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TheSuperNerd:
Cc BankyGee....

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.

Mujtahida:
E kaaro Sir 😏😏

minfelix:
Baba no try defend that irritating draw ooo…With That draw, It was better we lost 1-0 to Sierra….which kind yeye thing b that 🤣🤣🤣from 4-0 to 4-4 draw with African Minnow🤣🤣

minfelix:
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🤣🤣

Mujtahida:
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

minfelix:
Baba no try defend that irritating draw ooo…With That draw, It was better we lost 1-0 to Sierra….which kind yeye thing b that 🤣🤣🤣from 4-0 to 4-4 draw with African Minnow🤣🤣

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

Goke7:
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.

minfelix:
Asin eehn…Its either they stick to 16teams, 32 teams or 64 teams…..all these best loser nonsense na rubbish.
Portugal use best loser win Euro 2016, CIV use best loser win Afcon 2023. In a tournament you have 3games to prove yourself that you worthy of a trophy…nothing coming to form one nonsense fairytale run

NasirIbnLaAhad:
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.

Goke7:
Heaven Dey look you Dey shake head 😂

NasirIbnLaAhad:
Exactamundo. You're even going too far with Sierra Leone. Just this year's AFCON, not even up to a year ago, we would have completely bottled a 3 goal lead against Tunisia if Tunisia had 15-20 more extra minutes. They completely had our number towards the end of the match.

mablie:
Lol
At the 2014 world cup,the narrative was African teams could not defend setpieces.
This year's edition,African teams let in goals at the dying minutes.I cannot wait for the 2030 narrative.
My own be sai,African teams lost their matches because they lost their matches just like every other teams but Africans (particularly Nigerians) to dey hyper-focused on anything African so they dey always read into things wey no exist.This is another form of narcissism.
What happened in the Dr Congo vs England match is similar to what occurred in the Japan vs Brazil match but you don't see anyone hyper-pontificating on the latter do you?

mablie:
Lol
At the 2014 world cup,the narrative was African teams could not defend setpieces.
This year's edition,African teams let in goals at the dying minutes.I cannot wait for the 2030 narrative.
My own be sai,African teams lost their matches because they lost their matches just like every other teams but Africans (particularly Nigerians) to dey hyper-focused on anything African so they dey always read into things wey no exist.This is another form of narcissism.
What happened in the Dr Congo vs England match is similar to what occurred in the Japan vs Brazil match but you don't see anyone hyper-pontificating on the latter do you?

chrisooblog:
We sha still qualified out of that group so the draw no matter how bad didn't end up damaging our campaign.

minfelix:
Asin eehn…Its either they stick to 16teams, 32 teams or 64 teams…..all these best loser nonsense na rubbish.
Portugal use best loser win Euro 2016, CIV use best loser win Afcon 2023. In a tournament you have 3games to prove yourself that you worthy of a trophy…[b]nothing coming to form one nonsense fairytale ru[/b]n

minfelix:
As African let break away from it…2018 world cup Korea led Germany 1-0, in the die mins Germans piled up the pressure and were looking for an equalizer, Korea still found a way to finally bury them with a late counter 2-0…
This thing is not about “hyper-pontification”

Our problem as african is to remain focus…the chance for the most hyper informed black african team losing a match they had in control is almost 95%.. now flip to Asian history of when they are mostly inform against a not too inform European opponent….If Senegal was a Japan on 2-0 or Korea on 2-0 (especially against these European) bro forget that game is a wrap up…..

Goke7:
The World Cup is only revealing that some of these players we think are world class because of what we saw in Afcon are not! Apart from Amad and may be diomande Ivory Coast no really get players like that

Senegal too has been exposed. Mane should retire he has tried. I gave Senegal a benefit of a doubt after the first game but after that looks like they are just a bit above average. Congo na just power no brain! Don’t even mention Tunisia. Only Cape Verde has shown some guts by not loosing any game in the first round. Morocco just continuing from where they already are, no fake life. The others as usual making the numbers. This is the true state of African football.

mablie:
My brother,this your post is very unfair and harsh to the African teams in this tournament.
Personally,excluding Tunisia,every African team has performed FANTASTICALLY WELL even the teams that got eliminated,were competitive.They were never steamrolled by their opponents.
I understand your frustrations but out of 200 plus football playing countries at Fifa,nine from Africa are the top playing 32 nations on earth...ON EARTH.
Abeg,lets be humble enough to give credit to those who deserve it

Goke7:
The World Cup is only revealing that some of these players we think are world class because of what we saw in Afcon are not! Apart from Amad and may be diomande Ivory Coast no really get players like that

Senegal too has been exposed. Mane should retire he has tried. I gave Senegal a benefit of a doubt after the first game but after that looks like they are just a bit above average. Congo na just power no brain! Don’t even mention Tunisia. Only Cape Verde has shown some guts by not loosing any game in the first round. Morocco just continuing from where they already are, no fake life. The others as usual making the numbers. This is the true state of African football.

Goke7:
Who has said so here that we are far ahead of every black nation? Bro, there's no continental problem here, as every nation will have to carry their own shit like we are carrying ours too.

