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Danielnino00:
We need Rwanda to beat them...

If SA beats Zimbabwe, which they most likely will, we need Rwanda to be very motivated to beat them....
But let's hope Zimbabwe beat or draw with SA..

To be realistic, our chances of qualification is no longer in our hands...

Zim v SA, im seeing a hard crunch draw match…Zim will take the lead, while SA pins them down in their box 18 till they equalize

minfelix:
Zim v SA, im seeing a hard crunch draw match…Zim will take the lead, while SA pins them down in their box 18 till they equalize

Why will NFF allow the match to be played in SouthAfrica. Out of the 10 qualification matches. Southafrica has played 7 of them at home. How is that fair for god’s sake? How NFF allow this to happen is mind blogging

minfelix:
Even all Zimbabwe home based are in durban already

In Durban to do what? Why didn’t they take the match to a neutral ground at least. Or even bring the match to Nigeria. Rubbish

I would watch the zimbabwe match with the expectation that nigeria beats lesotho. The result of that match is very important. Im not putting any hope. I will be bothered with the result of that game anyways so why not skip sofascore and just watch it straight.

in all SA does this friday dey should just pray and work hard to ensure village ppl do not make dem lose even if na 1-0 loss to zimbabwe..cos if dem try am and we beat Lesotho forget 9ja don qualify

CapitalCee:
Why will NFF allow the match to be played in SouthAfrica. Out of the 10 qualification matches. Southafrica has played 7 of them at home. How is that fair for god’s sake? How NFF allow this to happen is mind blogging

im telling it was one of the most unpopular opinion we all even the fans snoozed on
Lesotho vs SA in SA
Zim vs SA in SA
Les vs Rwa in SA
Zim vs Ben in SA
Les vs Zim in SA
Zim vs Les in SA
Les vs Ben in SA
SA vs Nig in SA
SA vs Ben in SA
SA vs Les in SA
🤣🤣🤣🤣mumu qualifiers
them con turn our group to mini pre-Afcon 25 hosted by SA🤣🤣🤣🤣… the only two games they played in the real homes of opponents they were playing kuru kere
Rwa 2-0 SA (Butare, Rwanda)
Nig 1-1 SA (uyo Nigeria)

You think SA will beat Benin in cotonou or portnovo, or even beat Zimbabwe in Harare? lai lai

CapitalCee:
In Durban to do what? Why didn’t they take the match to a neutral ground at least. Or even bring the match to Nigeria. Rubbish

Na so we see am oo, we don jonz

minfelix:
im telling it was one of the most unpopular opinion we all even the fans snoozed on
Lesotho vs SA in SA
Zim vs SA in SA
Plus all SA home games in SA🤣🤣… the only two games they played in the real homes of opponents they were playing kuru kere
Rwa 2-0 SA (Butare, Rwanda)
Nig 1-1 SA (uyo Nigeria)

You think SA will beat Benin in cotonou or portnovo, or even beat Zimbabwe in Harare? lai lai

Na Benin mess up, they would have brought that their match with SouthAfrica to Nigeria, make we carry them enter Sani Abacha Stadium Kano to smoke those SA players for Sun.
Honestly we have incompetent people in our FA. We would have protested that Zimbabwe and Lesotho must be excluded from being in the same group with SA

minfelix:
Zim v SA, im seeing a hard crunch draw match…Zim will take the lead, while SA pins them down in their box 18 till they equalize

Prophet Felix of God

CapitalCee:
Na Benin mess up, they would have brought that their match with SouthAfrica to Nigeria, make we carry them enter Sani Abacha Stadium Kano to smoke those SA players for Sun.
Honestly we have incompetent people in our FA. We would have protested that Zimbabwe and Lesotho must be excluded from being in the same group with SA

as e b only one stadium wey fifa approve na, we dont even have that luxury of another venue…onikan stadium or Remo stadium would have been close to them if approved by fifa..their own real fans will fill the stadium

Toylove:
Prophet Felix of God

bro 🤣🤣🤣 super eagles don mk us enter level of #miokukusheshe

It is worrisome that up to 60% of the "first-team" players in the Nigeria national team are "second-string" options for their respective clubs. A stark contrast to the 90s and even most part of the 2000s & early part of the 2010s.

