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TheGoodJoe:
Now we are getting somewhere. Was this communicated to the Libyans to make them understand that? That is why I am talking about lapses. Did we communicate our inability and did we try to look for an alternative? That is the simple point I have been driving.

If the NFF did not have money, did they have a contingency plan to seek help for them?

In our government circle it is said that government is team work.

Zicky this route is one-way don't enter, jejely making a payment U-turn

TheGoodJoe:
Is it not the same NFF that said they offered the Libyans buses and they rejected. Does that not blow holes into you guys idea that the NFF should not do anything?

I am talking about lapses on our end. You guys are offering nothing to the table.

[b[b]]NFF said the Libyans airborne requested for buses. Later the NFF said they rejected their buses, don't you see a hole in that? [/b]

My guess is that the NFF wanted the Libyans to pay for the buses and they did not have the money. Not that they rejected the buses.

But, the NFF came out telling us they rejected their buses. These are lapses on our end[/b].

So what is biting you people?

The fact that you are even guessing makes it ridiculous.
Bro you are the only one seeing lapses because the Nfa was magnanimous enough to even offer them buses.
Our 2016 Olympic male team was stranded because our nfa was financially strapped, not even the IOC or the country host the Olympic could come to their aid.
But you want our nfa to provide flight, then maybe next time provide them with playing kit and jersey

TheGoodJoe:
Akwa Ibom State Government had already spent millions to host the Libyan team. The NFF were aware the Libyans were financially strapped. They did nothing but you don't feel there is a lapse in that.

Your problem is abusing me for feeling that we could do better and there were contingency measures we would have pulled to get them to the host State that was bearing the brunt of the costs.

You are angry that I suggested that at least the NFF, if they could not get support from Fed. Ministry of Sports, could have tried networking for support.

Your problem is to abuse.

Guy you are still on with this line. 🤦‍♂️.
Do you know how many times the nff have been financially strapped.
Did you hear the news that South Sudan only went with 15players for their game against SA because of finance. Which home country have you seen come to the rescue of an away team that is financially strapped when you are not their FA abi government.

TheGoodJoe:
My post October 15.

I was not talking cause an effect. I was talking of us cleaning our end. I wonder why such a simple point is hard to get.

It is about us improving ourselves.

Finito.

Yea I get you, lemme say it was wrong timing.

TheGoodJoe:
The point is about us improving ourselves. Whether Libyans are animals or not is not the issue. We could do better.

Finito.

Bro leave this talk, the matter on ground was about the maltreatment our players experience in Libya, the whole media was talking about same issue but you wanted to sound woke that they must be a cause for their(Libyans) action.
We all here know how lackadaisical our Nff can be and nobody will defend, but you coming to bring up cause and effect at that point is you defending and supporting the terrorist action of the libyans

Finito

TheGoodJoe:
Guilt ke. Very funny.

I repeat, no one supported Libya on this thread and I am the only one wrongly thought was supporting Libya.

Finito.

by collaborating with the save face story the Libyans dished out. You actually defended and supported their action.

TheGoodJoe:
So who was he referring to? General public. Please. Go through this thread and tell me one person falsely understood Tor supporting Libya.

Conscientious.

Bro na you he dy refer to, you are right cos you use like a week trying to get us all to see why the Libyan acted the way they did. You want us all to see that the nff did something wrong by not paying for a flight to take the Libyans from ph to uyo.

kennysville:
Small time people will be comparing Eagles club players to the 94 set. Losing at home started with Booda Gernot Rohr and we got comfortable with it. Orientation dey different

Exactly, we are now comfortable losing at home. Even the 2015 set of SE that we call our lowest point were not this poor at home.

Samueltemi337:
There was a time we lost to CAR at home under Rohr

Same thing I'm saying, after the lose to SA in uyo, we just keep losing to smaller teams at home. It's annoying, we can't call our stadium a fortress.

Nigeria can now lose to any Tom, dick and Harry at home. We cannot beat Benin on a neutral ground See how low we have gone.

GMBOFASIA:
What about today header?

After starting 4 matches, his only highlight is a header? 😳

CornOak:
Boniface out for Sodiq.

