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[Roseline492]

I was opportuned to see this game live and it was highly contested almost like an actual world cup finals game. Without any doubt, it's safe to say that the south African team was the much better team based on their overall performance in the game. However, the Nigerian team should have won because they had plenty of clear cut opportunities

Right from the beginning south Africans player's has been more impressive in performance than Nigerian players because if you watch there previous matches is always similar to what they play today and in most cases south Africans are always the favourite to win  there matches against Nigerians, just like there match today they almost won Nigerians if not that Nigerians were able to manage and equalize at the beginning of the second half, however just like you said there overall performance was on the favour of the south Africans because they really give Nigerians a serious tough time on this match and they dominated the game from the beginning of the first half, however the supper eagles has really tried because is not easy to hold south Africans to a draw match.

[Franctoshi]

Nigeria usually doesn't find it easy with defeating the South African team lately whenever they meet, despite the fact that when it comes to the H2H meetings between both teams, and from 2004 down here, the super Eagle team have won a total of 6 games whereas South Africa has won only 1, and both has played 5 draws. However, I see this draw as what that has just repeated itself in this their today's game because winning South Africa is recently not an easy task for the super Eagle of Nigeria.

[Rruchi man]

Situation is looking not good as now having three draws after three games and next game is against Benin ...

Our coach for me did not get his team selection correctly today, this was a game for us to win not for a game for us to pursue a point at home. It was a wrong decision not to start Boniface.

We are at the 5th position on the group C table, and our hopes for world cup qualification slimmer, we are going against a Benin Republic coach who is very familiar with playing the Super Eagles, Our team is still not there yet, and if Finidi doesn't do better tactically against Benin, maybe we would end in draw again or maybe lose the game.

[Sexylizzy2813]

Yea in times past the African football games were really lacking goals in almost every match played bit recently things have really changed which depicts improvement in the games among the stars.

Watching this Nigeria v South Africa match to night am very impressed with the  Super Eagles performance despite them not winning the game as it was all hard luck for them in the second half missing those creative chances. I love the attacking variant coach Finidi George is bringing into the team  but I'll also advise they put a stronger defense in place too to balance the team.

South Africa on the other hand had a good defense which held Lookman still that he couldn't have a breathing space to attempt to shots he made in the Europa league which could have perhaps changed the scores. Nice one!

I just hope there won't be any sentiment between the manager and some players in the squad. The Super Eagles should start believing that they too can make other nations struggling to get a goal, I don't seem to understand why they can't see South Africa team as a country they can beat without stress? The Super Eagles always struggle against teams they're bigger than just because their opponent have a developed league or something? Why can't we beat these guys like they're nothing but instead we concede first and beg for a draw. They played well but with all the players who have made names outside the country I don't think a draw should be the outcome of this game, is best we lost rather than the draw we played, SA shouldn't be giving us this hard time.

[Cryptoprincess101]

Yea in times past the African football games were really lacking goals in almost every match played bit recently things have really changed which depicts improvement in the games among the stars.

Watching this Nigeria v South Africa match to night am very impressed with the  Super Eagles performance despite them not winning the game as it was all hard luck for them in the second half missing those creative chances. I love the attacking variant coach Finidi George is bringing into the team  but I'll also advise they put a stronger defense in place too to balance the team.

South Africa on the other hand had a good defense which held Lookman still that he couldn't have a breathing space to attempt to shots he made in the Europa league which could have perhaps changed the scores. Nice one!

I just hope there won't be any sentiment between the manager and some players in the squad. The Super Eagles should start believing that they too can make other nations struggling to get a goal, I don't seem to understand why they can't see South Africa team as a country they can beat without stress? The Super Eagles always struggle against teams they're bigger than just because their opponent have a developed league or something? Why can't we beat these guys like they're nothing but instead we concede first and beg for a draw. They played well but with all the players who have made names outside the country I don't think a draw should be the outcome of this game, is best we lost rather than the draw we played, SA shouldn't be giving us this hard time.

Though Nigeria were supposed to win South Africa in this match but don't forget that for the fact that Nigerian players are playing in some of the major leagues in Europe doesn't mean that they can beat other countries without stress because league football is different from the country matches because in the league players are familiar with each others play pattern while in country games players from different clubs come together to play for their country so you don't expect them to have same experience as they do in their respective league games and again I don't know why you see that other African countries domestic leagues are better than the Nigerian league even though the league is still developing gradually but yet Nigeria still have quality and standard players that plays in the NPFL so they don't need to be intimidated by any African country that has already succeeded in building their league.
There is no sentiment between the Nigerian players and their head coach, they just played their best in my opinion.

