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typicalgamer:
Against a Uganda team he’ll thrive trust me

He can boss the midfield and hold his own

But his man to man marking that’s his problem he’s not dirty enough

Sometimes it not just important for a player to start. Who the player is paired with matters.

typicalgamer:
I find this information very misleading

Simon wey don wash

comodo:
Just Onyedika and Bashiru in the middle. What do I know.

As if he's been set up to fail, I mean Onyedika. I wish him all the best

Why play Onuachu with Osimhen? Why not Dessers? This is what makes players flop

Odunayaw:
If Lookman had not scored he would have have gotten an earful

Dem for too choke am

yinkeys:
I have a question
Is Lookman a complete player ?
The only hole I see in his game is that he could sometimes be selfish
He tracks back really well (he does this much better than Ejuke ) & helps the defense
He’s also lethal going forward
I just think if he can be selfless as Osimhen & Adams for the team sake, he’d be super complete
This was my take before the AFCON
Boy is lethal in this AFCON though

I don’t think Osimhen is really concerned about highest goal scorer if you look at his selfless assist, their main target is the trophy
Adams & Iwobi are playing super vital roles for the team too

Adams was not happy with that lookman's third goal. He was even complaining. Iwobi had to jump on him to get him going.

https://youtube.com/shorts/-6M5oh13ZV8?si=9NiWYGuUh4El7atc

lexyman:
i learnt Nwabali is injured , how reliable is Uzoho ... can someone confirm this news

Uzoho is utterly unreliable. God, why?

Okoye really has bad luck with the National team

charlesemeka85:
any opposition defender wey Mola do that move against must commot for road

Ronaldo De Lima too get signature move like that. His own was more elaborate.

We have advocated long and hard that instead of playing Iwobi from deep in the midfield, he should be plugged in to play close to the attackers so he can give defense splitting passes. And in the last match, that was precisely what was done and we saw how good he was.

Maybe just as Peseiro deployed the 3-5-2 formation after our first two matches at the last Afcon and it took us all the way, Chelle should also stay with this formation and it allows our attacking strength to find expression with compromising our defensive solidity in the midfield where Frank the Tank reigns supreme.

This 4-2-1-1-2 or 4-3-1-2 formation is good for us considering that we are soft at the back.

What if I told you that the Super Eagles of Nigeria’s 🇳🇬 star, Ademola Lookman, is the first and only player in the world to score a hat-trick in a Europa League final?
pic.twitter.com/2HFBwr1VSk

— Africa First (@AfricaFirsts) December 29, 2025

Lookman has a signature move. Once he drops his shoulders and does that leg over to his left foot, oya bye bye

Moniter0:
Iwobi has been contributing defensively too. Let's not make like he is not doing any defensively. He presses a lot. Maybe people think he is not defending well because he is not very difficult to dribble unlike other midfielders like Onyeka and Ndidi but he makes up for that with pressing, zonal/positional marking, and ball inceptions.
People who make intelligent passes in football are usually easily dribbled and winning duels. E.g. people say Barcelona has a weak defense because you can easily dribble past their players who on the other hand are very good with tiki-taka football when in possession of the ball.
Let's cut Iwobi some slack please. This is the person that initiates and dictate play in from deep and makes it to the final third to deliver passes. He is always full of running on the pitch reason why he gets tired towards the end of some games. Now is not the time talk bad about Iwobi at all.

Defending from Iwobi na jara. Let him do his primary duty well.

EEGA:
Chelle should rest our first XI.Let the second XI start the game.

5 players from the first XI can still come from the bench, after the hour mark.

Please we should rest Ndidi to avoid fatigue, he is already 29.

We need him fresh and rejuvenated for our R16 clash.

Ndidi should be rested. Osimhen too.

FiveFootNinja:
Egypt using their second team against Angola. I hope Nigeria follows suit. What ruined us in the last AFCON was over reliance on the same players till the dying second.

It ruined us indeed. We had players who were exhausted and players who had had no game time at all.

BankyGee:
Not related to my above post, but who has noticed that only Iwobi in our squad knows how to calculate Osimhen's run and give him a pass when he's not offside?

The thing no hard, Osimhen has mad level of both acceleration and speed, he's one of the fastest center forwards in the world, if not the fastest. Watch Iwobi's through-passes to him, he let the defend be ahead of Osimhen a little, let Osimhen turn to start his run, then he releases the ball past the side of the defender for Osimhen to run up to it and twice in this AFCON, it has been perfect. None of those defenders fast reach Osimhen, but other players will wait for Osimhen to start running and before they pass the ball, he has marginally or even by a mile run into an offside position.

