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In Africa, it's only naija no dey employ wuru wuru for football. And it's ironic because we are an unbelievably corrupt nation yet whenever we play football we win or lose neat neat.

Naija would not have ever taken South Africa to play on that kind of pitch if we were in their position.

Kog45:
Oga no be today Ekong dey do own goal...I can remember he did similar thing against Cameroon,Mexico

Anyone can do an own goal and there are various reasons why it happens ranging from just being unfortunate to outright stupidity. Today's own goal was because the coach put him in a difficult position. Remember he's very slow and primarily right footed and not bipedal like thiago silva or Ramos.

Kog45:
Sir,Ekong had 3 to 4 own goals in eagles,so forget SA player squared the ball wickedly.He has everything to put the ball into corner...This is not the first time so he should be blamed

Baba, Ekong has played himself out of the team

minfelix:
Super eagles striker
1. Osimhen
2. Tolu
3. Terem moffi



4. the rest
when it comes to strikers that can fight, win balls and run like turbo engines the above mentioned is what we need…
Dessers
Boniface
Awoniyi
make dem go sit down one place abeg, they cant play the aggressive african football

I completely agree 💯

QueenJazz:
I have to say I agree. I was skeptical when I saw the starting line-up too and my intuition wasn't wrong.

That being said, Chelle stays. He has the right ideas. His problem so far is timing, but with enough time and familiarity, I'm confident he'll get things right.

I even said it before the game started immediately the line up was posted. Kudos to him for correcting his errors with the substitutions but he's being paid to make the right ones from beginning primarily.

Mujtahida:
In Africa, it's only naija no dey employ wuru wuru for football. And it's ironic because we are an unbelievably corrupt nation yet whenever we play football we win or lose neat neat.

Naija would not have ever taken South Africa to play on that kind of pitch if we were in their position.

Our corruption no dey reach that side and it's very curious

To summarize: Our guys may still move on to the next round provided that some of those 4 best 2nd place teams drop points and we win all of our next games.

We are no longer in the driver's seat.

Meliforme:
It makes me sad when bad coaching heaps losses on us and players get the blame.
These players sacrifice their club careers just to make their nation proud, and all you have to call them is overhyped.

These players get career threatening injuries putting their bodies in line.
That football pitch is another issue.

Has anyone of them ever played for free? Owe them one match bonus and watch them run to the social media to berate the NFF. Since they have never played for free, it's not sacrifice to the Nation, rather it's the country that gave them the opportunity that should be praised. Just one match bonus can pay 10 doctors for 10 months.

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

@queenjazz.

Na media pressure.
When I watch the last post match press interview, I suspected he might start him today

Diavolo:
I even said it before the game started immediately the line up was posted. Kudos to him for correcting his errors with the substitutions but he's being paid to make the right ones from beginning primarily.

I don't blame him for trusting Ekong
Unfortunately Ekong failed him
And he acted swiftly and ruthlessly

Me I like that kind of coach for the SE
Same way he subbed Dessers in the first half against Rwanda and still subbed him out when he wasn't performing..

This coach is clearly taking the team forward..

I feel kinda sad because this group of players should be at the world Cup competing against the best of the best..

But I know even Chelle himself understands we need better players
Some of these players need to go

123jamessmith:
If benjamin Francis can play like this he just newly started playing in Belgium, he has been in Brentford b team.
So there's a possibility thier are some Nigeria players in Team B in different clubs around, that can even do well when give the opportunity to play for the National team.
Francis is not a big defender I was afraid the South Africans will bullied him in today's game.
Football is not how big or strong you are , is just a gift.

Frederick always a calm defender and read the game very well,he is another version of young Keshi of 1981 to 1992.....I remember Emma Olisadebe telling me then in university campus "that make I forget it o that as a university he will break into eagles if given the chance, three years later the same Emma singlehandedly took Poland to World Cup....also a friend Sunday Johnson said 'o boy Finidi and Tijani are not better only that he would be on the bench for them cuz they have been there before him.Sunday Johnson later made Sydney 2000 as only outfield player, injury ruined him......As you said time to integrate young ones like Ogbu, Frederick, Eletu, Akinsanmiro...eagles need ball carrier players....just see what Bassey did today.

Ppogbae:
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.

Not just win the next two matches but win handsomely. The other 2nd placed teams ahead of us have pretty huge goal differences

QueenJazz:
I have to say I agree. I was skeptical when I saw the starting line-up too and my intuition wasn't wrong.

That being said, Chelle stays. He has the right ideas. His problem so far is timing, but with enough time and familiarity, I'm confident he'll get things right.

Eric Chelle's work with CHAN Eagles exposed him big time.

