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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by forgiveness: 10:14pm On Feb 02
Blueelf:
Was Osimhen really offside though?

Yes

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Odunayaw(m): 10:15pm On Feb 02
Nigerians don go colonise Twitter space wey Angolans de use hold body grin

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by charlesemeka85(m): 10:16pm On Feb 02
Odunayaw:
Nigerians don go colonise Twitter space wey Angolans de use hold body grin

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Mujtahida: 10:16pm On Feb 02
Goke7:


are you sure the boys on the bench are better? nobody is sure o. Can Iheaancho and Moffi stand those tackles Oshinmen has been getting from defenders in this competition?
They are better. Just as the coaches wey don go house are better. Always speculating rather than deal with concrete reality.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by ThunderFireAgba: 10:17pm On Feb 02
lbrichman2:


And you think the coaching crew don't know that?
JPes has met the Semi final target NFF gave him
Now man can switch things up
Let's not deceive ourselves, there's no way he would have changed

We stick to our tactics, rotate some players
That's all
2 players are not going to play in the semi-finals. Moses Simon and Aina. cry cry cry
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Mujtahida: 10:18pm On Feb 02
Odunayaw:
Which kain penalty dem just give Guinea
I really don't like all this Guinea, Dr Congo, Angola at this stage of the competition. Unfortunately the big boys have gone home.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Mujtahida: 10:19pm On Feb 02
Joebie:
Oga must he play 80+ mins all the time? Na common sense thing na.

Dem remove am, opposition come get freedom from him wahala and then go score us, wetin you go talk?
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Goke7: 10:20pm On Feb 02
COOL10:



Lol, those are not excuses. Excuses would be me blaming badluck for Osimhen's inefficacy in front of goal.


Besides, Osimhen and Salah don't share similar fates. Osimhen didn't get injured in just his second match.


If he did and we ended up failing to move past the round of 16 just like Egypt, we would have all blamed Osimhen's injury for the quick exit, just like the Egyptians are currently blaming Salah's injury for theirs.

You're making assumptions, there is no guarantee that if Egypt had remained in this competition, Salah would have scored 4 or 5 goals by now, everything na probability.

That is why Oshimen is not the only player that can score in the team if he's firing blanks, then let others take responsibility which is what we have seen in the last two games, Simon almost scored what would have been one of the best goals in the second half so wetin we dey talk sef.

Senegal are home, why are we not blaming their strikers

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Odunayaw(m): 10:20pm On Feb 02
Mujtahida:

I really don't like all this Guinea, Dr Congo, Angola at this stage of the competition. Unfortunately the big boys have gone home.
I just watched 20mins and left the game. No atmosphere undecided
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by ThunderFireAgba: 10:21pm On Feb 02
Do you think we can displace Morocco at the 12th position if we win AFCON?

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by charlesemeka85(m): 10:21pm On Feb 02
Nigeria have participated in 19 AFCON tournaments and have reached the semi-finals 16 times.

UNREAL 🤯🇳🇬

Wow!!

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheGoodJoe(m): 10:21pm On Feb 02
Mujtahida:

😂😂😂😂😂. Tiki taka is the most boring brand of football I've ever seen. How you enjoy it is a mystery to me.

I think negative football is the boring one.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Mujtahida: 10:22pm On Feb 02
Joebie:
We Dey say am for Napoli and heavens will not fall. Even Osimhen knows it’s all about the team.

