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Mujtahida:
Onyedika no be am. It's not skill or footballing abilities. He has those qualities but his energy is too tame for our midfield. He is a better footballer than Frank Onyeka but Onyeka has great energy. If Onyeka is on the pitch, you can feel his energy in your pulse. It's as if he drags you with him as he runs up and down the pitch.

Onyedika on the other hand is like cold sugar less pap. He's just bleh. Alhassan and Nnadi will nick his spot

maidaboi:
bankygee you saw that sanusi shot?

Pidginwhisper:
No goalkeeper is catching that. I don’t care what anyone will say about that.. That’s a swerve ball for Christ sake, it changed direction and he still managed to go for it. Those blaming him should just come out and say you never liked him. It doesn’t even make sense anymore, always waiting for him to make a blunder so they can say we told you, like Nwabali never committed blunder since he started manning the post. This has to stop.

Mujtahida:
That shot will best even Buffon. It was the fault of the midfielders and the defenders to have allowed him to take that shot.

BankyGee:
Them go blame Okoye now for that goal o! Wtf?

That was a banger goal! If there's anyone to blame for that goal, it should be Rafiu Durosinmi and Paul Onuachu. They stopped pressing. You think Éric Chelle is a madman for saying his team should always press? It was 5 seconds to the end of the match. Just press for the last minute. Osimhen go dey pitch person go dey arrange ball to fire shot? Last defender?

Y'all are just not fair to that guy. 7 saves in that match which included a crazy double save.

If na Nwabali dey post tonight, we concede 3 or 4, because he's definitely conceding that double save chance AND the long-ranger. Thank God una know say I be big Nwabali fan.

Haba nau! Haba!

Mujtahida:
That shot will best even Buffon. It was the fault of the midfielders and the defenders to have allowed him to take that shot.

TheSuperNerd:
Nwabali got his hits despite consistent fine performances at major tournaments leading us to a final and semis with multiple cleansheets that puts him on the threshold of surpassing Enyeama's afcon cleansheets record.

I also hit Nwabali when he overdid certain things in goal.

Uzoho got his hits and knocks too including hits for the banger from Zimbabwe in the early phase of the 2026 WCQs.

Okoye, great shot stopping today but absolutely no way is he to be exempted from that strike that travelled all the way from Oshodi to Lekki Phase 2. His reaction time, anticipation and positioning were all muddled up. Almost like his concentration in that moment switched off. He takes his own fair hit too. Anyone saying otherwise is just putting up a false sense of justice for Okoye.
He should work on his reaction time and anticipation of long range strikes. Nwabali makes saves vs them look routine.

And I strongly disagree with your last paragraph on inform Afcon-Nwabali conceeding 3-4 today because even hard evidence does not support it. Have you suddenly forgotten Nwabali's good reflexes and 1v1 shot stoppings? It is your way of perhaps placating the Maduka Okoye fans. Okoye is in my family name but I am never name-biased on Okoye.
Nwabali have had his fair share of 1v1s and reflex saves times and again. Dont let your defence for Okoye in that moment where he should have done better make you sh*t on Nwabali.


Lastly... Nothing much Onuachu and Durosinmi could do. Wisniewski had already let fly before even any quicker reaction would have attempted closing him down. He is a CB and came from way deep and fired, trying his luck. Ndidi gestured for the FWs to stay compact and try cover the lanes... they did what most FWs in that moment of the game will do. Protect the space/block the lanes behind and gently try to close up whatever gap in front.... but The Adrenaline of Wisniewski was on a high and he knew time was no longer on their side... so he let fly and luckily he caught Okoye snoozing in concentration lapse and poor anticipation.

This does not take away Okoye's shot stopping moments especially the double save which were lovely but let us see H and call it H if we are to consistently call A to G, as A to G indeed.
Let Okoye work on his anticipation and reaction time to long rangers. Finito.

BankyGee:
Everybody get their opinions sha. Okoye had no faults in that goal.

Poor anticipation and he knew where the ball was going twice in his double save.
Poor anticipation and he knew where Lewandowski would want to put the ball after Zaidu Sanusi set him up. A whole Lewandowski.

Make everybody turn goalkeeper overnight na.

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minfelix:
Unity cup has addressed that….

Portugal/Poland is a serious friendly, its not meant to only prepare Portugal for worldcup but to also give us a standard team shape and improved ranking

We are not world cup bound but we are “Afcon 2027 qualifiers in september bound” and we are fifa ranking bound

Lets sha b ready for afconQ, cos i had a dream last night that we did not qualify and it was terrible scenes i saw in that dream😊😊😀…thank God its just a dream

TheSuperNerd:
Abdullahi Ibrahim Bewene... A mixed first half as he was solid on the ball and going forward but showed lapses defensively. Stage fright it turned out to be as he returned a beast in the second half, stopping every foray he encountered, intercepting, tackling and even gliding pass his opponents.

Unlike the 1st 45 from a defensive standpoint, he actually showed defensive improvements and cut off that meter of space he afforded the Poles. He started closing them down more, getting in their faces more and produced a well rounded defensive display.

I dont know what Chelle told him at HT but whatever it was, it worked.

Brilliant debut from the young man.

Another gem from the Czech Liga.

jihday:
Are you people trying to blame Okoye for not saving a swerving shot?? ??

TheSuperNerd:
And just like that.. Nigeria's RB options expand further.

- Ola Aina
- Bright Osayi Samuel
- Ryan Alebiosu
- Abdullahi Bewene


Some Prospects still untested/uncapped
- Samuel Isife
- Femi Seriki
- Daniel Oyegoke (needs switch).

fabyom:
Oyegoke only needs a Nigerian passport. Nothing more!

fabyom:
Oyegoke only needs a Nigerian passport. Nothing more!

Joebie:
na all this kind discoveries i dey find..

Pidginwhisper:
No goalkeeper is catching that. I don’t care what anyone will say about that.. That’s a swerve ball for Christ sake, it changed direction and he still managed to go for it. Those blaming him should just come out and say you never liked him. It doesn’t even make sense anymore, always waiting for him to make a blunder so they can say we told you, like Nwabali never committed blunder since he started manning the post. This has to stop.

M7even:
Exactly, that was the save Enyeama made in 2002 world cup against England's Paul scholes ...this is where Enyeama is better than Okoye. He could have done better. I feel Okoye will always improve. Look after the Tunisian blunder, he has proven himself greatly in his league. In the game today he made two massive saves . There are little pockets of spaces in terms of improvement for hím to fill. I believe we've made a good choice and it's left to the newly added goalkeeper to make a name for himself

Karlovich:
You mean this same Paul Scholes shot that hit the post, Enyeama never got his hand on it. The way some of you talk make it seem like Okoye is Onana.

It might surprise you to know that Nwabali hasn't faced any European team as SE goalkeeper, only Mexico with home based side where he conceded 4 and Jamaica are the only non African sides he has faced as SE goalkeeper,

I mean against players that can hammer such on-target shots from outside the 18 yard box and long distances.

Arsenal's goalkeeper is one of the best in the world at the moment but you should go and watch the goal he conceded against Cunha and Szoboslai

You all need to chill.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_5T5nB2tyU

Predator87:
Enyeama saved that shot. It was ranked as one of the best saves in that 2002 world cup. Mehn some of you Nigerians love to lie and twist narratives for selfish gain. That goal that Okoye conceeded was not his fault. It was onuachu who caused that goal for not pressing but that does not mean you have to drag other people down.

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