COOL10:
I remember the good, not-so-old days. We haven't qualified for the World Cup since we sacked this man.

There goes that line again. Oya make Gernot Rohr go world cup na

Diavolo:
Anyone can do an own goal and there are various reasons why it happens ranging from just being unfortunate to outright stupidity. Today's own goal was because the coach put him in a difficult position. Remember he's very slow and primarily right footed and not bipedal like thiago silva or Ramos.

Oga am talking of 4 own goals,pls can you explain that..

lbrichman2:
But what if we just somehow qualify??
We won't give up as long as there's a glimmer of hope

At this point, even if we qualify, what are we going to do there? Our team is clearly not prepared. That's if we even have a "team". We just have a squad of very talented players who don't have enough chemistry, and coached by someone who's still figuring his way round the players. Our attack is not well polished. If we somehow get to the mundial, our best chances of progressing will probably be to revert to Peseiro tactics and lock shop at our defense, then try to scrape points through penalties and inshallah.

South Africa players may not have the overall pedigree of the Super Eagles, but what we can learn from our last couple of meetings with them is that together, they are a well oiled machine. Hugo Broos has spent at least 4 years with them and together they've developed a playing style that churns out results. They move with urgency, and play as if they can predict what their teammates will do and where they will move. That's the kind of chemistry we need in the SE. The last time I saw that kind of chemistry in the SE was during the days of Oliseh, Babayaro dem.

At this point, I've made my peace with us possibly not qualifying. In fact I'm not even sure I want us to qualify. The highest we can achieve with this current squad at the level of football we are in now will be Round of 16, and that is if we play haram football. Imagine this squad playing Spain or Portugal. Even Ecuador sef. The only thing we'll benefit from the mundial is that all of us will go to America for vacation and sight-seeing.

That's why Chelle needs to stay. He has the potential. He has the right ideas. What he needs is the liberty to make his own choices + more time with the players to learn and study them well enough to understand their strengths, weaknesses, psychology and tendencies. Then he can use it to his advantage and build the perfect squad. If we're well co-ordinated, with the crop of players we have now, we're at least supposed to be rubbing shoulders with Uruguay, Croatia, England and the likes.

Ekong likes own goal.

I think he scored for South Africa sometimes back as well maybe in AFCON or so, but he redeemed himself by scoring the penalty awarded to us.

Kog45:
Oga no be today Ekong dey do own goal...I can remember he did similar thing against Cameroon,Mexico

Mujtahida:
In Africa, it's only naija no dey employ wuru wuru for football. And it's ironic because we are an unbelievably corrupt nation yet whenever we play football we win or lose neat neat.

Naija would not have ever taken South Africa to play on that kind of pitch if we were in their position.

I think SA too just Dey learn these things 😂 see as they waste time today Dey roll for ground. It’s time to develop our own antics too na only Nwabali get format for our team the rest of our players too clean 😂

We have lost Afcon finals cos we no sabi format. The first thing we need to do is to sort out our home venue. Uyo does not look like a slaughter slab for African teams. We need to either get back to Lagos or make Abuja a dreaded den. That uyo too clean for my liking e no Dey frighten our opponents at all!

Kog45:
Oga no be today Ekong dey do own goal...I can remember he did similar thing against Cameroon,Mexico

2018 world cup too
I think it's either Russia abi Argentina

ChrisKels:
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 💯

Abeg going forward aggressive strikers and fighters we have are
Osimhen
Tolu
Moffi

the other ones na fele fele strikers🤦🏼

Kog45:
Sir,Ekong had 3 to 4 own goals in eagles,so forget SA player squared the ball wickedly.He has everything to put the ball into corner...This is not the first time so he should be blamed

Using his leg to block that ball... Rather than trying to kick it off which resulted to that goal would have been better

minfelix:
Abeg going forward aggressive strikers and fighters we have are
Osimhen
Tolu
Moffi

the other ones na fele fele strikers🤦🏼

Oga we have only Osimhen and Tolu

Ragingthunder:
6 points will take us to 17 points, seven of the second placed team is already on 15, it's over bro

na they would deduct two points from nigeria as we drew home and away with the least team on the table and the other teams that won home and away against the least team in the table they would deduct 6 points because of eritrea withrawal but the chances are quite slim even with that also

QueenJazz:
At this point, even if we qualify, what are we going to do there? Our team is clearly not prepared. That's if we even have a "team". We just have a squad of very talented players who don't have enough chemistry, and coached by someone who's still figuring his way round the players. Our attack is not well polished. If we somehow get to the mundial, our best chances of progressing will probably be to revert to Peseiro tactics and lock shop at our defense, then try to scrape points through penalties and inshallah.

