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Odunayaw:
Finally saw the two goals that drew the game. It's either fate is a cruel joker or Senegal is just under a spell from a newly initiated witch!

Okay y'all have shat the bed. Hold on for a shootout. No, they bent over for some Belgian ass smack

This was the easiest match Senegal had among the three Europeans.

Heaven Dey look you Dey shake head 😂

SymphonyRad:
How noble of you, as for me I feel numb to every African team in this tournament so I could care less if all of them go home. Only African team I'm somewhat emotionally locked in for is Cape Verde, and that's because I always love a Cinderella story in every big tournament especially for tiny debutant nations punching above their weight. Besides Cape verde I dey no follow una do all that African solidarity cause they don't really like you as a Nigerian anyway.

💯 am with you on this even Cape Verde treat Nigerians like shit when folks go there for tourism.

I wonder why we Nigerians are getting emotional over this. Besides the way these African teams perform badly the better for us as a country for some bragging rights. The teams themselves are feeling overconfident so it’s good the way they are being humbled and I expect more defeats. Only Morocco seems to be an exception cos they look most disciplined African team.

TheSuperNerd:
Indeed Dakar was waiting. I guess they miss their Jollof since their chef did not follow them to the WC. Nonsense and Thiaw.

Thiaw Thiaw 😀😀

SymphonyRad:
How noble of you, as for me I feel numb to every African team in this tournament so I could care less if all of them go home. Only African team I'm somewhat emotionally locked in for is Cape Verde, and that's because I always love a Cinderella story in every big tournament especially for tiny debutant nations punching above their weight. Besides Cape verde I dey no follow una do all that African solidarity cause they don't really like you as a Nigerian anyway.

😂 encapsulated only Nigerians that never came across other African brothers and sisters will not understand what you just described . Africans no really like themselves from time immemorial. I support who plays good irrespective of origin. All that pan African talk is for the birds

SymphonyRad:
How noble of you, as for me I feel numb to every African team in this tournament so I could care less if all of them go home. Only African team I'm somewhat emotionally locked in for is Cape Verde, and that's because I always love a Cinderella story in every big tournament especially for tiny debutant nations punching above their weight. Besides Cape verde I dey no follow una do all that African solidarity cause they don't really like you as a Nigerian anyway.

Argentina and Messi go use Cape Verde secure highest scoring team in the World Cup . A Messi hat trick is loading on Friday

TheSuperNerd:
Mujtahida's bad belleism is strongly recommended for studying. Now he don enter studio

Bro!!!

See the tracks in the Album
Joy joy joy
As e dey pain dem
Oh my home, oh my home (featuring Mane)
Jerusalema (featuring Hugo Broos and Mokoena)
Ten green bottles

TheSuperNerd:
Our "6- and 7-African teams to qualify for Round of 16" folks, I greet una ooo.

Truidstarr, I greet u too.

4 down, 1 in... 4 to go ⏳️

😆 I don give up. Nah my Africa bias make me predict such. Africa has a long way to go.

It is just so painful.

solonnachi:
I'm just pissed up with African teams at this round of 32 knock out phase. How can you be leading and then lose focus? Same thing would have happened if Nigeria qualified.

That is why I was surprised when some set of people were saying it can't never be Nigeria. We will definitely bottle up lead especially with this Eric Chelle.

Goke7:
💯 am with you on this even Cape Verde treat Nigerians like shit when folks go there for tourism.

I wonder why we Nigerians are getting emotional over this. Besides the way these African teams perform badly the better for us as a country for some bragging rights. The teams themselves are feeling overconfident so it’s good the way they are being humbled and I expect more defeats. Only Morocco seems to be an exception cos they look most disciplined African team.

I do not understand it either.It boggles my mind.Do nigerians really not realise other africans do not like us at all and celebrate our downfalls?From afcon 2024 final loss ,nasty comments about osimhen&lookman when they won apoty,defeat to dr congo at the playoffs,defeat to morocco at afcon 2025 even losses at grammy awards?or is it because we have thesame skin color or from thesame region?these people do not see us the way we see them.my heart is as cold towards them as it is towards the arabs

I watched an angry Senegalese fan on facebook raging, so i was just hearing him call “Nigeria Nigeria, im like wgy this one dey call our name na🤣🤣…so i picked that part of his voice calling Nigeria Nigeria to go translate on my voice/Video translator

"Les gars, sincèrement Belgique on le on le mérite. C'est pas le ouf. Je viens à la coupe du monde par rapport à nous. Mais le Nigeria ils mettaient plus leur place quand même. On était pas"

→ "Guys, honestly Belgium deserves it. It’s not that crazy/insane. I’m coming to the World Cup because of us. But Nigeria would’ve taken their place though. We weren’t..."

