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Mujtahida: 12:21pm On Mar 26
Goke7:


With which team? Make Una stop that rough play abeg

Did you see that Ndidi miss? 😂 that’s enough for even fifa deduct 3 points. Apologies to Aiyegbeni!
Kanu will not miss that Ndidi opportunity. Laye. Several times in the 18, I saw our players in a rush to shoot. I scratch my head. Player go don block you, you go still shoot. Why not cut and to another player or create space for yourself and shoot?

Na coach go come teach them that one again?

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joelsteron: 12:24pm On Mar 26
Mujtahida:

Kanu will not miss that Ndidi opportunity. Laye. Several times in the 18, I saw our players in a rush to shoot. I scratch my head. Player go don block you, you go still shoot. Why not cut and to another player or create space for yourself and shoot?

Na coach go come teach them that one again?

Onyedika won't miss that too

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charlesemeka85(m): 12:26pm On Mar 26
Mujtahida:

Kanu will not miss that Ndidi opportunity. Laye. Several times in the 18, I saw our players in a rush to shoot. I scratch my head. Player go don block you, you go still shoot. Why not cut and to another player or create space for yourself and shoot?

Na coach go come teach them that one again?
lookman did it couple of times from the highlight I watched
Goke7: 12:26pm On Mar 26
Mujtahida:

Kanu will not miss that Ndidi opportunity. Laye. Several times in the 18, I saw our players in a rush to shoot. I scratch my head. Player go don block you, you go still shoot. Why not cut and to another player or create space for yourself and shoot?

Na coach go come teach them that one again?

Abi na nff, Me I no understand o you see why some of us are angry with the players? I watched a clip of that miss on social media, people for stadium just Dey shout Jesus! It’s appalling mhen
Mujtahida: 12:29pm On Mar 26
We won against Rwanda but let me not lie, from the moment I saw Aina as left back and Chukwueze in midfield, I lost some ounce of faith.

And then to repeat the same thing yesterday is unpardonable. I doubt Chelle's tactical nous.

Aina is the best RB in the EPL. Why manage him as a left back and play a mediocre Osayi as RB? Wouldn't it have been better to play Aina as a RB and enjoy maximum performance from him and then play Bruno who is also good in ing the attack on the left?

As long as we continue to play players out of position, things like these will continue to happen

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opes: 12:29pm On Mar 26
charlesemeka85:
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Ekong needs to be investigated for match fixing.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
safarigirl(f): 12:31pm On Mar 26
charlesemeka85:
the reason I put the blame on the coach and NFF

It’s only a desperate coach who will accept a contract that specify certain quota will be allowed in the national team, Bleep that!!

The national team isn’t a camp to market deadwood’s to obscure leagues in europe nor a camp to revive dead careers. The senior national team is meant for the very best any country can boast of

Since the coach isn’t confident on featuring the suspected names in the 2 games why invite them? Even read an interview published where the coach was asked why he is yet to feature Papa Daniel and he said the player needs to improve which implies the player isn’t ready or good enough then why invite him to important games such as the WCQ at the expense of more exprienced and exposed players who hv shown their worth in the national team (Onyeka) as well as shown enough in their clubs that they deserve a look in (Chrisantus)

God bless you. They brought someone that was not up to par to fill in space for important matches, someone who doesn’t know will think we were top of the group, instead of the fourth we were languishing in.

If Frank was on that team, after we scored, they could have thrown him in to lock that midfield, but what now happened? No personnel to carry out important duties during a game.

I have never seen leaders that are so dumb. You haven’t qualified for a tournament, but you want to force your mid relatives inside team, who do they think is watching their mid relatives in a World Cup qualifier? All this nepotism thing is best done at the tournament proper, so, you can flunk out on a grand stage. The eyes you want, don’t tune in to African qualifiers, but they will all tune in to that tournament. Very dumb people

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Mujtahida: 12:35pm On Mar 26
charlesemeka85:
lookman did it couple of times from the highlight I watched
Lookman problem is that he likes to enjoy the limelight. Osimhen is very unselfish. He doesn't mind not scoring, so long as we win.

Lookman had several opportunities to lay the but he dey always shoot even when them don block am.

Everybody wan score. As time reach for Osimhen to score, him struggle? No!

In a team with someone like Osimhen, we need someone like Oliseh to unselfishly feed him. Go watch Afcon 94, all Rashidi goals na Oliseh supply am.

But Lookman wan score. Forgetting that what is important is qualifying for the World Cup.