The real continental problem here is CAF, which is hindering fair play in the game in Africa. How does one explain the kind of pitch we played on in SA during the qualifiers? Till today, we are not sure if Aina still wants to play because of the injury he suffered from that shit. See how the last Afcon ended; is that not a disgrace? Who's responsible for that? See what our players went through in Libya during the Afcon qualifiers, yet many even in this forum blame us for our misfortune, so allow us to rejoice when we see misfortune befall others too. It's up to every African country to get their shit together on how they manage their games, cos whey they win it's the country itself that reap the fruit not the continent. Let's stop this continental sympathy and gaslighting that always wants us to take a collective fall for a particular country's decisions on the pitch of play.

We will treat our own problems, but not on the basis of trying to be emotional about the poor decisions of others.

NasirIbnLaAhad:
You're switching lanes on me. CAF pitch conditions, refereeing scandals, the Libya nonsense, none of that has anything to do with why black African teams blew multi-goal leads yesterday. That's an entirely different conversation, and you know it.

And every nation carrying their own shit is exactly my point, and not a rebuttal to it - which you seem to think it is. I'm not asking you to feel sympathy for Senegal or drape yourself in continental grief. I'm saying: watch what just happened to them, because it's a preview of what happens to us the moment we're in that position again. You don't have to like your rival to study his mistakes so you don't repeat them. So call it whatever you want, mentality, game management, bottle, but pretending it's purely isolated per-country and has zero relevance to Nigeria is the actual delusion here. We've shown the same symptoms. 2018 didn't happen to Senegal, it happened to us. That's not CAF's fault, that's not a bad pitch, that's players losing composure with the finish line in sight, same as what just happened three times in a row this week. If your response to seeing that pattern is "not my problem, let them rot," you're choosing to learn nothing from a free lesson that just got played out in real time on the biggest stage in football.

And please quit with the strawmen. Who said anything about taking the fall for other country's decisions? Nobody said Nigeria falls when Congo falls. I said the underlying disease -- folding under pressure with a lead in hand -- isn't unique to whichever federation is currently getting mocked. It's shown up too many times across too many different African teams, under different coaches, different eras, different CAF administrations, for it to be a coincidence specific to "their" bad decisions. When the same failure keeps recurring across unrelated teams, that's a pattern, not a series of unrelated accidents.

You want to rejoice at their misfortune because of how Nigeria's been treated? Fine, that's your right. But don't confuse enjoying their downfall with understanding it. Laugh all you want. Just don't be shocked when we're the ones 2-0 up in a tournament knockout and it slips through our fingers exactly the same way, because we spent this week celebrating and pointing and laughing at others instead of taking notes from their gaffes.

Odunayaw:
Nothing to applaud in Cape Verde football asides guts that grace has rewarded. They're DRC lite really.

Goke7:
Which kind yeye fairytale people wey no allow Nigerian fans enter stadium for final. Shebi we don see their fairytale now! 😂 the same boy wey use injured Aina shine see open net throw away ball

Goke7:
As a first timer, Cape Verde has excelled with the kind of group they were in. This is not DRC first time at the World Cup. For donkey years they couldn’t qualify

Goke7:
We have fallen before so it’s nothing new when others fall they should take their own responsibility not us! Thank you

The problem here is so many of you feel these teams are way ahead of us because we didn’t qualify now we see their errors like ours we are trying to be diplomatic. If it was Nigeria you of all people will come here with all sorts of epistles blaming the nff and how corrupt we are as a nation but now it’s those African teams in question, we must also look at ourselves too, 😂 shit!

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🤣

SolaFide:
My Africa

NasirIbnLaAhad:
That's the third time you've swung at a point I never made. And for what it's worth, yes, If it were Nigeria blowing a two-goal lead in 80 minutes, I absolutely would be writing epistles about NFF incompetence, because that's what you do when it's your own house on fire: you interrogate it. It's called accountability.

And here's a novel thought. Some ideas are not mutually exclusive. Their loss is their responsibility, and it's also useful information about a continental tendency we've displayed ourselves. Both things are simultaneously true. Refusing to look at both because you'd rather just enjoy the schadenfreude, and mocking others who do is the fastest way to make people question your self-awareness.

NasirIbnLaAhad:
That's the third time you've swung at a point I never made. And for what it's worth, yes, If it were Nigeria blowing a two-goal lead in 80 minutes, I absolutely would be writing epistles, not only about NFF incompetence, but coaching and player missteps as well, because that's what you do when it's your own house on fire: you interrogate it. It's called accountability.

And here's a novel thought: some ideas or schools of thought are not mutually exclusive. Their loss is their responsibility, and it's also useful information about a continental tendency we've displayed ourselves. Both things are simultaneously true. Refusing to look at both because you'd rather just enjoy the schadenfreude, and simultaneously mocking others who do is the fastest way to make people question your self-awareness.

Goke7:
I’ll take you more seriously if you write an epistle on how corrupt Senegal or DRC is cos they were the ones who played last night. Don’t find an excuse to drag Nigeria into it 😂

Nigeria was not the one that played last night why must we be sober or the continent be accountable for it? Makes no sense