GeneralDae:

Even the Ghana and Ivory Coast would play rubbish too but this is a pain to watch.

It is not about playing rubbish but making the tournament competitive. Both teams are ranked than most teams in the tournament exception of Cameroon, Nigeria, and South Africa. Why not pitch Senegal against Ghana in qualifiers ? Ghana has the quality and It was not easy defeating them

mostob:
Alozie that fine babe?
They did not even mention Chikwelu or one of those with Rasta.... They should have small sense na

Cameroonian striker not Alozie.

GeneralDae:

Cameroonian striker not Alozie.

Oh..sorry....as I saw Houston Dash, i just assume it's her especially when you consider Ordega has been in the news lately.

samtol4:
It is not about playing rubbish but making the tournament competitive. Both teams are ranked than most teams in the tournament exception of Cameroon, Nigeria, and South Africa. Why not pitch Senegal against Ghana in qualifiers ? Ghana has the quality and It was not easy defeating them

ghana was somethings else during the return leg. They would have easily trashed togo, burkina faso, senegal, tunishia and morocco with the way the play SF that day.

I dont know how Togo managed to qualify. Botswana go surely collect an embarrassing result likewise burundi..

What CAF should understand is that there is no shortcut. North African countries like tunisia and morocco have aggressively been developing their female teams. Only zambia and Uganda from that east/south african regions.

Togo, burkina faso, mali and senegal are in same league with uganda, namibia, burundi and i doubt those East/Southern african countries can even convincely win burkina.F, mali and senegal... talk of CIV and Ghana.

today's game will be 5-3-2 formation

Alright then.

And yes, you are right. About 3 bandas back in 2014 (Susan Banda, Justina Banda and Meya Banda).

Bandas and trouble.

Schemerkhiz:




Ohhh Sorry about that not Barbara Banda but there were other Banda's in the team... I think two or maybe more

How strange indeed.

I don't like how they are making this look. It's really unfortunate for Barbra.

In truth, Barbra Banda was the one of the players I was excitedly looking forward to seeing at Wafcon/Awcon 2022.

Well, the show must go on.

Deltamani:
CAF PRESIDENT PATRICE MOTSEPE DOESN'T KNOW WHY BARBRA BANDA HAS BEEN BARRED FROM THE TOURNAMENT.


Patrice Motsepe has expres BBBsed ignorance over the exclusion of Barbra Banda on "medical reasons" or "gender eligibility reasons" from the tournament.

This happened at the official CAF President Press Conference a few moments ago.

A female BBC Africa journalist asked why a woman that had been allowed to compete in FIFA fixtures and was cleared by The International Olympic Committee to play in Tokyo was now suddenly ineligible.

Neither Motsepe or his press officer seemed to know or have information on the matter.

It is weird that Motsepe doesn't know why the Women’s African Cup tournament is without one of its stars.

Ashleigh - The Present and Future

Ebi - The Super Veteran

#InTheMoodFor10


NB: I love how SABC uses the overall historical record references dating back to 1991 so they admit we have 11 titles and going for 12. But shaa... for "Officially official" purpose... still #GoingFor10.

Deltamani:
Ashleigh Plumptre and Onome Ebi

@bolded... when your opponents are Sao Tome & principe and Gabon in the qualifiers, then dreams can come true.

labas370:


ghana was somethings else during the return leg. They would have easily trashed togo, burkina faso, senegal, tunishia and morocco with the way the play SF that day.

I dont know how Togo managed to qualify. Botswana go surely collect an embarrassing result likewise burundi..

TheSuperNerd:
@bolded... when your opponents are Sao Tome & principe and Gabon in the qualifiers, then dreams can come true.

CAF is just being mischievous and sadly WAFU allowed this. They excuse this misnomer as them trying to "develop football" in other parts of Africa but very cleverly do not apply approach for club football. If they insist on this format, then CAF champions League and Confederation cup should also be zoned so the "football development" can be holistic.

Funny people

labas370:
today's game will be 5-3-2 formation

compare to the quality of players in this tourney so far, Omo naija get squad ooo..

Senegal faced off vs Mali in the final qualifying round after both defeated Liberia and Guinea respectively on aggregate in the previous round.

Nigeria battled Two of West Africa's Top 3 strongest in Ghana and CIV.

That's 5 West African top teams in women's football. Nigeria, Ghana, CIV, Senegal and Mali.