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Goke7: 12:36pm On Mar 26
Mujtahida:
We won against Rwanda but let me not lie, from the moment I saw Aina as left back and Chukwueze in midfield, I lost some ounce of faith.

And then to repeat the same thing yesterday is unpardonable. I doubt Chelle's tactical nous.

Aina is the best RB in the EPL. Why manage him as a left back and play a mediocre Osayi as RB? Wouldn't it have been better to play Aina as a RB and enjoy maximum performance from him and then play Bruno who is also good in ing the attack on the left?

As long as we continue to play players out of position, things like these will continue to happen

Are we going to sack Chelle now?
opes: 12:37pm On Mar 26
charlesemeka85:
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U need a win, got a goal around 70 minutes and still maintained a lean midfield of 2 men knowing too well that the opponent will try to push forward with all they hv to get an equalizer? This is the area I think Chelle got it wrong

Zimbabwe defenders were all on Osimhen. Immediately he was substituted, they started going forward and attacking. Chelle should have brought in Yusuf, even Aribo to protect the lead instead of bringing in Boniface. Same mistake he made twice against Ghana when they scored his team 2 late goals in each half.

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charlesemeka85(m): 12:38pm On Mar 26
safarigirl:


God bless you. They brought someone that was not up to par to fill in space for important matches, someone who doesn’t know will think we were top of the group, instead of the fourth we were languishing in.

If Frank was on that team, after we scored, they could have thrown him in to lock that midfield, but what now happened? No personnel to carry out important duties during a game.

I have never seen leaders that are so dumb. You haven’t qualified for a tournament, but you want to force your mid relatives inside team, who do they think is watching their mid relatives in a World Cup qualifier? All this nepotism thing is best done at the tournament proper, so, you can flunk out on a grand stage. The eyes you want, don’t tune in to African qualifiers, but they will all tune in to that tournament. Very dumb people
their mentality and belief is that super eagles will win their remaining matches and qualify easily ignoring the fact that opponents in the same group who already hv an advantage ahead of our team will do what ever it takes to maintain their advantage

Even many here had the same mentality which I will tag as a disease because naturally we always believe that when it comes to African football that the super eagles is untouchable and unstoppable

The NFF and a good number of fans still ignore the fact that football in Africa gets tougher as the year goes. Smaller nations are picking up in the sports rapidly
charlesemeka85(m): 12:41pm On Mar 26
opes:


Zimbabwe defenders were all on Osimhen. Immediately he was substituted, they started going forward and attacking. Chelle should have brought in Yusuf, even Aribo to protect the lead instead of bringing in Boniface. Same mistake he made twice against Ghana when they scored his team 2 late goals in each half.
even a novice in the sport know that’s the ideal thing to do, had it been the goal came in the first half it would hv been different because the game still have more minutes to be concluded but you scored 70 something minutes to take the lead and still maintained playing attacking football with a lean midfield of 2 men knowing fully well that the opponent will come at your midfield and defence with full force to see it they can force an equalizer
Mujtahida: 12:43pm On Mar 26
We lost yesterday's match big time. It's like Zimbabwe won us 3-0.

This issue of inverted wingers. Make una help me look am. See Aina's cross that led to the goal was what Simon should have been doing all game. But no, because of inversion he was always trying to cut to his right leg and the Zim guys never let him. A left footer would - just like Aina who is bipedal - have been whipping in crosses.

I hate this inverted winger bullshyte. If at all it should be deployed, let it be on one wing not the two wings. And then you use it if you have highly skilled and technical players like Robben. No be for players like Chukwueze

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Mujtahida: 12:46pm On Mar 26
Goke7:


Are we going to sack Chelle now?
No but I doubt his tactical know how.
elyte89: 12:47pm On Mar 26
Come to think of it…this could be a blessing in disguise guys cos from findings it shows dt the 3points will be deducted for sure and if that will happen,it means we still av d World Cup qualification in our hands

Now let’s assume dis scenario played out in a must win game against Benin 🇧🇯 in d last game for us to qualify…so many ppu will have heart attack 😀😀😀😀


So guys we re still in it …3points will be deducted from SA CONFIRMED.

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Goke7: 12:49pm On Mar 26
opes:


Zimbabwe defenders were all on Osimhen. Immediately he was substituted, they started going forward and attacking. Chelle should have brought in Yusuf, even Aribo to protect the lead instead of bringing in Boniface. Same mistake he made twice against Ghana when they scored his team 2 late goals in each half.

