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Iwobi play is giving me so much joy

Akkin:
Tunisia almost did recently.... Tanzania too then there's civ in the final of the last Afcon or SA,Jamaica,Trinidad and Tobago,Gabon, Zimbabwe etc

Algeria and Drc definitely have the attacking capabilities,mentality and strength to fight back from 2 goals down especially against Nigeria defense

Since they have the attacking ability to fight back, they should wait for us to score two. The fight back makes the game more interesting.

Akkin:
They didn't...we scored first in all those matches irc so no

For you to find a match where Nigeria came from a goal or two down and won the game eventually..you'd have to go back nearly 6 or 7 years in time

why should Nigeria come from 2 goals down. Why should we allow our opponents score 2 goals before we start fighting back when we can score first 😳😳

Akkin:
Should Nigeria make it out against Mozambique....then quarterfinals is their likely bus stop....they can't match Algeria or drc in 90minutes and concede goals unlike the last Afcon

What Nigeria lacks is a comeback spirit....where you're two goals down against an under dog similar to Gabon v civ or France v Argentina but you believe that till the last minute,the game ain't over....that's the spirit that wins you tournaments

The super eagles have so far scored first in all of their Afcon fixtures in 2025....what would happen when drc or Algeria scores two first??

Can they comeback?

What will happen if Nigeria score DRC or Algeria 2 goals first, can they fight back?

Blueelf:
He isn't the original author of thus

He copied it from tiktok and refused to credit the author

Yea, I saw the post on tiktok, I was thinking he will input his own idea.

Sarsaparilla524:
🚨 AFCON explained in club terms — if you’ve never really watched the tournament. 👀

African nations compared to European clubs… and suddenly everything makes sense 😅⚽

🇲🇦 Morocco = Arsenal
No matter their level or form, we all know how the story usually ends.

🇨🇩 DR Congo = England
A team full of hope every single year. They always say, “This is our year”… but it never happens.

🇬🇭 Ghana = AC Milan
A huge name with great history and trophies, but they failed to qualify this time.

🇧🇫 Burkina Faso = Tottenham
No matter how well they play, don’t worry — they’ll lose a match they were never supposed to lose.

🇩🇿 Algeria = Borussia Dortmund
They win a title once in a while. Champions in 2019 — don’t expect another one anytime soon.

🇨🇲 Cameroon = Chelsea
Just when you expect them to win a trophy, they always pull off something unpredictable.

🇳🇬 Nigeria = Real Madrid
Plenty of stars, not always the most beautiful football, but they always find a way to win.

🇨🇮 Ivory Coast = Atlético Madrid
They’re always around, and you never know when they’ll win — but when it happens, it’s a real shock.

🇸🇳 Senegal = Manchester City
A strong team without much history. First title in 2022, followed by plenty of disappointments.

🇿🇦 South Africa = Marseille
One trophy won a very long time ago. Since then, they’ve been living in nostalgia.

🇿🇲 Zambia = Leicester City
The ultimate underdog. They won AFCON mainly with local players — and no one knows if it will ever happen again.

🇪🇬 Egypt = Barcelona
They once dominated African football with trophies and beautiful play, but today they struggle to win.

🇬🇦 Gabon = Galatasaray
They attend every AFCON for purely touristic reasons.

🇲🇱 Mali = AS Roma
They love participating in AFCON, fully aware they’re not going to win it.

i think Nigeria should be Bayern not Madrid with our near success syndrome, getting to the finals on numerous occasions but winning just 3. Egypt for me is the Madrid of Afcon.

yinkeys:
Tolu has scored 2 important goals for Nigeria
Especially when we needed it
You cannot bring on Onuachu when we desperately need a goal & expect him to deliver
Thé goals against Russia away & Rwanda at home were vital
I didn’t see Onuachus work in the EPL
Arokodare has caused serious problems for teams like Arsenal
Onuachu missed one decent clear cut chance in the 1st half against Uganda
When has Onuachu scored or come through when we desperately need a goal for Nigeria
Its the same Boniface argument
Looks like Arokodare has too many haters on this thread, I just speak fact
I don’t even know any of these guys
Arokodare has seemed more lethal for Nigeria than Onuachu
They may have better club achievements but Nigeria is a different ball game
Which club achievement does Sunday Mba have to Obi Mikel, but in that tournament Mba played better than Mikel in the KO rounds
Even if you don’t like Tolu’s personality, this is just the fact
Id rank him ahead of Boniface & Onuachu when it comes to making things happen when we desperately need it
Uganda was a friendly match lol
We already qualified
I hope Onuachu can get more goals in the KO rounds now that we need him & other strikers

Remove this line, it just spoilt the whole argument.

