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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by lbrichman2: 7:30pm On Sep 09, 2025

Kog45:
Time for Akinsanmiro,Eletu, Ogbu and Frederick to be eagles main players..... Frederick justified my confidence in him....well Ekong was averaged at best but surprised many in the last Afcon,Eagles made him but naturally he is not a good ball player, average in reading the games and reason for having 3 or 4 national team own goals

Not sure about Eletu, but Akinsanmiro, yes..
Ekong will start games from the bench till he retires after the AFCON
Frederick was superb today!

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by mekabuachi(f): 7:30pm On Sep 09, 2025

Unrelated tho we're second in our group
Who slap me😂😂

Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by BankyGee(m): 7:31pm On Sep 09, 2025

mekabuachi:
My anger is not even drawing
We score ourselves... This people could not even score us ahhh😔

That thing dey pain 😭

It was exactly like this against Russia too wey we been dey pain for. Semi Ajayi scored us then we equalized again.

Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Kog45(m): 7:31pm On Sep 09, 2025

charlesemeka85:
Chelle shouldn’t be sacked

He shouldn't but Chelle need to up his game,starting Ekong benching Bruno and Uche was a very poor decision.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by BankyGee(m): 7:31pm On Sep 09, 2025

mekabuachi:
Unrelated tho we're second in our group
Who slap me😂😂

Benin and Lesotho go still play this night and Lesotho go lose so we'll go back to 3rd

Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by mekabuachi(f): 7:32pm On Sep 09, 2025

BankyGee:
That thing dey pain 😭

It was exactly like this against Russia too wey we been dey pain for. Semi Ajayi scored us then we equalized again.

More painful that it's from someone with 10 years experience
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 😭😭

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by lexyman(m): 7:32pm On Sep 09, 2025

Chelle would have started Tolu .... the SA played a very physical game .. maybe Tolu would have given us a penalty or something close in the first half ... so far it was a good game . SE played their best .unfortunately it was't enough today .

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Goke7: 7:33pm On Sep 09, 2025

lbrichman2:
You're right..
We shouldn't have drawn that Zimbabwe game..

In Africa you must win your home games especially as a big soccer nation. If we can’t win at home then some players should make their way out of the team. We need standards to be set for players in the GWG. Enough of tolerating mediocrity. If you draw against the big teams yes we can forgive you but against teams down the fifa rankings haba! All these one of this player try when we draw at home is pure rubbish. Nigerian soil is always a slaughter slab for teams in Africa and we must ensure that. It’s difficult to win away in Africa with off the match antics from smaller African nations so why joke with your home games.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by MetalJigsaw(m): 7:33pm On Sep 09, 2025

minfelix:
The biggest question is
WHY DID EKONG START THIS GAME?

I said it before, Ekong is error prone.

Chelle goofed by not starting Chuks and Aro

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by charlesemeka85(m): 7:33pm On Sep 09, 2025

Kog45:
Time for Akinsanmiro,Eletu, Ogbu and Frederick to be eagles main players..... Frederick justified my confidence in him....well Ekong was averaged at best but surprised many in the last Afcon,Eagles made him but naturally he is not a good ball player, average in reading the games and reason for having 3 or 4 national team own goals

spot on boss, this is the right time to that injecting new and younger faces to the team.

Chelle isn’t perfect but miles better than all the coaches the team have had in last 2 years. He should continue tinkering the team and I believe they will have a good outting at the next afcon

Like I said I predicted that super eagles will win the next afcon and I still maintain that

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Kog45(m): 7:35pm On Sep 09, 2025

lbrichman2:
Not sure about Eletu, but Akinsanmiro, yes..
Ekong will start games from the bench till he retires after the AFCON
Frederick was superb today!

There is no need inviting Ekong again except we want to go the way of Keshi,Yobo,Kanu,Mikel and Ahmed Musa...time to integrate Ogbu, Frederick,Bassey as nucleus of our defense,good that we have young Bruno and Agu,also reliable Aina and Osayi.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Mujtahida: 7:35pm On Sep 09, 2025

lbrichman2:
Even Ekong himself knows his time is up
And I commend Chelle's bravery to take him off

Be like na curse. That's how Yobo scored an own goal in 2014 WC match against France

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joelsteron: 7:35pm On Sep 09, 2025

It's Eric Chelle realizing his mistake for starting Ekong and carelessly removing him for me.