Coincidently, the 2010-decade marked the last time the Super Eagles lifted an AFCON trophy, posed a real threat, and somewhat dominated games on the continent. It is no coincidence that national teams often mirror the weight and relevance of their players at club level.

While managers have a huge, huge role to play in teams, yet, managers are as good as the tools they work with—Ask the 'great' Carlo Ancelotti about his experience at Everton.

Yes, on paper, this Nigerian team looks spoilt for choice. However, before you jump up joyfully to celebrate these mouth-watering names, ask yourself - "How many of these players command starting and regular shirts in their respective clubs?"—Your answer is the "main" reason the Nigerian team is currently underperforming.

Soccernittygritty

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minfelix:
as e b only one stadium wey fifa approve na, we dont even have that luxury of another venue…onikan stadium or Remo stadium would have been close to them if approved by fifa..their own real fans will fill the stadium

Wait oo, in Nigeria we only have 1 FIFA approved stadium ?

Omo!

CapitalCee:
Wait oo, in Nigeria we only have 1 FIFA approved stadium ?

only uyo ooo😅😅

zuchyblink:
It is worrisome that up to 60% of the "first-team" players in the Nigeria national team are "second-string" options for their respective clubs. A stark contrast to the 90s and even most part of the 2000s & early part of the 2010s.

Coincidently, the 2010-decade marked the last time the Super Eagles lifted an AFCON trophy, posed a real threat, and somewhat dominated games on the continent. It is no coincidence that national teams often mirror the weight and relevance of their players at club level.

While managers have a huge, huge role to play in teams, yet, managers are as good as the tools they work with—Ask the 'great' Carlo Ancelotti about his experience at Everton.

Yes, on paper, this Nigerian team looks spoilt for choice. However, before you jump up joyfully to celebrate these mouth-watering names, ask yourself - "How many of these players command starting and regular shirts in their respective clubs?"—Your answer is the "main" reason the Nigerian team is currently underperforming.

Soccernittygritty

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you cant mention 4 players from the last invited list who do not command starting and regular shirts in their club. Are you sure your post is not past its date?

I thought this brother was on our radar. Can anyone confirm if we have called him up before?

Amedino99:
I thought this brother was on our rather. Can anyone confirm if we have called him up before?

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Can someone explain vividly how we will qualify? I'm tired of all these idle back and forth here. Its putting pressure on some people

zuchyblink:
It is worrisome that up to 60% of the "first-team" players in the Nigeria national team are "second-string" options for their respective clubs. A stark contrast to the 90s and even most part of the 2000s & early part of the 2010s.

Coincidently, the 2010-decade marked the last time the Super Eagles lifted an AFCON trophy, posed a real threat, and somewhat dominated games on the continent. It is no coincidence that national teams often mirror the weight and relevance of their players at club level.

While managers have a huge, huge role to play in teams, yet, managers are as good as the tools they work with—Ask the 'great' Carlo Ancelotti about his experience at Everton.

Yes, on paper, this Nigerian team looks spoilt for choice. However, before you jump up joyfully to celebrate these mouth-watering names, ask yourself - "How many of these players command starting and regular shirts in their respective clubs?"—Your answer is the "main" reason the Nigerian team is currently underperforming.

Soccernittygritty

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lies. The SE never posed any real threat in the 2010s. all they did was give us premium HighBP football

Arizoner:
Can someone explain vividly how we will qualify? I'm tired of all these idle back and forth here. Its putting pressure on some people

If we win our two games and South Africa drop points, even by drawing a game, we don go.

TheSuperNerd:
Kparobo Arierhi did what I expected him to do as a Number 9. Play for the team. Use your pace, power and ball skills to give us a fighting chance. He didnt score yet again yesterday but I see the desire to step up in big moments for the team.

Kparobo's strong CF play flooring and getting past a highly rated Aston Villa CB prospect, Yeimar Mosquera gave us the shooting chance to get the penalty Maigana won. More of such plays and desire by Kparobo and the goals will surely come.
This is a young kid. A genuine 18 years old who is already up and running in Norway with goals.

