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charlesemeka85:
SA played normal African Katikati football nothing special abeg

Boss leave talk. Their passing game alone we can’t even match it. If you for watch match you for see.

JohnBullMySon:
The result was definitely not bad. But nobody should bend reality here to say that we played better than them because it is not true. They marginally outplayed us. For a team that just had to keep the score as is, they still held down possession in the dying minutes of the game.

If we led again 2-1 do you think Nigeria would have withstood the attack pressure it would create?

South Africa will always be better in possession cos of their style and cohesion but as a home side they were not really a threat even their coach in a supersports interview after the match admitted his team were not better in the second half and acknowledged the superior fighting power of our team. He was so relieved to show how scared they were!

Amedino99:
in other words one of Gabon, cameroon, drc and madascar needs to draw or lose while we win our outstanding matches before we can see space to qualify for play off?? .

and its very possible…

Gambia vs Gabon
Gabon vs Burundi

Mauritius vs Cameroon
Cameroon vs Angola

Togo vs Drc
Drc vs Sudan

Comoros vs Madagascar
Mali vs Madagascar


these are the games that will determine wether dey remain in that top 4 second best team

Nigeria lurks behind them…if we win our 2remaining matches we should sneak into this that top 4 second best teams

If you waited till this game before you accepted the die is cast, apologies.


Sha edit the thread title.

After that draw vs Lesotho in Uyo, i began to reason that Presido will rather ensure his country qualifies before he leaves than see Naija edge them out if push came to shove. We ought to put up a fight but we handed it over to them easy. We switched to renewed hope on deductions of 3 points until we all saw that Fifa tweet that gave us the hint that NOTHING go sup for that angle.


The guys in nff love calculators. The Texas Instrument kind. They love rubbish hopes too.

All of them deserve to be fired.

I see they wrote one nonsensical media piece, trying to scapegoat Cyriel Dessers when the ship was wrecked since the Finidi era. That era was fascinating cos it was one of the era that those that clamored for a local coach came out more. They chanted passionately about local league players inclusion, writing what nots about the 80s and 90s asif we time traveled 30years back.


Enyimba go chop goals in caf competition. Watching the game alone makes one know they were not any better than a NuGA games team. Sadly, their relevance in African football hangs on their heroics 2 decades ago. Else, they're a perfect lump of the sorry bunch of mediocrity that sums up our local league. Remo Stars can't wash off this stench. To show workings, think pieces will need to be drowned.


I hear Mathematical is part of the problem we are in currently. Its been a while i read any article from that side. Perhaps he dropped the pen for the calculator as well.

We have 2/top 5 attackers in Africa right now and both are going to miss the WC AGAIN!!!

WE had a system that was working and tried to fix it as though broken. And now what we have is just rubbles from the collapse. Instead of retrospect, we are seeing arrogance from the media officer of the NFF.

Was it not last week we say similar vitriol at Favor Ofili from the federation spokesman that should be fired by now for such foolish comments?


To say we go dey alright don taya person.

It is crickets when you realize that Tolu and a defender in Bassey are the only 2 goalscorers in last 3 games for this team. One can't imagine this team was afcon finalist last year.


Another mundial miss is accepted. Miracles?! That's away from our level for now. Make we leave What if for DC and Marvel Comics!!!

Nigerians should relax, winning away in Africa is not moin moin. The team had tried to even win away in Rwanda, it’s the loss against Benin away in a neutral place in Ivory Coast and the draw against Zimbabwe in uyo that has caused us this mess. I salute the coach and the players for the job done in SA, that was a fair result to be honest in the light of the terrible way we played last week in uyo.

BascoVanVeli:
Match Highlights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uue77D74u_c

omo forget we really played this guys abeg

Goke7:
South Africa will always be better in possession cos of their style and cohesion but as a home side they were not really a threat even their coach in a supersports interview after the match admitted his team were not better in the second half and acknowledged the superior fighting power of our team. He was so relieved to show how scared they were!

You don’t get it. The tempo of a football game is shaped by what the two teams need to get out of it.

In a crucial game where RSA needs a draw and NGA needs a win, as the game gets close to the end, it is expected that NGA should dominate the attack more as the opponent starts to manage the game. Cos that’s how football works.

If NGA attack was really good, we should have sat RSA in their box in the closing minutes cause they’re already managing the game. Did anything like that happen? They even created more attack chances sef.

charlesemeka85:
SA played normal African Katikati football nothing special abeg

Exactly compared to what they played us in the afcon they were not that impressive. It was even some defensive blunders from us that gave them the number of shots they have. Nothing really special jor

Goke7:
Nigerians should relax, winning away in Africa is not moin moin. The team had tried to even win away in Rwanda, it’s the loss against Benin away in a neutral place in Ivory Coast and the draw against Zimbabwe in uyo that has caused us this mess. I salute the coach and the players for the job done in SA, that was a fair result to be honest in the light of the terrible way we played last week in uyo.

people actually wanted win badly…but this game today was a vey good one at best…just formation and selection errors kinda…..Tolu and Uche starting that game would have made a huge impact

JohnBullMySon:
Boss leave talk. Their passing game alone we can’t even match it. If you for watch match you for see.

which passes? With the passes how may clear cut chances dem create ?

