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mank1234:
Africa will present only one team not 4.
Those 4 will play semi final and final to determine who rep Africa.

yea i know, im just imagining if any one of them qualifies and get such fixtures

Danielnino00:
How come CAF didn't adopt this method for the 2017 AFCON qualifiers when Chad pulled out and our group was disqualified from presenting a second best runner up??

That's why I said that CAF/FIFA will decide.

They are the umpire and they will decide what happens. Examples abound for both. One is fair, one is not. It's part of the politics of the game.

BankyGee:
Guys are we in for a Champions League fantasy league too? Make I create league before Champions League start next week or make we focus on FPL only?

Go ahead, though I haven't tried for UCL before now

oloriooko:
Eric will be kicking himself for dropping Benjamin for Ekong
Our defence trouble has been solved
Thank you Eric for being bold to trust this young man

The fool sabotaged the game with that line-up, I winced in anger and knew we were in for a really bad one when I saw Ekong AND Moses Simon starting that game, I don't know why Chelle didn't learn from the Rwanda game and other previous games that Simon Moses is a very limited player who is past his usefulness.

The team that started the second half should have started the first half. A midfield of Onyedika, Dele-Bashiru and Uche/Onyeka would have been solid while Iwobi played from the LW where he does well for Fulham (at a point Iwobi had to play the DM role when Ndidi was subbed out, Iwobi was supposed to be our only creative outlet for goodness sake), and maybe Lookman in the RW. We had absolutely no width! Chukwueze should also have gotten in early...

At the end all we are left with is "should have, would have", cause nothing is ever guaranteed when it comes to these players.

I'm just over it, let's just press the reset button and start afresh with a new generation of players with Bassey and Frederick as the spine of the new players, give me the most exciting prospects we can get from the U20 team going to the world cup (that's if NFF don't mess that one up again with their rubbish and 419 selection). We have to get it right with this U20 world cup coming up by scouting and assembling the best known and unknown Nigerian talents both home and abroad), so that we can start rebuilding and preparing for 2030 with the AFCON and subsequent games next year.

Our chances of qualifying as best runner up is by far slimmer than direct qualification, when we hadn't played South Africa.
Look that runner up table well well. Even if we win our remaining two games e go still hard.

SA will finish the job.. make una leave matter. I'm not overrating them but they just played against a very determined/desperate Super Eagles.

caprikon:
There could be a possible twist here.

Benin could sneak in when SA get their points deducted and SA might be the ones slugging it out in the playoffs.

This group is still a very open one.

We only played well yesterday because we know we needed nothing short of a win. Post WCQs, we will be back to our usual selves.

Omo, Mbokazi really bullied Osayi-Samuel here sha, chei

Mbokazi!! pic.twitter.com/Mir8H6eeGW

— Bafana Bafana (@BafanaBafana) September 9, 2025

QueenJazz:
When the best result of your coordinated and developed squad is a single, hard-fought tie against a team that is at their worst, you're not even qualified to make judgements about othera because you lack the pedigree. 🤧

You’re celebrating a draw like it's a major trophy -- symptom of a nation whose footballing standards are lower than a snake’s belly.
You want to talk about our "poor, disorganized, and underdeveloped leagues"? You’re absolutely right. It's a beautiful mess, true. But our "roaming street pigs" are the ones dominating the world, playing in top leagues and winning the biggest trophies in Europe, while your "well-groomed" pigs are still playing in a league where one team has won seven consecutive titles since 2017.

The beauty of your pathetic cackling and ramblings is that we already have the personnel. What we simply lack is structure. Who are your top ten players? Where do they rank globally? When was the last time a South African player won APOTY. Has that ever even happened? 🤔🤔🤔

You can sit there with your "FIFA participation award" and pat yourself on the back for finally making it to the big leagues. Your World Cup trip is a consolation prize, a vacation to the USA for finally being able to tie with a disheveled and distracted Nigeria. We, on the other hand, are laughing, because we know that no matter what you build, no matter how much you develop, the day you meet us on the pitch, all your plans will go out the window, and you'll be left with nothing but an empty stat sheet and a handful of excuses. 😭😭😭😭😭

What is this?? 😂😂

Damn! This post here packs all the punches and bazookas. Holy moses!

See choking

The FIFA U-20 World Cup starts next week, eagerly waiting for the final squad list

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/ERfFaNk-MGM

Sometimes I don't know whether to envy this guy or to pity him. 😭

When it comes to this Super Eagles business, please show me just 1 fan who is more loyal and faithful than Tox.

