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oloriooko:
The end of an era, the close of an amazing chapter in football
Cr7 you are celebrated

Messi na still him papa

England really played like lions, winning at the Azteca was always going to be a very tall order especially when Mexico has never lost there since 2013? My boy Bellingham balled his socks off, a proper Real Madrid performance right there 👏🏿.

JohnBullMySon:
This is insensitive. Everyone knows Osimhen has always had fitness struggles throughout his career.

Ok...that's the more reason we have to depend less and less on Osimhen and start urgently looking for a decent and fit enough 9 who is several years younger as well.

Napoleon55:
How many Nigeria players you know that performs at his best at the age of 35,not even the great Kanu.
Osimhen wey enjoyment dey sweet like dis no fit keep up at that age.
We just need him to win us,AFCON.

That one sef dey, I doubt the core of our mainstay players (Osimhen, Ndidi, Lookman, and Aina) will still be in peak form by 2030 sef, only Iwobi looks like he has 5-6 years of peak football to still give cause he barely get injured and seems disciplined. I hope they put their hearts and soul into this next 2 AFCONs coming up in 2027 and 2028 and win one to make up for their generational disappointments.

Sugarboyy:
That one get opportunity to qualify Nigeria, he feigned injury and left the match 🤣🤣🤣
He is busy right now going from house to house of celebrities, eating whatever they serve him. Tomorrow, one single kick, he don injure again

That one na real Seriki with him bling bling lmao, of course he has his delusional praise singers and yes-men on X that he gives money so you dare not say the truth about Osimhen. I can't question his loyalty to Nigeria cause he gives his best and it will be unfair of me to say he doesn't try...but time and time again when it came to the BIG MOMENTS where true world class players have always risen to the occasion, Osimhen has always gone into hiding...if he's not faking an early injury, he's whining, thrashing and rolling on the pitch like a crybaby while blaming his own teammates.

This might be an unpopular opinion, but Emenike, Obafemi, Ike Uche, Osaze and even Yakubu gave us more in key moments than Osimhen ever has.

Brazil scammed me sha, but then a part of me wasn't sold on them despite their win over Japan...Norway was just the exact type of team Brazil would have prayed to avoid cause they are physical, plucky, direct and have HAALAND.

Napoleon55:
All the big strikers are scoring.

Osimhen should have taken us to quarter finals at least,
I blame them for not taken all the games very seriously

He has two more chances to make up for Qatar and this one by qualifying us to 2030 and 2034, at least if my math is correct...he will be 35 in 2034 and should still be in peak form if he stays disciplined and injury free.

Damioduso1:
Fifa playing politics

FIFA Politics or no politics that red was a harsh one on Folarin considering what Paraguay thugs got away with yesterday...

Papi85:
Anderlecht are reportedly interested in former Royal Antwerp FC player Chidera Ejuke.

🎈The Belgian club is preparing a €4 million bid for the 28-year-old Nigerian winger. His Spanish club, Sevilla, is willing to cooperate with a sale due to a need for funds.

Ejuke must have the best agent in Nigeria lol, dude almost nothing yet keeps getting the best of the transfers to decent clubs.

Ghana had 0 shots on target in over 90+7 minutes of football.

Terrible stuff.

AndSunGorilla:
Abegi. U no watch last world cup

Did you watch the game or to comment just dey hungry you?

No team has stressed Argentina to breaking points in the history of world cups than Cabo Verde, this is so unreal.

Congrats to Egypt, they deserved this one and what a way to earn it!

Swanzi:
I shy for una oo so 10 African teams u still couldn’t qualify 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

Banter aside make una beat Colombia abeg, just realized Ghana is the only black African nation left, and I have no emotional attachment to North African teams so I could care less about Morocco and Egypt.