E don do abeg

JohnBullMySon:
You don’t get it. The tempo of a football game is shaped by what the two teams need to get out of it.

In a crucial game where RSA needs a draw and NGA needs a win, as the game gets close to the end, it is expected that NGA should dominate the attack more as the opponent starts to manage the game. Cos that’s how football works.

If NGA attack was really good, we should have sat RSA in their box in the closing minutes cause they’re already managing the game. Did anything like that happen? They even created more attack chances sef.

On that yeye pitch? Are you sure it’s the same game we watched? There were odds against us in this game; the pitch, the fatigue from previous game travel whereas SA travelled no where, bad officiating even though we benefited with the goal, and finally the antics from the host prior to the game. We will be too hard blaming the players for this game.

This NFF has finished Nigerian football

3 coaches to prosecute our Qualifiers nothing to show

Even Benin republic has overtaken us

They won 4-0 over Lesotho

South Africa 17 points
Benin republic 14 points
Nigeria 11 points

It’s unfair trying to scapegoat Dessers and whoever released that statement is a terrible person. I won’t be surprised if the player decides not to turn up again for us. For a player who publicly desired to play competitive games for us to be scapegoated like this is despicable. Arrant nonsense

MetalJigsaw:
You're totally wrong! Im not a fan of any local coach. What Ieant was there was a period local coaches are being considered but Amuneke wasn't given a try

So we should sack Chelle and appoint Amunike now because we couldn't bear South Africa?

I supported Amunike too then. I'm a Siasia supporter but you see this qualifier, Chelle did nothing wrong. His invitation is on merit.
He can only learn.


If I were to meet him one on one, my advice would be:
Don't listen to NFF, fans and journalist; choose your team based on merit and stick to your decisions.

This Lesotho didn't play ultra defending game against South Africa and Benin. Next month against Nigeria all of them will stay in their 18

robosky02:
This NFF has finished Nigerian football

3 coaches to prosecute our Qualifiers nothing to show

Even Benin republic has overtaken us

They won 4-0 over Lesotho

South Africa 17 points
Benin republic 14 points
Nigeria 11 points

Ironically Benin republic just gave us a life-line

Goke7:
On that yeye pitch? Are you sure it’s the same game we watched? There were odds against us in this game; the pitch, the fatigue from previous game travel whereas SA travelled no where, bad officiating even though we benefited with the goal, and finally the antics from the host prior to the game. We will be too hard blaming the players for this game.

I never blamed any player.

Pythagoras001:
This Lesotho be !d!ot They want to ruin our chances we need them to not be the last on the table. but we f**ked up sha this lesotho team that we could have thrashed at home

They didn't play this way against Nigeria.
They played ultra defensive and were lucky to get that breakaway goal. We laboured, miss chances before we finally equalised.

Goke7:
On that yeye pitch? Are you sure it’s the same game we watched? There were odds against us in this game; the pitch, the fatigue from previous game travel whereas SA travelled no where, bad officiating even though we benefited with the goal, and finally the antics from the host prior to the game. We will be too hard blaming the players for this game.

the guy is funny, South Africa that did not travel at all, in an altitude they are used to, you expect Nigeria to press them for 90 minutes, are people just being emotional or actually analyzing football holistically.

minfelix:
let’s take a look at this permutations and combination.
If fifa want to deduct from all second place teams currently
Group A: Burkina faso 14pts won bottom place djibouti home and away
15-6= 9pts

Group B: DRC 16pts won botton place south sudan home and away
16-6= 10

Group C: Nigeria 11point drew twicw with bottom place zimbabwe twice
11-2=9

Group D: Cameroon 15pts won Eswatini and drew them
15-4 =11pts

Group E: Tanzania 10pts(the grouo Eritrea pulled out from)
10pts

Group F: Gabon 18 points beat sychelles home and away
18-6= 12pts

Group G: Uganda 15pts beat bottom place somalia home and away
15-6= 9pts

Group H: Namibia 15pts beat bottom place sao tome home and away
15-6= 9pts

Group I: Madagascar 16pts beat bottom place chad home and away
16-6 = 10pts

omo if e end like this e no go good oo🤣🤣😜🤪
Best 4 teams
- Gabon 12pts
-Cameroon 11pts
-DRC 10pts
-Madagascar 10pts


the rest
-Tanzania 10pts
-Burkina Faso 9pts
-Nigeria 9pts
-Uganda 9pts
-Namibia 9pts

✍️✍️🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🤪🤪😂😂

It will now be down to who wins their next 2 matches.

I don give up.

elyte89:
NFF Media:

“Cyriel Dessers, who had an unimpressive game in Uyo where he turned out be a substitute that was substituted, did not have a better game as he was too slow to latch onto passes, could not win aerial balls and did little in bringing alive the Nigerian attack.”


Did nff media truly said dis.. are Dey trying to throw him under the bus for d performance..if so ,Dey are crazy for saying such

Lol, if the NFF actually said/posted this, then they'll need to show me the exact passes the midfielders and wingers/fullbacks gave to Dessers that he was too slow to latch on to. We all watched the match. That midfield was totally dead in the first half. Or is it Moses Simon's terribly attempted crosses that they're referring to?