We can blame the coach for all we can but conceding in the 90th minute is unforgivable by any standard and the fact that this has happened under different coaches shows we have a bigger problem. I was never sold on Chelle cos I felt we could let Finidi go why Chelle especially when we saw what he did at Afcon but we were all enthusiastic because we saw him as an attacking minded coach which is what most Nigerians want to see all the time.
Odunayaw(m): 12:50pm On Mar 26
Kog45:
Zimbabwe knew keeping Osimhen out was difficult and played the game to cut him off but still scored from Aina assist...he got subbed off, Zimbabwe came out and had two chances,one hit the crossbars the other a goal.....I said it here the best of Ekong and Bassey is 3-5-2,but in 4-4-2 one of them need to sit out,with ball playing CB alongside Bassey you see the beast in him,though I rated him better than Ekong yesterday
For a defence that literally had nothing to do until the final moments. It is criminal that they conceded.

It's not as if there were waves and waves of attack or something. Arokodare kept the pressure that Osimhen have them, heck they saw what he did in the build to our goal.

I am very disappointed in Ekong and Osayi.
charlesemeka85(m): 12:52pm On Mar 26
elyte89:
Come to think of it…this could be a blessing in disguise guys cos from findings it shows dt the 3points will be deducted for sure and if that will happen,it means we still av d World Cup qualification in our hands

Now let’s assume dis scenario played out in a must win game against Benin 🇧🇯 in d last game for us to qualify…so many ppu will have heart attack 😀😀😀😀


So guys we re still in it …3points will be deducted from SA CONFIRMED.
deducting of 3 points from SA will be a huge advantage to the team but the problem is can our coach and players take advantage of the opportunity?

And bro no vex where did u get the info frm?
Odunayaw(m): 12:54pm On Mar 26
Mujtahida:
We lost yesterday's match big time. It's like Zimbabwe won us 3-0.

This issue of inverted wingers. Make una help me look am. See Aina's cross that led to the goal was what Simon should have been doing all game. But no, because of inversion he was always trying to cut to his right leg and the Zim guys never let him. A left footer would - just like Aina who is bipedal - have been whipping in crosses.

I hate this inverted winger bullshyte. If at all it should be deployed, let it be on one wing not the two wings. And then you use it if you have highly skilled and technical players like Robben. No be for players like Chukwueze
Simon made good crosses first half. Osimhen's header that hit the bar. Inconsistent crosses yes, but he was'nt one direction

The problem with our inverted winter style is what happens in the box. Players don't interpret space. No one is trying to drag players to free another, or one looking to position himself.

Only Osimhen and Fisayo seems to know how to position themselves around the box. Fisayo's goal against SA and Victor's own yesterday. Class movement

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7demons: 12:55pm On Mar 26
Goke7:


With which team? Make Una stop that rough play abeg

Did you see that Ndidi miss? 😂 that’s enough for even fifa deduct 3 points. Apologies to Aiyegbeni!
Oh, you're yet to realize none of our midfielders sabi shoot ball?
Apart from Iwobi, none of them: Onyeka, Ndidi Onyedika, Aribo, none of them sabi shoot outside 18yrd box. Gone are the days of Nsofor & Etebo cry
A whole box to box CDM cannot beat a player one-on-one, always ing side ways to Simon Moses who also messed up so many chances!
Washed bunch of players. They are " let me play and go back to my business".
Goke7: 12:57pm On Mar 26
Mujtahida:

No but I doubt his tactical know how.

This is too early bruv, though I felt he committed too many men forward especially in the first half as a better opposition in counter attack would have hurt us. This a coach with an attacking philosophy which is what most Nigerians want, defensively he may not be top notch and that’s where our experienced players should come in to help the team.
elyte89: 12:57pm On Mar 26
charlesemeka85:
deducting of 3 points from SA will be a huge advantage to the team but the problem is can our coach and players take advantage of the opportunity?

And bro no vex where did u get the info frm?

Trust me bro…..source 🤣🤣🤣🤣


But on serious note…some guys I follow on ig already called some sport lawyers,cosafa agents and Dey told him d 3points will be deducted

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charlesemeka85(m): 12:57pm On Mar 26
elyte89:


Trust me bro…..source 🤣🤣🤣🤣


But on serious note…some guys I follow on ig already called some sport lawyers,cosafa agents and Dey told him d 3points will be deducted
let’s remain hopeful
Goke7: 12:59pm On Mar 26
charlesemeka85:
deducting of 3 points from SA will be a huge advantage to the team but the problem is can our coach and players take advantage of the opportunity?

