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minfelix:
this is exactly what we will see at the world cup next year, the more the african teams the higher chance of african teams playing each other at the knockout phases

Damn, this is just crazy cause I literally saw Senegal vs Uganda today aside the other one. These are our only four representatives there and two will go home. Well as for the senior world cup if FIFA wants to go with this elimination system then let's meet Ghana so we'll avenge our playoffs loss and teach them a lesson but we need to qualify first

M.A.T.C.H.D.A.Y!

Wow 😳

Éric Chelle on Stanley Nwabali: "You don't know what I tell my players... I don't want a nice guy in my goalposts 😳... I like crazy players (paraphrased)"

Normal normal, I agree, but Nwabali has to tone down his aggressivity and antics a little. He's a menacing goalkeeper and it's good.

TheSuperNerd:
Ndidi does not have 70 caps and Iwobi does not have 90 caps.

Look, the NFF can flunk certain records, but I expect this thread to continue to shine as the standard bearer for "setting the records straight".

How many caps do Ndidi and Iwobi have?

Minus the 2 nullified games from each and you have your answer.

2017 June 1 friendly vs Togo.
2017 November 10 WCQs vs Algeria.

Also, read about the Ahmed Musa initial 100 caps confusion in September 2021.

mrwilliams9:
How many caps do Ndidi and Iwobi have?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8OAGwC2Eak&pp=ugUEEgJlbg%3D%3D

Do y'all agree?

mostob:
Once a gooner, always a gooner.
Baba, you sef dey here.

yes o

Chelle dey give me joy like arteta

Joebie:
Nigeria 3-0 Congo DR

amen o

i was implying the opposite bro.

charlesemeka85:
the way u guys undermine some certain players here eeh dey annoying

Okoye wey dey face the likes of inter Milan, Juve, Napoli and Milan stars week in week out na em go come dey shake against congo? Nawaoo for una ooo

if you follow my takes here you will observe this is what i'm saying:

1. Okoye in the past donning the GWG kept with pressure. And this is what the fans didn't like about him. Nwabali stepped in with a high level of confidence.
2. Okoye has had more games under his belt for club and has shown like stars recently when Nigeria took on Russia
3. I am saying now that if he gets another chance at this high stakes match he will seize it with with both hands and never look back.

Kilishihunter:
O pari cause of an afcon game years ago? He might not even need to make much saves tomorrow if our offense does the needful

Today's game is for our APOTY
2 goal for him

5:2
Nigeria win

ChrisKels:
Oh really? No Igala person has ever played for the national team?😯😯

None oo. Back in those days, I used to think Wilson Oruma was Igala cos our people bear Oruma (in fact that is the name of one of our family friends ) but I realized he's from Delta State.

ChrisKels:
Bro I don't know the name of that bridge but it is between Nasarawa and Agatu. Better fear catch me as I dey drive untop that bridge. I couldn't look sideways. I had to comport myself make my sisters wey I carry no find out say fear dey my body. I dey fear water like mad 😂🤣😂

That's the name of the bridge. So you have never passed through Makurdi River Benue bridge? You go faint be that.

ChrisKels:
The boy was wise, unfortunately, his younger brother was not as wise and lucky. While Chinedu fought for a better life from the ghetto through football, his younger brother was consumed by ghetto life. Dude is a jailbird. If Chinedu and his brothers were born in their hometown in Anambra, his younger brother would have been a highly dreaded Bagger or Egede.

So Bassey is from Anambra? I thought he's from Cross Rivers cos Bassey is common to Cross Rivers/Akwa Ibom people. In fact, I've never heard, seen or met an Igbo person bearing that name.

That his younger brother is a wasted man. Bassey also appears to be God fearing.

I'm not comfortable with the way the DR Congo national team twitter account is giving steady updates on Ndidi's eligibility to play. I wonder how crucial he is to the execution of their tactics. We need to be careful sha.

A goal and assist from ademola lookman today.. bookmark this

Odunayaw:
I'd replace Osayi with Awaziem. Awaziem's long balls is so accurate. Thing is I don't know if he can run the channel

He's not fast and I heard the Congolese are fast.

Sadiqali24:
A goal and assist from ademola lookman today.. bookmark this

I just feel he will be impactful in today's game

Mujtahida:
Abeg ooo. Benjamin should go play RB. Seyi is needed in the CB to deal with aerial balls from the Congolese.
Has Osayi not punished you enough? You want to tempt the gods abi. Person cause PK, the gods overlook am, he deflected the ball into the net, the gods forgave him by letting us win, now you say he should play RB against a Congolese team that has a reputation for being physical and good with set pieces.

