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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 10:00am On Nov 20, 2018
Rohr: Akpeyi, Afelokhai to share Super Eagles goalkeeping duties against Uganda


Gernot Rohr has revealed that goalkeepers Daniel Akpeyi and Theophilus Afelokhai will share the goalkeeping duties against Uganda today in Asaba.

South Africa-based Akpeyi will start in goal this afternoon, before Enyimba shot stopper Afelokhai takes over for the second half.

It will therefore be a litmus test for the two goalkeepers as they aim to stake their claim in the Super Eagles squad.

It is a chance for the goalkeepers to justify their call-ups and possibly challenge for the No 1 shirt currently held by Francis Uzoho with Ikechukwu Ezenwa as deputy.

Interestingly, Akpeyi and Afelokhai were the two goalkeepers in 2015 against the Bafana Bafana of South Africa with Akpeyi manning the post.

Rohr also said Villarreal youngster Samuel Chukwueze will make his debut and Victor Osimhen will also feature after his recent goals for Belgian club Sporting Charleroi.



**By Kola Daniel in Asaba


Source: ScoreNigeria

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by edi287: 10:02am On Nov 20, 2018
Mickael2:


Precisely
Yeah I think Samu has better close control than him. Sessegnon is probably a better goal scorer
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by cc12(m): 10:05am On Nov 20, 2018
Komekn said he doesn't rate him at all


Mickael2:


I believe this has been a huge misunderstanding. I for one will tag Samu a huge talent but will I put him in the same bracket as Mbappe? No way na, and they are almost of the same age which is what I genuinely believe Komekn is saying too but here once you oppose a particular set of people you become the enemy, even if you whistle then it means you must have whistled because you don't like so so and so player, it is annoying
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 10:06am On Nov 20, 2018
Ohhh nooo not even implying that... But being a founding member and major contributor who follows the events of this thread gives me enough nous to know that you are not versed about most events that take place on this thread.

And also Komekn deserved whatever he got because he is a snake and a bonafide hater of anything Home-grown Naija talent. Icon4s knows this... TheGoodJoe knows this... So many elders here know this and some have Even engaged him before about it but he persists in it. Even when Wayodude answered his ridiculing question on Chukwueze with a Spanish football expert's view, what did Komekn do? He started saying that Wayodude doesn't have his own opinion.

I am pretty sure if the Wayodude fella (sorry for the few mentions man) had given just his own opinion, the tune of Komekn will be that he is no expert and thus he cannot just take his words for it but needs the views of top rated bodies or journals. Wayo gave him that but he evaded it so mischievously.


Utonwanne:


Well, being a founding member gives you no guarantee to insult him,,, we ain't dragging who first come grin

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Nobody: 10:07am On Nov 20, 2018
TheGoodJoe:


Maybe you do not know that Netherland and Chile play brilliant football. So this does not make a case for you.

I chose to ignore.
Same way you have been silent on Nig vs Lib games, where we played a blend of good football on both legs.

We played against Libya on the 13th and 16th of Oct.

Attached below is a screenshot of your activity during that period.

You said zilch. grin

Only to come out voicing 'anti-football' after we have successfully secured qualification against SA

Be fair. grin grin

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by komekn(m): 10:08am On Nov 20, 2018
Mickael2:



If I understand you correctly huge talent according to you means an outstanding talent? Something like Mbappe now right? Well if that is your definition of huge talent well I am not sure he is exactly up to that. But for me I consider even Dembele a huge talent and although he may be more talented than Samu I still believe that if Dembele falls into that huge talent category (together with someone like....this young fullback cum winger in Fulham) then Samu deserves to be in it or at least around the periphery there.

By the way Mbappe is an outstanding talent, not huge talent. Some might add Dembele to that outstanding talent category but there is no way Samu is not close to that Fulham guy(this is in respect to the match he played against Liverpool this season which I watched and live too, my first live EPL game by the way, although I have watched a few LA Liga games live). So this is just a matter of semantics, to you huge talent is the ultimate, to a lot of people here it is the second tier behind outstanding talent

Opinion in football are time limited, with time they go up or down. Are proven and unproven nothing remains the same.

