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Goke7:
No be lie o Morocco semi final finish at the last World Cup was no fluke just that they don’t need bad officiating to win fairly but dem no care.

Our boys did give good account of themselves based on that I mean we played the number one ranked team in Africa and they couldn’t beat us in 120 mins that’s something great to cheer about sha

see ehnn this Eric Chelle will hardly loose to a team beneath him like Finidi,Jpes, Eguavoen and Roh did…And that is what we need in super eagles to qualify for tournaments…beat baby teams and qualify for tournaments and go struggle it out with superior teams

Joebie:
o pari at the bolded

What you saw yesterday was the plan B
Our second half and even extra time was better..
Give that game another 30 mins, Morocco would still not have scored
If it wasn't a knockout game, we would have left with 0:0 against a superior opposition
Hardly a terrible result

But as usual, Nigerians always look for a scapegoat
So yes, continue to scapegoat the team and Coach

Mujtahida:
I didn't see anything special about this Moroccan team. They were bolstered by home support.

Delaw they are special it’s the pressure of playing at home to win at all cost that affected them during the tournament.

I watched the game on beinsports so I saw both teams getting dressed in the dressing room before the game while our players were full of confidence the Moroccans were seriously tensed including Hakimi which showed how much pressure they were under. The coach had been heavily criticised and he expressed this at the press conference before the game. This Moroccan team is excellent. We would have seen more exciting game had the ref not interfered unnecessarily. I see them doing well at the World Cup again especially if they win Afcon as they will finally be out of that pressure

Goke7:
You’re very right, I think when we start meeting tougher nations back to back we Dey crumble!

Honestly once the game entered extra time I was no longer interested in the final cos if we had won we won’t have been able to win the final as our players will be fatigued against an in-form Senegal. I preferred we bow out in the semi final than having another heartbreak in the final. Once we couldn’t do the business in 90 mins I knew we were done. Check out back in 2013 We did the quarters, semi and finals in 90 mins.

Gbam thats it bro..

elyte89:
Una don start 🙄

The scapegoating continues

Samueltemi337:
Burno took against DRC and scored

Bruno's penalty was a good one
Bono just happened to move towards the spot he placed the kick

If Chuks had simply scored, everything would have changed

minfelix:
see ehnn this Eric Chelle will hardly loose to a team beneath him like Finidi,Jpes, Eguavoen and Roh did…And that is what we need in super eagles to qualify for tournaments…beat baby teams and qualify for tournaments and go struggle it out with superior teams

You’ve said it all 💯 na to Dey raise our game more in bigger games remain

Odunayow:
Oh you meant in PSO

These people are funny
How do you crumble technically and somehow manage not to concede
We crumble technically yet Morocco no see goal score, not even a clear cut chance..
Funny lots looking for who or what to blame as usual

Omo I go Chukwueze Instagram make I troll am

When I reach there, na me begin pray for am 😂

minfelix:
dem dey use penalty shootout kno who and who be strong/weak team?🤣🤣….no b Zambia use penalty collect Afcon for CIV head?

The Jamaica game no be big game jor forget matter 😂 our boys Dey fumble for bigger games jare like Congo like Morocco our players like you said earlier Dey get ptsd for penalties

Maybe we go carry them go MFM for special deliverance 😂

Kudos all round to the boys for the valiant effort.

Bassey and Osayi were real warriors yesterday. Even Nwabali with his quirks stood up to be counted.

Onyedika's timidity really set the stage for how the game progressed. Has the technical ability but his failure to assert him was such a letdown.

The less said about Chukwueze's rubbish pen the better. Yes, anybody but miss a penalty but the way he took his own after Stanley had sweated to save one was so demoralizing. We have a goalkeeper who will give you a fighting chance in penalty shootouts which ordinarily should put our opponents under pressure but sadly our timidity doesn't allow us to capitalize on it.

We really need to inject more players with strong mentality not just talent and technical ability.

I will not accept any slander against our boys. Our boys did well,the referee's calls disorganized them. This Moroccan side is not that good,the world cup will reveal that

Goke7:
Delaw they are special it’s the pressure of playing at home to win at all cost that affected them during the tournament.

I watched the game on beinsports so I saw both teams getting dressed in the dressing room before the game while our players were full of confidence the Moroccans were seriously tensed including Hakimi which showed how much pressure they were under. The coach had been heavily criticised and he expressed this at the press conference before the game. This Moroccan team is excellent. We would have seen more exciting game had the ref not interfered unnecessarily. I see them doing well at the World Cup again especially if they win Afcon as they will finally be out of that pressure

They were at the last Afcon and didn't get past the quarters. I still think home support is helping them. I don't mean that they are a bad team but they couldn't hurt us despite being on their own turf.

