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If it ends 1-0 for Cameroon, Cameroon will be ahead of Nigeria in terms of disciplinary points. Except Cameroon gets a red card, or 3 yellow cards. Because all other deciding factors are tied at this point.

phamarsenal:
R we still gonna qualify if cameroun win 1-0

Haha.
I understand your pain bro. Your pain is mine. All of a sudden we desire that Argentina be a good team. This life enh! But all hope is not lost!

ChrisKels:
The worst African team in this tourney would kill this Argentine side I'm seeing here. There is nothing Argentine in their play, bunch of clueless girls mtcheew

Ipa, sorry I don't have access to it. Please send me a link.

CaptainStephen:
watch the match ogbeni

I didn't watch the match, but if the stats are anything to go by, then it seems we ought to have been spanked silly. 28% possession and 1 shot off-target throughout the entire encounter. Sounds to me that we were very fortunate. I know stats don't win games, but did we play well? Or maybe the stats are not telling the whole story?

Your trademark font style is still fresh in my mind.
Welcome back bro.

joseph1013:
Vicissitudes of life.

I can see that you're still in the business of absolving Kelechi of his career explosion. Na so!

Not watching the game. But just curious, why are we having a hard time scoring?

And now, he's ready to go!

safarigirl:
saving himself for AFCON

End up worse than his father, the great JJ? Gotta be kidding me! Or was that a typo?

OMANBALA1:
So, because he scored one or two goals we should fry water? As far as GWG is concerned Alexander Iwobi is a fraud. And if he continue to be unserious like his uncle he will end up worse.

And if he works very hard, performs outstandingly, reforms to the lad we all once admired, and succeeds to use the AFCON to revive his career, what's wrong with that?

Humility017:
keep defending a player who care less about his career
I see him as a player who seeks to use afcon revive his career...

if he was really serious...he would done wonders for Leicester city this immediate past season...
he lacks motivation and ambition

True. The point I was making though, was that even after the uninspiring AFCON performance of the team, these two were still selected to be part of the super eagles 31-man list. Shows that though a team as a whole may be awful, individual talents may still exist. Additionally, individual players who may not be outstanding during a competition may develop and improve with time. For example, I don't think everyone was a big fan of Ighalo in the 2009 U-20 World Cup.

Icon4s:
Yeah. But ironically those two may still not make the main squad. It can be some other players. That is how football is.

Remember we already have Ikouwem Utin and Valentine Ozornwafor on Super Eagles stand-by list.

Icon4s:
The way peeps have been saying it as if the team is a total write off.

We are often too quick to forget or we fail to realize that only very few players progress from youth to senior teams. If 2-3 players from this 2019 Flying Eagles make it across we move on. 2 years time again we select another few and move on.

Well, at least we still have two other competitions to look forward to this month - Super Falcons and Super Eagles! Maybe smiles will be restored to the faces on Nigerians. Even if these boys (men) win tonight, they don't inspire confidence, hope nor excitement. And I don't even see where the win will come from.

Very pathetic that the analysis of a Nigerian football national team revolves around the most basic concepts of the game - passing and ball control! At this level we should be focusing of technique, strategies and tactics. How embarrassing!

Not exactly sure why some are optimistic of a victory over Senegal. Seems to me that Senegal is among the stronger teams in this competition. Is it because we historically perform well against African teams in international competitions (apart from Mali in Nigeria 1999)?

The way they fumbled and wobbled past Zambia in 2007 and then got spanked by Chile?

Taliban:
They could fumble and wobble into the QF. Anything can happen in the game of soccer.

Nigeria would likely meet Senegal.

DrLikita12:
And by the looks of it, booking a ticket straight home.

Sorry, which team?

Humility017:
we won't get flogged.
I think we will see a complete different team in the next round...
they may even win the tournament.
I believe this team

Looking at the second game, I guess you were right bro. Deficiencies in the team came to the fore glaringly. What a painful game to watch! The US took them to the cleaners in terms of performance. My hopes were low going into the tournament, and then there was heightened expectations after the first game. Those hopes have now plummeted. I should have trusted my instincts in the first place.

yungmill:
Don't get me wrong bro, this is a good start but they often give away the ball cheaply and don't often release the pass on time and want to over do, against a properly well drilled team they will take some blows if they do not improve.

Very painful to watch.

yungmill:
These guys still have a lot to work on if they want to win this tournament

Well, they are ahead by 2 at the end of the first half. I'd say a good start!

Kirinwa:
Canvas with suit? What a combination.

Wetin be ur concern? Go buy ur own shoe na! Or would you rather he chooses from one of the pairs in the background?

By hook or by crook.

Earthquake3:
That means Nigeria will automatically be in the finals if Guinea is eliminated?

Icon4s:
Yeah true

I think it's a team problem, not just Segun. Even though he didn't play much against Uganda, how many goals did Nigeria score? Ubani, Jabaar, Amoo et al have all been guilty of the same wastefulness.

profmathsland:
Yeah. The Captain Tijani scaled through even though there were fears that he was in grade V and could miss out due to how close his plates are to complete fusion. Well time will tell if he makes it to the World cup.
Just glad they can focus and play their football without having to miss one or two players.

Yes, it's great news Samson made it through. But aren't the age requirements for the CAF U17 Nations Cup slightly different from the FIFA U17 World Cup? I mean age requirements in terms birth dates.

darkelf:
I wouldn't be so sure.

I'm thinking: 1:0, 2:1 and 2:0

Hopefully it doesn't start off with a 1-1 draw and we begin to play catch up.

Earthquake2:
Who is behind this mask

Many apologies Earthquake2, et al. Been a silent bystander profiting from the many brains we have in this thread since it's inception. Late to the party! Always thrilled by the many comments. Thanks y'all.

How confident are we in the current set of Golden Eaglets in Tanzania? In general, Manu Garba prides himself in a very attack-minded team. Seems to me that his philosophy is that as long as you can outscore your opponents, it's all good. So it's not uncommon to see high scoring results (both for and against) in games his team plays. This philosophy works for him most times, and his team is always very exciting to watch. However, I'm particularly concerned about this current set because he has lost quite a few of his starters. Three of them are first choice players in the defence line: goalkeeper, right full back and left full back. From the little information I gathered about the team build-up post-WAFU Zone B Tournament, it doesn't seem that they are as enterprising as the previous sets. Anybody has some moral-boosting, albeit realistic expectations?

Adam09:
Tribalist, these guys made the list on merit, and their tribes are evenly distributed. Essien is from Cross River /Akwa Ibom while Odey is from Ogoja in Cross River or Benue State.

He probably meant that this is a very old list. The team listed is not the one in Tanzania at the moment.

Interesting! Someone's very creative: "Official Black Starts of Ghana Thread". Did we run out of ideas?