Honestly, it's sickening and the fact that Motsepe and co have kept it this way for the U17s & U20s for boys and then for Senior Women's football, since their tenure resumption shows there is more about whatever deal they had with Ahmad Ahmad to oust Issa Hayatou that we don't know about.

I hope it's changed and reverses to the old qualifying format someday but until then, the show must go on and I hope Nigeria keeps having the upper hands in the Qualifiers for Wafu B and in Women's Football.

lovewins:


CAF is just being mischievous and sadly WAFU allowed this. They excuse this misnomer as them trying to "develop football" in other parts of Africa but very cleverly do not apply approach for club football. If they insist on this format, then CAF champions League and Confederation cup should also be zoned so the "football development" can be holistic.

Funny people

labas370:
today's game will be 5-3-2 formation

This Line up nor fit happen at all….

Where’s Tony Payne? Ayinde can’t be in the DM when we already have natural and Combative duo of Christy Ucheibe and Regina Otu.. Ayinde will rather come in Centrally…

Ngozi Okobi is currently inform, I’m watching how Randy is going to set up his formation…

Onome Ebi will always be between Ashleigh Plumptre and Osinachi Ohale… not Ohale in the middle

I hear the battle cry of the Super Falcons. The legendary dreaded Falcons of Africa. South Africa must fall. Aquí Vamos!

3-5-2 Formation


Tochi Oluehi GK

Osinachi Ohale
Onome Ebi
Ashleigh Plumptre

Tony Payne
Christy Ucheibe
Halimatu Ayinde
Rasheedat Ajibade
Michelle Alozie

Asisat Oshoala
Ifeoma Onumonu


Substitute

Uchenna Kanu for Onumonu
Regina Otu for Halimatu Ayinde
Ngozi Okobi for Michelle Alozie/ Rash Ajibade
N Payne for either of the Wingbacks
Maclean’s for Asisat Oshoala
Akudo Ogbonna for Osinachi Ohale
Franny, Vivian, Gift, Efih, Chikwelu, Ogbonna, Nnadozie, Balogun

Deltamani:
The Zambian fans are over the media accusing Houston Dash and Cameroonian Striker Michaela-Batya Aban of being a man…



The 25 year old top Cameroonian striker Michaela-Batya Abam only managed one shot on target in their Group B WAFCON opener against Zambia.

The American-born Cameroonian striker who plays for Houston Dash in the US’s National Women's Soccer League and former Real Betis player was highly rated before the match but suffered the wrath of Martha Tembo.

#WAFCON2022

LOL... So this is where their frustration is leading to.

I wonder why Ona da fear sef…


South Africa have only defeated Nigeria just 3 times

2012 AWCON Semi Final
2018 AWCON Group stage game
2021 Aisha Buhari Cup in Nigeria…..

These are their only victories over Nigeria… Nigeria have won almost all apart from the few draws (only 2) which include the 2018 AWCON final we later won on penalty shoot out…i remembered all this very well..

My Predictions

Nigeria (2)-(1) South Africa


Or

Nigeria (2)-(0) South Africa

Or

Nigeria (3)-(0) South Africa

The first prediction will likely come to pass as this has been the most occurring result from 2010 till date.

The Senegalese side are just so tall..,

More photos

Deltamani:



This Line up nor fit happen at all….

Where’s Tony Payne? Ayinde can’t be in the DM when we already have natural and Combative duo of Christy Ucheibe and Regina Otu.. Ayinde will rather come in Centrally…

Ngozi Okobi is currently inform, I’m watching how Randy is going to set up his formation…

Onome Ebi will always be between Ashleigh Plumptre and Osinachi Ohale… not Ohale in the middle

Check this formation. I don't expect the coach to start chikwelu..

Your formation of 3-5-2 is similar to mine when on an offensive mode; but the only difference is that, the coach prefer starting Tony's sister as leftback to Tony as LB. This i still believe he wouldn't alter. Ucheibe and Ayinde can swap position and they are all good whether as a CM or DF likewise Ohale and Ebi.

The coach will not want to collapse the midfield because of Okobi. Okobi is on form but her defensive attributes as a SF player have been poor. And Ajibade that is more of a fighter in that mid can't be benched during first half in-order to accommodate okobi especially for the first half. Okobi can come in 2nd-half which i'm kinda sure is what the coach will do.

