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Mujtahida:
Honestly, I really don't see how Morocco outclassed Chelle. That's a gross exaggeration. If you say that the DRC coach outclassed Chelle, I would agree cos we were restricted to our half of the pitch. But not so Morocco. Both teams had a go at each other, Morocco was marginally better. Emphasis on marginal.

The reason why you guys say that he outclassed Chelle is because you expected us to win. That speaks more to how Chelle has raised the standard. The moment that didn't happen, it became a matter of him being outclassed by Regrugui.

Remove emotions and read what I said carefully because what you said isn't different from what I said

Mujtahida:
Honestly, I really don't see how Morocco outclassed Chelle. That's a gross exaggeration. If you say that the DRC coach outclassed Chelle, I would agree cos we were restricted to our half of the pitch. But not so Morocco. Both teams had a go at each other, Morocco was marginally better. Emphasis on marginal.

The reason why you guys say that he outclassed Chelle is because you expected us to win. That speaks more to how Chelle has raised the standard. The moment that didn't happen, it became a matter of him being outclassed by Regrugui.

Loll, "because we expected him to win"

Pray tell, how many shots did we have. How many on target?

These are indices we can't ignore

Leave sentiments and say the truth

Who were our best players that day - our acts and our GK. This should be a big pointer

A slim win for either side in regular time or penalties.
We all know CAF wants to compensate Morocco.
The officiating will favor Morocco.
Senegal must be mentally tougher to pull through.

ChrisKels:
Does anyone know anything about this Ugo Raghouber of Levante?

I don’t think he is eligible to play for us

ChrisKels:
Okoye, Uzoho and Okonkwo as back ups.

Oga comot Okoye cuz if he is not number one he is not ready

This edit from the Super Eagles admin sweet me die 😂, coupled with the fact I'm even playing the GTA game before I saw this 😂

Yo @alexiwobi that was cold 🥶 pic.twitter.com/wvycc2FByD

— 🇳🇬 Super Eagles (@NGSuperEagles) January 18, 2026

Papi85:
I don’t think he is eligible to play for us

I guess so because nothing suggests he's Nigerian except the name Ugo.

There is this other WB in that Levante team, that should be assessed too, Kazeem Babatunde.

Meliforme:
On Eric Chelle, I am not convinced.

Say all you want.

He is a good coach, but he is not yet there.
With all the quality at his call, very good coaches have actually shown their tactical superority over him.

Eric Chelle is a good coach but lacks sufficient depth.
Depth will come with experience and the willingness to learn.
Anyways he is still young with a lot of promise.

Like you can afford a coach that is already "there".

Odunayaw:
😆 What is this

Since you've decided to be thick let me use simpler words.

Outcomes isn't a yardstick for how intentional or nonchalant a penalty kick is.

Iwobi's body language was jittery, his pk was poor but he scored. Accusers of Chukwueze only care about the outcome really.

he sent the keeper the wrong way, is that what Chukwueze did? Or don't you know that a good penalty kick can also be characterized with placing the ball away from the path of the goalkeeper? Panenka penalty kicks are played in a cheeky way but that doesn't mean they don't end up in the back of the net.

SymphonyRad:
I hope NFF will get to work now and renew Eric's contract with a view of extension, and then we also need to be in the shopping window ahead of the upcoming international friendly matches, lots of world cup bound teams in Europe and South America will be looking for top African sides to play as a way to size up African teams in their group, and this Nigerian team especially under Chelle will be a beautiful bride for teams looking to play a top ranked side...it will also provide us the opportunity to see newer players like Philip Otele, Durosinmi, Nnadi, Akinsamiro, David Moses, Nwaiwu etc with the established players already.

Abi how you take see am?
Cc: @TheSuperNerd

Most of them will demand your full squad and regulars as a condition for the friendly match. The Russians we played the other day were not happy not seeing osihmen play so some of these desired friendlies may not give us enough opportunities to try new players like we are thinking maybe as subs during the games may suffice

minfelix:
rewatching how Nwabali saved 2 penalties against DRC amd we still went on to lose that our play off spot……Bassey voom!! Simon voom!!, Ajayi Voom world cup ticket voom😩😩

So so voom voom voom.

