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minfelix:
Mozambique will bring the vibe angola brought last afcon against us…the average COSAFA teams like Zimbabwe,Mozambique,Angola etc love to start with initial gra gra

Most of these COSAFA teams have the same style of play....they play fast paced football and like to keep possession... Their poor defensive awareness is always their undoing...

The super Eagles need to control the pace of the game and get an early goal ..

Congo DR will edge out Algeria in a highly competitive game today.

Mozambique will fight really hard today but the Super Eagles of Nigeria will come out victorious.

If Nigeria edge out Congo DR in the QF, then we will be playing this year's AFCON finals

Most penalty goals in 2025 - top 10 leagues + all competitions + national team.
Osimhen is German now? 😂

lbrichman2:
Yes but their physicality may be their undoing
I just pray that score clean and clear goals while holding their own against the Moroccans and the ref's antics
Because they'll be playing against Morocco, the ref and CAF

The spectators too lol
Ounahi is injured
No chance
Cameroon will win
It will not look pretty though, nothing beautiful about it

Sarsaparilla524:
Congo DR will edge out Algeria in a highly competitive game today.

Mozambique will fight really hard today but the Super Eagles of Nigeria will come out victorious.

If Nigeria edge out Congo DR in the QF, then we will be playing this year's AFCON finals

Be patient bro
This Cameroon have mentality
They don't fold in the late stages of games like Nigeria
It will be Nigeria v Cameroon semifinals
This is not the Cameroon we played 2 years ago or the one that lost to the DRC two months ago
Teams that don't take their chances against Cameroon will pay for it, they are not a high chance creating side but they are very clinical
Let's calm our nerves down
A game at a time
We don't have a titan defense
Your boys are leaking easy goals
It depends on which Nigeria shows up in that game
We pray for injury free players
Seems you forgot we may have shaky goalies

IronGalaxy:
Lol, you guys kill me sometimes, you're child-like.. trivial things excite you so much

I'm just providing the commentary your pitiful performance deserved. It's interesting that you find facts to be "trivial" though.

IronGalaxy:
Lol, Football is one area where you guys feel you have one against SA.

It's not a feeling. It's statistics. You've never beat us in a competitive game, and judging by the games you've played in this AFCON, you might never see another AFCON trophy in your lifetime. Poor minnows.

BankyGee:
Most penalty goals in 2025 - top 10 leagues + all competitions + national team.
Osimhen is German now? 😂

Ösimhen von Ijaya

opes:
Rafiu Durosinmi Sets to Join Serie A Club Pisa

hmmmmmm, is Pisa not likely to be relegated by the end of the season?🤔

Odunayaw:
Ösimhen von Ijaya

🤣🤣🤣

IronGalaxy:
So when South Africans were captains of Leeds, having players starting for Cagliari, Lazio, Man Utd, Fenerbahce etc.. what was that? Not in our gene?

Secondly, how can they neutralize South African players when they dont have many South Africans born in those places? Having players turning out for France when they aren't is also not the flex you think it is.

There have been South Africans players who were were world class.. eg.. Radede, Moshoeu, Pienaar, Fortune, Mccarthy etc.. So this assertion "we are not good enough naturally" is nonsense..

Lol, Football is one area where you guys feel you have one against SA.since you guys cant keep up with our country in many areas. I partially understand the chest thumping

Which SouthAfrican got a starting place at Man Utd?

Radebe, Moshoeu, Pienaar, Fortune and Mccarthy are not World class. You cant xompare them with players like Drogba, Etoo, Osihmen,Ikpeba, Finidi, Sammy Kuffour. Mane,Yaya and Kolo Toure, Salah, Essien, Kanu etc.

SouthAfricans are about 245k-298k in the UK, while Nigeria is about 500k, which is not surprising considering that Nigeria is normally more populated and diverse than SouthAfrica. But that difference in Number doesnt account for the wide difference in the number of UK- born Nigerians who made it to these top NTs and clubs vs those of SouthAfrican decents. In the case of Ghana, there are more UK born Southafricans than them, but from the top of my head, I can call Mainoo, Guehi, Nketiah and Acheampong. These are for English speaking countries oo, if you go to France you see French born Cameroonians, Senegalese, Malians, Burkinabes, Benenoise, etc. Just admit it You just dont have the natural footballing ability to excell above this your current level. You are even performing up to thos level because you are one of the exonomic super powers in Africa.

Tessyy1701:
Ask yourself why they are going ahead everytime... And those teams chasing them, they prefer to be chasing because of their excellent mentality?