"Cent-vingtième penalty."*
→ *"120th minute penalty."*

Hey, Felix! the man in the video vocal background;
He’s basically saying Belgium deserved the win, it’s not surprising, and he thinks Nigeria would’ve done better than Senegal did.



🤣🤣make them leave us alone oooo🤣

TheSuperNerd:
Like PDPGuy rightly said, Nigeria has never given up a 2 goal lead at the WC. Never happened.

The same way we have never give up 4 goal lead during afcon qualifier until Papa Gernot Rohr happened to us.

With out current coach it can happen to us. I respect Eric Chelle but it can behave in a manner that Senegalese coaches behave cos he is very daring. If Zimbabwe can scored us at the dying min then any team can do it to us at any major tournament.

Americans legit think Mauricio Pochettino is the greatest coach ever man and I don’t blame them 😂

My Africa

minfelix:
I watched an angry Senegalese fan on facebook raging, so i was just hearing him call “Nigeria Nigeria, im like wgy this one dey call our name na🤣🤣…so i picked that part of his voice calling Nigeria Nigeria to go translate on my voice/Video translator

"Les gars, sincèrement Belgique on le on le mérite. C'est pas le ouf. Je viens à la coupe du monde par rapport à nous. Mais le Nigeria ils mettaient plus leur place quand même. On était pas"

→ "Guys, honestly Belgium deserves it. It’s not that crazy/insane. I’m coming to the World Cup because of us. But Nigeria would’ve taken their place though. We weren’t..."

"Cent-vingtième penalty."*
→ *"120th minute penalty."*

Hey, Felix! the man in the video vocal background;
He’s basically saying Belgium deserved the win, it’s not surprising, and he thinks Nigeria would’ve done better than Senegal did.



🤣🤣make them leave us alone oooo🤣

That’s why am happy they lost 😂

Now all those talk of we are behind Senegal go calm down. Baba God thank you o 😂

Miggs:
I do not understand it either.It boggles my mind.Do nigerians really not realise other africans do not like us at all and celebrate our downfalls?From afcon 2024 final loss ,nasty comments about osimhen&lookman when they won apoty,defeat to dr congo at the playoffs,defeat to morocco at afcon 2025 even losses at grammy awards?or is it because we have thesame skin color or from thesame region?these people do not see us the way we see them.my heart is as cold towards them as it is towards the arabs

We were even cheated on some of these games. Ivory Coast used all their home advantage against us in 2024 same with Morocco in 2025 and the dubious ref, Ghanaians celebrated and gave that dubious ref a heroic welcome. DR Congo used mercenaries and ineligible players in the playoffs. Yet the whole continent celebrated our downfall. The Moroccans walked out of the hall when Lookman got the APOTY.

Yet I should cheer African teams at the World Cup na thunder go fire their left yansh. Rubbish.

minfelix:
I almost fully agreed with you, but plsss let us start to warn chelle against these things ooo, its also smelling in our super eagles….We had no reason drawing Poland 2-2 in that match after our commanding display

Infact thy should just let him play his full SE role and have only some part role over u23 if they want this giy to succeed really. He should fully concentrate. That u23 role is him biting more than he can chew for a nation that missed b2b world cups. You're right about that Poland game.


If senegal had Calvin Bassey only, they for dey R16 by now. Mtchew.


9 qualify only for
1/5 to proceed to next round
If we see 1/4 remaining for next 4 games, make CAF just hide face abeg.

Goke7:
That’s why am happy they lost 😂

Now all those talk of we are behind Senegal go calm down. Baba God thank you o 😂

omo most of them raging aggressively in that interview just dey mention Nigerie!! Nigerie!! Nigerie!!
im like wetin we do again🤣🤣🤣….They all really were confident in their annoyance super eagles wont bottle that lead

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Goke7:
We were even cheated on some of these games. Ivory Coast used all their home advantage against us in 2024 same with Morocco in 2025 and the dubious ref, Ghanaians celebrated and gave that dubious ref a heroic welcome. DR Congo used mercenaries and ineligible players in the playoffs. Yet the whole continent celebrated our downfall. The Moroccans walked out of the hall when Lookman got the APOTY.