Absolutely correct, l am not one to jump on the first few games a player has made and shout Messi is born. SPECAIL HUGE TALENT has arrived. No my view is to watch, wait and see some consistent MOTM performances, some Wow moments. Over the course of the season. However if you keep scoring in consecutive games then your rapidly becoming amazing.


We had similar fireworks when l said Nwakali is not Outstanding Talent I notice my detractors have gone quite for now.

Not too long ago I termed Isaac Success "Wasteman" his disciplinary record was deplorable, totally unfocused he even put on weight.

But like I said time changes everything either for good or bad. Well this season he has woken up. But he has a long way to go, his goal record totally abysmal. Is he Wasteman, at this point in time not anymore. But is he now DD Drogba not at all.

I presume you are talking about Ryan Ssegnon. I watched him live for the first time when he was 16 playing for Fulham against Blackburn. I thought he was good but not outstanding. But then he was 16 playing regular first team football, that's quite remarkable I thought.

I then called my friend head of recruitment at Fulham and joked I bet you'll want £10 million for this kid as a joke. Well he said No, that's too cheap we want £25 million.

By the end of the season this teenager was putting in continous top level performances. I watched him score two goals against Newcastle. That summer Liverpool bid £30 million. Now for a teenager that's outstanding talent proven and now tested. But that's over two consistent seasons. What's shocking He is now still only 18 and has played near 100 professional first team games. That's OUTSTANDING in my opinion.

I do think he is struggling a bit now, but that may be reflection of his team thay have been quite poor almost permanent in the relegation Zone. Maybe this new manager might save thier season.

So what we have essentially is different STANDARDS for what we consider TOP OUTSTANDING TALENT.

My view is its almost near impossible to be outstanding huge talent from two games in La Liga.

I said near impossible, I think Rooney as a 17 year old is one of the few exceptions. I remember Yobo telling me about this small boy giving them big wahala in training. That l should watch out. But then history has proven him right.

The final word, would you then feel you can make comparison with Ssegnon and Chukwueze. One who has barely stated the race and one who has already gone round the track a few times and won.

I still haven't given a view on Chukwueze it's too early in the day IMO. Very Good player with lots of Promise is my actual view of him for now.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by wayodude(m): 10:15am On Nov 20, 2018
TheSuperNerd:
Ohhh nooo not even implying that... But being a founding member and major contributor who follows the events of this thread gives me enough nous to know that you are not versed about most events that take place on this thread.

And also Komekn deserved whatever he got because he is a snake and a bonafide hater of anything Home-grown Naija talent. Icon4s knows this... TheGoodJoe knows this... So many elders here know this and some have Even engaged him before about it but he persists in it. Even when Wayodude answered his ridiculing question on Chukwueze with a Spanish football expert's view, what did Komekn do? He started saying that Wayodude doesn't have his own opinion.

I am pretty sure if the Wayodude fella (sorry for the few mentions man) had given just his own opinion, the tune of Komekn will be that he is no expert and thus he cannot just take his words for it but needs the views of top rated bodies or journals. Wayo gave him that but he evaded it so mischievously.



This was the post that said it all.

Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by komekn(m): 10:21am On Nov 20, 2018
cc12:
Komekn said he doesn't rate him at all



Please post where I said the bold, verbatim please.

It should not be too hard, you have made the allegation and claim. PROVE IT.

Otherwise your integrity is put to question.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by cc12(m): 10:23am On Nov 20, 2018
I don't why Rohr doesn't want to start Henry Onyekuru

TheSuperNerd:
Super Eagles camp update

ANS reports a possible lineup as follows:

Super Eagles Starting XI Vs Uganda : Afelokhai, Ekong, Adeleye, Collins, Idowu, Mikel Agu, Ajayi, Iwobi, Chukwueze, Osimhen, Musa..


Courtesy: @editor_ANS

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheGoodJoe(m): 10:23am On Nov 20, 2018
AllforJesus7:


I chose to ignore.
Same way you have been silent on Nig vs Lib games, where we played a blend of good football on both legs.

