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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by jihday(m): 4:36am On Oct 11, 2025
123jamessmith:
Why do most coaches feel that when you need goals you play many strikers and a very thin midfield. That's a very wrong assumption. The best match play by chelle, was the match against Russia.
Can't he continue playing formation like that
that Zimbabwe game am strong thing, since that match he has refused to use his diamond formation during qualifiers, any small lead he’ll swap to a defensive formation to protect lead
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by jihday(m): 4:38am On Oct 11, 2025
TheSuperNerd:
May the Spirit that fell on Zimbabwe today to frustrate SA to a draw, fall on the Rwandan NT and their entire backline especially led by Ntwari.

Come tuesday, Ntwari shall become Prime Unbeatable Buffon and SA will again drop points.

Nigeria vs Benin. Facing a man who qualified us to our last WC outing and with a chance to qualify little Benin, the squirrels to the WC like Keshi did with Togo, would be ALL OUT WORLD WAR.

Rohr will play to frustrate us but we must be ready for everything and hit them hard. The last time Rohr came here with Benin, they got bashed 3-0.

Bankygee Gbadura!!!!
good news: Benin must play to get a win
Bad news: Benin must play to get a win
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Karlovich: 4:38am On Oct 11, 2025
yinkeys:
Hes very error prone
Complacency
I think the praise he got since the AFCON semis got to his head
His mistake cost us the first goal against Côte d’Ivoire at Afcon final
He’s been making mistakes ever since
We really need competition in the team
Nwabali will cost us in the World Cup against teams with sharp ki.ller instinct
Nwabali’s grace period is over
Start looking for decent goalie, unfortunately Atubolu doesn’t intend playing for Nigeria
We should start looking for another goalie
Atubolu isn't that great either, he's good at penalties but he equally concedes funny goals if you watch his game closely, I guess with time he'll improve on certain aspects of his goalkeeping.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by jihday(m): 4:44am On Oct 11, 2025
Odunayaw:
Osimhen wan mad.

Just finished watching the whole game
Ekong scored he dey celebrate like say he win Champions league, see as Osimhen carry ball for quick restart. Mentally they are weak, most of them aren’t winners
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by jihday(m): 4:45am On Oct 11, 2025
mekabuachi:
On Tuesday get ready to see satanic football from Benin republic 😂
they dare not, they need to win
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Philosopher1979: 4:50am On Oct 11, 2025
jihday:
Ekong scored he dey celebrate like say he win Champions league, see as Osimhen carry ball for quick restart. Mentally they are weak, most of them aren’t winners
They need to hire a psychologist for this team to work on their weak mentality.
Imagine if we faced Moroco in the nations cup semi finals and we conceeded 2 goals in the first half.
Most of the players will just give up and think we lost. The team seems not to believe in itself in any manner.

In addition we have a coach who is simply ignorant of tactics and the capability of his players.
It is a horrible mixture.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by semid4lyfe(mod): 5:29am On Oct 11, 2025
jihday:
Ekong scored he dey celebrate like say he win Champions league, see as Osimhen carry ball for quick restart. Mentally they are weak, most of them aren’t winners
Truly, I was also surprised by Ekong celebrating the penalty goal and not running to pick the ball to restart the game immediately.

I have listened to him speak severally so I know he possesses good situational awareness, and he definitely knew we needed to score tons of goals to improve our goal difference and chance of qualification so why the exuberant celebration?
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by semid4lyfe(mod): 5:36am On Oct 11, 2025
jihday:
they dare not, they need to win
So if you're Rohr you'd tell your Benin Republic team to come out and play an open game away from home, and increase the risk of losing rather than play conservatively to obtain a draw, or hope to nick a goal when a draw may possibly see your team through depending on the outcome of the SA vs Rwanda game?

Make no mistake about it, Benin Republic is coming to pack the bus to frustrate us, and hope to steal a win. It's the safer option.

Expect haram ball on Tuesday.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by lloydtruth: 6:08am On Oct 11, 2025
Can somebody tell me the tactical wizardry that Chelle is deploying to warrant Lookman and Moses Simon on the pitch at the same time? as well as Osihmen and Arokodare playing together at the same time?
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by MetalJigsaw(m): 6:10am On Oct 11, 2025
Famocious:
2 -0 should be fine
A careless mistake from an overpampered Uncoordinated GK has destroyed our hopes. Chai
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Mujtahida: 6:18am On Oct 11, 2025
Akor Adams must start on Tuesday. The wind is in his sails.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by MetalJigsaw(m): 6:18am On Oct 11, 2025
jihday:
Ekong scored he dey celebrate like say he win Champions league, see as Osimhen carry ball for quick restart. Mentally they are weak, most of them aren’t winners
Poor Osimhen🥺 He is so unfortunate to be in this team.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Nobody: 6:24am On Oct 11, 2025
Guys, I don't trust Nwabali one bit.

A friend who knows him from his days at Lobi Stars, Benue Makurdi, opined that he gambles. Whenever he is in the starting eleven, he must concede, so fans took note and started placing their bets. Lobi Stars started conceding.

