₦airaland Forum

zuchyblink:
Star-studded teams like France don't always live up to expectations. Everyone is too big to mark the ball. Ivory Coast fought them on the pitch. That Omar Diakite guy is a fighter.

jihday:
😏😒

Meliforme:
I am very sorry for you.
Nwabali beats the De Gea in anticipation and aerial claims. That is the undiluted truth. Your contracted estimation of him will not change it.
Nwabali also beats Okoye in the same category, but my preference is with Okoye for other goalkeeping reasons.

I have known De Gea even before Nwabali.

Nwabali's club situation is not a true testament of his abilities.

minfelix:
After matchday 2 watch how almost all African reps and low Asian countries will be fighting to be on this table just to advance to round 32🤣🤣 na our ways b that

daveP:
I don't expect much from the CAF reps in this World Cup despite the 10 slots. Based on their groups quality and personal acumen, i only see 2 going to the KO stages

CIV and maybe Algeria


The group Senegal and Morocco are in will be dicey.

Damioduso1:
Morocco will beat Scotland abd qualify has second place team behind Brazil or even too Brazil self



Senegal may finished second or third in the group they will also qualify


Algeria may finished Second or third and qualifier has best losers if they can beat Austria

The. Likes of Ghana, Tunisia, Cape Verde, DR Congo group stage exist likely

Subzero047:
I remember the days of 2022 and when a member proclaimed that Onyekuru was better than Mbappe, funny times

AndSunGorilla:
It is Onyekuru is more intelligent than Mahrez and Iheanacho is better than Mbappe

ThunderFireAgba:
Just watch as E.U Males will hunt him

Amedino99:
agree with your sentiments. South Africa also has a chance to make the next round through the best 3rd place route

Damioduso1:
Morocco will beat Scotland abd qualify has second place team behind Brazil or even too Brazil self



Senegal may finished second or third in the group they will also qualify


Algeria may finished Second or third and qualifier has best losers if they can beat Austria

The. Likes of Ghana, Tunisia, Cape Verde, DR Congo group stage exist likely

marriseller:
Oga boss wetin be European Union males?

marriseller:
Oga boss wetin be European Union males?

Goke7:
Haba delaw, but for Chelle defending Nwabali many wanted him to be dropped make we no change am o.

If Nwabali can be called out I don’t see why okoye too can’t be called out, the excuses here are flimsy even blaming other players for him. Some folks here too also supported okoye boycotting the Afcon and were giving reasons to justify it. Osihmen boycotted this friendly and am one of those seriously frowning at it despite being a huge fan it cos it is a wasted opportunity. I know it’s hard to be consistent but let’s be fair at all times. If the game had ended 2-1 I bet you it’s Nwabali that will be roasted now. I love to defend my preferred players too but boundaries Dey and should be respected. Okoye should improve and I will continue to say it am not even blaming him cos I respected him showing up for the nation as should be. Let’s divert all this name calling to the players who didn’t show up for this game; osihmen, Lookman and others

minfelix:
Then everyone is to be blamed then
1. “Okoye, he could have saved it, but not saving it is not his fault”(meaning there is something he could have done to save it)
2. “Defenders bear secondary blame because they ought to holla on the other players to shield that defender” (Meaning they ought to have spoken to alert players in front)

baba this was not a corner kick oo where players are close to themselves to hear each other….check where Bassey,Ajayi and Sanusi were all standing, how dey wan take holla at Onuachu with that distance from him…
Bassey(🗣): Onuachu mark him out mark him out!…baba them far from each other abeg…i can’t blame defenders here by this analysis

3. “Online reviews of Okoye's performance has largely been positive”.
be like youve not seen comment section of different facebook bloggers and X.
Its been some bloggers that are even coming to defend Okoye

Philosopher1979:
All said and done, we are i think less than 20 years away from an African team wining the world cup.
Cameroon broke the psychological barrier in 1990
Morocco broke another psychological barrier in 2022.
So what is next
After semifinal it is final.
We just need an organized African team without the usual administrative problems and it is possible.
The fact that football is a team sport gives African teams a fighting chance.
As long as your players are at least above average. Like the 65% in quality then you can win.
You only need 2 to 5 world class players to win the world cup.
You dont need 11 players in Real Madrid and Barcelona.
Just 3 superstars and players in average teams in the top 5 leagues of Europe and players in Greece, Turkey,
Belgium, Portugal and even a good African league like South Africa.
With that, an African team can win the world cup.
Most African teams are like that anyway.
It will be an upset manner.
Like greece wining the euro in 2004 or denmark also winning the Euro.
I HOPE PRAY AND BELIEVE IT WILL BE NIGERIA.

ThunderFireAgba:
Just watch as E.U Males will hunt him

Odunayaw:
But omoo that Polish guy na werey WTH

We get anybody wey fit just try him luck like that?

yinkeys:
Netherlands are a tournament team
Dark horse too
Last time Argentina could only get them out via penalties

minfelix:
That SA is very group tough ooo
Mexico host country(they will do everything to keep themselves in that tournament oo
Czech republic these guys play like Croatia and Portugal all those their “IC” ilic, zigic,fucic,vidic players are very sound soccer players oo
Then you see South Korea okokobioko!!!
go and watch their replay of
Russia 2018
Korea vs Germany

Qatar 2022
Korea vs Portugal
Those guys are flash…beating those top guys hands down
Korea and Japan are Asian menaces

SA is a team that ride on the poor form of giant nation to bully lesser teams to top a group…
They really benefited from our poor start and used the opportunity to extend lead against us by beating low teams like Rwanda,Lesotho and Zimbabwe….Dont be deceived by their qualification to the world cup,they are not a solid side to face technical teams….even at afcon they could only beat Zimbabwe and Angola in group stage when they met Egypt they lost, in round 16 they met Cameroon and were booted out

SymphonyRad:
Genk boy Christian Akpan has joined the team in Lisbon for the Portugal friendly, it seems Chelle is serious about giving young new faces a chance in his rebuilding project.

AndSunGorilla:
That criminal Cherki has struck again. B4 then, CIV was going toe to toe with the Black Stars of France.

TheSuperNerd:
The only match we never saw aside what should have been a Nigeria vs Senegal final at Afcon 2025 was a potential CIV vs Senegal Semis.

It was gonna be another Worldclass African Cracker.

Egypt are party poopers. >;(

22 players currently in camp to face Portugal 📍🇵🇹 pic.twitter.com/RJ8PkOx5Ug

— 🇳🇬 Super Eagles (@NGSuperEagles) June 5, 2026

FiveFootNinja:
Thank you jare! I was coming to say the same thing.

Unless Hugo Brooks has something interesting up his sleeve, the bafana bafana I've been watching for the past 5-6 months may finish dead last in that group. For all the hype surrounding them since they made the WC last year, they've underperformed massively.

minfelix:
omo Africa get work to do for this world cup oo
Morocco just have Brazil to contend with

CIV just have Germany to contend with

Senegal just have France and Norway to contend with(gonna be tough for them)

Algeria just have Argentina and Austria to contend with(tough match for them)

Capeverde have Uruguay and Spain to fight(tough one for them)

DRC have Portugal and Colombia to fight(aint gon be easy for them)

Egypt have Belgium to fight

Tunisia have Netherland,Japan and Sweden to fight, omo they can’t survive abeg

Ghana have England and Croatia to fight(omo tough one)

SA has Mexico,Czech and S/Korea to battle with(omo tight corner for them)