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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. 🤣🤣

I follow Tox too, I'm going to give him this one 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

semid4lyfe:
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.



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

You see say the 33.3 added with the 16.6 no still reach the 66.6 bah? And some people are finding ways to blame Éric Chelle, lol. He's just trying to do what's best for the team and has made one or two mistakes in his starting XI, which is not his fault, but the players he trusted to start didn't deliver as expected, and he substituted them ASAP.

He has learnt the hard way. A wise person doesn't make one mistake twice. Éric Chelle gave us a good squad depth, and he'll still bring in more good players, I know.

TheSuperNerd:
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.

And nwakali also.

😏

BankyGee:
😏

Benin are in a good position. Sticky part for them is playing the SE in the final round of matches. Would prefer Benin qualifying to these unruly Southies.

caprikon:
Benin are in a good position. Sticky part for them is playing the SE in the final round of matches. Would prefer Benin qualifying to these unruly Southies.

I don’t even mind we selling that match to them by playing an home based team , A country playing 7 wcqs in their country to qualify for the World Cup sets a bad precedence moreso if those 3 points are not finally deducted.

Deborah Abiodun got her 1st start in the NWSL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS01Vljcs0g

This block 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

TLB saved us here! pic.twitter.com/YfLTa4Y8wW

— B.E.N.Z.O (@Benzo_Ndlovu) September 10, 2025

The ref for this South African march killed the game. Look at the push on Lookman. Omo

joelsteron:

This block 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

TLB saved us here! pic.twitter.com/YfLTa4Y8wW

— B.E.N.Z.O (@Benzo_Ndlovu) September 10, 2025

The ref for this South African march killed the game. Look at the push on Lookman. Omo

I agree with you. Imagine the incompetent ref allowed an illegitimate amd glaring handball as goal.

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. 😭😭😭😭😭

Long live the Queen.
Beautiful write-up. You got me gigling

Alright

femianski:
Which kind see finish be dis?

this thing is funny because the reason their team is mostly home based is that they are not good enough to play in europe. Its not as they have players scattered in europe they refused to call.

SymphonyRad:
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.

When i saw the line up i quickly ran to this place the show displeasure but some1 who dont understand football was laughing at me. Tolu uche chukwuze Onyedika onyeka.
Should have started or atleast come in early immidiatly after halft time.

We thought he saved these guys on for first match so he can have fresh legs 2nd match.
But he still benched them again ALL OF THEM.
the caoch has some blame

TheLoneCitizen:
Alright

where were those attacking me

NIGHTMAREOO7:
where were those attacking me

My highly respected elder brother, please rest.

You're the one attacking yourself at this point

TheSuperNerd:
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.

it's not like you'll do anything better with this average eagles team yourselves. I mean, you struggle against the likes of Rwanda and Lesotho, what are the chances you'll beat Serbia or Denmark?

TheLoneCitizen:
Alright

It ain't strange for a player to be injured on the 6th and be back on the field on the 18th after missing game(s) in-between

Amedino99:
this thing is funny because the reason their team is mostly home based is that they are not good enough to play in europe. Its not as they have players scattered in europe they refused to call.

Lol, who told you this? South Africa does have players in Europe, its just not a prerequisite to play for South Africa just because you play in Europe.. we have players in Denmark, Sweden, Portugal, etc..

mank1234:
Patience people using position to scheme other team home matches to their country.

Patience people banning other nations stadium but playing their own in a potato farm.

Patience people with no honour.

Lesotho requested to play their matches in South Africa and chose to play their game at that Blemfobtein stadium since its closer to the Lesotho border.. dont blab what you don't know

Amedino99:
this thing is funny because the reason their team is mostly home based is that they are not good enough to play in europe. Its not as they have players scattered in europe they refused to call.

Don’t say that because it’s not true

We hate South Africans yes but saying they’re not good enough to play abroad is a pure and blatant lie

QueenJazz:
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.

It's not a matter of getting a draw..its a matter of a getting a point thats getting us closer to the mandate of going to the world cup, and going to the world cup calls for a celebration, . the concept is simple enough.

KingCold:
it's not like you'll do anything better with this average eagles team yourselves. I mean, you struggle against the likes of Rwanda and Lesotho, what are the chances you'll beat Serbia or Denmark?

You're not a South African.

mostob:
You're not a South African.

Lol, really so what am I?

KingCold:
it's not like you'll do anything better with this average eagles team yourselves. I mean, you struggle against the likes of Rwanda and Lesotho, what are the chances you'll beat Serbia or Denmark?

International football is different from intercontinental football. West africsn teams and a few North african teams are better at playing European or South American teams. The only North African teams good outside the continental are morocco and Algeria. The rest of the North African teams falter outside Africa. Look, ghana can win the world cup and then loose to cameroon. Morocco that got to the world cup semi final cannot even win the nations cup. Recently we drew 1 1 with Russia in a friendly. Most southern African teams are not too good when competing outside the continent. Even Egypt don't make much of an impact globally. West African teams like Ghana, caneroon, ivory coast etc will do better in the world cup than South africa.

Philosopher1979:
International football is different from intercontinental football. West africsn teams and a few North african teams are better at playing European or South American teams. The only North African teams good outside the continental are morocco and Algeria. The rest of the North African teams falter outside Africa. Look, ghana can win the world cup and then loose to cameroon. Morocco that got to the world cup semi final cannot even win the nations cup. Recently we drew 1 1 with Russia in a friendly. Most southern African teams are not too good when competing outside the continent. Even Egypt don't make much of an impact globally. West African teams like Ghana, caneroon, ivory coast etc will do better in the world cup than South africa.