We played against Libya on the 13th and 16th of Oct.

Attached below is a screenshot of your activity during that period.

You said zilch. grin

Only to come out voicing 'anti-football' after we have successfully secured qualification against SA

Be fair. grin grin

I am critiquing the way we handled the South African game. If we play in a braver fashion which I know we are capable of doing, I will not hesitate to praise Rohr and his crew.

I want to see the team play better and see out games in a more exciting fashion. Not critique for criticising sake.

Gerrit?
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by komekn(m): 10:28am On Nov 20, 2018
wayodude:


This was the post. That is all.

Taking matters into strict context, you gave an opinion your own I presumed. I then asked you Why ❓

Maybe we have different approaches. I asked you you the simple Why . Expecting you to present details, facts, games played, goals scored, assists, Wow moments, dribbles completed, how you see things that's your view, and why, etc,etc

And you replied with another man's opinion.

Maybe that expectation was too much on my part, I apologise it seems I expected too much.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Nobody: 10:36am On Nov 20, 2018
TheGoodJoe:


I am critiquing the way we handled the South African game. If we play in a braver fashion which I know we are capable of doing, I will not hesitate to praise Rohr and his crew.

I want to see the team play better and see out games in a more exciting fashion. Not critique for criticising sake.

Gerrit?


I appreciate that.

However I am curious on why you never said anything while everyone was giving a thumbs up for our exploits against Libya.

You preferred to comment on a Tokunbo vehicle instead grin grin

I hope you truly do not have any sinister motive as you have said above. grin
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 10:39am On Nov 20, 2018
Exactement! Nothing to add.

And now he is trying to save face again by justifying his evasive technique when the message of his ridicule have since been established and seen by all. He now wants to sound saintly. Kaaaiiii... I have seen men like this. Doing all they can and trying too hard to sound gentlemanly but their dirty inner intentions keep giving them away. SMH... It is sad oooo. Very sad. Let's just move on. Another time will come when Komekn will again shoot himself in the foot as usual concerning another or maybe same Indigenous Naija born talent. He never fails to do so. It is only a matter of time again.



wayodude:


This was the post that said it all.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 10:40am On Nov 20, 2018
It is indeed becoming a mystery locked in an enigma.

cc12:
I don't why Rohr doesn't want to start Henry Onyekuru

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by PietroRick: 10:41am On Nov 20, 2018
cc12:
I don't why Rohr doesn't want to start Henry Onyekuru

it took an injured Ighalo to even get him in the squad. I will do my best to catch this game today. I hope he gets some solid minutes and just not some >10mins cameo appearance.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheGoodJoe(m): 10:41am On Nov 20, 2018
AllforJesus7:



I appreciate that.

However I am curious on why you never said anything while everyone was giving a thumbs up for our exploits against Libya.

You preferred to comment on a Tokunbo vehicle instead grin grin

I hope you truly do not have any sinister motive as you have said above. grin


My devotion to the Super Eagles is not even a topic.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Utonwanne(m): 10:41am On Nov 20, 2018
TheSuperNerd:
Ohhh nooo not even implying that... But being a founding member and major contributor who follows the events of this thread gives me enough nous to know that you are not versed about most events that take place on this thread.

And also Komekn deserved whatever he got because he is a snake and a bonafide hater of anything Home-grown Naija talent. Icon4s knows this... TheGoodJoe knows this... So many elders here know this and some have Even engaged him before about it but he persists in it. Even when Wayodude answered his ridiculing question on Chukwueze with a Spanish football expert's view, what did Komekn do? He started saying that Wayodude doesn't have his own opinion.

I am pretty sure if the Wayodude fella (sorry for the few mentions man) had given just his own opinion, the tune of Komekn will be that he is no expert and thus he cannot just take his words for it but needs the views of top rated bodies or journals. Wayo gave him that but he evaded it so mischievously.



But wayoman grin didn't insult him, did he?