Yet I should cheer African teams at the World Cup na thunder go fire their left yansh. Rubbish.

Thats why i was watching those mumu banku republicans playing nonsense and scraping a useless draw, some hypocrites Nigerians here come dey follow me yarn nonsense…congratulations to Ghana yen yen yen

minfelix:
Thats why i was watching those mumu banku republicans playing nonsense and scraping a useless draw, some hypocrites Nigerians here come dey follow me yarn nonsense…congratulations to Ghana yen yen yen

Dem go collect for Colombia hand today with their banku tactics

Na England wey play rubbish Dey even give Ghana and Congo hope. Nonsense

daveP:
Infact thy should just let him play his full SE role and have only some part role over u23 if they want this giy to succeed really. He should fully concentrate. That u23 role is him biting more than he can chew for a nation that missed b2b world cups. You're right about that Poland game.


If senegal had Calvin Bassey only, they for dey R16 by now. Mtchew.


9 qualify only for
1/5 to proceed to next round
If we see 1/4 remaining for next 4 games, make CAF just hide face abeg.

That round 32 na glorified group stage, Fifa just wan give minnow chance to play worldcup so they inlcuded all those Iraq, Curacao,Haiti just to come and stress and play 3matches….real knockout na round 16(world top 20teams/25teams are the real world cup material….30downwards na minnow material for world cup🤣🤣🤣🤣

opes:
Internal team tensions in Senegal camp, maybe the reason they lost..

He had no reason to remove Papa Gueyi at the time he did.... This was the steel rendering Belgium midfield useless.

Goke7:
We were even cheated on some of these games Ivory Coast used all their home advantage against us in 2024 same with Morocco in 2025 and the dubious ref, Ghanaians celebrated and gave that dubious ref a heroic welcome. DR Congo used mercenaries and ineligible players in the playoffs. Yet the whole continent celebrated our downfall. The Moroccans walked out of the hall when Lookman got the APOTY.

Yet I should cheer African teams at the World Cup na thunder go fire their left yansh. Rubbish.

Many of them were actually celebrating the fact that Nigeria got cheated in those games.Remember when SA took the SE to a potatoe farm to play a world cup qualifier in 2025 and got a draw?Other africans were ecstatic and said their FAs should do thesame whenever they play nigeria too.Nigerians have no idea how deeply other africans hate us...no idea.When i was in asia if you hear what other africans were saying about nigerians to the citizens of our host nation your jaws would drop but guess the people they would run to for help whenever they got into trouble?Nigerians.Let me not reveal inner thoughts about other africans before i get traced and arrested for h-a-t-e speech

Yeye team snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. I stand to be corrected but Nigeria has never bottled a significant lead to end up losing. And before anyone trys to use the Sierra Leone game in Benin as a gotcha moment that one sef na draw wedraw in the end.

Mujtahida:
Thiaw Thiaw 😀😀

chrisooblog:
Yeye team snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. I stand to be corrected but Nigeria has never bottled a significant lead to end up losing. And before anyone trys to use the Sierra Leone game in Benin as a gotcha moment that one sef na draw wedraw in the end.

Senegalese will feel the way we felt in 1994.

Even CHAN Eagles with Ladan Bosso as coach would never bottle a 2-0 with 4 minutes plus extra time to go.

minfelix:
omo most of them raging aggressively in that interview just dey mention Nigerie!! Nigerie!! Nigerie!!
im like wetin we do again🤣🤣🤣….They all really were confident in their annoyance super eagles wont bottle that lead

minfelix:
That round 32 na glorified group stage, Fifa just wan give minnow chance to play worldcup so they inlcuded all those Iraq, Curacao,Haiti just to come and stress and play 3matches….real knockout na round 16(world top 20teams/25teams are the real world cup material….30downwards na minnow material for world cup🤣🤣🤣🤣

Real nonsense, Round 32 is just a fake way to make Otondo teams feel they made it out of the group stage. Senegal, after losing their first two games, had no business going past the first round. The 32-nation format is still the best, where the first and second teams in the group proceed to the next stage. Reason I also want Afcon back to the 16-nation format. This idea of best losers making it to the next round na scam.

In 94, the Italians we met in the second round made it as one of the best losers; imagine we met another team, perhaps. The idea of giving teams who performed badly in the first round doesn't cut it for me at all.

