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Dannyxy:
Chelle should not play iwobi in the middle, remove Simon and play iwobi there …

We need someone they knows how to handle the midfield control properly, over the years this is one of biggest issue, any small team that has below average midfielders, and knows how to peg out wingers with physical football would always give us problems because we don’t control midfield, we always take the ball to Simon, or play long, at most we just pass aimlessly to the wings over and over, then loose the ball, while hoping on one or two brilliance from osimhen and co in the mix of the aimless and lethargic football.

Looks like Simon is a tournament player. He and Lookman have been poor throughout this qualifiers

Ihenzy:
No such zone as middlebelt.

Like I said I don't want to engage on this matter

North Central. Those of us from the North Central call it Middlebelt. A bit of history will help you. Google J. S Tarka, Solomon Lar and the UMBC.

Omo this one has gone beyond calculator oo. Na calculus una dey inside oo. I just dey see Fibonacci sequence. I hope against all hope that we qualify.

realpoacher:
It changes the fact


If the current northerners in the U20 couldn't flourish at the world cup, .... Then your supposed Southerners cum East are supposed to show them how its done in the current SE


Heck, the current Southerners and Easterners in the SE can't even do well in Africa, can't even qualify to the world cup.

Whereas the supposed Northerners got to their own World Cup and only lost at the Quarter finals


Always remember that, he who comes to equity must come with clean hands.

I'm at a loss at the bolded. Which team was this? What year?

realpoacher:
It changes the fact


If the current northerners in the U20 couldn't flourish at the world cup, .... Then your supposed Southerners cum East are supposed to show them how its done in the current SE


Heck, the current Southerners and Easterners in the SE can't even do well in Africa, can't even qualify to the world cup.

Whereas the supposed Northerners got to their own World Cup and only lost at the Quarter finals


Always remember that, he who comes to equity must come with clean hands.

My point goes beyond the specific failure of the u-20 or the SE and leads to the overarching point that using pattern recognition, it is easy to see that our best sportmen including players in the national teams are from the south.

And to invalidate your point, I can show you many times when SE was populated by southies and they succeeded while you on the other hand would not be able to show me as many times when our teams were dominated by northerners and we succeeded.

realpoacher:
You are funny...

Who are you to tell another fan whether to keep hope alive or not?

Keep keeping your hopes alive and allow others lose their hope in peace.

Does the game play of our current Eagles look like something to keep hope alive for?

Abeg face your front and allow others to face their own fronts too

This is the heart of the matter. SE don't inspire hope or confidence. I say when Morocco was winning Falcons 2-0, I sat down and continued watching because the girls were fighting.

SE are limp. Fans put themselves under pressure. The players are breezy and nonchalant. Pass give your brother to score. Mbanu. I must score.

QueenJazz:
U20 ancestor 🤣🤣🤣

😂😂😂😂 He will be in the next u-20

elyte89:
Yinmu …match wey dem don sell …Dey might score first to make d match serious but by 74th minute..d scoreline go change to 1-3 🤣🤣🤣

You sabi as e dey be.

mekabuachi:
🇿🇼 Zimbabwe coach Michael Nees: "Friday will be a fun day for us. We are preparing for AFCON, and Bafana Bafana is our opponent in AFCON. People have been undermining my players in this part of the world, we have a quality team than our Friday opponent."

I believe, and we need to prove that. Besides that, this match is a derby and we will win. Look we have no pressure but we need to cause havoc and to be remembered as party spoiler for long time to come. South Africa Bafana Bafana have been together for a while but they don't have our quality. On Friday you will know."

Maybe them don already bribe am. He's just mouthing this to fool people.

comodo:
You see the bolded, that's the summary.
The little that the Burkina man is doing to sanitize his country. Its still Africans that are demonizing him. A continent that was blessed with so much nature made resources.

We like giving excuses too much. We are a feminized race. We never accept responsibility. We really do not want to grow. What is true for individuals is true for nations and groups. That very thing that happened to Mr. A and made him fail, happened to Mr. B and propelled him to success. While we may sympathize with A, it is B that we celebrate and point at as inspiration for others.