The Libyan goalkeeper conceded a cheeky goal against Cape Verde. A clear case of gambling.

Looking closely at the Nwabali schoolboy error, it smells of gambling all over it.

He should sit on the bench in our last game.

I don't trust him one bit.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by semid4lyfe(mod): 6:26am On Oct 11, 2025
Kudos to Zimbabwe for weathering the storm and keeping us in it. Never thought they'd get a favourable result for us against SA but they did it, despite playing with 10 men from the 18th minute.

Still, it's advantage South Africa. As a Nigerian, I hope SA falters again on Tuesday and plays another draw or lose, but what are the odds of lightning striking twice in the same place? The match permutations favours SA, and they remain favourites to qualify.

Anyhow e be, no person is too big to be held accountable, and have their role in our poor WCQs interrogated.

Make I start.

William Troost Ekong - I have never really rated him but he went to AFCON 2023 and put in a 2006 World cup Cannavaro-esque performance to emerge MVP. Stellar performance from him then, so I thought he'd fixed the knicks in his game and finally turned the corner but, apparently not so.

He's been atrocious this entire WCQs campaign. Refused to stretch out his leg to intercept and mark the Zimbabwean striker in Uyo for fear of causing a penalty. and effectively cost us the 3 points. Also, scored an own goal against SA under no pressure. If we no qualify he should rightly get a lot of flak, and we should begin the closure of his chapter by easing him into a non-starting captain role like Ahmed Musa.

Stanley Nwabali - performed well at the AFCON and solved our long standing goalkeeping problem since Carl Ikeme was diagnosed with cancer. But his performances this WCQ have been subpar. He's not made any brave saves that kept is in games and crossed us over the line. Against Benin Republic, the two chances the Beninoise got against him, he conceded. Ditto against Zimbabwe in Uyo. Ditto South Africa (home and away).

In addition, he's now making school boy errors, and conceding cheap goals. Also, his attitude and antics are annoying. He's belligerent and aggressive,bpushes opposing players and gets carded unnecessarily, and never accepts responsibility for his wrongdoings. Rather, he'd argue with teammates and want to gaslight everyone that he wasn't at fault. Also, at this point, the allegations of match fixing are not so farfetched cos what the heck was the goal he conceded today, and the error he committed that almost resulted in a goal? It:s time we start looking at other goalkeeping options out there.

Finidi George - Poor. Poor. Poor. It was a costly mistake to hire him. Our ONLY defeat in this qualifiers was under him. Returned only one point from a possible 6, an atrocious 16.6% score. Bought into the home-based player hype and tried to introduce domestic quota into the team rather than invite the best performing players which backfired.

In contrast, Jose Peseiro drew 2 games and obtained 2 points from a possible 6 to score 33.3%, and Eric Chelle has won 3 and drawn 2 in 5 games. amassing 11 points from a possible 15 to score 73.3%.
Whatever the outcome on Tuesday, I hope NFf does not press the self destruct button by sacking Chelle before the AFCON.

Unlike others, I support no European. football club. and my only football passion is our national teams, particularly the Super Eagles, so I'll be gutted if we don't qualify. I pray the stars align in our favour, and that will not be the case on Tuesday. 7pm cannot come fast enough for me.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by MetalJigsaw(m): 6:29am On Oct 11, 2025
9JAMac10:
Should Troost ekong be on the bench vs Benin. I think he should be benched. Nigeria will win Benin 2-0 or 3- 1. Remember this comment after the game
You dont know anyrhing .They have +5 goal GD while we have +3. We need a 3-0 to overtake them. Anything less than that we're done. Unless we get lucky to get in the playoffs.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by MetalJigsaw(m): 6:30am On Oct 11, 2025
SymphonyRad:
The maths you should follow is the FIFA qualification rule, if we win on Tuesday (doesn't matter by what scoreline, but safer to be more than 1 goal) we will qualify.

Start Chukwueze, Akor and Osimhen in that game and a 3 man midfield with Ekong on the bench and we win that game by 3-1.
What is the FIFA rule?
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by MetalJigsaw(m): 6:35am On Oct 11, 2025
opes:
Is there anything like lesser goals conceded aside goal difference, goal forward, head to head and fair play? (Cards received)
Yes I meant goal difference and goal scored. They're ahead of us on both
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Starboytwo(m): 6:41am On Oct 11, 2025
Had a dream....

Nigeria 3- 1 Benin
South Africa 1-1 Rwanda.


