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do4luv14:
Success attract even an enemy

I tire o. South Africa gets a draw with Nigeria, they come here to celebrate. DRAW!!!

DR Congo sef wey never smell World Cup since the 70s dey come here celebrate for World Cup spot wey never even dey confirmed. 🤣

Always celebrating mediocrity. 🤣🤣

charlesemeka85:
return to Congo abeg 🤦‍♀️

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

elyte89:
C u and I think say u be my number one fan 😄…no worry my lawyer is working behind the scenes

I'm supporting you na. 😁

U dey fear humble beginnings? 😂

elyte89:
U don catch me ….my lawyer does that on my behalf and gives me full report 🤣

And u wan collect Nigeria job. Highest you go see na Tonga national team. 🤣🤣🤣

I'm not sure why these mumu aliens keep finding their way to this thread whenever their mediocre nation starts performing well (which is like once every 20 years 😂) just to start patting their backs over not being garbage for once.

Go build a forum for yourselves so that you can bond and do joint therapy sessions over being perpetual victims of Nigeria. Nonsense and ingredients! 🤣🤣🤣

TheCongo2:
I love your last sentence "you go explain tire". Nevertheless, let me explain this:

Morroco was the first African team to reach the Round of 16 back in 1986 — with a squad that was almost 100% locally based.

Oga that was nearly 40 years ago. Football and global player movement have fundamentally changed since then. This point is completely irrelevant in this day and age. Lol.

When was the last time the Nigerian league was truly showcased ? A youth growing in Nigeria has been formatted to believe that regardless of his soccer talent, he has to go abroad to join the superEagle. How ridiculous!

Even the greatest football nation on earth, Brazil, has been exporting almost all its top talent for the past couple of decades. Does that stop them from being a powerhouse? NO. Players must go abroad for superior coaching, infrastructure, and competition. That's just the modern reality of the global game.

Cameroon performed strongly in the World Cup during the 1980s with a squad made largely of local players. But starting from 1994, after following Nigeria’s model of relying almost exclusively on abroad-based players, their national team’s has looked like a shadow of what it once was on the world stage.

Now you're just being ridiculous. Cameroon's decline is mostly due to incompetent FECAFOOT management and internal squabbles. It has absolutely nothing to do with where their players ply their trade.

Nigeria has nothing to show for it when it comes to its local league. Not because they lack local players, but because of this deep-rooted mentality that everything abroad is automatically better.

The mentality that abroad is better exists because it is TRUE for elite football! The NPFL is trash because of corruption and poor infrastructure. That's all! You can't compare training facilities in Lagos to those in London or Madrid. Stop confusing cause and effect!

Anyway, when you start talking about giving a chance to local soccer youth to a Nigerian , you go explain tire.

The Nigerian youth IS getting a chance with better-run European academies where they become world-class players, not average ones. Hell, even with our local football academies here in Nigeria, which you've somehow missed in your mumu rhetoric that relying on abroad is a disadvantage

Our only priority is winning, and the best talent, regardless of birthplace, achieves that. Every successful country utilizes its diaspora. You are advocating for self-sabotage and that's why you go continue to dey explain tire.

This Congo DR side feels like a slightly weaker version of Bafana Bafana. We played Bafana with an Eric Chelle side that hadn't fully gelled together and were still making silly mistakes, yet we didn't lose. I honestly don't see DR Congo beating us in regulation or even extra time. If we can't beat them, it will likely go to penalties, and then it's anybody's game.

God abeg. 🤧

I wrote this in another thread. It seems many people think DRC have the edge over us when it comes to H2H. That's actually not true.

TheCongo2:
Typical Nigerian mentality: believing that anything produced abroad is automatically better than what you build at home.

Let’s be honest: after all these years of gathering “ready-made” players trained in Europe, how far has Nigeria actually gone in the World Cup?
Nowhere near where they claim to be.

If African football is ever going to rise, it has to be built locally — with strong leagues, real academies, and homegrown development.
Relying on players formed abroad is a shortcut that leads nowhere. You won’t win a World Cup with borrowed talent.

And yet Morocco are dominating the African continent with foreign born players. Make una rest abeg. Lol.

Developing local leagues is important, but having talents who excel in diaspora has the EXACT same importance. Neither is more important than the other. If you can combine the two, then even better.

Like I said before, you go explain tire.

Ever8090:
Omo...this congo guys get record for our head ooo...

They have won us 3 times we won them 2 times and 1 draw in the last 6 games

2 out of those 3 games that DRC won happened in the 1960s when they were still called Congo Kinshasa and Nigeria wasn't a tier 1 footballing nation in Africa.

Plus, DR Congo were known as Zaire in the 1970s till the 1990s and in that period they faced us four times. We beat them each of those four times.

So technically, we've beaten them 6 times while they've beaten us 3 times. All in total.

soetanoreoluwa:
It is best not to include Ndidi out of the match day... Prevention is better than cure.

Cure no go dey for this one. Na prevent or die.

Ndidi is back! Let's gooo!!!

Cecco90:
This journalist is saying Ndidi is eligible for the final.

Abeg if he is eligible let him play oo!!!

Ndidi under Eric Chelle is a whole new beast. I've been greatly impressed with his recent NT games.

ETA: If confirmation is not given by CAF/FIFA by tomorrow, make we just start Onyeka to avoid stories that touch.

The game against DRC will be decided in the first half. If Nigeria doesn't score in the first half, omo.

DRC are a harder side to break down in their defense because they can adapt. Plus they're arguably more aggressive than Cameroon.