Hardrive:
The major problem Eric Chelle has is that if he is faced with a problem on the field and he needs to change something, his solution is to change the positions of the players on the pitch rather than change the approach to the game to make it easy for the team to play well.

Our stats shows that for everytime we have 2 strikers playing up front our chances of scoring a goal increases. At the same time, our gameplay is now very dynamic in that we can play with the ball on the ground as well as in the air within the course of the game.

Anytime the game is not working for us we have to switch to making sure the strikers get the ball in the air. The second half of most of our matches has been very poor. Everybody talking about how our defense is solid don't know that the best form of defense is attack. If your attackers are on top of their game for 90+ minutes, your defense would have less to do.

Our national teams are edging closer to being unstoppable at every level of football if we get it right with the senior national team.

If you want to know how to be a good problem solver as a football fan of your team, most especially when your team is finding it difficult to score goals and win games, your check if your team is playing to the strength of your best players on the pitch

Where you have good headers of the ball find a way to play the game in a way that would suit them. It is only when that has happened that you can say the player is not good and needs to go based on ability. E.g onuachu. Not using lookman , a player who needs freedom to play his game behind two strikers , in the position of a second striker.

I'm sure a lot of people don't understand what we play in the second half of most matches.

Are you actually sure people don't understand? Because right from time even before Éric Chelle, the Super Eagles always play better in the second halves of games, and under Éric Chelle it's now almost balanced, we are always on top of our game for the whole match.

Even Egypt we played yesterday, the second half was better than the first, we had more possession and Egypt didn't get a shot on target. We just had two goals disallowed, of which the first had no business being disallowed in the first place.

Of our 14 goals scored in this tournament, 9 came in the second half, so what are you saying my lord?

Spainever:
We stood better chance to win 2023 AFCON but Paseiro gave Ivory coast the trophy . He made wrong selections even when Zaidu was tired 😩 he prefers tired Zaidu to Bruno ..

Painful still 🤒

Blueelf:
Loll, "because we expected him to win"

Pray tell, how many shots did we have. How many on target?

These are indices we can't ignore

Leave sentiments and say the truth

Who were our best players that day - our acts and our GK. This should be a big pointer

You say outclassed. At the last world cup, Morocco came out as the team with the lowest possession yet they won up till the semi. Would you agree that they were outclassed in the matches that they won up till the semi in spite of the stats favoring the other side?

I watch SE with clear eyes. Morocco did not outclass us. I know when we play, badly and when we don't.

Meliforme:
You are yet to consider the quality of the opposition.

Believe me, with the quality in our hands, we can compete at the world stage.
We need a very sound tactician.

If we cannot afford one, then let's exercise some restraint in the manner we handle our hopes.

Well, there is nothing wrong in being optimistic even we you are courting average.

Quality oo, quantity ooo, anyhow you put am, if you like make the quality of the opposition be like Barca or Messi, Madrid of CR7, Ajax or Eric and Co


The kuku is how much can you contribute to pay the Quality Coach that will suprass, Jose and Pep join together

Goke7:
Most of them will demand your full squad and regulars as a condition for the friendly match. The Russians we played the other day were not happy not seeing osihmen play so some of these desired friendlies may not give us enough opportunities to try new players like we are thinking maybe as subs during the games may suffice

Yeah, but 3-5 new players shouldn't be an issue for any top team that wants us to face our full strength squad, 80% of the players to prosecute the friendly games would be the same established players with the exclusion of Moses Simon who offers nothing at this point.

Kog45:
Oga comot Okoye cuz if he is not number one he is not ready

That's a big fat lie.

Our best 3 are Nwabali, Okoye, Uzoho/Okonkwo.

