₦airaland Forum

Lionessza6:
So that's it, that's what makes SA undeserving of their spot....I thought you were going to make some solid accusations like " they were awarded undue penalties throughout the tournament " or something along those lines,not this ...or atleast the blunder of fielding of an ineligible player


So where were these two matches supposed to be played , in a school field in Lesotho or a cricket field in Harare?

It's pretty much accepted as standard and normal that when all the countries bordering SA play Fifa matches ,they all use SA as their homeground....whether playing SA or any other team ....it didn't start during this tournament, it has always been like that. So there's no conspiracy here .....it just so happens to work in SA's favour at this crucial tournament.
SA didn't cheat ; we used our advantages to get what we want( investing in our local league and infrastructure) ,and you failed to use yours. ( having experienced international players and your previous records ) ...that's it . You failed to execute your duties and we capitalized on it.....and the rest is history 💁‍♂️

Amedino99:
not really. You need to be good in other to even win the matches. No be we dey draw our home matches?

Bazkanova:
How did they cheat? Did they tell us to drop points against Zimbabwe home and away? Did they tell Troost Ekong to single handedly torpedo our chances with the mediocre performances he put up in these qualifiers?
They deserve it 100 percent. They have the better football administrators and coach.

Bazkanova:
Again I ask - what was the point of sacking Rohr? His three replacements have won fewer games together than he did with Benin Republic. The NFF is a disaster; heads should roll. Eguavoen at this stage is just collecting money (if he’s even getting paid on time) for doing absolutely nothing.

Anyway, congratulations to South Africa. They deserved it. While we were beating our chests, they kept their heads down and did the work. Now they’re finally reaping the rewards.

andrewbaba44:
Who be the fresh legs wey e rest

Samueltemi337:
If he doesn't play those games hope you will be back to that post
That's the question I asked

BankyGee:
I'd love to see him play next week seff. I no go pray make the injury serious pass one week injury.

You see the tackles, you say him limping all through the game, he continued playing after that tackle and went down after playing close to 15 minutes and you want him to do what? Keep playing till he damages the ankle? Keep being a liability on the pitch because he can't put in 100% again.

Make una rest jare.

mekabuachi:
Read this thing you just typed out loud, then think about it.

Odunayaw:
The housewives section is opposite the door you came in through. Hurry or you'd miss their gossip session

Odunayaw:
You and him should put your minds to better use.

BankyGee:
Person wey don get injury scare even before international break, fly all the way from Türkiye to Nigeria, just to come play 30 minutes and fake injury. Something dey do you and that glorious penalty misser...

Samueltemi337:
And when Osimhen doesn't play their next match and the champions game against Frankfurt hope you will be back to this post?

Truidstarr:
Starting 11: Nwabali, Aina, Troost-Ekong, Bassey, Fredrick; Ndidi, Dele-Bashiru, Iwobi; Lookman, Dessers, Moses Simon

TheLoneCitizen:
Asamoah Gyan on Victor Osimhen's injury;

"I know these tricks. Someone told Osimhen, 'Look, we've spent a lot of money on you. The Champions League is coming up, we don't like you going to Africa, but go there, play a bit, then get injured, lie on the ground, and act like it's serious. The next day, you'll be in Turkey.'

You'll see Osimhen running fresh in the Turkish Super Lig and the Champions League. No matter how many times he's kicked there, he won't stay down on the ground. The doctors are in on it too! The euro is more valuable currency than the naira!"

Napoleon55:
Because they will they will have 8 and 9 points gap ahead of Benin and Nigeria respectively,even if the 3 points is deducted it won't still touch them.

We should focus on winning the match today and the next match,when it's clear that we can qualify after the deduction of the 3 points, the fans can start their protests or whatever it's necessary.

mekabuachi:
Ololoooo😂

Openair:
I hope you actually watch our wc qualifier matches so far...