[Zanab247]

Nigeria usually doesn't find it easy with defeating the South African team lately whenever they meet, despite the fact that when it comes to the H2H meetings between both teams, and from 2004 down here, the super Eagle team have won a total of 6 games whereas South Africa has won only 1, and both has played 5 draws. However, I see this draw as what that has just repeated itself in this their today's game because winning South Africa is recently not an easy task for the super Eagle of Nigeria.

South Africa players was very bold in playing with Nigeria in the 45 minutes, and they use their opportunity very well that made them to secured 1 goal from the first half to lead the game.

But South Africa plan is to break some record to beat Nigeria 1:0 from the game but Nigeria players turned the game in the second half to make the game draw 1:1 to make it 5 draw games the 2 team has engaged themselve in the Africa football competition.

But if you look at the position of the 2 team in the group stage, you will no that the 2 teams need to improve more because Nigeria is in 5 position in the group and South Africa is in 6 position in the group which is not giving their fans joy.

[Lida93]

Yea in times past the African football games were really lacking goals in almost every match played bit recently things have really changed which depicts improvement in the games among the stars.

Watching this Nigeria v South Africa match to night am very impressed with the  Super Eagles performance despite them not winning the game as it was all hard luck for them in the second half missing those creative chances. I love the attacking variant coach Finidi George is bringing into the team  but I'll also advise they put a stronger defense in place too to balance the team.

South Africa on the other hand had a good defense which held Lookman still that he couldn't have a breathing space to attempt to shots he made in the Europa league which could have perhaps changed the scores. Nice one!

I just hope there won't be any sentiment between the manager and some players in the squad. The Super Eagles should start believing that they too can make other nations struggling to get a goal, I don't seem to understand why they can't see South Africa team as a country they can beat without stress? The Super Eagles always struggle against teams they're bigger than just because their opponent have a developed league or something? Why can't we beat these guys like they're nothing but instead we concede first and beg for a draw. They played well but with all the players who have made names outside the country I don't think a draw should be the outcome of this game, is best we lost rather than the draw we played, SA shouldn't be giving us this hard time.

Though Nigeria were supposed to win South Africa in this match but don't forget that for the fact that Nigerian players are playing in some of the major leagues in Europe doesn't mean that they can beat other countries without stress because league football is different from the country matches because in the league players are familiar with each others play pattern while in country games players from different clubs come together to play for their country so you don't expect them to have same experience as they do in their respective league games and again I don't know why you see that other African countries domestic leagues are better than the Nigerian league even though the league is still developing gradually but yet Nigeria still have quality and standard players that plays in the NPFL so they don't need to be intimidated by any African country that has already succeeded in building their league.
There is no sentiment between the Nigerian players and their head coach, they just played their best in my opinion.

@Sexylizzy2813 is there anything that made you assume that there could be some sentiment between the coach Finidi and the players? Cause from where I was sitting watching the game both coach and player deliberately gave in their best into that game it was just unfortunate that they played so fragile in the first half but had to come back offensive in the second giving them that equaliser from that Dele Bashiru goal in the 46th minutes just into the second half.

A lot of super eagles fans are putting so much expectations from Finidi George especially as most of them believed that he could have simply won this match against the bafana bafana boys which is really out of context because South Africa team is one of the best team's in African football.

And moreover, this is first game from Finidi and his boys which explains why they were that weak in the first half only to come back better in the second half, because they are still blending and trying to understand the pattern of play from the coach. Finidi George needs to given some time to make things right and this won't be sudden but gradually.

[Cityhunter34]

Nigeria usually doesn't find it easy with defeating the South African team lately whenever they meet, despite the fact that when it comes to the H2H meetings between both teams, and from 2004 down here, the super Eagle team have won a total of 6 games whereas South Africa has won only 1, and both has played 5 draws. However, I see this draw as what that has just repeated itself in this their today's game because winning South Africa is recently not an easy task for the super Eagle of Nigeria.

South Africa players was very bold in playing with Nigeria in the 45 minutes, and they use their opportunity very well that made them to secured 1 goal from the first half to lead the game.