Leaving Okoye out of the AFCON squad was justifiable as it will benefit both the player and the national team at the long run. It would be so callous and disheartening to keep him further away from action after being away from action for weeks due to suspension, as that would further make him rusty and even put his position in his club at huge risk.


I can't spend weeks away, and still choose the option to sit on the bench for more weeks rather than the other option that guarantees testing action. I can't do myself or career such disservice.

At the end, wasn't it a win-win situation? Our team did well, and our second choice goalkeeper also used his clubside to get back to shape during same period.

All you fans want is just to be made happy. You guys never understand these players are humans too and they have their careers to protect also.

Mujtahida:
Street side, you dey talk NPFL. Easiest thing to do is to talk oo.

Good morning my learned Sir,

The thing just tire me, he dey advocate for local coach, at same time trying to playdown Chelle

ChrisKels:
That's a big fat lie.

Our best 3 are Nwabali, Okoye, Uzoho/Okonkwo.

Leaving Okoye out of the AFCON squad was justifiable as it will benefit both the player and the national team at the long run. It would be so callous and disheartening to keep him further away from action after being away from action for weeks due to suspension, as that would further make him rusty and even put his position in his club at huge risk.


I can't spend weeks away, and still choose the option to sit on the bench for more weeks rather than the other option that guarantees testing action. I can't do myself or career such disservice.

At the end, wasn't it a win-win situation? Our team did well, and our second choice goalkeeper also used his clubside to get back to shape during same period.

All you fans want is just to be made happy. You guys never understand these players are humans too and they have their careers to protect also.

Sir no waste your breath ooo, they will not hear you, .to them OKOYE no be am,

Just one mistakes from Nwabali, and his perchant, na them go rush mention Okoye theirselve, just leave them


Is it not here After that Nwabali antics and wanting to fight his team mate during the WCQ,
Me and you knew whose name was mentioned here,

Just leave them Sir

Meliforme:
The Moroccan coach.
The Egyptian coach.

With the quality in our hands and with a sound coach, we should be the best in Africa.

Laughing out loud.

In what ways did they show superiority?

Goke7:
Na fellow francophone brother go compete the job tomorrow 😂 same VAR official from SA

Calculated plan

Morrocco never complains because they chose the officials.

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ChrisKels:
That's a big fat lie.

Our best 3 are Nwabali, Okoye, Uzoho/Okonkwo.

Leaving Okoye out of the AFCON squad was justifiable as it will benefit both the player and the national team at the long run. It would be so callous and disheartening to keep him further away from action after being away from action for weeks due to suspension, as that would further make him rusty and even put his position in his club at huge risk.


I can't spend weeks away, and still choose the option to sit on the bench for more weeks rather than the other option that guarantees testing action. I can't do myself or career such disservice.

At the end, wasn't it a win-win situation? Our team did well, and our second choice goalkeeper also used his clubside to get back to shape during same period.

All you fans want is just to be made happy. You guys never understand these players are humans too and they have their careers to protect also.

If we had qualified for the World Cup will okoye had made such demands? The optics weren’t good especially after a disappointing wcq series. It’s looking like okoye’s mind was on the World Cup than Afcon. For me I respect his decision but it shouldn’t be used as an excuse to justify him. Was it Chelle or Ndidi who said something like this team we win together and also sink together. We were all mad here when we heard rumours whether true or not of osihmen was threatening to leave the camp in the wake of the spat with Lookman and funny enough okoye would have had his chance in this Afcon in the game against Uganda and probably the 3rd place match, this is where okoye would have made his demands to be number 1 instead of shying away completely from the tournament. If we all agree that the team is bigger than players like osihmen we shouldn’t be making excuses for other players as well. Just look at how players like osayi, Bruno, Ajayi has taken their chances, it would have been okoye as well. He’s the one making Nwabali more indispensable!

ChrisKels:
I guess so because nothing suggests he's Nigerian except the name Ugo.

There is this other WB in that Levante team, that should be assessed too, Kazeem Babatunde.