Sincere answer

Nigeria creates chances especially set pieces and we have osimehn who is a specialist in scoring such even though he would miss 4 to score 2

But they need to realize that defence is everyone matter and they have to be rugged about it especially when leading...hold possession in the dying minutes,do not play long balls in the dying minutes,hold your opponent to their half in the dying minutes that's how to prevent a team from attempting a successful comeback against you

Nigeria has gone ahead in a lot of matches but you also have to remember they went ahead against civ in the finals and we all know how that ended

They might find themselves in such a situation later today but let's see how they cope

T

charlesemeka85:
hmmmmmm, is Pisa not likely to be relegated by the end of the season?🤔

E better make em remain for Victoria plzen. I no understand this kind move.

charlesemeka85:
hmmmmmm, is Pisa not likely to be relegated by the end of the season?🤔

They will surely be relegated. That means the guy no even sabi. His level is not Super Eagles then. Anybody wey no play Top division club no suppose get super eagles call up

CapitalCee:
Which SouthAfrican got a starting place at Man Utd?

Radebe, Moshoeu, Pienaar, Fortune and Mccarthy are not World class. You cant xompare them with players like Drogba, Etoo, Osihmen,Ikpeba, Finidi, Sammy Kuffour. Mane,Yaya and Kolo Toure, Salah, Essien, Kanu etc.

SouthAfricans are about 245k-298k in the UK, while Nigeria is about 500k, which is not surprising considering that Nigeria is normally more populated and diverse than SouthAfrica. But that difference in Number doesnt account for the wide difference in the number of UK- born Nigerians who made it to these top NTs and clubs vs those of SouthAfrican decents. In the case of Ghana, there are more UK born Southafricans than them, but from the top of my head, I can call Mainoo, Guehi, Nketiah and Acheampong. These are for English speaking countries oo, if you go to France you see French born Cameroonians, Senegalese, Malians, Burkinabes, Benenoise, etc. Just admit it You just dont have the natural footballing ability to excell above this your current level. You are even performing up to thos level because you are one of the exonomic super powers in Africa.

They are an overachieving side and it's thanks to Hugo Broos. Banana banana won't realize how special and insane their 2023 AFCON semi final run was until they get grouped or dropped in the Round of 16 again for the next 3 editions of the tournament.

Even when it comes to B-tier African footballing countries, I still rate Congo and Mali above them.

Danielnino00:
Most of these COSAFA teams have the same style of play....they play fast paced football and like to keep possession... Their poor defensive awareness is always their undoing...

The super Eagles need to control the pace of the game and get an early goal ..

COSAFA teams are really poor at Football

FiveFootNinja:
They are an overachieving side and it's thanks to Hugo Broos. Banana banana won't realize how special and insane their 2023 AFCON semi final run was until they get grouped or dropped in the Round of 16 again for the next 3 editions of the tournament.

I dont see them progresing past Round of 16 in any AFCON. The last time they luckily eliminated Morocco then beat inexperienced Cape verde on penalties, before we knocked them out

charlesemeka85:
hmmmmmm, is Pisa not likely to be relegated by the end of the season?🤔

I pray they make it out of relegation. We also have Akinsanmiro there, and it is likely that the obligation to buy option will be activated.
It will be great to see our players playing in top tier.

Akkin:
Why are you all talking like it's not football we are talking about...no team wants to go two nil down but in knockout football you're bound to find yourself in such situations and your ability to respond in 90 minutes determines if you get to go further or go home

Civ didn't want to go 2 nil down against Gabon
Ft Gabon 2- civ 3

Senegal didn't want to go 1 nil down against Sudan but they did

Ft Sudan 1 - Senegal 3

Cameroon against Mozambique as well

That's what I want to see happen with super eagles cause it shows they have the mentality of champions even the Barcelona someone mentioned overcame a 5 nil aggregate to win 6 -5.

That's how you spot a champion!

No serious champion go down by 2 goals besides didn’t we go a goal down to SA before we equalized?

CapitalCee:
I dont see them progresing past Round of 16 in any AFCON. The last time they luckily eliminated Morocco then beat inexperienced Cape verde on penalties, before we knocked them out

2-0 is luckily?

Odunayaw:
2-0 is luckily?

Hakimi missed a penalty in the dying minutes to make it 1-1. They got a red following a counter before conceding the second goal. The scoreline did not decribe the game properly

CapitalCee:
Which SouthAfrican got a starting place at Man Utd?

Radebe, Moshoeu, Pienaar, Fortune and Mccarthy are not World class. You cant xompare them with players like Drogba, Etoo, Osihmen,Ikpeba, Finidi, Sammy Kuffour. Mane,Yaya and Kolo Toure, Salah, Essien, Kanu etc.