According to this source, the Algerian FA have contacted Eric Chelle. I hope this is speculative news sha...

https://twitter.com/Santi_J_FM/status/2073117509008379922

minfelix:
Even Nigeria vs Argentina 2018 WC, F’king hold this people to a draw and advance to R16, them still find way to beat us amd eliminated us…Its an african thing

Thanks for taking me back that torturous memory lane...I was depressed for some days after that game, Ighalo's sitter miss and that legit PK call we never got even made it worse.

FiveFootNinja:
I feel like crying man.

Before this tournament I made up my mind to hatewatch all other African teams, partly due to jealousy of not qualifying and partly because the majority of them in the recent past (AFCON 2023, WCQ playoffs etc) don't wish us well or even give us credit when we're winning.

On that note, I'm conflicted. I'm happy to see other African teams leave but I can't deny that our performance in this World Cup is a huge cause for concern. Because what do you mean you can dominate matches but you can't close them out? This is three fking matches back to back!

Ivory Coast dominated Norway
DR Congo dominated England in the first half
Senegal you were leading by two goals for 80+ mins! Two fking goals!! What do you mean you're losing 3-2!?!

South Africa was the only exception as they were simply trash all through against Canada

Whether you're hate watching or not, this should be a huge cause for alarm. There's something not quite right with African teams' mentality when it comes to performing on the global stage.

I'd prefer we got completely trounced and outplayed like majority of the AFC teams than for us to keep losing like this.

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.

I think it's not a stereotype when Europeans demean us for having subpar mental acuity, it hurts but it's the truth.

Imagine conceding 2 late goals in the space of 3 minutes in a game you were controlling, dem swear for the African psyche? Kai smh

Asia really disappointed in this tournament sha, Japan was supposed to be the strongest team from there but alas...

Big up's to our CAF reps, but they all qualified to next round by racking up points against the weaker Asian and CONCACAF teams, no top CONCACAF or European team was beaten by a CAF side (except we count the Ecuador loss to CIV). I hope they show they truly belong now by beating the big boys for the Rd of 16 cause the real phase that separates men from the boys has truly begun.

Wait,so that Austria v Algeria game wasn't fixed?

DRC go beat England walahi

9JAMac10:
Congo hahaha , has to be the worst side of Africa.

Losing to Uzbekistan.

I'll be pissed if they crash out to Uzbekistan after all that gragra to deny us qualification.

TheSuperNerd:
FT Senegal 5-0 Iraq

FT Norway 1-4 France

France tops Group I.

Norway finishes 2nd and faces CIV in the RO32.

Senegal joins the waiting list of best 3rd placed teams.

Norway preferred to lose to France in order to avoid Sweden and face Ivory coast, Ivory Coast are a tougher team than Sweden so I don't get the logic here lmao

E be like say qualification to the next round no dey hungry Senegal because that first half performance...

Nwabali moving to a club in Saudi is the best news of the day for me so far.

kingphilip:
This comparison isn't fair as they've not played their third round of games as Morroco too were on 2 goals before scoring 4 this evening to take it to 6.

True sha, but it's just the already established pattern of football from those 2 teams that suggests they might not even score any goals in their next games. DRC are in a more desperate need of points to qualify to the next round so they will definitely attack more and score more goals against Uzbekistan.

So far only Ghana and DRC are the low scoring African teams with 2 goals between them in all group stage games played so far.

TheSuperNerd:
Bosnia in a good position so far... 2-1 vs Qatar.

Qatar as back to back Asian Champs really doing their standing no good at all.

And ooops... Switzerland takes the lead vs Canada! 1-0 Vargas.

Both Canada and Switzerland have qualified anyway regardless of the result.

Canada are playing really well, good game so far.

Ghana have played the haramest of haramball and are getting praised for it all over the social media because they managed to hold a misfiring England, lol meanwhile lesser profile teams like Cabo Verde, Haiti, DR Congo, even Curacao have actually played decent enough football despite playing defensive yet aren't getting enough plaudits. I guess anti-football wins at the end as long as it gets you over the line so I can't even be mad at Ghana for pulling it off.