But South Africa plan is to break some record to beat Nigeria 1:0 from the game but Nigeria players turned the game in the second half to make the game draw 1:1 to make it 5 draw games the 2 team has engaged themselve in the Africa football competition.

But if you look at the position of the 2 team in the group stage, you will no that the 2 teams need to improve more because Nigeria is in 5 position in the group and South Africa is in 6 position in the group which is not giving their fans joy.

I think it is now obvious that any time the super Eagles is playing with south Africa that we should always expect a draw at the end of the day, because although I didn't see the reason why super Eagles can not beat south Africa although I was even seeing the game as draw but when I look at the odd that was giving to super Eagles I could not be able to bet the game again, however I think that most times looking at odd before place your bet is really making us not to win.

[Obim34]

Yea in times past the African football games were really lacking goals in almost every match played bit recently things have really changed which depicts improvement in the games among the stars.

Watching this Nigeria v South Africa match to night am very impressed with the  Super Eagles performance despite them not winning the game as it was all hard luck for them in the second half missing those creative chances. I love the attacking variant coach Finidi George is bringing into the team  but I'll also advise they put a stronger defense in place too to balance the team.

South Africa on the other hand had a good defense which held Lookman still that he couldn't have a breathing space to attempt to shots he made in the Europa league which could have perhaps changed the scores. Nice one!

I just hope there won't be any sentiment between the manager and some players in the squad. The Super Eagles should start believing that they too can make other nations struggling to get a goal, I don't seem to understand why they can't see South Africa team as a country they can beat without stress? The Super Eagles always struggle against teams they're bigger than just because their opponent have a developed league or something? Why can't we beat these guys like they're nothing but instead we concede first and beg for a draw. They played well but with all the players who have made names outside the country I don't think a draw should be the outcome of this game, is best we lost rather than the draw we played, SA shouldn't be giving us this hard time.

South Africans has been one of Nigerian greatest rivals when it comes to African football, so I don't bother much whether we win them now or not, even while I saw they had the lead I was confident enough that the match would end in draw or Nigeria to win. Both countries played really well, judging from the kind of goals scored by both teams, it shows how developed Africans are getting in football since most of our players are now playing in international clubs. I feel like the players still needs to blend even more, there is enough available rooms for development in the Super Eagles squad.

[Spaceman1000$]

Yea in times past the African football games were really lacking goals in almost every match played bit recently things have really changed which depicts improvement in the games among the stars.

Watching this Nigeria v South Africa match to night am very impressed with the  Super Eagles performance despite them not winning the game as it was all hard luck for them in the second half missing those creative chances. I love the attacking variant coach Finidi George is bringing into the team  but I'll also advise they put a stronger defense in place too to balance the team.

South Africa on the other hand had a good defense which held Lookman still that he couldn't have a breathing space to attempt to shots he made in the Europa league which could have perhaps changed the scores. Nice one!

I just hope there won't be any sentiment between the manager and some players in the squad. The Super Eagles should start believing that they too can make other nations struggling to get a goal, I don't seem to understand why they can't see South Africa team as a country they can beat without stress? The Super Eagles always struggle against teams they're bigger than just because their opponent have a developed league or something? Why can't we beat these guys like they're nothing but instead we concede first and beg for a draw. They played well but with all the players who have made names outside the country I don't think a draw should be the outcome of this game, is best we lost rather than the draw we played, SA shouldn't be giving us this hard time.

Though Nigeria were supposed to win South Africa in this match but don't forget that for the fact that Nigerian players are playing in some of the major leagues in Europe doesn't mean that they can beat other countries without stress because league football is different from the country matches because in the league players are familiar with each others play pattern while in country games players from different clubs come together to play for their country so you don't expect them to have same experience as they do in their respective league games and again I don't know why you see that other African countries domestic leagues are better than the Nigerian league even though the league is still developing gradually but yet Nigeria still have quality and standard players that plays in the NPFL so they don't need to be intimidated by any African country that has already succeeded in building their league.
There is no sentiment between the Nigerian players and their head coach, they just played their best in my opinion.

I don't agree with you about the Nigeria team, that were are supposed to win the south Africa team, you shouldn't also forget that the south Africa team has players playing in their domestic league, and are doing well, so you think because the Nigerian players are playing in Europe, they should have just trashed the south African team, no football is like that. the south African domestic league is one the best in the whole of Africa,  If not for anything, you saw how wonderful they where during the game, and that is proof of how good they are. If you watch that game, you will notice the bafana bafana team had more chances to even score more goals than the Nigerian team. Don't forget that during their previous encounter during the just concluded African nations cup, the both teams played draw during the regular time and even the extra time, Nigeria had to win during the penalty shootout. The truth is, the south African team is not just push over team.