Ihenzy:
At the bolded, I don't want to say some things on this your comment but let me just speak on the bolded.

The North is not culturally laid back in terms of sport. Most of Nigeria Top level Footballers like Mikel, Ahmad Musa, Simon, Babayaro e.t.c developed from the North and even our current starboy Benjamin.

Exceptions prove the rule. Mikel is from the South. Grew up in the north. Simon is from the middle belt. Ahmed Musa I heard is from Auchi. The Babayaros are Igbos.

For every one player you mention from the north, 20 can be mentioned from the south and middle belt.

If we say - and it is the fact - that blacks in America dominate the NBA and athletics will you argue against it?

Why is this a difficult thing to accept. It's not even a shameful thing. The north has its own unique proficiencies. Athletics and sports is not one of it. Just go through the list of our sportsmen and you'd find that they are overwhelmingly from the south and middle belt.

UncleHaba22:
Super eagles that have 1-2 northerners only can't go to the world cup for group that has Benin, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and south Africa

What do you have to say about that??

Does not change the fact.

UncleHaba22:
Our 18 year old captain will be there at the next u20 world cup

The future

This guy never reach 30 so?

SymphonyRad:
Dem carry Northerners pack for team, when we raised our voices about this lopsided preponderance of players from a certain section of the country in the U20 squad list, the "politically correct" apologists came for our necks- now see the result...same nepotism we saw with the CHAN and U17 team. A perfect sample size would have to be the previous successful U17-U20 teams and the regions of the players, the Siasia teams that gave us some fantastic achievements and players at U20 levels easily prove this point.

The uncomfortable truth many Nigerians will have to accept is that the best pool of Nigeria's football talents (going by the precedence of history) have always come from the old Bendel areas (current day Edo and Delta), the South East, some from the the Middle belt Christian areas and then the South West. The core Muslim North have never been known to produce top level athletes for Nigeria, and maybe that has more to do with poor scouting or perhaps the culturally laid-back attitude of the North towards sports.

Facts. No need to be apologetic about it. Yes we have a sprinkling here and there - think Tijani Babangida, Garba Lawal - but generally sports is not the forte of the far North.

TheSuperNerd:
We have been talking solutions for years and nothing has been done. How we got here? We both know the answer already.

I am just focused on the pearls we can still find even in the midst of our football chaos. If you burden your heart with NFF matters, u fit get stroke.

Up next is friday. Brace yourself just in case it goes south.

There it is! This team is a serious let down
Lesotho fa, small Lesotho here. In their Kanu's time, Lesotho will be skinned and roasted.

QueenJazz:
The saddest and scariest part of this whole thing is that even this U-20 team that are losing 4-0 still look more proactive, creative, slick and sharper on the ball than our senior Super Eagles that want to play on Friday.

Think about that for a second.

Just watch as them Super Eagles serve us cold draw soup tomorrow. Kai e dey pain.

ChrisKels:
Once any list is made and I don't see majority SE and SS(Edo and Delta precisely) names, then SW and a sprinkle of boys from Benue and Jos I don't get my hopes high.

No disrespect to the ones from North, but I know where our football talents are.

We like to tell ourselves lies that's why we walk softly around certain facts.

Our Southern brothers are more athletic than those in the north (excluding North Central sha)

Indians are not athletic. Fact.
Oyibo as a race pass black man race (not because of skin color but culture). Fact.
Men cannot be women and vice versa. Fact.

villagereporter:
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Not known much about football but the little I know and from d list of players Chelle released seems to me he was seriously confused about how to prosecute d remaining matches. What happens if one of d players get injured or one of them get yellow card?
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I pray d SE qualified sha bcause that is d Koko.