South Africa players may not have the overall pedigree of the Super Eagles, but what we can learn from our last couple of meetings with them is that together, they are a well oiled machine. Hugo Broos has spent at least 4 years with them and together they've developed a playing style that churns out results. They move with urgency, and play as if they can predict what their teammates will do and where they will move. That's the kind of chemistry we need in the SE. The last time I saw that kind of chemistry in the SE was during the days of Oliseh, Babayaro dem.

At this point, I've made my peace with us possibly not qualifying. In fact I'm not even sure I want us to qualify. The highest we can achieve with this current squad at the level of football we are in now will be Round of 16, and that is if we play haram football. Imagine this squad playing Spain or Portugal. Even Ecuador sef. The only thing we'll benefit from the mundial is that all of us will go to America for vacation and sight-seeing.

God bless you o Imagine with all the so called experienced players in there dem no fit predict which side a particular player go run to omo e tire me

Kog45:
Oga am talking of 4 own goals,pls can you explain that..

I'm talking of today's own goal. Today's own could have been prevented by putting him on the right side of defense. Yes he made a mistake but putting on the left side greatly increased the risk of that happening.

QueenJazz:
At this point, even if we qualify, what are we going to do there? Our team is clearly not prepared. That's if we even have a "team". We just have a squad of very talented players who don't have enough chemistry, and coached by someone who's still figuring his way round the players. Our attack is not well polished. If we somehow get to the mundial, our best chances of progressing will probably be to revert to Peseiro tactics and lock shop at our defense, then try to scrape points through penalties and inshallah.

South Africa players may not have the overall pedigree of the Super Eagles, but what we can learn from our last couple of meetings with them is that together, they are a well oiled machine. Hugo Broos has spent at least 4 years with them and together they've developed a playing style that churns out results. They move with urgency, and play as if they can predict what their teammates will do and where they will move. That's the kind of chemistry we need in the SE. The last time I saw that kind of chemistry in the SE was during the days of Oliseh, Babayaro dem.

At this point, I've made my peace with us possibly not qualifying. In fact I'm not even sure I want us to qualify. The highest we can achieve with this current squad at the level of football we are in now will be Round of 16, and that is if we play haram football. Imagine this squad playing Spain or Portugal. Even Ecuador sef. The only thing we'll benefit from the mundial is that all of us will go to America for vacation and sight-seeing.

That's why Chelle needs to stay. He has the potential. He has the right ideas. What he needs is the liberty to make his own choices + more time with the players to learn and study them well enough to understand their strengths, weaknesses, psychology and tendencies. Then he can use it to his advantage and build the perfect squad. If we're well co-ordinated, with the crop of players we have now, we're at least supposed to be rubbing shoulders with Uruguay, Croatia, England and the likes.

Did you watch our match against Russia?
Did you see how we handled a technical team?

That Russian team is a very strong side and is a pointer to the kinds of teams we will face if we qualify..

We won't be disgraced, I can assure you of that

Suggest fresh legs for the super Eagles

Everybody go rest now for 3points deduction.
FIFA rules this, FIFA rules that.
Nobody go talk about that one again

- Victor Osimhen
- Ademola Lookman
- Samuel Chukwueze
- Alex Iwobi
- Ola Aina
- Nathan Tella
- Calvin Bassey
- Christantus Uche
- Victor Boniface
- Cyriel Dessers
- Tolu Arokodare
- Raphael Onyedika
- Wilfried Ndidi
- Moses Simon
- Frank Onyeka
- Joe Aribo
- Kelechi Ihenacho
- Taiwo Awoniyi
- Umar Sadiq

Just some of the names Nigeria have in their ranks and yet are not qualifying for a second-straight World Cup

Goke7:
God bless you o Imagine with all the so called experienced players in there dem no fit predict which side a particular player go run to omo e tire me

I'm telling you. Now that I think of it, with the stage we are in presently in terms of squad depth and efficiency, we've been excellent over the past few games. We have no business defeating a South African side that has worked hard and hustled to where they are now. Then we wey just carry new coach come after years of unseriousness and dilly-dallying and confusion from Peseiro to Finidi will now beat them out of nowhere.

I know football is a game that comes with a lot of surprises and it can favor you on a good day, but in hindsight, we were really pushing our luck with this game.

kennysville:
There goes that line again. Oya make Gernot Rohr go world cup na

He already went with us in 2018 and ever since he left, we haven't. That says a lot. He has nothing to prove to anyone. The ultimate insult would be if he finds a way to qualify Benin who we're currently on the same points with

123jamessmith:
Everybody go rest now for 3points deduction.
FIFA rules this, FIFA rules that.
Nobody go talk about that one again

Simple.. because South Africa deserve to go to the world Cup
They are super consistent