Emmy450:
he should be selfish abeg, just 1 AFCOAN goal so far, for our talisman??.

Exactly, he should be selfish and try to get goals himself oh, cos some people will use it to question his world class status in future, just as it's happening to kanu

Kog45:
Awaziem just showed he is no longer needed

was that Awaziem fault or the midfield, that guy ran all the way from the middle with nobody tracking him.

Mujtahida:
I didn't watch the match but omo see that pass Iwobi gave Osimhen. Iwobi saw that the defender had turned his back on him to track Osimhen and quickly laid the pass by that defender for Osimhen. Na kura sense be that.

iwobi was superb today.

lbrichman2:
Same thing he did against Tanzania
Zero reading of the game
Just in a hurry to bring on Simon

no matter what, Simon must play that's his game plan

mostob:
To think Ejuke and Simon didn't do anything of significance when they came in eh. Nnadi, Ebenezer and Onyedika are on the bench if at all you need to sub out Frank. Like what kind of ridiculous decision was that?

At least we saw the nonsense Ejuke played but Moses Simon had no business in this team. He should stop bringing him in.

CornOak:
There's no way in hell that was a penalty. Osayi and the Tunisia were very close and that can't count for a handball.

That way wrong call from the ref.

that was never suppose to be a pk, I was even expecting var to wave it

solonnachi:
I noticed that since Nigeria failed to qualify for World cup, many monikers have gone on recess on this platform especially the Supernerd. AFCON is here but it seems many are not interested. Abeg guys make una no vex. I know how this world cup meant to you all. Lets move forward, hoping that the boys will redeem themselves at this AFCON.

Gracias...

After the Congo game many were disappointed and lost interest in anything Nigeria sport. I've not visited nairaland since that day until today and it was because I was on livescore the result btw mancity and Fulham.

QueenJazz:
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. 🤧

When it comes to this world cup play off, it's a well known fact that it's Nigeria against the rest of Africa. I don't know any African country supporting Nigeria to qualify

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

Our formation is not important in football coach 🤦‍♂️

yinkeys:
Anyhow from who ?
Nwabali ?

the current SE are not showing that hunger and zeal to go to the world cup, safe for few. But I won't blame them cos it's a general problem. Nigerians patriotism spirit is dying.

minfelix:
las las hope dey…even old eagles break our heart in 2006 world and afcon 2012,2015 and 2017

pls don't the 2006 set with this rubbish we are see. That team after the draw with Angola, showed commitment and belief, even went ahead to beat Algeria away. But what we are seeing now is anyhowness from the players and NFF

Goke7:
Once the team fails no player can be excluded and that’s where we are always hypocritical I didn’t even single out iwobi I only asked why can’t we see more but I have noticed here that other players including osihmen, Simon, Ademola etc can be singled out but not Iwobi. Our midfield is still crap and who are the players in there? Nwabali?

You can only keep lying to yourself instead to accept you were wrong, you keep dropping more fallacy. Iwobi who I'll say is one of the most criticize present SE player is who you claim people are not allowed to criticise him

comodo:
He knew that he goofed vs Zimbabwe.

that's a quality of a good tactician, learn from previous games. Ideally with the pedigree of Nigeria in football, we shouldn't be holding on to a goal lead against Zimbabwe or Rwanda.