I'm saying it again Onuachu wasn't given this much opportunity. Boniface has done nothing since coming into the team.

M7even:
Chukwueze did it

what stop moses and Boniface from doing it.

TheSuperNerd:
Gabriel Osho has been good by the way. Smooth in possession and rugged in his duels. Fine tackler.

Has even registered 100% passing perfection. 39 accurate passes out of 39 attempted.

Very decent showing so far.

now let's bring back the Taminu vs Osho comparison.

M7even:
If not Moses Simon running to create that for him, Iheanacho cannot create such . And even when he shot the ball did he score. He was so hyped that after that play, he ballooned the ball over the bar.

ena dy talk oh, make iheanacho create for himself, still be the one to shoot. Nawao

princeabdul:
LOL 😂 😂 the entire team outing was poor chief, I'm surprised you didn't see that

if we talk them go say we dy give excuse because no be local player.

kingphilip:
This is absolutely spot on. more backwater league reports have been dropped here and heaven did not fall.

It wasn't a clamour for call up but a harmless match report.

When same people were reporting about him being superglued with aradite on the bench nobody turned brown but just a good report was turning them red.

I can bet with anything that those sets of persons are not even in the best in their professions. If they're to rate them in their profession they might not be in top 100 grouping but why not, there's somebody to bash to make them feel good.

For them if it's not negative news don't say anything about Nwakali.

kennysville:
Worry about us winning home games sir. Currently wr need stability in the SE. There was a time not too long ago when we got beaten st home. We are building the momentum and we surely will get there

Always building momentum, the one we gathered after the Afcon what happened to it, erosion (Finidi) flush am 😂

Kog45:
Oya rate Tanimu and Osho in eagles colour😎......my point is opportunity not lowering invitation standard.

Yes it would be difficult for a player in lower league to get invitation but if opportunity permit and he did well then no wahala

Honestly I don't rate Taminu and for Osho I felt he was rushed into starting that away game, can't say anything about his rating until maybe after the ruwanda game if he play.
For national team invitation except you are an upcoming star, you can't tell in the whole country a division 3 player ( Taminu) is the best we can offer

Kog45:
Oh you think someone like me and Mujtahida cares...if a player get eagles invite irrespective of the league na him eagles performance be Koko.....reason why I dey use my third eye dey look Boniface.

Emeka Ezeugo got invited from India league and made US 94 team...Uche Okafor was playing a league I can't even remember...Thompson Oliha for sometime clubless .....Koko be say deliver in eagles colour if a player gets the opportunity

The truth is you must be performing at a top level to get a national team invite, if we start giving excuses for division 3 or farmers league fresh invitee into the team we might be giving chance for mago mago.
Oga 94 and 2024 are different era. The standard difference btw most league was not much.

Kog45:
I just dey wait for Tanimu 90 minutes performance...I go scatter this thread for the first time,hyping him....Nwakali review was a dig on kokmne and really surprised some took it serious.

TheSuperNerd report was aiming but thegoodjoe turned it to yes yes and some monikers like humility,Charlesbaba don't want to hear such...Kai division three player.

TheSuperNerd I thought you don retire from Nwakali matter

But Taminu was invited to SE squad as a division 3, heaven did not fall. If it happens with Nwakali you know UN no go fit settle the conflict wey go erupt.

Odunayaw:
I think na Oga Joe's commentary de always trigger dem no matter how harmless it is.

Osimhen and Nwakali topic can trigger some people here. Ironically one is doing very well, while the other is still struggling.

Maybe I skipped some comments cos I'm still searching for the recent hype of Kelechi outside supernerd reporting about his performance for his club after a long while. This is witchcraft oh. Seems some here derive joy seeing the guy fail, Nobody asked for his recall to super eagles. Emeka always looking for every opportunity to ridicule the young man, even when nobody talks about him you find a way to bring negative news about him. Now someone is reporting something pos about him your body begin scratch you.

TheGoodJoe:
Watched an interview last week where Kelechi Nwakali actually said he was nursing a small injury earlier this season and he could not play until the injury was fully sorted out.