Also, this game is potentially the worst game Nwabali should think of trying his antics. The Congolese put a lot of pressure on the Cameroon defense with their one to one marking. Even the goalkeeper isn't left out. I know the Nigerian defense is probably more compact than Cameroon but still, we must be careful.

The clinicality we brought against Benin and against Gabon in extra time must be replicated here. This is not a game we can afford to be wasteful in.

I must be honest, for some reason I can't put my finger around, I'm waaaayyy less confident about this game than I was about Gabon. I see this being a very scrappy win for Nigeria. As good as we were against Gabon, we must step up our game.

[quote author=Toylove post=137476895]Queenjazz, I think you’re the one always bringing update about that Gabonese’s coach right ? See your coach. E pain am 😂😂

I’m not sure if it’s real or AI though

Gabon coach tear one of e player slap o. Omoo.

E pain am 🤦 pic.twitter.com/gA7dY8Ruea

— Naija Pidgin (@NaijaPidgin_) November 14, 2025

it's obviously AI na. 😂

Na mekabuachi dey give update on that mumu sha, not me.

I know many of them likely used their second squads, but these results are underwhelming for Africa sha.

mekabuachi:
Ghana go think sày we no know say dem lose 2-0 to Japan😂
Them no go see even draw for that world cup

Lol. Just watched the highlights. Japan just dey dissect Ghana's back line, cutting it smoothly like hot knife through butter. That first assist made me laugh the way that Japanese player misdirected the Ghanaian defense. 😂😂

Either this Japanese team is insanely good, or the Ghana team is just piss poor. This World Cup qualification did them no favors by making them think they were hot. Thankfully, it means we'll get to watch them being manhandled on the global stage. 😃

TheCongo2:
And your best are always abroad…

FIFA should consider limiting the number of diaspora or binational players a national team can field. Take Nigeria, for example—its local league struggles to produce top-tier talent, yet the national team often relies heavily on players developed abroad.

This is cheating in my opinion

Bye

My brother, you go explain tire.

TheSuperNerd:
Yes, they will carry over. It is cancelled only before the World Cup Proper e.g. Ndidi will serve his suspension vs DRC but if he is yellow carded again in the intercontinental playoffs final, that yellow will be wiped if Nigeria makes it to the WC Proper.
Under FIFA rules, yellow cards are carried forward until just before the World Cup.


Note:

Scenario 1: If player A has a yellow card from MD 1 (or any other matchday before the last) of the WCQs and bags another yellow on the final day of WCQs (including playoffs), player A will miss the WC Proper Opener.

Scenario 2: If a player has one yellow, and does not bag a 2nd yellow before the WC proper, the one yellow will be wiped off and the player given a clean slate for the WC Proper.

Finito.

Marked down just in case.

Mujtahida:
Why is it that our matches are often dramatic to the extent that even if other countries play the same day, the focus of international media will be on Nigeria?

This is why other African countries don't want us to qualify because we will take the spot light off of them.

Like a wise man here once said, "we thrive in chaos" 😃

The whole of Twitter and Reddit is backing DR Congo to beat Nigeria. Few of them are the usual underdog advocates, but it seems the majority are the usual suspects (Ghana, SA etc) 😂

I'm still not sure what it is about Nigeria that makes practically every nation want to beef us. 😂😂

I'm also seeing people online trying to gaslight us that Gabon is not as good as DRC, like they weren't hyping Aubameyang et al to the highest heavens before we snatched their chain on national television.

Let Super Eagles just lock in and do this for me abeg. I'm going to be insufferable on Twitter for the rest of the year. 🤧

BankyGee:
Like for Eric Chelle, share for Finidi George 😏

Even steeze-wise (fashion), it's a mismatch.

See as Finidi jacket just dey loose and pale for color. Like say na trampoline wey he carry from under him bed. 🤧🤧

Portugal losing to Ireland with the squad Portugal played yesterday is a mystery to me sha.

lbrichman2:
Isn't it nice that on a day it didn't quite come off for Osimhen initially, other players could score??

Chelle is doing a great work with this team!!

GIVE HIM A 5 YR CONTRACT!!

Super Eagles + Chelle will be a serious problem in 2-3 years time. 🤧

Mujtahida:
Anytime Nigeria wins, it takes me a week to recover. I don't have club oo. And I don't watch club football like that. Super Eagles na im be my club.

Lol. Same here. 😂😂😂

I only watch for EPL for the banter and drama, but you see that emotional attachment, I no get am with any club at all. I've flip-flopped between Chelsea (because of Mourinho), and Man U (because of Ferguson) so many times in the past, right now I can't say I'm 100% for either side. If I'm supporting any club now, it'll likely be Fulham because our boys choke for there. 😂

caprikon:
NGA vs DRC

This SE team have found a rhythm under Chelle scoring 4 goals in consecutive games.
Naija to pip DRC. Any goal margin will do.

If we win, it will most likely be a slim margin or a penalty.

Setaleonoz:
Wrong 😑 2018 world cup qualification nig 4-1 Cameroon

Oh wow. Didn't know.

Cameroon. Perpetual bottlers. Almost feel bad for them. 🥹

I think this is the first time Cameroon won't be at the World Cup since 1990? Someone please confirm.

I'm not watching the Cameroon vs DRC game but parsing the comments here, it seems like they're playing secondary school football - 100% physicality, 0% actual gameplay.

Papi85:
Bassey na confirm iron gate. Bobo is already playing like a veteran in the heart of our defence at his young age

His combo with Fredrick will serve the national team for a long time

Pepe and Ramos type of combo, but less brutal 😁

Abeg who's watching the Cameroon vs DRC game, make we dey observe our future opponents.