9JAMac10:
If I were coach of the national team. Awaziem should pair Calvin bassey in the heart of our defense. Troost ekong inexcusable error against Zimbabwe is still fresh on our minds. Troost ekong is a light skinned Kenneth omeruo. If Nigeria ends up not qualifying just note we lost it in the home game vs Zimbabwe no thanks Troost ekong

people dey talk oh 🤦‍♂️

MKPUOGALIGA:
Jackson is a player loaded with many skills and tricks.....things just didn't workout at Chelsea FC.

which skills and trick, I've always said it that the Jackson I watch at villareal is not a player ill rate as a top top stricker, an OK stricker, yes

lbrichman2:
Which bank exactly?

savannah bank plc 😂

minfelix:
WCQ
Sychelles 0-3 Gabon
CIV must beat burundi on friday to recover the driving seat of power from Gabon in group F who currently top the table on 18points.

make we kuku dey update other countries wey serious to go WC as our SE no wan show seriousness…

serious countries have gotten to 18 points, we still dy drag 7points dy find how to remove 3points from South Africa 🤦‍♂️

AndSunGorilla:
For me, it's Chrisantus. This was an unknown player just a couple of years ago. He charted his own course, except for the brief cameo with the SE, he had no national team platform to propel him. He was played out of position in the LA Liga, yet, he still excelled.

Big KUNDUS to Chrisantus Uche!!!!

A very promising playing and it took Nigeria time to call him up. If he was a foreign born na to begin drag leg to play for SE.

Campaign to trash Sane, they say he refuse to pass ball to Osimhen. 😂 How true is this

TheGoodJoe:
Reread Arsene Wenger's quote again. It is not by chatting. Give me one source that supports your argument.


Read Zidane:
Football today, physically it has changed a lot. In my time you can be less well physically it was not a big deal you could get out of it with your technique. Today, physically, it might have played tricks on me.

i quote your comment where you say they were a wide gap in respect to skills, techniques between the attack and the defence in old era, that you even refer to the defenders as grassroots. So my question is, in this modern era did the defenders improve significantly and the attack remains stagnant without any improvement that closed this wide gap

TheGoodJoe:
You are saying hogwash because you have not sat down to understand the tactical gap between the past and modern football. The understanding is totally changed. Do research study and understand.

oga your argument is baseless.,saying defenders of today has improved and close the gap blah blah blah. Which gap? Did the modern day training improve just defenders and kept other departments stagnant? Or were attackers of old had a different training session that made them more fit or tactical than defenders of their time? 🙄

TheGoodJoe:
There is a height.

Back then, the likes of Theirry Henry, Nedved and co. were close to the top. The defenders were grassroots. Today many from defenders to attackers, even goalkeepers have pushed the limit close to the ceiling.

So the gap has reduced.

Gerrit?

FIFA World best winner Canavaro, Nesta, ferdinard, lemme even bring it home, Taribo West, Uche Okechukwu are who you call grassroot footballers. Which of your current SE defenders are better tactically than the aforementioned.

TheGoodJoe:

I have told you before. Today, the defenders aare faster, more skillful, more brilliant, better passers. Defenders and defensive midfielders are more tactically sound than before. So you are not getting Zidane, Recoba, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo skipping and dancing over players like before.

So the old players can say it is boring but they know they are not fitter, tactical, faster than players today.

so today midfielders or attackers remain stagnant, shouldn't they be more skillful, more tactically sound than players of old or the modern football improve just the defenders.

chrisooblog:
Lookman really put himself in a no-win situation. Should have made sure Inter were all in for him before taking that drastic action.

Same thing that happened to Osaze

Napoleon55:
Personally I rate La Liga higher than premier league,but truth be told,Osimhen playing in any of the top 10 clubs in premier league is better than playing for Galatasaray, not that all the top 10 clubs in PL are necessarily better than Galatasaray as a team per say,but a top class performance in any of those teams like Isak did would put him up for bigger clubs, and they can confidently trigger any clause he might have with the club in PL unlike his performance in Turkey could do for him.

But anything is possible, I still believe Osimhen is going to spend only two seasons in Turkey.

Bro I disagree with you. Osimhen playing for anything team outside the top six in the EPL is a downgrade for me. Isak moving from real sociedad to Newcastle and probably Liverpool shows progression