The ref for the Egypt Senegal game was excellent. Brahim Diaz pulled Bassey's jersey yet it was Bassey that was booked.

Everyone can see that we still need quality players. I wasn't even scared when bassey got the second yellow card, I was asking myself who's going to replace bassey. You cannot trust awaziem and igbo.
We all can see that the midfield is still a problem. The coach should try and get those guys from Everton and the other one playing for bunley, then that turkey guy.

TheGoodJoe:
We sat back. What stopped us from pressing the Moroccans when they were with ball. How many times did you see us pressing the defenders when they were with ball.

This is indefensible.

Oga you're too theoretical when it comes to analysis,you don't normally face reality and you're always trying to tell us what to do in a situation when we cannot not do anything.... yesterday game was too obvious that we just need to soak Morocco pressures which we did for 120 minutes,common man Morocco defeated Portugal and Spain to reached World Cup semi final,do you think it was lucky,forget stories,they're the best in Africa,they play good football

You're the one being obtuse with your bias confirmation posts.

I could as well say the mouth of I and "witnesses" rejecting your insinuations have established the matter too

Mujtahida:
So we who watched the match and drawing deductions aren't witnesses. Abeg move go front. I don't have time for obtuseness

Goke7:
I agree on that self belief part, we can’t just be freezing out in big games and moments Afcon is getting harder and this is how it will continue to be even in the last Afcon finals we were leading until civ drew level with us. Our players need to learn to rise up to big moments instead of chickening out.

The boys have done excellently well but that extra to be resilient when it becomes tougher still needs to be addressed

That extra is not on the boys
That extra is on the FA

I will explain..
The bonus row shouldn't have happened..
1. Pay these boys their dues on time and eliminate unnecessary distractions..
2. Play the boardroom politics. Never should a Ghanaian officiate in a high stakes game where the SE would be playing. We saw the implications of that. They were supposed to vehemently reject that choice from CAF. But as usual, we dey do fair play and big brother
3. We had terrible logistics coming up to this game..
After the match against Algeria, why did we have to travel back to Fez and back to Rabat?
Worse still, via bus?
Why not stay in Rabat and save that travel energy?
Our players where clearly tired, hence our sluggish first half

This is where a sound FA could have stepped in, and made it easier for their team to come out tops

NFF as usual, are not proactive at all

elyte89:
Una don start 🙄

E de troll Joe

Nwabali will give us advantage, our players will squander.

In every penalty, it is certain that Nwabali will catch at least one but our penalty players never make it count.

See how Chukwueze went and passed the ball to the Moroccan keeper. Chai. That's someone with fresh legs oo. Bruno's I can understand. But that of Chukwueze is unpardonable.

chrisooblog:
Kudos all round to the boys for the valiant effort.

Bassey and Osayi were real warriors yesterday. Even Nwabali with his quirks stood up to be counted.

Onyedika's timidity really set the stage for how the game progressed. Has the technical ability but his failure to assert him was such a letdown.

The less said about Chukwueze's rubbish pen the better. Yes, anybody but miss a penalty but the way he took his own after Stanley had sweated to save one was so demoralizing. We have a goalkeeper who will give you a fighting chance in penalty shootouts which ordinarily should put our opponents under pressure but sadly our timidity doesn't allow us to capitalize on it.

We really need to inject more players with strong mentality not just talent and technical ability.

We are just wasting the talent of Nwabali of stopping penalties to win big games and titles even the 94 set never had a keeper who had this specialty. I saw Nwabali post on social media and I felt for him. His teammates need to complement his talent. Too bad

Goke7:
You’re very right, I think when we start meeting tougher nations back to back we Dey crumble!

Honestly once the game entered extra time I was no longer interested in the final cos if we had won we won’t have been able to win the final as our players will be fatigued against an in-form Senegal. I preferred we bow out in the semi final than having another heartbreak in the final. Once we couldn’t do the business in 90 mins I knew we were done. Check out back in 2013 We did the quarters, semi and finals in 90 mins.

We dey crumble
But na biased ref & PK Dem use win us
How that take be crumbling?

etebefia:
Eric Chelle, has been praised greatly by majority of the Nigerian football fans and while I appreciate his zeal to succeed with the Super Eagles, I still think he's not the right man for the position.

