safarigirl:
Maduka is now getting his accolades on that Egypt save

It was a vital save, because it got us a clean sheet and set us off on this winning streak

Psychologically speaking, that save was massive

Not taking anything away from the save but Ekong's challenge on Salah made it easier for Maduka

safarigirl:


On the flipside, Tunisia has gotten 3 Penalties so far in this tournament, and have scored none.

Hopefully they don't get that far to cause such. I'm sure they'll wana prepare for such tricks. They should however get ready too.

The 2023 afcon preliminary draws is currently ongoing.... CIV are ready. Amuneke currently talking.



Its like Pinnick wants Presido o. Good for him if he's onto that.


As for Olisa Ndah in PSL, this should open a doorway down south for Nigerian footballers to use as a stepping stone. The rave is similar to Akpeyi's.

daveP:
The 2023 afcon preliminary draws is currently ongoing.... CIV are ready. Amuneke currently talking.



Its like Pinnick wants Presido o. Good for him if he's onto that.


As for Olisa Ndah in PSL, this should open a doorway down south for Nigerian footballers to use as a stepping stone. The rave is similar to Akpeyi's.

Trust me, if Pinnick get that CAF presido Seat, em go market, and brand CAF wella

see as Super Eagles brand is growing under him,
And with this beautiful attacking football Austin and Eagles are playing, the sky is ours for the taking

I told you guys how good Ndah is but as usual the myopic and sentimental analyst we have here disagreed. Everything to them is sentiments and emotion

Joezinho:


Sorry to say but Amaju is a doofus.. What time does the manager have to speak with the boys? Will they ask the ref for additional time? These are highly trained athletes. The only people that should speak to them at HT are the coaches.

This is Nigeria where chairman of a club will instruct a coach to change a player and NFF chairman will be the one dishing out tactics to the players. If "they" know they can do the coaching why hire a coach?

zuchyblink:
I told you guys how good Ndah is but as usual the myopic and sentimental analyst we have here disagreed. Everything to them is sentiments and emotion

Harold Olisa Ndah and John Noble were 2 home based recommendations out of 23 I made last year.

Omanambala:
I will not fail to give credits to Moses Simon for his hard work , mesmerizing runs and dribbles , but I will not say Moses Simon is our best player in this tournament yet.

REASON:

His end product is still very poor and leaves very little to celebrate. Moses needs to play with his eyes up and learn when to release the ball and create goalscoring chances.

His free kicks are nothing to write home about.
His corners are rarely on target.
He dribbles and runs a lot but at the end he almost always lost unproductive.

People have rated him our best player in the tournament but I disagree with that based on the fact such ratings should have the stats to back it up.

Moses has score a goal.
Kelechi has scored one and created one.
Aribo has created one.
Ekong has scored one.
Awoniyi has scored one.
Sadiq has scored one.

But , I am always ready to accept criticism when I am wrong , perhaps there is something about Moses Simon I am not seeing but based on my observations I would not call him our best player , yet.

Those of you who are calling him our best I will like to know how you came to that conclusion. Is there something he is doing which I am not taking note of ? What measurements did you guys used to arrive to that judgement ?

Educate me , guys , on this our best player and his contributions...thanks

So far, after the three matches who you do think Is our best player? Who is your top three?

zuchyblink:
I told you guys how good Ndah is but as usual the myopic and sentimental analyst we have here disagreed. Everything to them is sentiments and emotion

Baba hands up to you concerning Ndah

I was planning to quote you later today ,just comming back from Orlando Pirates Instagram page because of ndah

If you like insult me Na you sabi ,but you where right about ndah .

andrewbaba44:


Baba hands up to you concerning Ndah

I was planning to quote you later today ,just comming back from Orlando Pirates Instagram page because of ndah

If you like insult me Na you sabi ,but you where right about ndah .

I no dey insult person o! Na play we here

safarigirl:


No dey use name

Do you know how many people from Kaduna, Plateau, and Adamawa especially that have two English names? Is Emmanuel Dennis with two English names not from Adamawa?

You see how nobody gave his own matter any ethnic coloration, because people made assumptions of his ethnicity, but come out with an ethnic name in Nigeria, and see how you get polarising treatment. It is an issue across the board, and I find it funny how people who are repeat offenders of this same thing want to pick offence.