Miggs:

Many of them were actually celebrating the fact that Nigeria got cheated in those games.Remember when SA took the SE to a potatoe farm to play a world cup qualifier in 2025 and got a draw?Other africans were ecstatic and said their FAs should do thesame whenever they play nigeria too.Nigerians have no idea how deeply other africans hate us...no idea.When i was in asia if you hear what other africans were saying about nigerians to the citizens of our host nation your jaws would drop but guess the people they would run to for help whenever they got into trouble?Nigerians.Let me not reveal inner thoughts about other africans before i get traced and arrested for h-a-t-e speech

Truth is, the off-the-pitch antics African teams are engaging in on the continent are finally catching up with them at the World Cup. Morocco's own is still coming. See how Tunisia disgraced themselves, but in Africa dem form Jacky chan. Phew

I'm reading some posts here and I'm just shaking my head. For some reasons, we Nigerians have deceived ourselves into thinking we're far and above every other black nation in the world. Newsflash: what happened to Senegal and DR Congo yesterday has happened to Nigeria before, could have easily happened to Nigeria if we qualified, and can still happen to Nigeria in the future if we don't take caution and keep missing the wood for the trees.

No one is saying you shouldn't hatewatch other African countries. Hey, I hate South Africa as much as the next fella. I never wish Ghana well. And I understand the logic that most African countries don't like us anyway. Nobody said you have to love these countries in the first place. Nobody's asking you to wave the pan-African flag and cry for Ivory Coast or Congo. That's not the problem here, and pretending that's the problem lets you both dodge the actual painful truth behind black football, Nigeria included.

Senegal didn't lose because Africans "don't like Nigeria" or because of some cosmic karma for the last AFCON. They lost because they built two and three goal cushions against sides they were clearly the better team against, and then mentally checked out. That's not a "them" problem, that's a continental problem, and if you think Nigeria is somehow immune to it because we're not the ones who blew the lead this time, you are lying to yourselves. Go back and actually rewatch 2018 against Argentina. Or 1994 against Italy. Go back and rewatch how we've managed second-half leads in tournament knockouts more times than either of you want to admit. This is not foreign to us. We have literally done this. The only reason we're not the fourth name on that list this week is because we didn't even qualify for the damn thing, not because our mentality is built different.

That's what makes the little celebration some of y'all are having here so trite and short-sighted. You're cackling from the sidelines like Nigeria has some superior winning gene that Senegal and Ivory Coast lack, when the honest truth is we are easily one of the ambassadors of drama and chaos football in Africa. If anything, this World Cup should be studied, not mocked. Every single one of these collapses is data. It's proof that African teams, ours included, still don't know how to see out matches when it matters most, still get rattled the moment the opposition smells blood, still lack whatever cold, ruthless closing instinct European and South American sides have built into their DNA. That's the conversation worth having. Not who "doesn't like us," not who clapped when we lost to Congo, but why the same failure keeps repeating itself across different federations, different generations, different coaches.

Hating other African teams is your prerogative, but ranting that others rightly feel bad about Africa's poor performance, or using their collapse as proof you're somehow better positioned than other African nations is just pure delusion on your part. We have the exact same disease, we just haven't been given the stage to show it this time around.

The earlier we start treating this as a serious problem the better for us. And the earlier we start brainstorming ways for Nigeria to get around this curse of Sub Saharan Africa at the World Cup, the better.

• South Africa conceded in the 90+2nd
• Ivory Coast conceded in the 86th
• DR Congo conceded in the 75th & 86th
• Senegal conceded in the 86th, 89th, and 120+5th minutes to lose a two-goal lead.

Every CAF team that took the lead or equalised ended up conceding late, and all failed to hold on.


Nigeria vs Poland 94th min(i had to drag 9ja into it cos its also smelling around us)🤣🤣

minfelix:
That round 32 na glorified group stage, Fifa just wan give minnow chance to play worldcup so they inlcuded all those Iraq, Curacao,Haiti just to come and stress and play 3matches….real knockout na round 16(world top 20teams/25teams are the real world cup material….30downwards na minnow material for world cup🤣🤣🤣🤣

I tell you. No wonder some teams bring important injure players come. To much time. The r16 is the real deal. I wished they took advantage of it though, the caf reps. This is embarrassing even for Senegal. Morocco are already miles ahead. I gave them little chance versus Netherlands. But after that comical comic con pk shoot out, i just twale for them. European reps need to change their qualifier format. They need to be tested prior to the WC

Their star player must sha shine against us

Nigeria vs Argentina 2018(Messi)🤣i had to smuggle Nigeria in because it has also once smelled around us🤣🤣