Also said he does not like spending time debunking false news reports about him.

what about the story that he slapped a teammate and was sent to the u21 team.. Which komekn confirmed.

villagereporter:
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The team was outstanding in general but some player shown like a star among whom is Osimhen.

Yea the team put up a very good show. I love Osimhen as a player and I'll pick him over Haland due to his all round game. But coming to say without Osimhen the team won't have gotten to the finals is a fallacy. If I'm to rate our players base on performance at Afcon Ekong, Lookman, Onyeka might be ahead of him.

Kog45:
I think his early development failed him but with a coach who is ready to work on him... Osimhen go score tire

Osimhen has worked with some top coaches, I believe they all has seen it. Trying to work on it now might be counterproductive, it might affect his reaction time

Kog45:
What can you say about Ekong afcon 2023....

or onyeka and Lookman. Osimhen gave his all in that tournament but it will be false to say he took us to the finals

Pidginwhisper:
I saw all the players on Camera yesterday, except Seniorman. Seniorman gba like mad. Make dem leave the guy to face his club career for now.

like I also notice of recent you hardly see him on camera even in camp. Nacho was like the funny guy and chorus leader in the team. Senior man might be going tru alot.

charlesemeka85:
one of the most important players on this super eagles team

Also one that will be hard to get his replacement when he hangs his boots

As Roberto Baggio wey him be. I don't see any super eagles player currently that can not be replaced., is he better than nsofor or Osaze of old abi ike Uche.

wayodude:
I watched the entire 90 mins of this game and that easily qualifies for a top 2 worst Super Eagles performance in living memory. Please don't let the fact it ended in a draw deceive you. Benin really were the better side and should have won convincingly. It was so glaringly obvious who the better managed team was.

Who to blame?

Eguavoen has had several auditions and has serially proven not to be cut out for it at this level. Iwobi and Ndidi in a 2 man midfield? Starting with 3 centre backs but with no idea how to progress the ball through the lines? Not a single attempt at creating overloads on the Beninoise full backs, they did that to ours several times? Really really poor.

Iheanacho is finished at the top level. After he inevitably gets offloaded by Sevilla he will disappear into the ether. I don't see how he gets interest from a top flight team in any big league.

Bassey cannot be a guaranteed starter. He's all brawn no brains, very aggressive but no real physical qualities to talk about, not fast can jump ...simply not good enough to be starting every game. He's still young so might improve with time.

Iwobi also cannot be a guaranteed starter. We've seen his performance ceiling, it isn't very high and he hardly ever brings it to the party anyway.

Gabriel Osho was very very poor. I think it was a good idea to see him in this sort of game and the nerves of making his debut might have got to him. Maybe he gets one more chance. We need to try out a few more players here so his invitation was welcome.

Osimhen needs 5/6 clear cut chances to convert 1. His finishing for club and country are not worth the hype he gets. The best part of his game is his hard work, physicality and athleticism but against strong, athletic African strikers they don't leave him with any change. Remove the 7 goals he scored against Sao Tome and penalties against the likes of Sierra Leone and you'll see where his real stats should be. We still need him for his hard work but we need to remeasure our expectations. His goal today was his first for Nigeria since the AFCON opener against Equatorial Guinea in January.

Tired of writing....




NB: I missed the goal he scored Vs Benin in Uyo but still my point stands. His goal return rate is not good enough.

Guy I agree with you, the whole 23players are just not good enough nor are guarantee starters.

BankyGee:
OFFICIAL: Eguavoen releases the Starting XI for the match between Benin and Nigeria!

- Osho starts on his debut!
- Victor Osimhen back in the starting lineup
- Iheanacho plays from the right flank.

Let's go for three points boys 🔥 🇳🇬🦅
#AFCONQ2025 | #SoarSuperEagles | #BENNGA
🖼️: Soar Super Eagles

the lineup seems okk by me, Amy of the front 3 can do damage on their good day.

Subzerooo:
I don’t see the use of Iheanacho if Iwobi will play in a two man midfield, Moses Simon can atleast fill up the space left by Iwobi if he is drawn towards the 18 yard box, Iheanacho is just useless

if e easy make oyibo man sign you 😂