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DRC is a good team but they lack that "IT" factor, we will beat them on Sunday but it will be on close margins...fate has aligned for us to qualify for this world cup.

Osayi-Samuel should be kept far far far away from this team, dude is absolute crap.

Goke7:
The problem is that when they face us, they will become something else, as if we deported their people from our country

Walahi you sabi these teams

CapitalCee:
I dont expect him to feature at in the play offs. Let him just be in the squad for leadership

Exactly.

LegendHero:
When did Fulani herdsmen turn to Islamic bandits again? You go fear headline.

So IPOB terrorists are now Christian terrorists?

When last did you hear about "IPOB killings" in the East? the sponsored criminals like Gentle the yahoo and his gang have either been killed or captured and peace has finally returned to the areas they terrorized, focus on the ongoing terrorism going on across Nigeria especially in thr North and Kwara where your Yoruba brothers getting pulverized and leave IPOB alone.

Naz34:
Easterners wey dey fear to join Army . How them wan take dey there . Every recruitment year, na so all the forms meant for easterners to join dey always return empty back to army headquarter because all the boys for east don run go Lagos and Ogun state go look for money at all cost .

Why should any sane Igbo person join your nepotic and corrupt-ridden military? There are lots of Igbos in the US Army and they are some of the highest ranked officers, there are even Igbos fighting in the Ukraine-Russia wars on both sides, and they are better off there than in your useless army of boys scouts.

Sugarboyy:
Troos Ekong scored an own goal today in his club El Kholood 2-3 home lose

Wow! color me surprised! Mr owngoal strikes again

nickxtra:
Edo always among the top 5 or top 10 in good developmental and leadership indices. Kudos to all Edolites

I think Edo state finds ways to excel inspite of who is governing them, a credit to the people of the state than anything else.

Or maybe the governor is doing something right.

Racoon:
The changes of the service chief is a routine thing in government, but the suddenness of this one shows that something is amiss. Pray the ones on board succeed.

Are there even any high ranking Igbo officers currently who have attained the ranks to be qualified as COAS? The last Igbo COAS we had was Ihejirika under Jonathan, I've never seen an Igbo Lieutenant-General before.

aylipple:
Kogi (Okuns) eating good under PBAT. Prominent Okun sons are getting strategic and very important appointments under this administration - first it was Prof. Joash Amupitan (SAN) as INEC Chairman & now, Maj.-Gen. Waidi Shuaibu as COAS.

I hope these two appointees will justify the confidence reposed in them by the President and also represent Okunland well.

I wish the new COAS success.

Thought Waidi Shuaibu is Igala?

Well, good luck to him. Not a fan of Tinubu but he is at least balanced in his military appointments and fair to the Igbos, from appointing an Igbo man as Chief of Navy staff to Chief of Air staff. We all know Buhari wouldn't have given a damn, last last name wailing we for dey wail.

Congratulations to all the appointees.

saintopus:
Igbo kwenu! Now una go rest now!

Na play I dey play ooo!

My mama na Owerri woman ooo!

So you dey enjoy better Owerri soup abi, lucky you

The few Igbo officers in the NA are really trying in their various theaters, Maj Gen Chinedu Nnebuife, Maj Gen Victor Ezugwu- first Nigerian to produce a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle— EZUGWU and Brig-Gen Uwa Chidiebere of the 6 Brigade in Taraba etc all come to mind.

Omo this Lesley Ugochukwu lad is a baller, why haven't NFF even tried to talk to him about playing for Nigeria?

lbrichman2:
Osimhen's best partner is still Lookman

The Chukwueze of yesterday changed my mind about that yesterday, but a physically and psychologically ready Lookman will always give us a different type of quality with Osimhen as well.

Icon4s:
The only team I fear in this paly-off is DR Congo

Exactly, we always struggle against those Congolese teams. I'd hope Cameroon beat DRC so we can meet Cameroon at the final, we know how to beat Cameroon these days.

Ppogbae:
If you knew how the table looked like prior to the point deductions from Mokoena and the Eritrea situation, you would be stupified at the possibility of even smelling a playoff spot.