No, not you Banky. 🤣🤣

TheSuperNerd:
What is this?? 😂😂

Damn! This post here packs all the punches and bazookas. Holy moses!

See choking

The babe dey hyperventilate, I say make I give am small ventolin make she calm down. 🤧

If Chelle gets our midfield combos right ehn, there is no stopping this team at the Afcon.

Uche, Onyedika, Iwobi, FDB, Onyeka, Ndidi. From these 6, we can weave together a midfield 3 that balances out giving us creativity packed with Steel and Physical Presence.

I am not even including uncapped lads like Ojediran, Ogbelu or Anthony just yet.

Odunayaw:
You forget his wing was moribund for much of first half because the boys kept playing on the left.

For me, I'm not in a hurry to discard Ndidi. The problem is our coaches doing the same thing and expecting different results. I do not understand why Onyedika doesn't start. Thesupernerd has written too much on the subject of midfield combinations.

Truly, our MF should not be as disappointing as it is

TheSuperNerd:
What is this?? 😂😂

Damn! This post here packs all the punches and bazookas. Holy moses!

See choking

Make we just appoint am as our attack bull dog against aliens here cos I no sure say anybody sabi that work pass 😂

Which kind see finish be dis?

QueenJazz:
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/ERfFaNk-MGM

Sometimes I don't know whether to envy this guy or to pity him. 😭

When it comes to this Super Eagles business, please show me just 1 fan who is more loyal and faithful than Tox.

No, not you Banky. 🤣🤣

But if Rohr come qualify in uyo in front of us omo e no go funny o the entire crowd that day should prostrate and say Daddy ejo na small pikin Dey worry us 😂

Alex Iwobi in top 5 of Most Open Play Chances created in the EPL since 22/23 season.

He didnt achieve this playing mostly as a DLP.

QueenJazz:
The babe dey hyperventilate, I say make I give am small ventolin make she calm down. 🤧

You do well. I also believe there is hope.

Last AFCON, Ivory Coast were all but eliminated in the group stage until the last group game,. They qualified by the skin of their teeth, and they eventually won the competition.

Football is a game of 90 minutes + injury time + until the referee blows the whistle so I will keep believing until the last round of qualifiers.

If we don't eventually qualify, man no die, man no rotten, life goes on, and we face the next task, AFCON in December.

No matter what happens, I will always support the Super Eagles, and all other Nigerian football teams. Naija na my own clubside so I'll ride with them until I'm no more.

femianski:
Which kind see finish be dis?

Na our boys give am mouth!

Hugo Broos should just shut up. He makes no sense. Is it our fault that SA dont have the quality to have players feature for those teams he mentioned? Abi na our fault say dem no get enough lads in the Big leagues.

Let them focus on making the WC. Not like they will do anything meaningful there anyway. They have never made it past the first round.

femianski:
Which kind see finish be dis?

semid4lyfe:
You do well. I also believe there is hope.

Last AFCON, Ivory Coast were all but eliminated in the group stage until the last group game,. They qualified by the skin of their teeth, and they eventually won the competition.

Football is a game of 90 minutes + injury time + until the referee blows the whistle so I will keep believing until the last round of qualifiers.

If we don't eventually qualify, man no die, man no rotten, life goes on, and we face the next task, AFCON in December.

No matter what happens, I will always support the Super Eagles, and all other Nigerian football teams. Naija na my own clubside so I'll ride with them until I'm no more.

Ooohhh God! No dey use this kain example naaa!

Which kain PTSD flashback be this??!!! No be we collect at the end of this story?

femianski:
Which kind see finish be dis?

I think I understand what he's trying to say, but the way he worded it is very weird, and almost dumb.

Edit: scratch that. This Hugo Broos is a clown. Because he managed a draw. These Southies get on my damn nerves I swear. I pray we meet them somehow in the AFCON so that we can put them in their place once more.

Of course we have a lot of work to do before that tentative meeting.

semid4lyfe:
You do well. I also believe there is hope.

Last AFCON, Ivory Coast were all but eliminated in the group stage until the last group game,. They qualified by the skin of their teeth, and they eventually won the competition.

Football is a game of 90 minutes + injury time + until the referee blows the whistle so I will keep believing until the last round of qualifiers.

If we don't eventually qualify, man no die, man no rotten, life goes on, and we face the next task, AFCON in December.

No matter what happens, I will always support the Super Eagles, and all other Nigerian football teams. Naija na my own clubside so I'll ride with them until I'm no more.

Baba nla. I see your doings.