The midfield was so terrible today that the only reason Tolu had that chance to score early in the second half was because Lookman dropped deep into our own half and released a long ball quickly in behind S.A's defense so there was enough space for Tolu to run and dribble. Tolu's second chance to score in the second half also came from Chrisantus Uche's long ball from the midfield in behind S.A's defense.


If our midfielders/fullbacks had taken advantage of Dessers' numerous diagonal runs in behind S.A's tight defense in the first half, especially when he dragged about two defenders with him, we'd probably be celebrating a victory right now. He made those runs again and again but no one gave him an accurate pass, neither did anyone take advantage of the space he created.


There'll always be a scapegoat. If it's not Dessers today, it'll be Iwobi tomorrow. That's why I kept saying I didn't want him to play these qualifiers because I know Nigerians.

SymphonyRad:
Ironically Benin republic just gave us a life-line

How plsss explain😩😩

minfelix:
How plsss explain😩😩

hahaha start planning for Afcon in December. Permutations are over

SymphonyRad:
Ironically Benin republic just gave us a life-line

hahaha silly selfish boys are down and out. Bet $100 on that

In all this chelle must actually find a way to get our players playing effectively at optimum level, yes not his his fault he has done above average, but we need very good to excellent, and a lot rest in his table.

We cannot be struggling to beat minnows, we cannot be loosing or drawing at home,,our stadium must become a fortress, NFF should wake up and actually run football like we are a footballing nation.

mank1234:
It will now be down to who wins their next 2 matches.

I don give up.

dont give up yet, those guys at the top still have crazy games to play, especially Madagascar and DRC…they wont have it easy

Gambia vs Gabon
Gabon vs Burundi

Mauritius vs Cameroon
Cameroon vs Angola

Togo vs Drc
Drc vs Sudan

Comoros vs Madagascar
Mali vs Madagascar


these are the games that will determine wether dey remain in that top 4 second best team

Nigeria lurks behind them…if we win our 2remaining matches we should sneak into that top 4 second best teams

Hahaha masking my anger with laughter. Pathetic that two winners of the African best players award for the last two years will
Not be at the World Cup next summer. Blame the players and coach and the ⚽️ federation.

How sure are you they will even win the last 2 matches ?

minfelix:
dont give up yet, those guys at the top still have crazy games to play, especially Madagascar and DRC…they wont have it easy

Gambia vs Gabon
Gabon vs Burundi

Mauritius vs Cameroon
Cameroon vs Angola

Togo vs Drc
Drc vs Sudan

Comoros vs Madagascar
Mali vs Madagascar


these are the games that will determine wether dey remain in that top 4 second best team

Nigeria lurks behind them…if we win our 2remaining matches we should sneak into that top 4 second best teams

9JAMac10:
hahaha start planning for Afcon in December. Permutations are over

you can be planning ooo, im still heavily hanging on…they should just get me that 17 points by october then we will now know wether we should face afcon or plan for play offs😀😀

minfelix:
and its very possible…

Gambia vs Gabon
Gabon vs Burundi

Mauritius vs Cameroon
Cameroon vs Angola

Togo vs Drc
Drc vs Sudan

Comoros vs Madagascar
Mali vs Madagascar


these are the games that will determine wether dey remain in that top 4 second best team

Nigeria lurks behind them…if we win our 2remaining matches we should sneak into this that top 4 second best teams

Yes that is the only option we have left. Beat Lesotho away and Benin at home to sneak into second spot. Already

South Africa have 17pts +8 goals
Benin have 14pts +4 goals
Nigeria have 11pts +2 goals
Rwanda have 11pts +0 goals

October games (1st)
Lesotho vs Nigeria (We go surely beat them like 5-0)
Rwanda vs Benin (May end in a draw) TOUGH MATCH
Zimbabwe vs South Africa (South Africa to win)

Hopefully
South Africa - 20pts
Benin- 15pts
Nigeria- 14pts
Rwanda- 12pts

October games (2nd)
Nigeria v Benin (We can pip them 1-0)
South Africa v Rwanda (It may end in a draw or South Africa may lose)
Lesotho vs Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe must draw or lose this match if we much qualify as 2ND)

Hopefully
South Africa- 21pts/20pts (-3pts) = 18pts/17pts
Nigeria - 17pts
Benin- 15pts
Rwanda- 13pts/15pts

Anything can still happen. All fingers crossed till October.

9JAMac10:
How sure are you they will even win the last 2 matches ?

Bro Benin and Lesotho go chop am, osimhen will be back against them in October.

Goke7:
Honestly I didn’t even know those countries were playing their home games in SA until few weeks ago. It’s one of the greatest scam in football, Zambia even borders Zimbabwe why can’t they play their games there even Lesotho can play in Namibia. Na plan work honestly!

We said it a long time ago.
It's possible NFF are part of the ploy. Those guys might even collect bribe to sabotage their country. It's not today Nigerians start conniving with outsiders to scam their country. Ajaokuta steel is an example.