Heck, take a look at the 2nd place table on Google which doesn't account for the Eritrea point removals. Now take in how we were able to score 4 unreplied goals against a Beninoise team that had all the momentum and a chance to qualify.

This is truly a miracle.

Benin just needed a draw, a win (by any scoreline) or a Nigerian winning scoreline less than 3 goals to still qualify, they had EVERY favorable odd to play for yet got demolished almost so easily, did they even park the bus?

Elock1:
As in ehn, so unprofessional ...I was really disgusted
At this rate I'll take Uzoho over him oh.

A player that doesn't listen to teammates let alone his senior teammates is a waiting disaster

Same way he shoved off Bassey, the Bobo come dey look am like;
"you sure say this our keeper head correct?"

We're paying the price for not scouting for capable goal keepers on time to save our blushes after the Uzoho misadventures, Arthur Okonkwo and Noah Atubolu would have been ideal targets for us but it was certain if they wanted to play for us. Now we are stuck in the conundrum of tolerating Nwabali and his erratic nonsense. Meanwhile Ghana took a chance with their home based GK Benjamin Asare, and he seems to have done really well so far and will likely be a starter for them at the world cup. We need to use the AFCON to scout for GKs anywhere possible, Noah is still eligible as he hasn't played a competitive game for Germany so we can try push for him when we make it past the playoffs.

Truidstarr:
Aina's expected return is after the winter break. He is gonna miss the nations cup too.

Damn...oh well, Benjamin is more than capable of covering that RB position I guess?

mekabuachi:
Does Gabon have good defenders?
Everybody start doing your homework now

I've watched most of their AFCON and world cup qualifiers, they can score goals no doubt, but they are also very defensively suspect...I believe they conceded the most goals in their WCQ group. We are better defensively than them and Benjamin/Bassey will frustrate Auba and Lemina

Onyedika, Lookman and Aina should be back for the playoffs next month, those are added quality with enough experience to boost the team.

Chelle is the MAN, keep this guy and extend his contract, he will cook at the AFCON.

Osimhen, take a fucking bow! stood up like a true warrior for his country when it mattered the most, the stuff real elite players are made of.

Benjamin Frederick is THE NEW GENERATION, what a player! he reminds me of prime Yobo when he was younger, we have us a GEM.

Chukwueze delivered, Moses Simon is frustrating but we can't argue against 2 assists.

Congrats to the team for rising above all the odds to make the play-offs, the battle isn't over yet, but we have shown we have the mentality of a team that wants to go to the world cup, all the best to them in the next and final obstacle.

Give us Cameroon for the playoffs.

Hanibal:
International football sometimes Sha...
Gyokeres and Isak dey Sweden attack
They cannot muster a single goal between them in 2 games!

Kosovo dey wipe them for house

Sweden has to be the biggest football disappointment in Europe, probably the Nigeria of Europe.

Arizoner:
we are looking for better goal difference and you are predicting we concede goals. Which kind fan be dis

I tire o

mank1234:
Cameroon needs just a draw to make playoff. I don't see Angola beating them in Cameroon.

Lol then you don't know Cameroon, they are as bipolar as Nigeria

Only playoff spots left are down to how the Cameroon and DRC games go, Gabon is home and dry in the playoffs already based on superior GD+... as it stands now, we have to win by any scoreline not less than 2 goals and hope and pray South African draw or lose against Rwanda...our hopes for a playoff odd were 80% dashed today by Burkina Faso

Ppogbae:
How likely is it that Cameroon beats Angola?

50/50

Dannyxy:
Anyway, nwabali na you cause this thing…

Even if we had won 2-0 against Lesotho and Nwabali didn't display his moments of madness, today's result for Burkina faso would have canceled our result based on goal difference...a 3-0 win would have given us a safer cushion, and we had our chances to win that game at least 4-0.

3-1

Opari

Omo I'm tired of calculating and rebasing, good luck to those of you who will risk your BP and heart to watch our game on Tuesday...I'll just shut down my internet and spend my best part of that day at the gym, hopefully I log back in and see celebratory results for Nigeria, but I doubt the fighting mentality of this current bunch.

2-0, its over.