take sertraline 2 hours before sex

I don’t know why the Winner of Nigeria vs Cameroon is paired to meet the winner of South Africa vs Tanzania. This isn’t random at all and it’s giving Morocco privilege again, unfair!

charlesemeka85:
Line up

Peseiro is trying to pass a message by starting Uzoho. (This is petty but I believe it will make us anti fragile) I hope Uzoho flops again and makes Peseiro look clueless cos this is a common sense thing not a matter of sentiments.

Deltamani:
FT: France 4-0 Morocco

⚽️15' Diani K. (Karchaoui S.) [FRA]
⚽️ 20’ Dali K. (Diani K.) [FRA]
⚽️ 24' Le Sommer E. (Diani K.) [FRA]
⚽️ 71' Le Sommer E. (Becho V.) [FRA]

Morocco, the sole debutant to reach the #FIFAWWC knockout, bow out. Salute, Atlas Lionesses; fully surpassed expectations.


Friday (11th)
🇪🇸 ESP v NED 🇳🇱 + 🇯🇵 JPN v SWE 🇸🇪

Saturday (12th)
🇦🇺 AUS v FRA 🇫🇷 + 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 ENG v COL 🇨🇴

Will be supporting England from now on 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. No better self consolation than we lost to the World champions and gave them a tough time

Marjoribanks:
Oparanozie was fresh and had just one job to do, score! Nevertheless, even the best of of players do miss penalties. We leave to fight another day.
Like I said earlier, the English team is all hype nothing special about that team and our Super Falcons showed that today!

True talk!
Our girls were great.
True that the English were overrated, especially technically, but they’re good tactically, that was why we couldn’t win, I give them credit for that

codemaniacs:


Onyinizidane needs to be forced into the team.. Demehin was in-experience was too glaring.. so let Onyinizidane's, Ajakaye, Sebastine inexperience come and go quickly.

Randy invited them all in Japan about a year ago, he knows what he saw that made him go for Demehin & Abiodun and not them. They were all given equal chances

codemaniacs:


Players like Onyinizidane would have been very good in this world cup.

Oparanozie, Ordega and Ebi should never be invited again..

Lol, Gift Monday is even better than Oyenezide for now. Let players follow their normal course, if she proves herself, she’ll join the team.

One positive thing about the super falcons is what the future holds. Nicole Payne, Evelyn Ijeh, Rinsola, Ajakaye, Sabestine n co. It’s exciting! 😃.
Hopefully NFF doesn’t employ a coach that thinks like most of our fans on Twitter

M7even:


Certainly. We played as a team. And we played like true competitors. Randy has given us a good platform to progress. The rest is left to the decision makers.

💯, but the decision makers are known for making bad decisions. Hopefully they don’t employ a cheap half baked coach that might cost us the Olympics as usual

Unlimited22:

We go reach final third, everybody brain go begin dey bootloop

Nna ehn

Yeah, you’re right but this is one of the best defense so far in the World Cup tactically. The girls gave their best but these things just happen in life

Deltamani:
Here’s the Super Falcons’ Starting XI to face England in today’s World Cup Round of 16 encounter.

What do you think of the team ?
What’s your final score prediction? 🤔🦅🇳🇬

🇳🇬 🇳🇬 🇳🇬 🇳🇬
Make Kanu behave today abeg 💪🏽🦾

Deltamani:
At least you guys can now understand what Randy did against Ireland…!

He would told the girls to attack the Irish side and probably leave one or two space behind and would be punished by those Irish side that have nothing to lose, Look at how the Korean side held Germany down…

To me England is beatable, The Falcons should hold their ground.

If the falcons needed 3 points they’d have gotten it against Ireland, they obviously played for a draw. I’d always say this, female football team performance is driven more by determination and mindset than tactics. Don’t be surprised if the almighty Japan or even Sweden loses 3-0 to a determined team. And you’re right 💯 about England is beatable, will the girls turn up Especially Oshoala and Ajibade... hopefully

labas370:
People that were shouting SF should have wiped Ireland. Now, you guys can see how South Korea who has not to play for, about to end German's 2023 tournament.

Ireland played their worst game against us, we just gave them the most chance.

carbonado:
...what about Desire...is she not fit yet...

I heard she is, but I’m curious to know why you think Desire will be helpful in this game, I’ve also seen her as someone who plays best against smaller teams when we have most possession and someone who doesn’t fit rapid transition attack, but you seem to believe so much in her, just curious to know why

codemaniacs:


Not just a good defense... but a very good Goalkeeper...

Its Nnadozie that has been the savior of this team not the defense..

stop dis-respecting Nnadozie...

Sure, we classify goalkeepers as the defense too.

Deltamani:


The truth is if Asisat Oshoala is 💯 fit, She will start as she’s the team star Player, her Presence alone on the field is a treat to the English team…

Just that I don’t like Onumonu coming from the bench…

Spot on bro. Onumonu can’t really trouble the English defense. She’ll just help in pressing and if we’re lucky to capitalize from a mistake from the English, she can score tap in goals. But Asisat hasn’t been able to live up to expectations when all eyes are on her, but you can’t rule her out yet. Big Dilemma for our coach. We seem to have a lot of choice in our attack on paper, but paradoxically in reality, we really have few options.