And bro no vex where did u get the info frm?

Which advantage when you can’t even win home games Dey play!
Samueltemi337(m): 12:59pm On Mar 26
7demons:

Oh, you're yet to realize none of our midfielders sabi shoot ball?
Apart from Iwobi, none of them: Onyeka, Ndidi Onyedika, Aribo, none of them sabi shoot outside 18yrd box. Gone are the days of Nsofor & Etebo cry
A whole box to box CDM cannot beat a player one-on-one, always ing side ways to Simon Moses who also messed up so many chances!
Washed bunch of players. They are " let me play and go back to my business".

Dele Bashiru?
Mujtahida: 1:00pm On Mar 26
elyte89:
Come to think of it…this could be a blessing in disguise guys cos from findings it shows dt the 3points will be deducted for sure and if that will happen,it means we still av d World Cup qualification in our hands

Now let’s assume dis scenario played out in a must win game against Benin 🇧🇯 in d last game for us to qualify…so many ppu will have heart attack 😀😀😀😀


So guys we re still in it …3points will be deducted from SA CONFIRMED.
Nooo. They should not deduct it. I don't want South Africa to be "robbed". They deserve it.

When a team gets to the point where home or away does not matter, you know you have a good team. That's where SA is now.

For us in Nigeria, we aren't sure anymore. Home oo, dem fit wipe us, away oo, the same thing.

Let SA go. I wish them all the best.

I don go collect all the sacrifice I offered the gods. I don untie afobear wey I wanted to offer the gods yesterday. The werey run

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7demons: 1:02pm On Mar 26
ChrisKels:
Osimhen will hustle for 75 minutes and still be faster and a more serious threat than Arokodare that was subbed in in the 75th minute.
You no see the mess we put ourselves into??
Lackadaisical attitude. When we have hustlers like Akor Adams, Gift Orban, Uche of Getafe. These guys are Lions in human form.
elyte89: 1:04pm On Mar 26
Mujtahida:

Nooo. They should not deduct it. I don't want South Africa to be "robbed". They deserve it.

When a team gets to the point where home or away does not matter, you know you have a good team. That's where SA is now.

For us in Nigeria, we aren't sure anymore. Home oo, dem fit wipe us, away oo, the same thing.

Let SA go. I wish them all the best.

I don go collect all the sacrifice I offered the gods. I don untie afobear wey I wanted to offer the gods yesterday. The werey run


Baba u re still running on emotions…a super eagles World Cup appearance is still in our minds …4get talk

Meanwhile y am I even responding 😏. U knew I knw aw to manage games yet u left me for chelle,now c d result 🤨🤨🤨

Anyway Thank God for South Africa 🇿🇦 Mumuness ,Dey played demselves
charlesemeka85(m): 1:04pm On Mar 26
7demons:

You no see the mess we put ourselves into??
Lackadaisical attitude. When we have hustlers like Akor Adams, Gift Orban,
and Adams and Orban are in better form than Arokodare?

Nawaooo 🤦‍♀️
charlesemeka85(m): 1:07pm On Mar 26
elyte89:



Baba u re still running on emotions…a super eagles World Cup appearance is still in our minds …4get talk

Meanwhile y am I even responding 😏. U knew I knw aw to manage games yet u left me for chelle,now c d result 🤨🤨🤨

Anyway Thank God for South Africa 🇿🇦 Mumuness ,Dey played demselves
I think say by now u for done sack am as ur lawyer?

Rumor has it that he sabotaged your initial contract discussion with the NFF prior to the engagement of Chelle as the head coach

Na rat wey dey inside house dey tell outside own where meat dey for house 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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charlesemeka85(m): 1:08pm On Mar 26
Goke7:


Which advantage when you can’t even win home games Dey play!
the reason I said if they can take advantage of the opportunity 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
chrisooblog: 1:08pm On Mar 26
grin

Thing is I've seen this movie before can't give myself BP will strictly be checking notifications and final results of our qualifying games till it finishes.

Might resume live viewing for AFCON.

Mujtahida:

Nooo. They should not deduct it. I don't want South Africa to be "robbed". They deserve it.

When a team gets to the point where home or away does not matter, you know you have a good team. That's where SA is now.

For us in Nigeria, we aren't sure anymore. Home oo, dem fit wipe us, away oo, the same thing.

Let SA go. I wish them all the best.

I don go collect all the sacrifice I offered the gods. I don untie afobear wey I wanted to offer the gods yesterday. The werey run

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