No na

Are we counting deflection as a quality indices?

Ragingthunder:
it was not slight in the least

Judging by the closeness of Nwabali to the area the ball went in through, it was.

Kilishihunter:
Anahor is highly rated in Italy plus several of the azzuri CBs are old though some still play till their mid 30s. We'll need some convincing to do maybe qualifying for the world cup can help our case. A creative midfielder to take the pressure off iwobi should even be the biggest inquiry at the moment.

We want to start the begging stuffs again?

Replace those who fought for the ticket so that some can stroll in to go enjoy the largess?

Mujtahida:
So Bassey is from Anambra? I thought he's from Cross Rivers cos Bassey is common to Cross Rivers/Akwa Ibom people. In fact, I've never heard, seen or met an Igbo person bearing that name.

That his younger brother is a wasted man. Bassey also appears to be God fearing.

bassey is multi ethnic guy. His dad is Igbo while his mom is a Calabar woman

Give us this day o lord. Super eagles for the victory. My confidence is high about this game. All due respect to Congo but they must fall today

Check this guys, very interesting.

Africa's top 10 football powerhouses in all categories combined. Nigeria sits at number one! See where other countries sit.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8OAGwC2Eak?si=iy5Naxwajvf5L4Ay

Éric Chelle: "If a guy comes to harm my player and I need to run into the pitch to fight him, I WILL... We don't take this as football, we take it as war, we are warriors"

My coach 💪🏾🫡

Mujtahida:
Here we go



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7AZVMUhx-4?si=rfpdhEb8rb9DeEEb

The Law God bless you for this video... Omo now I'm now confident in Éric Chelle even more than how I was before. This man damn well knows what he's doing and he speaks intelligently than any other coach that has coached the Super Eagles in recent years!

He tracks 500+ Nigerian players and watches 80+ per week? No worry the man good.

His substitutions are always impactful, he uses almost everyone on the bench. Our players became this united under him. Did you see when he came to press Osimhen's shoulder playfully when Osimhen was giving an interview to the ESPN reporter? The man come humble join.

Our players are beginning to display the mentality of winners now, and funnily enough, this is just a beginning process o 🙆🏾‍♂️

BankyGee:
Éric Chelle: "If a guy comes to harm my player and I need to run into the pitch to fight him, I WILL... We don't take this as football, we take it as war, we are warriors"

My coach 💪🏾🫡

NFF should not try to owe him his salary too so he will not run need to run into the glass house to fight them.

Match day
Eric Chelle's story looks similar to that of Vincent kompany (was at Burnley, didn't do exceptionally well, but was employed by Bayern Munich, and now his doing wonders)

From mali at the AFCON (quarter finals), to being sacked for drawing a world cup qualifiers game, to being employed by an Algerian club, were it looked like he was still kind of struggling, to being employed by Nigeria, whose chance at going to the world cup was only 10%, (after 3 points from 12 possible points in 4 games), took the job got 3 points in one game....
People still doubted after the draw with Zimbabwe, went on to win the unity cup, played Russia in a friendly (while still retaining his attacking formation, compared to other coach who would have decided to play 5 at the back).

Never lost a game, now 10 games unbeaten,with 7 wins and 3 draws (a win rate of 85%), I wish he completes it today, by wining congo, and then the intercontinental playoffs.
Such a HERO STORY.

Kilishihunter:
NFF should not try to owe him his salary too so he will not run need to run into the glass house to fight them.

Na even the players go fight for am at this point 😂

It is all but confirmed that Maduka Okoye will be starting today.

Procashtips:
Are we counting deflection as a quality indices?

Do you think I'd say the same thing if it was Benjamin who deflected the ball?

Procashtips:
We want to start the begging stuffs again?

Replace those who fought for the ticket so that some can stroll in to go enjoy the largess?

Every African team around us are stockpiling on their foreign borns (especially Morocco) who they've convinced to play for them so why should we that even have the highest number outside since we are the most populated stop? We've just lost atubolu to Germany who's very talented. Our league is not like the glory days again even the youth teams that gave us osimhen, akor, Fredericks have been on a downward spiral recently, see even Uganda entering round of 16 for a tournament we are the record winners but that's beside my point. If an "outsider" is technically refined than the one at home we shouldn't call him cause the latter helped us qualify? Maybe the state of the country and NFF's corruption also plays a part cause ordinarily we shouldn't even stress much taking these guys unlike before