Napoli no dey play seven games take win league title

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Goke7: 10:24pm On Feb 02
which yeye match be this, dem just dey dash them penalties wey we no see for our own game
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Starboytwo(m): 10:25pm On Feb 02
charlesemeka85:
in my opinion super eagles is the best team tactics wise in this afcon

I believe Jpes made out time to research more on the ability of our players and found out the best tactics to bring out their best

If u follow Lookman in Atalanta u will notice that in a two man striking tactics he is very potent. The way jpes hv set up his team especially in attack is deceptive. From the beginning you will think lookman is operation as a winger but in the actual sense him and osimhen are deployed as a two man attacking force while Simon is more of crossing and delivering of passes in the final 3rd to the attacking duo

Iwobi plays as a deep lying player maker who is expected to keep the flow of the game as well as to play it simple while Onyeka is the destroyer who runs around to harass the opponent’s midfield as well as serve as a pressing machine

Zaidu’s major responsibility in this team isn’t moving forward but to defend his position. Him going forward is a plus and much isn’t expected from him via crosses while Aina is the one with more freedom to attack because he is more assured and confident on the ball than zaidu

I hv to say that Jpes isn’t as bad as we thought tactically
Long may you live.

Infact I'm more surprised Zaidu always manage to find himself in good positions in opponents box. Plus the guy carry engine for chest, before you know he don run go cover for back.

Anything Zaidu do apart from defend na bonus to me.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by ChrisKels: 10:25pm On Feb 02
This formation wears out our players because of JPez’s rigidity, and I hope it doesn’t come back to bite us. With the caliber of players on our bench, a player like Osimhen who was visibly tired had no business being on that pitch past the 70th minute mark.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Mujtahida: 10:25pm On Feb 02
TheGoodJoe:


I think negative football is the boring one.
And that's what tiki taka is. Denying your opponent the ball is negative football. My style of football is Klopp, Ancellotti, Jupp Heynckes, Pellegrini. So you think tiki taka is positive football? Chai
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Meliforme: 10:27pm On Feb 02
drDoom3:


It is not sustainable. That is the issue.

Once we meet a team that can hold sustained pressure in our attacking third towards the end of games, or we fail to score first in a game, we will struggle.
Good observation. Peseiro's game management can make this a possibility, or not a possibility.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Mujtahida: 10:28pm On Feb 02
Joebie:
My own na to analyze. Not tubu tubu. That’s the nature. of analysis 😂
To analyze easy. When you get your own team, begin mix the players like Ogbono 😂😂😂
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by ChrisKels: 10:28pm On Feb 02
I don’t care what excuse anyone would want to give to shield Zaidu, that guy was well described by my boy, Komekn

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Goke7: 10:29pm On Feb 02
Starboytwo:
Long may you live.

Infact I'm more surprised Zaidu always manage to find himself in good positions in opponents box. Plus the guy carry engine for chest, before you know he don run go cover for back.

Anything Zaidu do apart from defend na bonus to me.

football can be crazy you know, the zaidu we dey abuse today can just go and score in the semi-final, I wonder what we will all say by then.

Na so we dey abuse Garbal Lawal those days until e go score against the Almighty Spain for France 98. Na so we dey abuse Ahmed Musa till he started scoring beautiful goals in the world cup, abeg make we chill small, this life no balance

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Odunayaw(m): 10:31pm On Feb 02
Make I watch Guirassy
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by daveP(m): 10:31pm On Feb 02
Mujtahida:

I hoped we will blow them away but we didn't. We sha win.

This thing that looks easy on the eye is really hard. We should be tempered in our criticisms. We never gave the man a chance. We never gave the team a chance but now we are in the semi.

I like good football. But I want the Afcon trophy more abeg
the scoreline did us no justice. But we tore that defense apart but luck helped them.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by COOL10(m): 10:31pm On Feb 02
Goke7:


You're making assumptions, there is no guarantee that if Egypt had remained in this competition, Salah would have scored 4 or 5 goals by now, everything na probability.

That is why Oshimen is not the only player that can score in the team if he's firing blanks, then let others take responsibility which is what we have seen in the last two games, Simon almost scored what would have been one of the best goals in the second half so wetin we dey talk sef.

Senegal are home, why are we not blaming their strikers




Reply to first paragraph: I never said Salah would have scored 4 or 5 goals by now if he wasn't injured. I simply asked if you thought Salah wouldn't have scored up to three goals by now. There's a difference 😄


Reply to second paragraph: Osimhen is the current APOTY. It is expected that more eyes will be on him than others. With great power comes great responsibility.