For the record, allowing Eric Chelle to continue means you might not see some old players again. Bold coach.D

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Diavolo: 7:36pm On Sep 09, 2025

MKPUOGALIGA:
Why are you guys like this for Christ sake. If you like dont start preparing for the next world cup after this one.....keep looking for scapegoat

because you don't understand the rudiments of the game doesn't mean others don't. Some of us are trained in this thing and can see the mistakes a mile away. So it's only normal for us to point it out. Even if we start preparing today for 2030 and the coach keeps making this rookie mistakes,we will be back at this same stage in 5 years only. Magic don't happen in football,the quality of your decisions determine your outcome.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by QueenJazz(f): 7:36pm On Sep 09, 2025

mank1234:
Na hand I use before? Chelle has no blame in this. This qualifier was lost after 4 games. He only came on remedial mission and didn't do badly.

I don't single out players for blame but our previous saviour: Ekong failed us.
Today's game: Remove 2 points from RSA and add 2 to Nigeria's own.
Against Zimbabwe: add 2 points to ours again and see where we would have been.
This is how the table would have looked like without those errors:
RSA 16pts
Nig 15pts

Who started Ekong? Was it not Chelle?

I'm even a bigger advocate for Chelle than you, but I will call out dodgy decision making when I see it. Ekong had no business being in today's starting lineup. Like someone here rightly noted, he lacks the pace or reaction time to keep up with Bafana's attack and that's why he made that blunder. They caught him lacking and he couldn't restrain himself.

That doesn't mean I'm blaming Chelle for our qualification woes. The rightful blame for that goes to NFF, if we want to dive down to the root cause for the confusion and cluelessness surrounding our qualifiers campaign. But today's game, his decisions we're poor. Kudos to him for making the right corrections, but by then the game was lost.

South Africa were full of nerves in the first half. It was Ekong's blunder that gave them the needed confidence and once they got their foots on the gas, they didn't let up for one second. In the second half, their defense suddenly turned into prime Madrid. The same defense we were jesting that we would run circles around.

Baba rest. Ekong cost us the game obviously, but if he had stayed on the bench like he did on Saturday, we for no dey here dey yarn all this pathetic yarns.

Like I said, Chelle stays. We move on to the AFCON.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by charlesemeka85(m): 7:37pm On Sep 09, 2025

Kog45:
He shouldn't but Chelle need to up his game,starting Ekong benching Bruno and Uche was a very poor decision.

for him to start benching ekong after the ZIM match was obvious that he doesn’t rate him. Maybe he had a change of heart to field the skipper due to the formation he started the game with

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by MetalJigsaw(m): 7:37pm On Sep 09, 2025

Na we dey look for goal na dem dey press us. We go struggle collect ball still go waste am or carry give dem and the cycle continues. 😂Stupid team 🤣🤣🤣

Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Kog45(m): 7:37pm On Sep 09, 2025

charlesemeka85:
spot on boss, this is the right time to that injecting new and younger faces to the team.

Chelle isn’t perfect but miles better than all the coaches the team have had in last 2 years. He should continue tinkering the team and I believe they will have a good outting at the next afcon

Like I said I predicted that super eagles will win the next afcon and I still maintain that

We need those boys ASAP... Frederick has proved that, imagine Frederick was a boy in Ilorin and Nasarawa in 2022 but see what he did today,calm and resilient

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by codemaniacs: 7:37pm On Sep 09, 2025

Openair:
It seems as though there're a list of players given to Nigerian coaches that must play...I don't understand how every coach in recent years keep coming up with same thing that doesn't work

this is likely the truth..

the team has not changed for over 5 years now.

Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Mujtahida: 7:38pm On Sep 09, 2025

There is this gayish guy on Supersport gloating. I no blame am. Na Finidi give you mouth

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Dannyxy(m): 7:38pm On Sep 09, 2025

The guys tried let’s not lie, the problem was the those 4 matches we played first.