[Barikui1]

Nigeria usually doesn't find it easy with defeating the South African team lately whenever they meet, despite the fact that when it comes to the H2H meetings between both teams, and from 2004 down here, the super Eagle team have won a total of 6 games whereas South Africa has won only 1, and both has played 5 draws. However, I see this draw as what that has just repeated itself in this their today's game because winning South Africa is recently not an easy task for the super Eagle of Nigeria.

South Africa players was very bold in playing with Nigeria in the 45 minutes, and they use their opportunity very well that made them to secured 1 goal from the first half to lead the game.

But South Africa plan is to break some record to beat Nigeria 1:0 from the game but Nigeria players turned the game in the second half to make the game draw 1:1 to make it 5 draw games the 2 team has engaged themselve in the Africa football competition.

But if you look at the position of the 2 team in the group stage, you will no that the 2 teams need to improve more because Nigeria is in 5 position in the group and South Africa is in 6 position in the group which is not giving their fans joy.

Actually I think it was a fair result, because in the first half, the south Africans were the better team and they took a well deserved lead, though they weren't as skilled as they were in the  immediate past African nations cup, but they were the better team in the first half, and in the second half, they played more on the counter, which made the Nigerian team to seize the initiative and got a well deserved equalizer, and I think they would have won the game if their attacking players were more decisive in the final third, though a draw looks like a good result for the south Africans, because they were away from home against one of the giant of African football, but it actually not, and a draw is even more terrible for the Nigerians, because their current group standing in not good at all, in their quest to qualify for the next world cup.

And as for the Nigerian coach, judging by his first outing with the super eagles of Nigeria,  I actually don't think he is good enough to lead this team to glory, though my opinion might be wrong if proven otherwise, but am still not confident on his coaching ability judging by what I have seen so far.

[Sexylizzy2813]

Yea in times past the African football games were really lacking goals in almost every match played bit recently things have really changed which depicts improvement in the games among the stars.

Watching this Nigeria v South Africa match to night am very impressed with the  Super Eagles performance despite them not winning the game as it was all hard luck for them in the second half missing those creative chances. I love the attacking variant coach Finidi George is bringing into the team  but I'll also advise they put a stronger defense in place too to balance the team.

South Africa on the other hand had a good defense which held Lookman still that he couldn't have a breathing space to attempt to shots he made in the Europa league which could have perhaps changed the scores. Nice one!

I just hope there won't be any sentiment between the manager and some players in the squad. The Super Eagles should start believing that they too can make other nations struggling to get a goal, I don't seem to understand why they can't see South Africa team as a country they can beat without stress? The Super Eagles always struggle against teams they're bigger than just because their opponent have a developed league or something? Why can't we beat these guys like they're nothing but instead we concede first and beg for a draw. They played well but with all the players who have made names outside the country I don't think a draw should be the outcome of this game, is best we lost rather than the draw we played, SA shouldn't be giving us this hard time.

Though Nigeria were supposed to win South Africa in this match but don't forget that for the fact that Nigerian players are playing in some of the major leagues in Europe doesn't mean that they can beat other countries without stress because league football is different from the country matches because in the league players are familiar with each others play pattern while in country games players from different clubs come together to play for their country so you don't expect them to have same experience as they do in their respective league games and again I don't know why you see that other African countries domestic leagues are better than the Nigerian league even though the league is still developing gradually but yet Nigeria still have quality and standard players that plays in the NPFL so they don't need to be intimidated by any African country that has already succeeded in building their league.
There is no sentiment between the Nigerian players and their head coach, they just played their best in my opinion.

I know is not the same, coming from different club side to play for one national team but other countries that have those sets of players from different clubs who come together to play for one national team and still do better are they having 4 heads? We're the giant of Africa and if there's no country in Africa that have done it before we should be the first, getting different players from different clubs to play for Nigeria and play better than the others, we should be unique, that's what we should be thinking of.
And talking about our league, you'd agree with me that we are still struggling to get to a more standard fashion, SA league is better than ours and I blame the political activities that has more effect on the league. The SA league has players that whenever they come together they play as if they have been playing together for long so is something the National team should be worry about, the administrators, the organizers are not concern about how the nature of the league is, never has it been encouraging to me.