What platform can I go and discuss "peacefully" with south Africans... I just wan check their morale wink
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by MetalJigsaw(m): 6:42am On Oct 11, 2025
Spainever:
Well said , winning with wider margins against Lesotho should have been our target . At least 3 goals to nothing . I doubt Nigeria will not concede goals against Benin
I wonder how we couldn't rack up at least 3 unreplied goals against Lesotho when thats the biggest and easiest opportunity to redeem our GD. Is it against Benin that we want to do that? Chelle must go
whether we qualify or not
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by minfelix(m): 6:43am On Oct 11, 2025
Ppogbae:
Really? Can you explain? What must Burkina do or not do?
burkina faso must not beat Ethiopia heavily oo, and Madagascar must not shock Mali oo, even Uganda must not shock Algeria oo…then we can beat Benin heavily..that will automatically qualify us for play off
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by MetalJigsaw(m): 6:46am On Oct 11, 2025
minfelix:
burkina faso must not beat Ethiopia heavily oo, and Madagascar must not shock Mali oo, even Uganda must not shock Algeria oo…then we can beat Benin heavily..that will automatically qualify us for play off
That's not going to happen. As it stands, nothing is in our hands anymore.
Employing Chelle was the biggest mistake.

That Angola coach was my expectation, or Leroy or that former Zambia coach but Chelle just got the job out of the blue. I was disappointed
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by engineerboat(m): 6:46am On Oct 11, 2025
semid4lyfe:
So if you're Rohr you'd tell your Benin Republic team to come out and play an open game away from home, and increase the risk of losing rather than play conservatively to obtain a draw, or hope to nick a goal when a draw may possibly see your team through depending on the outcome of the SA vs Rwanda game?

Make no mistake about it, Benin Republic is coming to pack the bus to frustrate us, and hope to steal a win. It's the safer option.

Expect haram ball on Tuesday.
Remember if benin play to draw and South Africa win they also loose.

so they will also want to score
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by minfelix(m): 6:56am On Oct 11, 2025
MetalJigsaw:
That's not going to happen. As it stands, nothing is in our hands anymore.
Employing Chelle was the biggest mistake.

That Angola coach was my expectation, or Leroy or that former Zambia coach but Chelle just got the job out of the blue. I was disappointed
Play off is still in our hand oo..a win will do the magic
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Mujtahida: 6:56am On Oct 11, 2025
Zimbabwe celebrated their goalless draw against SA as if it was a win. Nothing sweet pass being a spoiler 😂😂😂
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Mujtahida: 6:58am On Oct 11, 2025
MetalJigsaw:
That's not going to happen. As it stands, nothing is in our hands anymore.
Employing Chelle was the biggest mistake.

That Angola coach was my expectation, or Leroy or that former Zambia coach but Chelle just got the job out of the blue. I was disappointed
We have to be fair to Chelle. These are high stake games and the time to strategize is short.

Chelle has secured 11 out of a possible 15 points. That's massive
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by MetalJigsaw(m):
Mujtahida:
We have to be fair to Chelle. These are high stake games and the time to strategize is short.

Chelle has secured 11 out of a possible 15 points. That's massive
Against which teams?? Please tell me what iota of hope he has brought to the team. Nothing has changed jare...

Chelle is worse than Peseiro let's be honest.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Cocony(m): 7:05am On Oct 11, 2025
Ppogbae:
Really? Can you explain? What must Burkina do or not do?
They have the Best chance to get the 4th play off ticket with a win over Ethiopia. If they beat Ethiopia by 2-0 we must beat Benin by 4-0 and overtake them on goal difference as we will end on same points for play off. This is because we cannot be absolute about Rwanda beating South Africa or holding South Africa to a draw.
Also Madagascar are not likely to beat Mali in Mali neither is Uganda likely to beat Algeria in Algeria in the last group games for the playoffs slot.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by MetalJigsaw(m): 7:07am On Oct 11, 2025
minfelix:
Play off is still in our hand oo..a win will do the magic
Go and check our goal difference and the other runner up teams befor talking bro.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by joxxy01(m): 7:10am On Oct 11, 2025
Let's leave Chelle abeg, this is not the easiest of time to be the coach of Super eagles
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by MetalJigsaw(m): 7:13am On Oct 11, 2025
Odunayaw:
Maybe otondo Chelle will finally agree to play Iwobi as LM/LW while Moses takes RW and Chuks tuck behind CFs with Ndidi and Onyeka behind him
Lookman is not it anymore. All he has is his past glory. To be honest he shouldn't be starting games .
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by semid4lyfe(mod): 7:19am On Oct 11, 2025
engineerboat:
Remember if benin play to draw and South Africa win they also loose.

so they will also want to score
Yes, but the best approach is to be ultra defensive, and try to score against the run of play.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2027, 2028 And 2030 World Cup by Cocony(m): 7:27am On Oct 11, 2025
MetalJigsaw:
You dont know anyrhing .They have +5 goal GD while we have +3. We need a 3-0 to overtake them. Anything less than that we're done. Unless we get lucky to get in the playoffs.
Not true. If we get a 2-0 lead we get to +5 while Benin finishes on +3, no calculations further as even H2H we will be superior with both teams on 17points. The problem now arises if South Africa defeats Rwanda. That confines Super Eagles effort to the playoffs depending on the outcome of Madagascar, Burkina Faso and Uganda matches which all luckily come before ours.
The play off contenders have better goal differences than us hence our best option will be a 4:0 and above margin thrashing of Benin Republic.
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