Kareem Tunde Ruiz

Amedino99:
should have just left him there. Apart from a bronze medal, that boy just came here to waste time.

I see it as an important development for the boy. There is a confidence he will have going back to Italy having played around people like Osimhen, Iwobi, Bassey

Moreover, this is a way to keep his name in the mind of the coach.

Hardrive:
The major problem Eric Chelle has is that if he is faced with a problem on the field and he needs to change something, his solution is to change the positions of the players on the pitch rather than change the approach to the game to make it easy for the team to play well.

Our stats shows that for everytime we have 2 strikers playing up front our chances of scoring a goal increases. At the same time, our gameplay is now very dynamic in that we can play with the ball on the ground as well as in the air within the course of the game.

Anytime the game is not working for us we have to switch to making sure the strikers get the ball in the air. The second half of most of our matches has been very poor. Everybody talking about how our defense is solid don't know that the best form of defense is attack. If your attackers are on top of their game for 90+ minutes, your defense would have less to do.

Our national teams are edging closer to being unstoppable at every level of football if we get it right with the senior national team.

If you want to know how to be a good problem solver as a football fan of your team, most especially when your team is finding it difficult to score goals and win games, your check if your team is playing to the strength of your best players on the pitch

Where you have good headers of the ball find a way to play the game in a way that would suit them. It is only when that has happened that you can say the player is not good and needs to go based on ability. E.g onuachu. Not using lookman , a player who needs freedom to play his game behind two strikers , in the position of a second striker.

I'm sure a lot of people don't understand what we play in the second half of most matches.

Why you soil this write up with this

BankyGee:
Lacked direction
Relatively central

Una go just wan use English confuse people. A PK that was played with shot and above the ground and also at the far right, you say na relatively central.

That was a well taken penalty that met a save to match.

😄 Everybody must gba once in a while

BankyGee:
This edit from the Super Eagles admin sweet me die 😂, coupled with the fact I'm even playing the GTA game before I saw this 😂

Yo @alexiwobi that was cold 🥶 pic.twitter.com/wvycc2FByD

— 🇳🇬 Super Eagles (@NGSuperEagles) January 18, 2026

So the werey keeper was saying he will save it

😆

Goke7:
If we had qualified for the World Cup will okoye had made such demands? The optics weren’t good especially after a disappointing wcq series. It’s looking like okoye’s mind was on the World Cup than Afcon. For me I respect his decision but it shouldn’t be used as an excuse to justify him. Was it Chelle or Ndidi who said something like this team we win together and also sink together. We were all mad here when we heard rumours whether true or not of osihmen was threatening to leave the camp in the wake of the spat with Lookman and funny enough okoye would have had his chance in this Afcon in the game against Uganda and probably the 3rd place match, this is where okoye would have made his demands to be number 1 instead of shying away completely from the tournament. If we all agree that the team is bigger than players like osihmen we shouldn’t be making excuses for other players as well. Just look at how players like osayi, Bruno, Ajayi has taken their chances, it would have been okoye as well. He’s the one making Nwabali more indispensable!

Did Okoye withdraw because he isn't the first choice, or did he withdraw because he was out for too long and needed constant run of games to get back to shape?

ChrisKels:
Did Okoye withdraw because he isn't the first choice, or did he withdraw because he was out for too long and needed constant run of games to get back to shape?

Stop the excuse please, which one is being out for too long? Is it not how far a country goes in Afcon that will determine how long they will be unavailable for their clubs?

Goke7:
Stop the excuse please, which one is being out for too long? Is it not how far a country goes in Afcon that will determine how long they will be unavailable for their clubs?

This response shows you have no clue why Okoye was excused.

He was inactive for long due to a ban.

Dude was out for about 3 months and you wanted him to extend it to 4 months?

ChrisKels:
This response shows you have no clue why Okoye was excused.

He was inactive for long due to a ban.

Dude was out for about 3 months and you wanted him to extend it to 4 months?

I will go back to my first question if we had qualified for the World Cup will all these excuses suffice? I rest my case!