Bayana Bayana will try to come hard on us in the first half. Their game plan will be score early, sit deep and catch us on counter. We need mobility in that midfield atleast for the first half and let second half be more of tactics. That's when to bring in experienced players like okobi, ordega to now use their experience to break down any tight defence with their tricks. Ajibade covered more grounds against canada, portugal and usa as an AM. We need to score more first half so that second half, we will have our players sit back with okobi through those her long range defence splitting passes. with kanu in, over-stretching/dragging their defenders out of position.

Deltamani:
3-5-2 Formation


Tochi Oluehi GK

Osinachi Ohale
Onome Ebi
Ashleigh Plumptre

Tony Payne
Christy Ucheibe
Halimatu Ayinde
Rasheedat Ajibade
Michelle Alozie

Asisat Oshoala
Ifeoma Onumonu


Substitute

Uchenna Kanu for Onumonu
Regina Otu for Halimatu Ayinde
Ngozi Okobi for Michelle Alozie/ Rash Ajibade
N Payne for either of the Wingbacks
Maclean’s for Asisat Oshoala
Akudo Ogbonna for Osinachi Ohale
Franny, Vivian, Gift, Efih, Chikwelu, Ogbonna, Nnadozie, Balogun

pls is any local tv station going to air the match?

Deltamani:
CAF PRESIDENT PATRICE MOTSEPE DOESN'T KNOW WHY BARBRA BANDA HAS BEEN BARRED FROM THE TOURNAMENT.


Patrice Motsepe has expres BBBsed ignorance over the exclusion of Barbra Banda on "medical reasons" or "gender eligibility reasons" from the tournament.

This happened at the official CAF President Press Conference a few moments ago.

A female BBC Africa journalist asked why a woman that had been allowed to compete in FIFA fixtures and was cleared by The International Olympic Committee to play in Tokyo was now suddenly ineligible.

Neither Motsepe or his press officer seemed to know or have information on the matter.

It is weird that Motsepe doesn't know why the Women’s African Cup tournament is without one of its stars.

Baba just increase prizes and face front, feeling like he's done enough for women's football. Smh

Deltamani:
3-5-2 Formation


Tochi Oluehi GK

Osinachi Ohale
Onome Ebi
Ashleigh Plumptre

Tony Payne
Christy Ucheibe
Halimatu Ayinde
Rasheedat Ajibade
Michelle Alozie

Asisat Oshoala
Ifeoma Onumonu


Substitute

Uchenna Kanu for Onumonu
Regina Otu for Halimatu Ayinde
Ngozi Okobi for Michelle Alozie/ Rash Ajibade
N Payne for either of the Wingbacks
Maclean’s for Asisat Oshoala
Akudo Ogbonna for Osinachi Ohale
Franny, Vivian, Gift, Efih, Chikwelu, Ogbonna, Nnadozie, Balogun

I hope this formation does not leak out to the South African press or national team. That's what affected SE world cup aspiration. We should be able to manage info well

TheSuperNerd:
Just in: Ghana oh Ghana, U17 WC African Qualifiers Fallout

This Morocco sef are over asabi sabi. They have already qualified for the U17 FIFA world cup. They should have just allowed the sleeping dog lie.

Hmmm... I hope they don't probe our girls too

FIFA has banned Ghana �� from competing in the next 2️⃣ editions of the FIFA U17 Women’s African Qualifiers with a fine of $100,000 after Moroccan protest that Nancy Amoh & Rasheeda Shahadu are above U17.

GFA was given the chance to defend itself but chose not to �‍♀️

#FIFAU17WWCq #Molatsportgist

solonnachi:


I hope this formation does not leak out to the South African press or national team. That's what affected SE world cup aspiration. We should be able to manage info well

This was my own pick though… We still don’t know which of them Coach Randy will go with though but the ones have picked above is good enough to do the job…

Randy may surprise us by playing Chikwelu and Otu ahead of Ucheibe and Ayinde

Deltamani:




This was my own pick though… We still don’t know which of them Coach Randy will go with though but the ones have picked above is good enough to do the job…

Randy may surprise us by playing Chikwelu and Otu ahead of Ucheibe and Ayinde

Based on the practice match, he'll likely go with Chikwelu. She was a part of Asisat teams and that team had all the regular starters. So I'm guessing he'll just go with her.

lovewins:


Based in the practice match, he'll likely go with Chikwelu. She was a part of Asisat teams and that team had all starters. So I'm guessing he'll just go with her.

I wish he would seat out Chikwelu and again if he’s to play Chikwelu, Ucheibe or Otu will have to be around her to cover the space that would be left behind..