goal
1-1

Oh my god Uchenna Kanu with a last minute goal.

CIV 1-1 NGR

Ivory Coast are just so heart broken. To keep things tight this long and get pipped at the 95th minute

Terrible miss by CIV,

Alice in wonderland 2-1 on penalties

The keeper got a hand on Okeke's pk but it was too much on it.

CIV 2-3 NGR

Evelyn Nwabouku , was there ever a doubt? Super Falcons are WAFU champions

thank for the update.

Uchenna Kanu is the Big deal.....A Born Goalscorer

Incredible for Nigeria to equalise with the last kick of the match. Hopefully the girls gain plenty confidence from that.
Good weekend for Nigerian football. Oshoala scored on big stage, our girls win WAFU.
Up next, camp in Austria

olapluto:
Incredible for Nigeria to equalise with the last kick of the match. Hopefully the girls gain plenty confidence from that.
Good weekend for Nigerian football. Oshoala scored on big stage, our girls win WAFU.
Up next, camp in Austria

I had already given up on the game sef. Uchenna Kanu was a badass stud at that last minute, saw the goal on YouTube and 7 out of 10 times, strikers usually miss that goal.

Rough timetable of the Super Falcons over coming weeks:
May 19th- Team fly back to Nigeria from Abidjan. Home based players decamped except 8 players. Tochukwu Oluehi to join them?
May 20th - 9 players and technical crew fly out to Austria for camping.
May 21st - Foreign based players all expected in camp. Camping for 2 weeks intensive. From what I understand, very little physical work, but plenty tactical as team performance coach has been monitoring each players week in week out.
June 4th - Players depart Austria for France
June 8th - First match vs Norway

BTW...good news, no injuries.

olapluto:
Rough timetable of the Super Falcons over coming weeks:
May 19th- Team fly back to Nigeria from Abidjan. Home based players decamped except 8 players. Tochukwu Oluehi to join them?
May 20th - 9 players and technical crew fly out to Austria for camping.
May 21st - Foreign based players all expected in camp. Camping for 2 weeks intensive. From what I understand, very little physical work, but plenty tactical as team performance coach has been monitoring each players week in week out.
June 4th - Players depart Austria for France
June 8th - First match vs Norway

BTW...good news, no injuries.

Well done for the update

I'm hearing oshoala Barcelona deal is now permanent

isan:
I'm hearing oshoala Barcelona deal is now permanent

I suspect so, because she has been thanking her agent for assuring her that everything will be ok and that she should be patient.

isan:
I'm hearing oshoala Barcelona deal is now permanent

Its a no brainer. If Barca let her go, I'm very sure European giants will snap her up really quickly.

olapluto:

Its a no brainer. If Barca let her go, I'm very sure European giants will snap her up really quickly.

My own is that she should translate that form to the national team and be more clinical.

naptu2:


I suspect so, because she has been thanking her agent for assuring her that everything will be ok and that she should be patient.

My own is that Barcelona played 2 finals and she started on the bench for both. She did not go there to be a squad player, she should be the main woman on that team and if they can't give her that my advice is that she returns to China or goes to Lyon so we can at least say that it is a world class player keeping her on the bench.

BascoVanVeli:



My own is that Barcelona played 2 finals and she started on the bench for both. She did not go there to be a squad player, she should be the main woman on that team and if they can't give her that my advice is that she returns to China or goes to Lyon so we can at least say that it is a world class player keeping her on the bench.

Women football is still like a cult. Look at Toni Duggan who played nothing for 70 minutes starting ahead of Oshoala. The good thing for her is that the world has seen her now.

I think coach the must have learnt her lesson after what oshoala achieved this season and also oshoala need to do more for the national team

BascoVanVeli:



My own is that Barcelona played 2 finals and she started on the bench for both. She did not go there to be a squad player, she should be the main woman on that team and if they can't give her that my advice is that she returns to China or goes to Lyon so we can at least say that it is a world class player keeping her on the bench.

olapluto:

Women football is still like a cult. Look at Toni Duggan who played nothing for 70 minutes starting ahead of Oshoala. The good thing for her is that the world has seen her now.