[Kelward]

I was opportuned to see this game live and it was highly contested almost like an actual world cup finals game. Without any doubt, it's safe to say that the south African team was the much better team based on their overall performance in the game. However, the Nigerian team should have won because they had plenty of clear cut opportunities

Right from the beginning south Africans player's has been more impressive in performance than Nigerian players because if you watch there previous matches is always similar to what they play today and in most cases south Africans are always the favourite to win  there matches against Nigerians, just like there match today they almost won Nigerians if not that Nigerians were able to manage and equalize at the beginning of the second half, however just like you said there overall performance was on the favour of the south Africans because they really give Nigerians a serious tough time on this match and they dominated the game from the beginning of the first half, however the supper eagles has really tried because is not easy to hold south Africans to a draw match.

I wasn't disposed to watch the match live when it was being played, but I've received enough updates about it afterwards, just like you said, I heard that it was was a well contested match, although the bafana bafana of south Africa, had the upper hand against the super eagles of Nigeria. I'm still uptimistic about Nigeria's qualification, despite all the odds in front of them, our new coach, George Finidi, has a lot of experience in football as an ex player and he has acquired a lot of coaching experience, so I believe that this match is a big test for him and the team will perform better against squirrels of Benin, in our next match.

[Marykeller]

At the end it all settled one a piece (1-1). And Nigeria did very well to get the comeback. The African world cup qualifiers matches today all had quite a good number of goals which for some time now has been the era with African football because goal scoring was actually some sort of problem for their games.The Algeria game that they lost was a shock to me because they lost to a very big odd of which I even played them to win and they were defeated by guinea.

The draw Super Eagle had with South Africa was not a good one I must say. it kinda discouraging and in the same vein reduced their chances of qualifying as the top contestants of the Group C table.

Currently, the Super Eagle is placed in the 5th position with 3 points, having Lesotho at the 1st spot with 5 points, Rwanda, Benin Republic, and South Africa, all have 4 points. However, according to the ranking of the table(Group C), there's still hope for Super Eagle "if" they win their away match against the Benin Republic. At least the win can push them to the 2-3rd spot, determining the results of other teams in the Group C table. That notwithstanding, towards Monday, we will get to learn about, whether the Super Eagles win, lose, or draw their last match of the year for World Cup qualification against the Benin Republic.

[Agbe]

At the end it all settled one a piece (1-1). And Nigeria did very well to get the comeback. The African world cup qualifiers matches today all had quite a good number of goals which for some time now has been the era with African football because goal scoring was actually some sort of problem for their games.The Algeria game that they lost was a shock to me because they lost to a very big odd of which I even played them to win and they were defeated by guinea.

The draw Super Eagle had with South Africa was not a good one I must say. it kinda discouraging and in the same vein reduced their chances of qualifying as the top contestants of the Group C table.

Currently, the Super Eagle is placed in the 5th position with 3 points, having Lesotho at the 1st spot with 5 points, Rwanda, Benin Republic, and South Africa, all have 4 points. However, according to the ranking of the table(Group C), there's still hope for Super Eagle "if" they win their away match against the Benin Republic. At least the win can push them to the 2-3rd spot, determining the results of other teams in the Group C table. That notwithstanding, towards Monday, we will get to learn about, whether the Super Eagles win, lose, or draw their last match of the year for World Cup qualification against the Benin Republic.

  Some people are saying that Finidi George should be sack now because Super Eagles is now on the danger zone not to qualifying from the world cup and if they didn't qualify then things will go wrong in the club.  But really was a shame for Super Eagles to draw with Bafana Bafana in their own home land. And as it is now, Super Eagles has 3 points which is second to last. And Zambia has 2 points which is the last in the group. Nigeria team can only qualify if they win the return match and if not then they will not go to anywhere and they have to watch the match at home. And if they k ow that they will not do well then they have to stay at home than going there to come in the group stage of the match. They didn't even sang the new National Anthem. But let see what they can play in the next match. This match they played yesterday disappointed many predictions.

[Hewlet]

Yea in times past the African football games were really lacking goals in almost every match played bit recently things have really changed which depicts improvement in the games among the stars.