Go and call Simon aboki, you will see how nobody will say anything to you, but call Sadiq same thing, and people are forming offended

Why can't they be offended on behalf of the ones with English names?

A secondary school mate of Emmanuel Denis told me that Denis is from Kogi State. Even said Denis was not known for football when they were in secondary school.

zuchyblink:
I no dey insult person o! Na play we here

Hope the guy will not make a move to a rubbish league in Europe

It is supposed to be a soft skills everyone should have learnt on this thread — detecting troll comments.

Once you detect, you ignore. It's very irritating coming to see pages upon pages of back and forth argument on something we all know is trolling content

nelszx:
Tunisia camp has been hit by massive COVID-19 (hopefully they don't infect our players).

Currently 16 players and only an assistant coach (as the coach, goal keeper coach, physiotherapist - COVID-19 positive) is travelling to Garoua for their R16 encounter.

12 players plus other back room are positive for COVID-19 and would remain in limbe (isolation) and will play no part in the game vs Nigeria.

Players making the trip to Garoua:
Ben said/ Jmal / Haddedi / Abdi / Ifa / Talbi / Rekik / Skhiri / Ben Slimane / Aidouni / Hannibal / Rafia / Sliti / Msakni / Jaziri / Khaoui.

Source: @youssefmagra on Twitter

this is scary...how possible is it for our players to play with nose mask and gloves? They should use long sleeves and wear turtle neck under their jersey for that match.
There is no assurance that none of those travelling doesn't have covid already.

darkelf:
To Nigerian Super Eagles Team and Fans;

It's still a long road ahead. Don't celebrate too early

Curb your enthusiasm.

As usual, I'll be watching from the shadows

And I stand on my word, if we get past the QF stage, i'll type a well written public apology on this thread.

I remain Darkelf

Who is this one

Ogbeni fo kuro nibi

safarigirl:


Tiv and Igala are both Benue.

You should not even be confusing any of those two states, because they are nowhere near each other. Benue is in the middle belt, North Central, Adamawa is all the way in the North East, right at the edge of the nation

Adamawa is the Northern state sharing a boundary with Cameroon

Wrong about Igala. Igala used to be in Benue until kogi state was created from parts of Kwara and Kogi in 1990. Benue State where I was born and brought up is made of the Tivs, Idoma, Igede, Utonkon.

Only as recently as three years ago did I learn that some Igala people are indigenous to Anambra state and it is one of the languages in which they give news in Anambra. Idenna come and shed some light.

Kogi is made of mostly Igalas, Okuns, Igbirras,

Mujtahida:
Super Eagles camp is quite open oo with fans and journos watching them in session

What do you guys think? Is this good or bad?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FpKxGqzVYE

Why are they bullying Henry? Lol.

I'm happy to see Aribo being so playful.

Nice team spirit.

Musa is also doing well in organising the boys.

One of the thing that can win us this trophy is unity and cohesion.
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do4luv14:



Trust me, if Pinnick get that CAF presido Seat, em go market, and brand CAF wella

see as Super Eagles brand is growing under him,
And with this beautiful attacking football Austin and Eagles are playing, the sky is ours for the taking

Pinnick will market CAF by being a lackey to the baldies in FIFA. TUEH!

safarigirl:
In case some people are not on the Space....

One of the journalists in Cameroon, says there is high competition in camp for a shirt. Under Rohr, people just used to show up for training without worry, because everyone knew who will start and who will play, but the same thing is not being seen under Eguaveon

He believes Nigeria has been a victim of two poor coaches in Rohr and Oliseh, and that is why fans believe the team has overpeaked

Peterside Idah said this yesterday on Sunrise Daily that he was told that previously under Rohr certain players would know two weeks to any of our match that they would be playing. He mentioned agents being responsible for this state of affairs but that now everyone has to hustle for a shirt
Imagine
Thing is that Eguavoen too fall prey to such wiles. But for now he's doing well

zuchyblink:
I no dey insult person o! Na play we here

Na my very own man, na me dey always want gintar him eyes

Joezinho:


Sorry to say but Amaju is a doofus.. What time does the manager have to speak with the boys? Will they ask the ref for additional time? These are highly trained athletes. The only people that should speak to them at HT are the coaches.