IMO it is a disgrace. I hope she speaks out if this happens again because nothing is right about it.

isan:
I think coach the must have learnt her lesson after what oshoala achieved this season and also oshoala need to do more for the national team

She will do much better. I feel the AWCON was a bleep and nothing more. Our only problem is that she has proven that she can do so much more as a striker but we need her on the wings.

isan:
I think coach the must have learnt her lesson after what oshoala achieved this season and also oshoala need to do more for the national team

Oshoala needs to over shine at this world cup so it will make it extremely hard to bench her again.

France 2019: Super Falcons arrive in Austria

African champions Nigeria have landed at the Avita Resort facility in the Austrian city of Bad Tatzmannsdorf for a two –week residential camping ahead of the 8th FIFA Women’s World Cup finals.
A delegation including nine home –based professionals and technical and administrative staff departed from Abuja on Monday night aboard an Air France flight, and travelled from Paris to the Austrian capital, Vienna on Tuesday morning before connecting Bad Tatzmannsdorf.
At the airport in Vienna, nine overseas –based professionals from different parts of the world joined the contingent, taking the number of players to 18. With England –based Ini-Abasi Umotong already waiting in camp, that made the total number 19, with only eight more expected.
The world –renown Avita Resort is the same facility that served the Super Eagles in their final training sessions just before the 2018 FIFA World Cup finals in Russia.
Coach Thomas Dennerby must pick his final squad of 23 by Friday this week. The final squad and officials will fly into France on 4th June.
Nigeria take on Norway, Korea Republic and host nation France in the group phase of the championship, with their first coming up against Norway at the Stade Auguste Delauney in Reims on 8th June.

The players have been posting pictures and videos of their reunion all afternoon.

Left to right) Chinaza Uchendu, Halimat Ayinde, Ngozi Okobi, Rita Chikwelu and Anam Imo.

2nd picture) Desire Oparanozie

Faith Ikidi has a match this week and will join the camp late.

Guys, do you all really think the 3-4-3 system would work against the bigger teams at the World Cup?

Onome Ebi is aiming to be the first African (man or woman) to play at 5 World Cups (2003, 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019).

The BBC's Debola Adebanjo spoke to her.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_se_Vyyre6s

naptu2:
Onome Ebi is aiming to be the first African (man or woman) to play at 5 World Cups (2003, 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019).

The BBC's Debola Adebanjo spoke to her.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_se_Vyyre6s

If faith ikidi have played at the 2015 edition this would have been her 5th World Cup too..

PDPGuy:
Guys, do you all really think the 3-4-3 system would work against the bigger teams at the World Cup?

I think it all comes down to how well drilled the team is. The coach seems adamant and confident in that formation, and if he drills them well, it should work. I think it is more like a 3-5-2 when we are not in possession and a 3-2-5 when we are going forward. This should give the team defensive stability and a lot of attacking options.
What concerns me though, is that since Dennerby started, we have not been know to create as many chances as we used to create. Although we have a lethal attack line, the problem has always been getting the ball to them. Okobi has dropped in form, and it is expected because at her club, she sometimes plays as a right back, or wing back in a 3-5-3. I hope she rediscovers herself this intensive camping. Otherwise, Ajibade should take her place. The teams we face in group stages wont park the bus, so we stand a chance.

This was the coach last formation against Canada.....3-5-2 With the presence of Ordega and Oshoala now...! How will the formation look like? And as for Uchenna Kanu what will be the coaches options about her...

Schemerkhiz:
This was the coach last formation against Canada.....3-5-2
With the presence of Ordega and Oshoala now...!
How will the formation look like?
And as for Uchenna Kanu what will be the coaches options about her...

Actually this is more like what we will see in France. Except Oshoala for Kanu and Anam Imo keeps her place. Ordega will probably be a sub.
Uchenna Kanu is a good sub too. I wish the team could play a good friendly few days to the start so the can test their tactics.