All am saying is that insult is not the best solution. You are just like komek.n, you prefer the home-grown especially those that passed through u-17 while he prefers those born within queens territory. This issue is stretching longer than it should. Just try to select your words carefully.... Udo dịrị gi

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheGoodJoe(m): 10:42am On Nov 20, 2018
AllforJesus7:



I appreciate that.

However I am curious on why you never said anything while everyone was giving a thumbs up for our exploits against Libya.

You preferred to comment on a Tokunbo vehicle instead grin grin

I hope you truly do not have any sinister motive as you have said above. grin

I was probably busy with something to make one comment with just a line.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by wayodude(m): 10:43am On Nov 20, 2018
Utonwanne:


But wayoman grin didn't insult him, did he?

All am saying is that insult is not the best solution. You are just like komek.n, you prefer the home-grown especially those that passed through u-17 while he prefers those born within queens territory. This issue is stretching longer than it should. Just try to select your words carefully.... Udo dịrị gi

I actually prefer wayoman to wayodude lol make i change am? lol
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Earthquake2: 10:44am On Nov 20, 2018
TheSuperNerd:

It is indeed becoming a mystery locked in an enigma.


Onyekuru is neither a striker nor a winger

Rohr being old fashioned doesn't know what to do with him grin
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 10:46am On Nov 20, 2018
But the wayo fella indeed agrees that Komekn was being mishievous. You can look up and see just in case you are lost again. Not everyone want to take the bold part like Jesus did in calling a bunch of pretending gentlemen-like pharisees brood of Vipers naa. wink

Me, I just said it as it is. Finito.

And I don't prefer the home-grown over the foreign borns... That is a nonsense deduction to make. See what I have been saying? You really are lost on this thread. Na wa... Are you even reading at all?

I am for the best talents that will take our Super Eagles forward be you Foreign born, Home-grown or from Mars... Everyone here knows that. So stop trying to say what is not.


Utonwanne:


But wayoman grin didn't insult him, did he?

All am saying is that insult is not the best solution. You are just like komek.n, you prefer the home-grown especially those that passed through u-17 while he prefers those born within queens territory. This issue is stretching longer than it should. Just try to select your words carefully.... Udo dịrị gi

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by wayodude(m): 10:47am On Nov 20, 2018
komekn:


Taking matters into strict context, you gave an opinion your own I presumed. I then asked you Why ❓

Maybe we have different approaches. I asked you you the simple Why . Expecting you to present details, facts, games played, goals scored, assists, Wow moments, dribbles completed, how you see things that's your view, and why, etc,etc

And you replied with another man's opinion.

Maybe that expectation was too much on my part, I apologise it seems I expected too much.

But what was the point in expecting me to respond with my own view when you had already been presented with the views of an authority on the topic being debated? Stop digging this hole becuase its getting harder to get out of. Lets leave it there lol

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Icon4s(m): 10:48am On Nov 20, 2018
TheSuperNerd:
Rohr: Akpeyi, Afelokhai to share Super Eagles goalkeeping duties against Uganda


Gernot Rohr has revealed that goalkeepers Daniel Akpeyi and Theophilus Afelokhai will share the goalkeeping duties against Uganda today in Asaba.

South Africa-based Akpeyi will start in goal this afternoon, before Enyimba shot stopper Afelokhai takes over for the second half.

It will therefore be a litmus test for the two goalkeepers as they aim to stake their claim in the Super Eagles squad.

It is a chance for the goalkeepers to justify their call-ups and possibly challenge for the No 1 shirt currently held by Francis Uzoho with Ikechukwu Ezenwa as deputy.

Interestingly, Akpeyi and Afelokhai were the two goalkeepers in 2015 against the Bafana Bafana of South Africa with Akpeyi manning the post.

Rohr also said Villarreal youngster Samuel Chukwueze will make his debut and Victor Osimhen will also feature after his recent goals for Belgian club Sporting Charleroi.



