I can coach I can coach
They don dey go one by one.
Egiuavoen is gone, Finidi is gone, who will be next?

Finidi is not a coach.
From the selection to the formation.
The players has no clear idea what they want to do when in posession and when defending.
Once you have a little good performance boom in the starting lineup.
He even invited injured players.
What a country, what a coach

AndSunGorilla:

When Onyedika started against Mali, how did he fare?

Onyedika is good, but pairing him with Ndidi might not be a good idea. I would have preferred pairing Onyedika and Onyeka midfield while Ndidi pairs with Ajayi in CD, Bassey LB a d Osayi RB.

Good luck to the Eagles anyways.

I wonder why the captain, coach and NFF kept quite over this.
As a nation, we must stop swallowing every wrong thing thrown at us, otherwise people will always do anyhow and get away with it.

Meliforme:
It will be beautiful watching Awaziem and Bassey build possession from the back, if they are given the nod to start.

Go and rewatch that match, over 80% of Awaziem's passings are backwards which led to one of the Malian goals.

The invited defenders is simply not balanced, but let's give Finidi a benefit of doubt and pray he doesn't make a costly mistake at this point.

After reading some comments here about Amunike even before he's officially announced as the coach, I can not but weep for the future of Nigeria.
Someone just put up a disputable story to tarnish the image of another, just to support his sentiment and to influence the gullibles.
This is a crab mentality that will always keep the system stagnated, but give the haters only the fulfillment of saying I SAID IT.
It doesn't matter how far you travel on a wrong route, you will never arrive to a right destination.

Setaleonoz:
NFF should learn

This is that match that Nigeria won with lots of goals but via penalty.

Nigeria will qualify for a major tournament in a tension soaked Match against south Africa.
I don't know if it's world cup qualification against Bafana bafana or Olympics against Bayana bayana.
This match produced so many goals up to 6 or more, Nigeria won it at last and there was so much jubilation in the country.
God bless Nigeria

Awaziem made all his passes to either Omerou or Nwabali and he positioned himself as a right back creating a big gap between him and Omerou.
I expected Finidi to correct it or replace him at HT

Zellas:
A stupid and sturbon coach, I know he will cost us this match.
What exactly is Iwobi doing on the pitch.
This is a 100% marking match and we have a natural defensive midfielder on the bench

Retaining the same set of players after all the pressure at 1:0 advantage was the undoing of the coach.
We can build on this achievement with a more tactical coach.
Congrats to CIV

A stupid and sturbon coach, I know he will cost us this match.
What exactly is Iwobi doing on the pitch.
This is a 100% marking match and we have a natural defensive midfielder on the bench

Zellas:
Remove Chukwueze and iwobi for simon and yusuf. This is a very easy match to win

Why on earth would peseiro retain this same line up after all the pressure in the 1st half.

Remove Chukwueze and iwobi for simon and yusuf. This is a very easy match to win

Aribo of all people?
What exactly did Aribo offer for goodness sake?

Zellas:
I expected at least 2 changes at this half time.
Omerou for osayi and yusuf for iwobi.
Delay in this subtitutions may see us trailing.

Remove iwobi in the midfield, don't wait until onyeka is tired.

I expected at least 2 changes at this half time.
Omerou for osayi and yusuf for iwobi.
Delay in this subtitutions may see us trailing.

SA is operating from the midfield and Iwobi cannot mark.
Remove Iwobi for Yusuf and we will take over

NIGERIA BEAT SOUTH AFRICA BY 1:0,
GOAL SCORED BY A DEFENDER

Yusuf is very useful to this team. Apart from marking and keeping the midfield compact, He connects with the strikers easily with simple passes.
I won't mind patnering him with Onyeka while Iwobi is moved further up closer to Osimhen.

Musa should have replaced Osimhen.
Aribo has no business in that pitch and at that time of the game.
The coach got his subtitutions wrong but thank God we scaled through.
Congrats SE
Congrats Nigeria.
Let my people smile a little in the midst of the hardship

Why Aribo and not Raphael?
For marking or for defending?
A wrong change if you ask me

Yusuf or Raphael is needed in this match, we need more legs and markers in the midfield

This ivorian team doesn't know how to manage game, they can't be this lucky all the time. I wish them best of luck in pk

ONYEKA the undisputable man of the match

I like that reaction from our bench, this officiating is becoming obviously biased. Imagine no card to Camerounians in all these fouls.

The portuguese commentators in the chanel where I'm watching the game from, did not find any reason for the cancelation of the first goal. Pls somebody should explain exactly why that goal was canceled.

Replace Zaidu with Omerou, allow Bassey to operate wing back and we will beat Cameroon 3.0

If our game plan is to keep possession, Raphael Onyedika will be our best bet. His positional awareness and availability to receive pass will be key.
The good thing is that he can play together with Onyeka or yusuf in any formation.
Nobody is talking about Omerou in defence, probably because other defenders are doing well but I think he deserves a start.

*Our frontline turns our weakling. Coaches can work on it as the tournament progresses.
*Omerou deserves a starting x
*Onyedika can stabilize our defensive midfield better that other options.
*Chukwueze should be benched pls.
*Aribo can play but not with thw iconic jersey #10.
*Nwabali has been tested. Still has a long way but gives confidence and hope.
*We are struggling because this formation is being experimented on the course of the tournament but we will surely get better with it.

Tega9999:
Good evening house!
I don't know if anyone saw the reaction of A.Musa with one of JPes assistant during the game after Simon Moses was substituted into the game.
What could be the issue?

I saw that scenario, Musa was visibly angry with the inteodution of Simon. We have seen the best of Musa and so he should allow the coaches to do their job.

Meanwhile, I have the feeling that one of Jpes assistants is the unseen hand behind the recent change of formation, selection of personels and the subtitutions.
The tactical approach of today's game is simply top notch. Playing Bassey in the midfield/defence could be our greatest revelation of this tournament.

Kudos to the coaching crew.

Sugarboyy:
This Ajayi guy, does he have epilepsy Abi Na leprosy?

He's shaking. I hope he doesn't make a costly mistake that will further kill his confidence.
I think we need Bassey or Omeruo because Ekong is not helping Ajayi's confidence at all.

Victor Boniface is our best bet for SS/ AM in SE. Watch how he's instrumental to all the goals they scored today. He will do much more when he has Osimhen as a point man, drifting defenders to himself and creating space for Boniface to score.