They lost osimhen lost aina, this losses are enough deal a mental blow for a fighting team.

Now there is still l a slim chance of finishing first and a more bigger chance of Nigeria finishing in the playoffs still hope we know.

Even if we don’t qualify it’s still just a game of football, many more to come by God’s grace.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Meliforme: 7:38pm On Sep 09, 2025

lbrichman2:
I disagree
Chelle handled this game well
SA players were ready to die today
They obviously wanted it more
But Chelle did well
Do you realize apart from the own goal, SA didn't have any clear cut chance?

I also didn't understand why he started fisayo
But that decision was justified..

If Chelle has started our world Cup qualifiers, I'm 100% sure we would have topped out group

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Ppogbae: 7:38pm On Sep 09, 2025

Ragingthunder:
Is it impossible? Nigeria is on 11 points

Not really. We can win our next two games and hope either of the 4 teams on that log drop points. We can also hope for point deduction after removal of Eritrea. The guys should win the rest of their matches but it's out of our hands now.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by ChrisKels: 7:39pm On Sep 09, 2025

Now all you disturbing us over Dessers can rest. The guy no be am and that's why he isn't rated anywhere. Despite his goals, Rangers still no rate him.

Bassey and Fredrick 💯

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by 123jamessmith: 7:39pm On Sep 09, 2025

Abeg the coach try joor, the previous coaches have already spoil the qualifies, what do you expecting him to do.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by charlesemeka85(m): 7:39pm On Sep 09, 2025

Kog45:
We need those boys ASAP... Frederick has proved that, imagine Frederick was a boy in Ilorin and Nasarawa in 2022 but see what the boy did today,calm and resilient

bros I have to watch Akinsamiro in serie A before concluding if he should be invited or not

I haven’t had the opportunity to watch him and pisa so far this season

Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Diavolo: 7:39pm On Sep 09, 2025

Odunayaw:
Will you suffer a heart attack if you just said the truth

so you can't figure out that putting a right footed slow Cb on the left side of the defence carries the risk that he can do an own goal when dealing with low crosses coming in from the left?. It's basic principle. If bassey was in Ekong position,he would have cleared it with his left leg rather than Ekong having to awkwardly position his body to clear with his right leg leading to the own goal

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Dannyxy(m): 7:39pm On Sep 09, 2025

And if South Africans like let them relax, they will just find themselves loosing to Rwanda and having 3 point chunked out, then they find themselves on 17 points like play.

Let them be doing like they win World Cup drawing Nigerian

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Goke7: 7:40pm On Sep 09, 2025

charlesemeka85:
for him to start benching ekong after the ZIM match was obvious that he doesn’t rate him. Maybe he had a change of heart to field the skipper due to the formation he started the game with

I think because of how crucial the game was he felt Ekong experience could help. It’s what any coach will do cos if things turn south too we for blame am say e no start Ekong. You can see he brought Ekong in the previous game to finish off things. It was just bad day in the office for the captain.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by lbrichman2: 7:40pm On Sep 09, 2025

Kog45:
There is no need inviting Ekong again except we want to go the way of Keshi,Yobo,Kanu,Mikel and Ahmed Musa...time to integrate Ogbu, Frederick,Bassey as nucleus of our defense,good that we have young Bruno and Agu,also reliable Aina and Osayi.

We still need Ekong's leadership for now
He should still be on the bench and can come in against the weaker teams
But this should be his last year with the super eagles

Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by ChrisKels: 7:40pm On Sep 09, 2025

I under rated Tolu.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by kennysville(m): 7:41pm On Sep 09, 2025

lbrichman2:
Ekong and Simon need to be eased out of the team
Ndidi can still do a job
But we really need to give onyedika games
Iwobi can still do a job

On Ndidi, I disagree. He needs to also be phased out for a singular reason that he has not tried to even develop his game. Ndidi should be like our own Yaya toure but he cannot make an accurate shot. All he does is mostly sideways pass which doesn't help the attack. When Ndiddidoes get to shooting positions it is always skew. Not even on target. If we want experience, then he may still be a go to guy but we need to have options. Our starting 11 needs to stop being so predictable cos it gives away our game plan almost as soon as it is being released

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