He is poor tactically and finds it hard to change tactics. Yesterday's game game was seriously yearning for tactical change but he couldn't read the game.

His whole front was completely inactive, playing 2 point men (Osihmen and Akor) for a game you were expecting to absorb pressure and your key midfielder missing was a complete amateurish decision.

Playing Lookman behind the front men may have worked in other matches but definitely didn't work against Morocco and a tactical change to the wing would have taken off pressure from the back wingers who were obviously over laboured.

Eric Chelle obviously doesn't know his players. Awaziem is a better penalty taker than Chukwueze. How did Chukwueze get selected for penalties?

Generally, the game yesterday was poor from both teams and the CAF-backed referee killed it entirely.

The only correct point you made was your last paragraph
Okay with all the terrible tactical decisions Chelle made, how many goals Morocco score?

Osayi and Bruno have been something else in this AFCON. Two full backs I never rated, suddenly turned to what I can't even describe. These guys were terrific and they were never found wanting or scared of pushing attacks from their wings.

The blame goes to Chelle,I was expecting him to remove Onyedika on time and replace him with Bashiru or Nnadi and introduce more adventurous players like Ejuke and Chukwueze since the game plan was not working

lbrichman2:
That extra is not on the boys
That extra is on the FA

I will explain..
The bonus row shouldn't have happened..
1. Pay these boys their dues on time and eliminate unnecessary distractions..
2. Play the boardroom politics. Never should a Ghanaian officiate in a high stakes game where the SE would be playing. We saw the implications of that. They were supposed to vehemently reject that choice from CAF. But as usual, we dey do fair play and big brother
3. We had terrible logistics coming up to this game..
After the match against Algeria, why did we have to travel back to Fez and back to Rabat?
Worse still, via bus?
Why not stay in Rabat and save that travel energy?
Our players where clearly tired, hence our sluggish first half

This is where a sound FA could have stepped in, and made it easier for their team to come out tops

NFF as usual, are not proactive at all

I agree with you but nff will never change the same nff that was ready to play that Libyan game after all their terrorist act

I was actually shocked when the nff play down the choice of the ref Abi dem don collect money 😂 I heard an nff official was even selling tickets for the match they got free of charge 😂 na those ones we wan rely on?

lbrichman2:
These people are funny
How do you crumble technically and somehow manage not to concede
We crumble technically yet Morocco no see goal score, not even a clear cut chance..
Funny lots looking for who or what to blame as usual

The 2nd half and the ET was what a semi final between two juggernauts look like. I really couldn't see the crumbling hence he located it [surprisingly] in PSO.

If only we had a moment of brilliance or something

Nwabali remains our undisputed number 1 goalkeeper.

kingphilip:
They had enough time in their hands to do that as they played a day before us and also didn't have to travel.

But we should have a system to atleast take a look at all our possible opponents when we get to the round of 16 subsequently to help us with this too.

There are even some rumours that they secretly installed spy cameras in our training location
But with all of that, they still couldn't win in over 120 mins of football..

It seems I'm the only one seeing what a great job Chelle is doing

Same opinion, same deduction unless one wants to be blind.

Sarsaparilla524:
who saw this?
That was why my prediction failed.

Dude even has a reputation as a controversial ref

lbrichman2:
These people are funny
How do you crumble technically and somehow manage not to concede
We crumble technically yet Morocco no see goal score, not even a clear cut chance..
Funny lots looking for who or what to blame as usual

bro majority of 9ja fans no sabi calm down to analyse match…..This super eagles didnot crumble to
morocco at aaaaaalllll….people no wan still gree say 2025 Morocco is a beast of a soccer nation…plus dem come b host🤣🤣.
even our golden generation dey chop 5-1 against host in 1990 afcon…go and research how our super eagles of old fared against host…the only knockout stage we beat host na senegal 92 for pk shootout…when Senegal were still “underdogs” trying to gain their feet in africa…powerhouse hosts those years dey beat us like tiff
1976 host morocco flog us 2-1
1990 host flog us 5-1 for group stage still flog us 1-0 final

We just need to retain Eric Chelle, let him keep helping us sweep baby african teams…we just need to be qualifying for world cup and afcon tournaments abeg….

lbrichman2:
We dey crumble
But na biased ref & PK Dem use win us
How that take be crumbling?

Chuks should have converted his kick so we crumbled there bro. The Moroccans after missing a kick were there for the taking if we had converted all our kicks. That’s where our players can raise their game no matter how hard.

This is where the likes of oliseh will continue to run their mouths our boys need to shut such kind of people up finally na wetin Dey pain me be this