SouthAfricans are about 245k-298k in the UK, while Nigeria is about 500k, which is not surprising considering that Nigeria is normally more populated and diverse than SouthAfrica. But that difference in Number doesnt account for the wide difference in the number of UK- born Nigerians who made it to these top NTs and clubs vs those of SouthAfrican decents. In the case of Ghana, there are more UK born Southafricans than them, but from the top of my head, I can call Mainoo, Guehi, Nketiah and Acheampong. These are for English speaking countries oo, if you go to France you see French born Cameroonians, Senegalese, Malians, Burkinabes, Benenoise, etc. Just admit it You just dont have the natural footballing ability to excell above this your current level. You are even performing up to thos level because you are one of the exonomic super powers in Africa.

it doesnt work this way.. Radebe at Leeds was as much a revered figure as Kuffour was at Bayern.. so what the point here? Football is not popularity contest.. whether you think Ikpeba is "better" than Steven Pienaar it doesnt in any way make Pienaar less "world-class"..

Also, South Africans that are in the UK, some of them are there for various reasons, like studying, also many of them are white South Africans and white south africans arent Football inclined.. Using naturalized Africans to prove Football ability is a flawed argument.

South africans do have footballing ability.. this is not even up for discussion, underachieving doesnt change this fact..The national team of Spain were perennial underachievers up until around 2007-08.. despite having a good league and renowned teams like Madrid and Barca.. SA is where Spain was in their underachieving years.. lets nit forget you couldn't win the same group with SA in it for the world cup.. youre just reasoning out of the usual Nigerian bias against SA.

Truidstarr:
T E better make em remain for Victoria plzen. I no understand this kind move.

I swear down bro

CapitalCee:
The issue is SouthAfricans are just not good enough to nail down a starting place in any European team. Its not in their gene. The best footballing countries are the Sub saharan Africans Like Mali, Nigeria, Burkinafaso, Ivoryxoast, Cameroon, Ghana and Senegal. These countries are just curropt and mismanaged FAs. Look at France NT full of Players with nationalities from French speaking countries, England, Austria, Italy, and Swiss having a lot of players with Nigerian heritage. None of these countries want to Naturalise any SouthAfrican player. They are not just good enough natuarally. Have you ever seen any SouthAfrixan player in History reach World class level? Nigeria has people like Okocha, Osihmen, Ikpeba, Kanu and Mikel. Senegal had Diouf and Mane, Ivroycoast has Drogba, Toure brothers etc. Cameroon had Etoo, Geremi, Mbeumo, Mboma, Roger Milla, Ghana had Essien, Abedi Pele, Sami Kuffour etc. Have you ever seen any South African player evr in history reach that level?

McCarthy and Radebe

FiveFootNinja:
It's not a feeling. It's statistics. You've never beat us in a competitive game, and judging by the games you've played in this AFCON, you might never see another AFCON trophy in your lifetime. Poor minnows.

We beat you 2-0 in Nigeria in Afcon qualifiers in 2019.. and unless youre still living in the Okocha era.. you're not the prime Brazil team you think you are.

jihday:
McCarthy and Radebe

They are not world class. Haba. What is the definition of a world class player?

FiveFootNinja:
I'm just providing the commentary your pitiful performance deserved. It's interesting that you find facts to be "trivial" though.

The mouths are so big for a team that couldnt win a World Cup qualifiers group that had the likes of Lesotho, Zim and a "pitiful" South Africa in it..

CapitalCee:
They are not world class. Haba. What is the definition of a world class player?

Take your bias aside. They were world class..

Which South African start games for Man United?

IronGalaxy:
So when South Africans were captains of Leeds, having players starting for Cagliari, Lazio, Man Utd, Fenerbahce etc.. what was that? Not in our gene?

Secondly, how can they neutralize South African players when they dont have many South Africans born in those places? Having players turning out for France when they aren't is also not the flex you think it is.

There have been South Africans players who were were world class.. eg.. Radede, Moshoeu, Pienaar, Fortune, Mccarthy etc.. So this assertion "we are not good enough naturally" is nonsense..

Lol, Football is one area where you guys feel you have one against SA.since you guys cant keep up with our country in many areas. I partially understand the chest thumping

FiveFootNinja:
They are an overachieving side and it's thanks to Hugo Broos. Banana banana won't realize how special and insane their 2023 AFCON semi final run was until they get grouped or dropped in the Round of 16 again for the next 3 editions of the tournament.

Even when it comes to B-tier African footballing countries, I still rate Congo and Mali above them.

Do you rate them above Cape Verde and Burkina Faso ?

charlesemeka85:
Which South African start games for Man United?

i might have an error thinking of Quinton Fortune while typing this

CapitalCee:
I dont see them progresing past Round of 16 in any AFCON. The last time they luckily eliminated Morocco then beat inexperienced Cape verde on penalties, before we knocked them out

" The last time they luckily eliminated Morocco"
This is false. The South African team is a good team ,they just need to be clinical and look for good strikers. Yesterday they created several chances in the first half.
No need be sentimental , if the SA team is not good when was the last time Nigeria defeat them ? (Not through penalties )