Peterside said that from Sunday politicians from all corners of Nigeria will start flocking to Garoua and asking to see the players. In fact he begged them not to do this.

He said that in 2010 WC before our match against Greece, that Adenuga came and offered them a huge sum of money in dollars, omo him say that was how they forgot about the pending match and started discussing how to share the money.
Well we all know how that match ended.

Walahi let no accursed politician take his corrosive antics to Cameroon and derail this team.

soetanoreoluwa:


Why are they bullying Henry? Lol.

I'm happy to see Aribo being so playful.

Nice team spirit.

Musa is also doing well in organising the boys.

One of the thing that can win us this trophy is unity and cohesion.
Top post

I'll post another heartwarming video soon

Interesting coincidence

The last time Nigeria played in Cameroon two players who scored for Nigeria are not with this current team.

charlesemeka85:
aina na machine and you will see his best in an attacking team. when i dey tell pple say em better pass ebuehi dem go dey yarn opanka

Not to say Ebuehi is better than Aina oo cos on present showing Aina is better than him wella. But if you notice Ebuehi was playing in a gingerly way like he's afraid. Chuks too is playing that way, paran dem don comot leg.

semid4lyfe:
My pick for our best player so far is

WILFRED NDIDI

He's been massive in our three group games.

He maintained the same intensity/consistency for 90 minutes in all the matches and did not drop off at any point during the games.

He's the Octopus whose legs nick off balls from our opponents, breaks their attack and he does it so neatly. He's in beast mode for us.

Mujtahida:

Peterside said that from Sunday politicians from all corners of Nigeria will start flocking to Garoua and asking to see the players. In fact he begged them not to do this.

He said that in 2010 WC before our match against Greece, that Adenuga came and offered them a huge sum of money in dollars, omo him say that was how they forgot about the pending match and started discussing how to share the money.
Well we all know how that match ended.

Walahi let no accursed politician take his corrosive antics to Cameroon and derail this team.

Instead of leaving the coach to complete his drill to the boys, Amaju and his gang comes in to disturb..

I guess it's one of the side effects letting the NFF become financially self sufficient. Everything starts becomes about money.

Danielnino00:
"If I tell you how much I paid baba for this boot, e go shock you"

Kai Daniel u bad o....Ejuke wanna do jazz o d way him dey look Simeon boot.

semid4lyfe:
I don't put much stock on statistics.

The opinion I have formed from watching Nwakali in this competition is that he's just okay and not exceptional.

He's a midfielder with limited attributes and not versatile enough for the modern game.

He substracts more from our game than adds to it.

Somebody will soon tell you you know nothing about footie

elyte89:


DT submission is shocking ..aw can a sub part player make a full time player better ..I don't get

Bias makes a man confidently turn black into white. I saw that comment, I just weak

IDENNAA:



So , Mr Moderator! You were told you sounded like a blink man and you banned the handle...but this moniker called a person "drug addict" and they don't get banned.

Because you were countered you got into your feelings and used your little moderator power to show how hurt you were.

You have no semblance of integrity because on many occasions people have been reported for flouting rules but you kept mute because it's was not your person who is being attacked.


You are grossly incompetent and unethical! Enjoy your little power.

You are really a stubborn old man. Except you are laughing and enjoying displaying this crass sense of emotion wrecked behaviour behind your keyboard. If this is how you are really then there is a problem

Mujtahida:

Peterside said that from Sunday politicians from all corners of Nigeria will start flocking to Garoua and asking to see the players. In fact he begged them not to do this.

He said that in 2010 WC before our match against Greece, that Adenuga came and offered them a huge sum of money in dollars, omo him say that was how they forgot about the pending match and started discussing how to share the money.
Well we all know how that match ended.

Walahi let no accursed politician take his corrosive antics to Cameroon and derail this team.

Femi Otedola already promised $250k(130 million naira)for Afcon trophy.

safarigirl:
In case some people are not on the Space....

One of the journalists in Cameroon, says there is high competition in camp for a shirt. Under Rohr, people just used to show up for training without worry, because everyone knew who will start and who will play, but the same thing is not being seen under Eguaveon

He believes Nigeria has been a victim of two poor coaches in Rohr and Oliseh, and that is why fans believe the team has overpeaked

some people will soon come and tell us Oliseh wasn’t a poor coach