Well, we have no choice but to watch and hope. Me, I'm trying not too invest myself too much in it cos my heart is frail. At this stage, I'm just looking at the remaining games as prep for the AFCON and that's how I'll watch them, to see if Chelle has learnt from his mistakes.

Goke7:
But if Rohr come qualify in uyo in front of us omo e no go funny o the entire crowd that day should prostrate and say Daddy ejo na small pikin Dey worry us 😂

I hope the draw with SA has not deflated morale in the camp. We still need to take the fight to Benin and beat them handsomely.

QueenJazz:
I hope the draw with SA has not deflated morale in the camp. We still need to take the fight to Benin and beat them handsomely.

It’s on the players to take responsibility. They made the job harder for themselves conceding that late goal against Zimbabwe in uyo

TheSuperNerd:
Ooohhh God! No dey use this kain example naaa!

Which kain PTSD flashback be this??!!! No be we collect at the end of this story?

😂 he don give you mental health problems

To be honest the decline in our football lies at the doorstep of the leadership of the NFF, look at our junior teams in recent years, they have regressed so badly we now even struggle to qualify for competitions we once used to dominate....
The Nff is been ran by old men who have zero knowledge about football, just interested in their pockets thats all, in as much as we are all angry with the players and coaches, our inability to qualify for back to back world cup tournaments is on the NFF executives, in a sane country they should be resignations by now

TheSuperNerd:
What is this?? 😂😂

Damn! This post here packs all the punches and bazookas. Holy moses!

See choking

Why can't we set up with a midfield trio of Onyedika, Uche, Iwobi, It'll give us more balance and reduce the creative burden on iwobi..
If by the next afcon we are still parading the likes of ndidi in our midfield then we would be disappointed once more

QueenJazz:
When the best result of your coordinated and developed squad is a single, hard-fought tie against a team that is at their worst, you're not even qualified to make judgements about othera because you lack the pedigree. 🤧

You’re celebrating a draw like it's a major trophy -- symptom of a nation whose footballing standards are lower than a snake’s belly.
You want to talk about our "poor, disorganized, and underdeveloped leagues"? You’re absolutely right. It's a beautiful mess, true. But our "roaming street pigs" are the ones dominating the world, playing in top leagues and winning the biggest trophies in Europe, while your "well-groomed" pigs are still playing in a league where one team has won seven consecutive titles since 2017.

The beauty of your pathetic cackling and ramblings is that we already have the personnel. What we simply lack is structure. Who are your top ten players? Where do they rank globally? When was the last time a South African player won APOTY. Has that ever even happened? 🤔🤔🤔

You can sit there with your "FIFA participation award" and pat yourself on the back for finally making it to the big leagues. Your World Cup trip is a consolation prize, a vacation to the USA for finally being able to tie with a disheveled and distracted Nigeria. We, on the other hand, are laughing, because we know that no matter what you build, no matter how much you develop, the day you meet us on the pitch, all your plans will go out the window, and you'll be left with nothing but an empty stat sheet and a handful of excuses. 😭😭😭😭😭

Oh boy! 😭😭

Ladies and gentlemen, all hail the queen!

QueenJazz:
Baba nla. I see your doings.

Well, we have no choice but to watch and hope. Me, I'm trying not too invest myself too much in it cos my heart is frail. At this stage, I'm just looking at the remaining games as prep for the AFCON and that's how I'll watch them, to see if Chelle has learnt from his mistakes.

Yes, that one too dey. Eric Chelle made the costly error of starting Dessers and Ekong. The remaining games would be good early prep for the AFCON, and to observe what the Coach has learnt from his four games in charge.

Eric Chelle played four games, won two and drew two, amassing a total of 8 points from a possible 12. 8/12 = 66.6%

Finidi played two games, drew to SA and lost to Benin Republic, obtaining only 1 point from a possible 6. 1/6 = 16.6%

Peseiro played two games. and drew both, to Lesotho and Zimbabwe delivering only 2 points. 2/6 = 33.3%

I post the above so we can properly attribute the blame for our precarious situation, and possible non-qualification for the world cup.

TheSuperNerd:
Ooohhh God! No dey use this kain example naaa!

Which kain PTSD flashback be this??!!! No be we collect at the end of this story?

Baba, you never recover from the PTSD? Sorry, no vex. I couldn't think of a better example to buttress my point

Ihenzy:
Go ahead, though I haven't tried for UCL before now

Oya na boss. Once I run am I go drop the code... Them fit ban me if I drop link

I nor know who to blame like this.