Reply to third paragraph: Nothing concerns me with Senegal; this is a Super Eagles thread, but be honest with yourself, despite how hard Mane worked for the team and even got some assists, will you say he had a good tournament for a player of his calibre? That's my point.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Starboytwo(m): 10:32pm On Feb 02
Mujtahida:

I hate it with a passion. It's like machines and robots playing. No variety, just pass, pass, pass. Denying the opponent the ball for stretches of the game such that it becomes a one-sided show. Damn that useless philosophy. I came to watch two teams have a go at each other, not one team hugging the ball like a toy. Anytime any tiki taka team lose, e dey sweet my belly.
I remember one day I go viewing center make I watch man utd match but dem never start, na Barca dey play with one team.

For good 10 minutes, those people leg no touch ball, I sat there wondering which kain mumu ball be this Only pass pass pass pass, no dribble, no legover, no outside shot, just pass pass and triangles..

For LA Liga, na athletico or madrid I fit watch, atleast you go see goals or fight.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by daveP(m): 10:33pm On Feb 02
Joebie:
What I feared may happen unless Peseiro disagrees to sign a new contract. I hope we go for someone who can build from where Jpes stopped, and not start all over.

Well for now, let’s focus on the two remaining matches, though I always have my mind set on the highest prize — the World Cup of course
This is where I'm scared of the self destruct abilities of nff guys. They'll do one yeye meeting now and bring one carpenter that can't build or will crumble stuff. They dunno how to sustain morale wey don high.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Mujtahida: 10:33pm On Feb 02
charlesemeka85:
in my opinion super eagles is the best team tactics wise in this afcon

I believe Jpes made out time to research more on the ability of our players and found out the best tactics to bring out their best

If u follow Lookman in Atalanta u will notice that in a two man striking tactics he is very potent. The way jpes hv set up his team especially in attack is deceptive. From the beginning you will think lookman is operation as a winger but in the actual sense him and osimhen are deployed as a two man attacking force while Simon is more of crossing and delivering of passes in the final 3rd to the attacking duo

Iwobi plays as a deep lying player maker who is expected to keep the flow of the game as well as to play it simple while Onyeka is the destroyer who runs around to harass the opponent’s midfield as well as serve as a pressing machine

Zaidu’s major responsibility in this team isn’t moving forward but to defend his position. Him going forward is a plus and much isn’t expected from him via crosses while Aina is the one with more freedom to attack because he is more assured and confident on the ball than zaidu

I hv to say that Jpes isn’t as bad as we thought tactically
Respect! This is good. Your best so far.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by ChrisKels: 10:35pm On Feb 02
Frank is truly a tank

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Mujtahida: 10:35pm On Feb 02
Joebie:
He made research based on how they play at their clubs abi? Na scientific research be that. E didn’t utilize that and deploy 3-4-3 in important WC qualifiers. Interesting!

Mod
The fact is Lookman is very comfortable coming inwards. He’s always played like that for us prior to this AFCOn
You sha still pour sand sand for that beautiful and intelligent analysis 😜😜
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Daninya33: 10:36pm On Feb 02
charlesemeka85:
na Algeria 🇩🇿 we go face for semi finals?😳
No bro
How many times have the Super Eagles bottled up Semi finals game?.

I am just concerned it doesn't repeat again.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Starboytwo(m): 10:37pm On Feb 02
charlesemeka85:
Nigeria have participated in 19 AFCON tournaments and have reached the semi-finals 16 times.

UNREAL 🤯🇳🇬

Wow!!
I still feel winning 3 afcon is not right by me Sha. We supposed dey like 8 Ajeh.

Since dem don born me, na only 1 afcon I don celebrate. Haba mana.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by charlesemeka85(m): 10:38pm On Feb 02
Nigerians don finish Ghanaians for X 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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