Even his playing pattern na guess work

minfelix:
Just imagine
Lesotho 0-3 SA
Ben 4-0 Lesotho

They will now meet super eagles and be doing home to score first or doing Goal-Goal with super eagles….omo like seriously Nigeria needs to wake up oo…Minnow full Africa like werey, except we sef don become fellow minnows

Your last line may be the truth. Maybe we have become minnows oo. Yes, we have pedigree but maybe we have become like when yam leaves are growing green and the farmer thinks he's got something good cooking under the soil, not knowing that pigs have skillfully eaten the yam seedling under the soil. Na harvest time, him eye go clear.

kennysville:
Some things have been happening and we aren't observant. That supposed loss could be what takes Nigeria to the world cup. Also there is a reason the handball against SA stood up until now. It effectively ensured we are still in the running albeit very late. Let's wait till the end of the qualifiers. As someone said, maybe God loves Naija more

It's not really about the qualification. Even if we qualify, Chelle seems unsure of himself to me. I might be wrong because qualifiers is usually within short spaces of time, not enough for the players to gell with his ideas. We wait and see.

After that Zimbabwe loss, my enthusiasm for Chelle waned.

Odunayaw:
Why does this always come up sef?

The leader is good. It is the people around him that are bad. You know that logic

BankyGee:
1. Victor Osimhen
2. Tolu Arokodare
3. Paul Onuachu
4. Gift Orban

That's why I no dey like am once Onuachu or Sadiq score in their clubs. Not because I don't want them to make progress in their clubs but because before you know it people start clamoring for them to be invited.

Onuachu and Sadiq are not Super Eagles material. Our playing style does not suit them. The earlier we come to terms with this reality, the better for us just so that we avoid the confusion that comes with the clamor for their invite.

TheSuperNerd:
Drawing vs Capeverde to barely scrape through to the WC faceoff vs Ghana. Was that effortless?

Rohr did well between 2016 and 2019. His decline began 2020 till 2021. It was right to fire him.

His decline started on the eve of the 2018 World Cup during the friendlies we played. He lacked self belief and kept on undermining his team with his words. Towards the end, he became totally clueless.

Kog45:
I think youth teams should be about the future sometimes not even the results.Yes Daga and Bameyi always making the team brings questions.

The law I have seen homegrown youth player who used his real age 14 and played in under 18 tournament and made the tournament XI,if such boy makes under 20 team at 16,meaning he can make 3 appearances for under 21 team.

The point is that those boys even if they are within the age limit, they ought to have grown beyond cadet football. So for them to keep featuring means that they are not developing. It also means that the coaches are not scouting new talents.

villagereporter:
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No your lordship, they weren't 13yrs old when they started playing they were only 2yrs old and you will see dem in next edition, d Nigeria's effect d more you look d less you see.very parasitic in nature

I think you are right. I've been hearing of Daga and Bameyi since for ever and every iteration of youth tournament, they feature in the team.

ChrisKels:
This is the Daga some of us were asking to be given a chance to play with the Super Eagles?

This Daga and Bameyi, were they 13 years old when they started playing youth football for Nigeria? How come they are always in the team? Don't they grow beyond youth football?

Damiana5248:
If only our lazy boys had gotten victories in Uyo against the Zimbabwean national team and the South Africans in the last match.
Self-destructive team

I knew that draw against Zimbabwe was the real arrow to the heart of our quest to qualify for the world cup. Never stopped calling it a loss even though it was a draw. If we had won that match we'd have been on 13 points just behind the group leaders

typicalgamer:
Lowkey we don they turn usa na the female teams they carry the country along for soccer

They are the ones carrying our flag oo. Shout out to BascoVanVeli for highlighting their games for their various clubs

BankyGee:
Congratulations to me guys 🔥🔥

Una go wonder why I no active these days! Final Year exams o! But like my idol, I came out top scorer, and this comes a week after I finished FIRST at a stand-up comedy competition that was hosted by Koboko Master (MC Edo Pikin's senior brother)!

The Osimhen of Comedy [OOC] is not just an alias, it is a TRANSFER of GRACE!

BACK-TO-BACK WINS FAMILY! ❤️🎓🎤

Congratulations. Wishing you all the best