Watching this Nigeria v South Africa match to night am very impressed with the  Super Eagles performance despite them not winning the game as it was all hard luck for them in the second half missing those creative chances. I love the attacking variant coach Finidi George is bringing into the team  but I'll also advise they put a stronger defense in place too to balance the team.

South Africa on the other hand had a good defense which held Lookman still that he couldn't have a breathing space to attempt to shots he made in the Europa league which could have perhaps changed the scores. Nice one!

I just hope there won't be any sentiment between the manager and some players in the squad. The Super Eagles should start believing that they too can make other nations struggling to get a goal, I don't seem to understand why they can't see South Africa team as a country they can beat without stress? The Super Eagles always struggle against teams they're bigger than just because their opponent have a developed league or something? Why can't we beat these guys like they're nothing but instead we concede first and beg for a draw. They played well but with all the players who have made names outside the country I don't think a draw should be the outcome of this game, is best we lost rather than the draw we played, SA shouldn't be giving us this hard time.

South Africans has been one of Nigerian greatest rivals when it comes to African football, so I don't bother much whether we win them now or not, even while I saw they had the lead I was confident enough that the match would end in draw or Nigeria to win. Both countries played really well, judging from the kind of goals scored by both teams, it shows how developed Africans are getting in football since most of our players are now playing in international clubs. I feel like the players still needs to blend even more, there is enough available rooms for development in the Super Eagles squad.

the code difference between the Nigerian super eagles and the bafana bafana is that the eagles are yet to blend well in Thier play while the bafana bafana understand thier kind play and used it to thier advantage. Contrary to most person point of view about the draw, I don't think that the coach is responsible for the inability of the super eagles to winning the bafana bafana of South Africa, it's more of the players attitude towards the game than what formation or player the coach uses. Most of the Nigerian players where playing individual football and weren't connecting with themselves as expected. The attack wasn't working and the midfield was porous at some point, they lacked a standing attack like what we've seen with victor osimehn and although I expected lookman to replicate a huge part of what he did in his club finals in this match, he played below my expectation and missed a lot of chances.  What's bad is that this is not a friendlies but a serious world cup qualifier and they had to play to bad only to get three points from three matches. Let's just be happy that the south African team didn't come to our home to win us if not it would be a massive disgrace. But huge respect to the two teams, they improves a lot in Thier individual play.

[Ruttoshi]

At the end it all settled one a piece (1-1). And Nigeria did very well to get the comeback. The African world cup qualifiers matches today all had quite a good number of goals which for some time now has been the era with African football because goal scoring was actually some sort of problem for their games.The Algeria game that they lost was a shock to me because they lost to a very big odd of which I even played them to win and they were defeated by guinea.

The draw Super Eagle had with South Africa was not a good one I must say. it kinda discouraging and in the same vein reduced their chances of qualifying as the top contestants of the Group C table.

Currently, the Super Eagle is placed in the 5th position with 3 points, having Lesotho at the 1st spot with 5 points, Rwanda, Benin Republic, and South Africa, all have 4 points. However, according to the ranking of the table(Group C), there's still hope for Super Eagle "if" they win their away match against the Benin Republic. At least the win can push them to the 2-3rd spot, determining the results of other teams in the Group C table. That notwithstanding, towards Monday, we will get to learn about, whether the Super Eagles win, lose, or draw their last match of the year for World Cup qualification against the Benin Republic.

  Some people are saying that Finidi George should be sack now because Super Eagles is now on the danger zone not to qualifying from the world cup and if they didn't qualify then things will go wrong in the club.  But really was a shame for Super Eagles to draw with Bafana Bafana in their own home land. And as it is now, Super Eagles has 3 points which is second to last. And Zambia has 2 points which is the last in the group. Nigeria team can only qualify if they win the return match and if not then they will not go to anywhere and they have to watch the match at home. And if they k ow that they will not do well then they have to stay at home than going there to come in the group stage of the match. They didn't even sang the new National Anthem. But let see what they can play in the next match. This match they played yesterday disappointed many predictions.

LOL....have you forgotten your country again that they are always using their last match to have hope of qualifying. They are not always leading their group or to be second, the do mess up opportunities that will make their qualification a probability. Since I know Nigeria, I have not seen them qualifying and still have more matches left to play.

This orientation should be changed, because it is not a good one, and it does not speak good about the country performance in football. Imagine that they must win their next match before they will qualify for CAF. If they lose the game, it over and Finidi did not enjoy his contract.