I am not deceived by his lack of goals just yet. The desire is there and he is playing strongly for the team. Patience with the lad... I know what I see in Kparobo. He is the genuine article and in a few years, all will see what I see already.

#FlyingEagles2025

You are the only one reporting this player. Does NFF know about him?

elyte89:
If na u nko ,infact by now ,our supporters club would have been in deir own camp ⛺️ too ,rehearsing deir support ..dey re about to achieve d unthinkable

Both Rwanda 🇷🇼 and Benin 🇧🇯 have deir faiths in deir hands…win the two games and stand a chance to go to d World Cup…it’s dt simple

if i maskapa you. Rwanda has ten points

BankyGee:
How na?

The draw against Zimbabwe & South Africa

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Hell of a striker like Shearer said
Hardworker
I watched it, he made Konate and VVD look like average defenders

JohnBullMySon:
Best loser table sha not main table if it happens. So it doesn’t apply to South Africa if they top the group.

This may not be fair
Some teams may protest because if its not done equally throughout the tables
Some second place teams may be moved to 3rd after deductions
🤷‍♂️
Maybe you can explain better pls
I have no clue how FIFA would get it done though
In my opinion the fair thing to do would be to deduct the points obtained from last placed teams in every group
Do you believe we can still win the group ?
I’m highly certain South Africa would get 4 points & not 6 in this window.
But our GD is low

elyte89:
Everbody fit Dey eligible but u c dt bameyi ;abeg make we no c am come 2027 World Cup

By then he go dey 16 years. He still has time. 😃

BankyGee:
If we win our two games and South Africa drop points, even by drawing a game, we don go.

Nope …if Dey win one ,draw one…Dey will be on 18points , and if we win d last two games ,we would be on 17points ..so Dey top d group automatically …and I believe Dts aw d group will end

South Africa 🇿🇦 18points
Nigeria 🇳🇬. 17points
Rwanda 🇷🇼 15points
Benin 🇧🇯 14points


I predict dis table by game 10

BankyGee:
If we win our two games and South Africa drop points, even by drawing a game, we don go.

Not sure this is exactly correct. South Africa needs to drop at least 3 points for us to have a chance at all at qualifying as group favourites. If South Africa draws a game for example, they finish top of the group with 18 points, one more than Nigeria should we win our last 2 games. So S.A needs to either lose a game or draw both games.

The FIFA point deduction scenario isn't likely to apply to determine top of each groups, but should apply to determine best 4 teams in second place.

minfelix:
Zim v SA, im seeing a hard crunch draw match…Zim will take the lead, while SA pins them down in their box 18 till they equalize

That will not happen in SA
SA will most likely get a draw in that game against Rwanda
We struggle to create chances since he’s been coach.
Last time we scored 3 and beat a team silly was against Benin Republic under Eguavoen

Arizoner:
Can someone explain vividly how we will qualify? I'm tired of all these idle back and forth here. Its putting pressure on some people

First things first, Nigeria has to win her remaining two games against Benin and Lesotho. And with enough goals (at least 2 per game). This one is the most important. We MUST WIN BOTH GAMES.

Benin is currently topping the table. If we beat them, they drop points and we tie with them, potentially beating them on goal difference to top the table, even if they win their second game.

Meanwhile, South Africa has two games left. If we want to qualify directly, and not through the playoffs, we have to hope that South Africa doesn't win any of their next 2 games. 2 losses, 2 draws, or 1 draw and 1 loss for South Africa is enough for Nigeria to pull an upset and top the table, qualifying directly for the Mundial.

If South Africa wins one game, we have to pray they lose the second, so that we can tie with them and potentially beat them on goal difference. That way, we still qualify directly.

If South Africa gets points from BOTH of their next two games (2 wins, or 1 win and 1 draw), we have no choice but to settle for the playoffs. We won't be able to top the table, but we can finish second.

If Nigeria draws or loses ANY of the next two matches, you can take everything I just said and throw it out the window. 😂

This is the simplest explanation I can give you.