₦airaland Forum

Goke7:
People get mind o to cry for the eagles 😂 someone even posted that two elderly people in his area had to be rushed to hospital around 11pm! I hail those who deployed so much emotions for the eagles. Me I had my dinner before the match, was in night gown and was on my bed after the game in fact it was on my bed I was posting on this thread last night!

My heart goes out to everyone one experiencing such heartbreaking moments. I hope the players see such videos and understand how their shitty play affects many Nigerians.

Footage shows Nigerian Super Eagles fans’ heartbreaking reactions after yesterday’s loss 😔💔
pic.twitter.com/UhCktHGw8L

— Instablog9ja (@instablog9ja) November 17, 2025

TheSuperNerd:
Zaidu was more needed. Benjamin was doing enough in distribution while also keeping up his defensive duties. I doubt Bruno would have coped defensively like Zaidu did all game till he was subbed.

TheSuperNerd:
They dont get it. When we insist on 433, we also emphasize personnel tactical balance.

In a midfield 2, play your Ndidi and Iwobi. Or pair Onyeka and Iwobi.

But in a midfield 3, be careful, you must absolutely have a genuine 1st phase ball receiver and 2nd phase balk distributor. Onyeka and Ndidi are not such.

Personnel selection is so important. Not just picking 3 midfielders coz they are available and throwing them in together hoping for magic. If there is no balance technically and tactically, it wont hold eventually.

TheSuperNerd:
Actually Zaidu deserves his spot as the first choice LB ahead of Bruno. Was solid all through.

hatakekakashi:
NFF can't take all the blames. We all know they're bunch of incompetent frauds running NFF but today's performance is on these players. How do you get outplayed in that manner? And they call themselves pro players? Some of them can't even do basic things🤦‍♂️

codemaniacs:
SE does not train on how to transit the ball from defense to midfield to attack.

If they trained, then SE won't be having a back 4 or back 6 most of the time they would have a back 2 because the fullbacks and DMs would move to midfield as ball transits but SE just sits and let's the opponents pressed them.

Meliforme:
I said this regarding Nwabali, but many wants him dropped.

codemaniacs:
The ones we produce don't play for top teams so they don't get call ups invitation.

Openair:
You guys here are really funny ooo... The team has been having lots of lapses all this while (especially without Osimhen) una no talk...now they lost in penalties.... all of a sudden all the problems u guys were padding abi na ignoring has suddenly come to light...
Now na Afcon the team wan win abi...I hope we're given tougher countries in our group...so we can tell if the team has actually improved not the like walkover countries we had in the world cup qualifiers

TheGoodJoe:
A sweet win but I still see the Eric Chelle is still sorting out his set up. We still have lots of work to do with our transition from midfield to attack, especially when dealing with a compact midfield.

I give him props with what he is doing with Ndidi but he needs to really work hard in building a more fluid midfield players.

I hope with time he switches to a more rich midfield set up.

JohnBullMySon:
Valid point though but Ghana wouldn't dominate us as DRC did. That one wouldn't happen.

Mujtahida:
Change to 4-3-3 change, change, change. Shey we see that it's often not the way we think that really is the right approach to these things

minfelix:
omo forget oo, with the way we played…ahh i must confess, we no sabi play ball oo…ahan aside the penalty loss….wait wait wait sef, see the way DRC played us like they are Germany/Spain….haaa no no no this man performance should go down as one of super eagles poorest performances ever….like immediately osimhen left we just suddenly became Eswatini……kai kai kai toooooo bad, we are not supposed to be on that top 5 abeg abeg abeg

Mujtahida:
We win, we no see you. We lose, everywhere blur with blue font

TheGoodJoe:
A sweet win but I still see the Eric Chelle is still sorting out his set up. We still have lots of work to do with our transition from midfield to attack, especially when dealing with a compact midfield.

I give him props with what he is doing with Ndidi but he needs to really work hard in building a more fluid midfield players.

I hope with time he switches to a more rich midfield set up.

JohnBullMySon:
You be idiot I swear

Make we first meet Ghana for AFCON

Goke7:
I think we need to take our U-17 and U-20s more seriously and focus less on the senior national team

Karlovych:
Even though we lost, it wasn't easy dragging it to penalties despite struggling, they did their best

Dannyxy:
didn’t we in win Afcon on Sunday 2013, this are not issues jare , Nigeria has to fix structures,,we neeed to decide if we want to actually progress and join the best of keep the trying our luck thing with mediocrity structures.

Where is under 17? where under 20? where under 23? Where is the league, all we want is for super eagles to keep performing so we can be using them to cover very poor structures, no please….

Goke7:
We have been exposed; we don't have the personnel for the kind of playing pattern we want to see

Karlovych:
Do you suggest we introduce Nwakali at this stage?

Goke7:
Who will transit the ball from the midfield to the attack? Who? I'm asking

TheSuperNerd:
Absolutely not but Chelle just had to give us the Naija version of this.

minfelix:
Bassey
Ajayi
Simon
no sabi play penalty 🤣🤣🤣….shebi coach for bring in Ekong to come and ginger the Pk starter……

i will always be an advocate of use the formula that gave you your win in the previous game….even people on this forum no dey like stay one place..all of una for here just like change change change change….whats the essence of switching to a 4:3:3, na wetin u use win your previous match?…..

drop Nwabali drop Nwabali….bring okoye bla bla bla🤣🤣🤣….like una no just get chill for here…

Nwabali will remain the best for now

DrYa:
We fought
We gave out best..
The players tried..
Looks like they were all fatigued after the Gabon game..
Eric Chelle is okay for us..
We go back to the drawing board...

TheSuperNerd:
WE HAVE MIDFIELDERS BUT CHELLE IGNORES THEM.

AKINSANMIRO. UCHE, he doesnt know how to utilise.

Onyedika, he doesnt know how to utilise.

Again, I will say it... I laughed so hard when folks here were praising Chelle for saying he monitors over 500+ players overall or 80+ players weekly. That is cap! Complete cap! You dont monitor that much and not come up with tactical realisations on certain talents monitored.

TheCongo2:
Thank you so much

Goke7:
That was the only way we survived till the penalties

orriyomi33:
We need MIDFIELDERS!!!!

Goke7:
If we don't go back to that Pasiro pattern, nothing for us at Afcon. It will be a waste of precious time

hatakekakashi:
I was even pitying the players before, that going to the world cup will be good for their career. Turns out they don't want to go, or they're not good enough. Well, till next 4 years then.

Karlovych:
Well the players tried their best