Openair:
The way una dy hype super Eagles ehn...
Let's face fact and leave sentiments... this team can't win today... it's either a draw or a loss

lbrichman2:
Lookman is a WF, not a winger
Playing him as a winger will limit his influence in games

lbrichman2:
We will get a good game, sure
And because of SA's swashbuckling style of play, we will surely get opportunities to score
This is why I'm happy Tolu will be leading the attack and not Dessers..
We need our players who can score up front
That's why I'd like to see Lookman, Tolu, Uche playing as forwards..

Sainty92:
In as much as I like Frederick's calm defensive presence, I still have the feeling that this game can be a tight game where Ekong bullet header from a corner kick can just give us a 1-0 victory.
The coach has the final decision anyway.

BankyGee:
Matchday!

I'd love us to use this formation and players against South Africa. South Africa won't sit back like Rwanda, so we need our two dribblers on both flanks, Chukwueze against South Africa is always like Chukwueze against Madrid. Ademola Lookman will get to beat any left-back there and get space to either shoot or pass to Tolu who'd be lurking in the box.

Ndidi alone seff can man the back, he's shown it, but combination of him and Uche will be good because Uche can hold, guide and progress with the ball, so sometimes he'll be with Iwobinho in attack, sometimes with Ndidi in defence, it'll be like 4-1-2-3 when attacking and back to 4-2-3-1 when defending...

Subs:
- Dessers and Tolu somewhere in the game, maybe if we haven't scored in the first half, turn it to 4-4-2

- Onyedika for Uche around the 60-ish minutes
- Moses Simon for Chukwueze in the 70-ish minutes if Chukwueze has failed to impact the game in any way then push Lookman to the RW.
- Any other subs na to just see the game off.

My scoreline prediction: 🇿🇦 South Africa [0]–[2] Nigeria 🇳🇬

Drop your own scoreline predictions! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

minfelix:
omo SA na really kolos nation…just click on this link amd see the turf this crase people carry our match go🤣🤣🤣🤣

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1EteCbj1Xt/?mibextid=wwXIfr

minfelix:
NFF must pressure FIFA oooo, they cant do us any ojoro ooo at all at all…
Tunisia just qualified to the world cup today, from benefiting off the 6points taken away from Equitorial Guinea for fielding an ineligible player (Emilio Nsue) although not on yellow card ground, but ineligible na ineligible…
Nobody protested anything oooooooooooo and they just landed hammer on that poor nation…

Equitorial Guinea were really in form pursuing Tunisia back to back with their own wins, from no where boom hammer landed on them.
E-Gui 1-0 Namibia(forfeited and 3-0 awarded to Namibia)
Liberia 0-1 E-Gui(forfeited and 3-0 awarded to Liberia)
Imagine a matches they won since november 2023, they remember to deduct them 6points in may 2024, thats a 6month gap oo

somebody should sound this to FIFA OOOOOOO we no go gree oooo

Goke7:
Oga you can’t gaslight me, your midfield is crap and whoever is there can be called out as we also call out other players, nothing special!

Goke7:
The guy I responded to mention Iwobi stats in the epl and I said Can we see more in the national team? and I went on to say we can’t continue to blame the coach alone and not ask questions on our players (plural o) your problem is hearing Iwobi name made you concluded I singled him out and it’s what you guys do here so we should demand more from others and not Iwobi Abi? We all complained of our midfield but we shouldn’t mention names, omo you guys are biased.

mank1234:
Iwobi is always their scapegoat because his name is easy to pronounce or type. Some don't watch ball analytically. All they see is result and goals.

Goke7:
Once the team fails no player can be excluded and that’s where we are always hypocritical I didn’t even single out iwobi I only asked why can’t we see more but I have noticed here that other players including osihmen, Simon, Ademola etc can be singled out but not Iwobi. Our midfield is still crap and who are the players in there? Nwabali?

Goke7:
Let us continue until we are out of the World Cup and blame others but we shouldn’t talk about others too.

And please there’s no best performer in that team if you can’t beat Zimbabwe at home. And thank your stars for the risk Arokodare took to get that ball over the line cos apart from that I wonder what best performance you’re talking about and why don’t you wait till tomorrow and let’s see what your best performers will do I hope you’re aware that anything less than a 3 points is a failure if you like come and talk about best performer again. Phew