[Stepstowealth]

Some people are saying that Finidi George should be sack now because Super Eagles is now on the danger zone not to qualifying from the world cup

Although it is not totally good, It is slightly a good thing that the NFF do not listen to popular opinions before making decisions because if they respond to the calls for his sack again, how are we going to move forward? Sacking coaches is what has put us here, Because if we had allowed our former coach to continue it is very likely that we would have continued playing in the form that were played in the African Cup of Nations with, the form that got us to the finals, but it is a new coach again and we have to give him time.
There will be a lot of pressure on him to deliver satisfactory results in the next game and I am sure that he can do it against Benin Republic.

[Zigabel]

South Africans has been one of Nigerian greatest rivals when it comes to African football, so I don't bother much whether we win them now or not, even while I saw they had the lead I was confident enough that the match would end in draw or Nigeria to win. Both countries played really well, judging from the kind of goals scored by both teams, it shows how developed Africans are getting in football since most of our players are now playing in international clubs. I feel like the players still needs to blend even more, there is enough available rooms for development in the Super Eagles squad.

I was expecting that by this time Nigeria will have been able too get a tactics with which they will be able to tackle the continues inability to win south Africa as a country of which we know they don't have so much of a very good depth when compared to Nigeria, they have mostly local players and only a few international stars which makes Nigeria stand above them with the quality of players they have got but then most times Nigeria still finds it difficult winning them except on few occasions that Nigeria have been able to succeed in winning them and i think it shouldn't be so even to this point.

Playing well is something both countries usually do in most of their meetings but it has always been Nigeria that has not been able to change the norm of been able to win them in most of their meetings, blending like you did mentioned no doubts is something most of the players nee to do for awhile just maybe it will help them as well, sometimes it looks like they only comet other few weeks to fixtures so they don't have much time to relay get to bond and get used to the tactics and strategy they will be using which make them not to have a definite pattern on pitch.

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At the end it all settled one a piece (1-1). And Nigeria did very well to get the comeback. The African world cup qualifiers matches today all had quite a good number of goals which for some time now has been the era with African football because goal scoring was actually some sort of problem for their games.The Algeria game that they lost was a shock to me because they lost to a very big odd of which I even played them to win and they were defeated by guinea.

The draw Super Eagle had with South Africa was not a good one I must say. it kinda discouraging and in the same vein reduced their chances of qualifying as the top contestants of the Group C table.

Currently, the Super Eagle is placed in the 5th position with 3 points, having Lesotho at the 1st spot with 5 points, Rwanda, Benin Republic, and South Africa, all have 4 points. However, according to the ranking of the table(Group C), there's still hope for Super Eagle "if" they win their away match against the Benin Republic. At least the win can push them to the 2-3rd spot, determining the results of other teams in the Group C table. That notwithstanding, towards Monday, we will get to learn about, whether the Super Eagles win, lose, or draw their last match of the year for World Cup qualification against the Benin Republic.

  Some people are saying that Finidi George should be sack now because Super Eagles is now on the danger zone not to qualifying from the world cup and if they didn't qualify then things will go wrong in the club.  But really was a shame for Super Eagles to draw with Bafana Bafana in their own home land. And as it is now, Super Eagles has 3 points which is second to last. And Zambia has 2 points which is the last in the group. Nigeria team can only qualify if they win the return match and if not then they will not go to anywhere and they have to watch the match at home. And if they k ow that they will not do well then they have to stay at home than going there to come in the group stage of the match. They didn't even sang the new National Anthem. But let see what they can play in the next match. This match they played yesterday disappointed many predictions.

LOL....have you forgotten your country again that they are always using their last match to have hope of qualifying. They are not always leading their group or to be second, the do mess up opportunities that will make their qualification a probability. Since I know Nigeria, I have not seen them qualifying and still have more matches left to play.

This orientation should be changed, because it is not a good one, and it does not speak good about the country performance in football. Imagine that they must win their next match before they will qualify for CAF. If they lose the game, it over and Finidi did not enjoy his contract.

That's football for you bro, although I must say Nigeria is well known for this sort of things and that's why they have make we the fans to lose hope in them, I could remember the last one very vividly when they their game against Ghana was the decider and even plus the fact they were at home soil they still went and drew the game and even in the stadium the whole thing wanted to play out with violence as the fans were very angry as they fail to qualify for the world cup I guess.