That Iwobi pass too wickedt. Yes wickedt with a T.

Uzoho returns at the right time to terminate our Afcon hopes. So long my brothers.

I dey fear Cameroun, CIV and Senegal oo. Their intensity and technical abilities are well honed

TheSuperNerd:
Read the Elyte football philosophy book, page by page, cover to cover and there is absolutely no sign, trace or jot of anything Eric Chelle applied on Saturday.

Na why Tonga and Grenadines no even invite your client pass preliminaries inquiry stage. Till now, he never do proper interview for any NT football coach job.

Yori Yori ko, Yoyo ni.

Elyte89 baba is like you have not told him. Anyway, by the new year the big announcement will be made here on this thread

AndSunGorilla:
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So TGJ is part of the people that cost us the world cup ticket?

No be for my mouth you go hear say Shagari dey smoke Benson - Fela 😂😂😉

MKPUOGALIGA:
Anybody knows where I get get the full match between Nigeria and Tunisia

Everybody dey praise Iwobi oo. Idenna what say you?

BankyGee:
I no sure say na here he hear say formation no matter sha 😂

😂😂😂 Definitely not from here. Here we believe in formation and philosophy die!

Goke7:
😂 delaw allow sleeping dogs lie na, we sha Dey soak up knowledge now even though na bp things

The problem is not coming here to soak up knowledge. Anybody can come here and soak up knowledge just be sure who you soaking it up from and ensure you apply what you have soaked up properly.

I don talk my own

elyte89:
lol …obviously not from me

Naaa yours is yori yori football which Chelle is deployed fully yesterday and we can see the positive result.

Sarsaparilla524:
Many people don't know how popular this sports thread is for Nigerian football.
You will see improvement on the side of the coaches and players in the next match.

Very popular bro. 😂😂😂😜😜Rumor has it that it was from this thread that Finidi got his line up and soaked up tiki taka football philosophy from one of the veterans of this thread. Whether it was his improper digestion of the philosophy or the philosophy itself that led him astray, I cannot say but the rest as they say is history. That misadventure cost us world cup qualification.

Napoleon55:
Our next game is probably a disappointing draw or even loss.
But the good thing is we have qualified for the next stage.

That's how we play.

Odunayaw:
Yekini had 13 goals

That was a time with lesser games

Him Afcon appearance reach five sha

jihday:
I believe they are fully locked in

Na only believe we get oo. I pray they don't disappoint us.

charlesemeka85:
he was just better than he was in our first game

He doesn’t bomb forward and was easily turned in and out on 1v1 situations severally against Tunisia

Dude is wack

This your last statement. I hear am like you smack am. Kpa

TheSuperNerd:
Truth is both fullbacks actually tried yesterday and yes Bright, aside the controversial penalty call, especially showed improvement yesterday although he did struggle a bit against Tounekti who came on. This, I believe, was part reason for the introduction of Ejuke to help out on the right channel.

Bright was key to our possession-transition plays on the right channel and provided more final third penetration. Bruno on the other hand won more duels, made more tackles and provided crosses.

As non-rated as both were before the game, they actually delivered solid showings for the most parts.

Another problem with those guys is that they are not consistent. Can we count on them to put up such decent performances in the next engagement?

FiveFootNinja:
Dominate and bully Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Tunisia, Egypt and Ghana

Worried and scared of Uganda, Tanzania, Lesotho, Sierra Leone and Niger Republic

The life of a Nigerian football fan 😂😂😂

We raise our game against the power houses and lower it against the minnows. It's horrible

Samueltemi337:
I nor know wetin Osayi do some people

See they are players who transmit panic. Even when they are playing well, you are like heyyy Hmmm abeg oo. Osayi is that kind of player. You know no matter how good he plays, a slip, a rash tackle, a hand in the air is not far away.

Then they are players like Benjamin, smooth, calm and confident. Even if he makes an error, your mind go still dey.

So sometimes it's not the play, it's the vibes.

Goke7:
But bro he sent some people back to Tunisia sha before putting the ball into the net make we talk true 😂

Definitely. It was a sweet goal but na God save am say he score oo because both Osimhen and Akor were free. It shows his level of confidence and composure.

AndSunGorilla:
I don't think it was like that o. Osimhen wasn't necessarily open as Ejuke was ahead of Victor and there's a strong chance a pass could have been cut off. Also that chance was similar to the one he scored against Gabon.

Okay as per comments I've been reading online.