Total BS.. when South Africa was ranked number 1 in Africa and 16th in the world , a lof of our players were playing in Europe.. how did they play in Euope then? Morocco will win the next Afcon edition btw

KingCold:
It's not a matter of getting a draw..its a matter of a getting a point thats getting us closer to the mandate of going to the world cup, and going to the world cup calls for a celebration, . the concept is simple enough.

Let me try with this one and see if their sensitive mods won't dash me another longterm ban without insulting or offending anyone . They seem to be on a mission to make the forum a boring one 😴. I want to respond to those long epistles but I'm sure just like yesterday they'll keep on deleting my posts. I won't stop

Anyways , they think we are celebrating a draw? . The whole plan and strategy is lost on these ones ....how many times have we drawn with them for us to want bag a draw with them as a win? . We are here to qualify for the world cup by all means possible and that one point was still better than them getting their needed 3 points from us. They are just sour because their chances have dwindled after that draw. They needed a win desperately so that they could get a step closer to reach the USA so that they could be sent packing early like all the other times they have attempted . ....or even better ...for the fans to get to the USA under the guise of going there to support the SE only to dissappear and never go back

And that would have been fair. Just like other questionable decisions in South African teams favour would have been too and then the game would have had a diff and fair outcome.

AndSunGorilla:
I agree with you. Imagine the incompetent ref allowed an illegitimate amd glaring handball as goal.

KingCold:
Lol, who told you this? South Africa does have players in Europe, its just not a prerequisite to play for South Africa just because you play in Europe.. we have players in Denmark, Sweden, Portugal, etc..

our team is mostly european based because that is where our players play . Your team is mostly home based because that is where you best players play. Stop acting as if you have good players that you didnt invite. We invited players from serie a , premier league, ligue 1 , turkey to make the team. List south african players in these leagues, 3 minimum for each league, you could have called up instead of mamelodi sundown players. In fact excluding your home based team, Do a starting line up of your team with players playing in europe and their teams lets see where your talents are playing in europe. Here is the same hugo broos crying that lyle foster, an europe based player would make his team stronger and he is here claiming we are too european based as though if given the same players playing top flight european football, he wont grab it with 20 arms

Lioness5280:
Let me try with this one and see if their sensitive mods won't dash me another longterm ban without insulting or offending anyone . They seem to be on a mission to make the forum a boring one 😴. I want to respond to those long epistles but I'm sure just like yesterday they'll keep on deleting my posts. I won't stop

Anyways , they think we are celebrating a draw? . The whole plan and strategy is lost on these ones ....how many times have we drawn with them for us to want bag a draw with them as a win? . We are here to qualify for the world cup by all means possible and that one point was still better than them getting their needed 3 points from us. They are just sour because their chances have dwindled after that draw. They needed a win desperately so that they could get a step closer to reach the USA so that they could be sent packing early like all the other times they have attempted . ....or even better ...for the fans to get to the USA under the guise of going there to support the SE only to dissappear and never go back

She thinks we're celebrating a draw against " mighty Nigeria" whereas, we're just happy we're closer to qualifying.. we celebrated when we beat Lesotho didn't we? Anyways we beat Morocco twice last year, which is a much better team than Nigeria.

mank1234:
Patience people using position to scheme other team home matches to their country.

Patience people banning other nations stadium but playing their own in a potato farm.

Patience people with no honour.

LMAO . I don't even know how to respond to this incoherent last cry of a dying horse .

Zim ,Lesotho,Botswana, Namib and Mozambique all have no standard Fifa approved stadiums so they always choose to play their matches in South Africa rather than go to far away places where they will not have many fans. This is their decision not ours. If they so choose just like I hear Zim has done ,they can choose to play elsewhere but it has always made sense for them to play here as there are already millions of them here and those at home can drive or take a bus here without much costs. There's no Caf/ Fifa & SA conspiracy here ....you are just sour because your star-studded team failed to dominate a group of local champions...that's your real problem

@ minfelix this is for you too

Amedino99:
our team is mostly european based because that is where our players play . Your team is mostly home based because that is where you best players play. Stop acting as if you have good players that you didnt invite. We invited players from serie a , premier league, ligue 1 , turkey to make the team. List south african players in these leagues, 3 minimum for each league, you could have called up instead of mamelodi sundown players. In fact excluding your home based team, Do a starting line up of your team with players playing in europe and their teams lets see where your talents are playing in europe. Here is the same hugo broos crying that lyle foster, an europe based player would make his team stronger and he is here claiming we are too european based as though if given the same players playing top flight european football, he wont grab it with 20 arms

Dude... i dont think you understood me, I'm saying we have players playing in Europe, enough to even form a starting 11 with, Shandre Campbell has been one of Club Brugge's best players . The fact that we even have the luxury to play players based home ahead of those in Europe points out to the strength of our league.. look at how a 19 year old inexperienced Mbokazi pocketed Lookman.. lol. So bragging of having players in the serie A but cant do the Job is pointless..

Hugo bross also didn't claim anything.. he merely said " you have players in those big leagues and we dont have many, but he didn't see that as a disadvantage " what's so triggering with the comment?