**By Kola Daniel in Asaba


Source: ScoreNigeria

Let Afelokhai take it. Akpeyi has had his chance in times past.
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Earthquake2: 10:48am On Nov 20, 2018
As a striker Onyekuru is behind :

Ighalo
Success
Iheanacho

As a winger Onyekuru is behind :

Musa
Samuel Kalu
Simeon Moses

It's time for Onyekuru to choose his hustle
Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 10:49am On Nov 20, 2018
Look, TheGoodJoe may be harping always on aspiring to be playing the best brand of football based on the ever rising attacking talents at our disposal but that is no reason to fault his devotion to the Super Eagles.

Goodness me! What is wrong with some you monikers here? Some of you really have no clue about many things here... How can you even doubt TheGoodJoe's devotion to the Super Eagles? Sir, the rate at which some of you comment here shows you haven't been following.




AllforJesus7:



I appreciate that.

However I am curious on why you never said anything while everyone was giving a thumbs up for our exploits against Libya.

You preferred to comment on a Tokunbo vehicle instead grin grin

I hope you truly do not have any sinister motive as you have said above. grin

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by Utonwanne(m): 10:49am On Nov 20, 2018
wayodude:


I actually prefer wayoman to wayodude lol make i change am? lol

Lol,,, creating new acct? No

Am even regretting why I deactived my account.

Just leave am like that but.... wayoman sweet pass for mouth sha grin

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 10:53am On Nov 20, 2018
Lol... But Dad, the report says that Akpeyi is likely to start. Afelokt may start the second 45. But I agree... Akpeyi have had his chances.



Icon4s:


Let Afelokhai take it. Akpeyi has had his chance in times past.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by andrew444(m): 10:53am On Nov 20, 2018
Earthquake2:
As a striker Onyekuru is behind :

Ighalo
Success
Iheanacho

As a winger Onyekuru is behind :

Musa
Samuel Kalu
Simeon Moses

It's time for Onyekuru to choose his hustle

Onyekuru is only behind Samuel Kalu and musa and not Simon Moses

Is it Simon Moses that doesn't make match day squad now ?

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by wayodude(m): 10:53am On Nov 20, 2018
TheSuperNerd:
But the wayo fella indeed agrees that Komekn was being mishievous. You can look up and see just in case you are lost again. Not everyone want to take the bold part like Jesus did in calling a bunch of pretending gentlemen-like pharisees brood of Vipers naa. wink

Me, I just said it as it is. Finito.

And I don't prefer the home-grown over the foreign borns... That is a nonsense deduction to make. See what I have been saying? You really are lost on this thread. Na wa... Are you even reading at all?

I am for the best talents that will take our Super Eagles forward be you Foreign born, Home-grown or from Mars... Everyone here knows that. So stop trying to say what is not.



Bro I think you went in too hard on komekn. I am not one to tell anyone how to behave online or elsewhere but I think an apology would be a civilized move. Your call though.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheSuperNerd(m): 10:55am On Nov 20, 2018
I know I was hard on him.... But I just felt he needed such knocks as he had been on the hate train on our Indigenous naija borns for well over a year now on this thread. Such a long time if you ask me. But it is all good. Let's just move on.



wayodude:


Bro I think you went in too hard on komekn. I am not one to tell anyone how to behave online or elsewhere but I think an apology would be a civilized move. Your call though.

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Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by cc12(m): 10:59am On Nov 20, 2018
Sorry for adding the word "said" but I meant you don't rate Chukwueze at all


komekn:


Please post where I said the bold, verbatim please.

It should not be too hard, you have made the allegation and claim. PROVE IT.

Otherwise your integrity is put to question.

Re: "The Super Eagles Thread: The Road To AFCON 2025 And 2026 World Cup by TheGoodJoe(m): 11:04am On Nov 20, 2018
TheSuperNerd:
Look, TheGoodJoe may be harping always on aspiring to be playing the best brand of football based on the ever rising attacking talents at our disposal but that is no reason to fault his devotion to the Super Eagles.

Goodness me! What is wrong with some you monikers here? Some of you really have no clue about many things here... How can you even doubt TheGoodJoe's devotion to the Super Eagles? Sir, the rate at which some of you comment here shows you haven't been following.





Thanks man. Nice having my Genius Doc back me.

Watssup Doc. wink

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