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[Salahmu]

It sounds like Tunisia had a tough time breaking through Gambia's defense after both teams scored early, but Tunisia secured an important victory over Gambia last night, showing their resilience and determination. After a tightly contested match, Tunisia managed to break the deadlock and come away with a win, reinforcing their position at the top of the group.

Even before they play the match Tunisia has already seen to be the winner of the match because they are one of the best country in football among all the African countries, though I don't no why they were even struggling with the Gambian team on the first half and when they score the first goal within 3 minutes Gambia has already equalize, actually there overall performance on that match was not that promising because there was a lot mistake on there performance, so if not for the penalty they had they wouldn't have even win the match.

Well is good that even with there little struggle they remain the top of there table followed by Comoros and they will both be meeting on there next match, I actually I don't even no if Tunisia will win Comoros because they are very good but the only thing I don't understand about the Comoros this league is that they keep on drawing there matches with less efforts in winning.

[Zackz5000]

Here we go again as Nigeria super eagle take on Rwanda on their play ground at Kigali by 15:00.

Super Eagle is the favorite team with odds of 1.5 while Rwanda to win is 6.5. Does this mean super eagle will win the match? Absolutely No! Nigeria should not take Rwanda for granted despite their convincing victory against Benin republic in their last match.

Nigeria has recorded one victory and two draw against Rwanda in their previous meetings. What is your expectation today?

Nigeria is favorite to win todays game against Rwanda despite they will be playing at away, Nigeria have more quality players compare to Rwanda though wining in football doesn't necessarily mean you have quality players but there is an advantage, if Nigeria didn't take Benin republic for granted by winning benin republic 3-0, I don't think they will take Rwanda for granted for no team should be underated.

I have confidence that Nigeria will win Rwanda today Victor Osimhen and Ademola Lookman and the Nigeria team will put a smile on the faces of the fans today I have already place my bet Nigeria to win and over 1.5 goals.

[Marvelockg]

Our super eagle legend, Victor Moses has just returned back to the game after signing into Luton Town as a free agent. The 33 year old currently plays at FC Spartak at Moscow. It's good to know that the one time Chelsea, Liverpool And inter Milan legend is back once more to England after going silent for some years back.

What's your take on this development. From the look of things, Nigerian players have been the talk of the world in this current transfer period.

[Promocodeudo]

That's the spirit, this is the Nigeria we use to know, with this kind of performance I see Nigeria going back to their winning ways, it was unfortunate for benin republic football team not to net a goal that match, be it as it may, Nigeria deserved the winning they got in that match because they were favouite team, I think there is a bit progress and change in the Nigeria team, I see good communication between the players and the coach, this is the factor that mostly determine the success if a team, when problem exist between key players and the coach, it affects the performance of the team because every player has team mates who are his friends as such they wouldnt allow the team manager to victomize their friends and this may lead to intentional underperformance of the team which may lead to either the resignation of the manager or his sack by the management.

though misunderstandung must occur as far as human are involved but the ability to let go of pride and seek for a lasting solution is what actually matters, Nigeria use to be a football country that's much more recognized in the world in terms of football but recently things started changing as if there wouldn't be any remedy to the situation that Nigerian football team is into, with the recent performance of the team, Nigeria senior team coach needs to be praised for their victory on that match, he was in charge and I think his strategy worked very well for the team, if nigeria senior team continue as they did last weekend against their opponent, their lost glory will be regained, congratulations to them for a well deserved winning.

Well I hope for the best for the Nigeria team because as the Giant of Africa I expect more results from the team. I was quite surprised that Nigeria was able to defeat the Benin Republic with 3 goals which was impressive. At the beginning the match was never interesting to me because I thought the Nigeria team is going to score most of the goals during the first half. I always expect the Benin Republic team to score even though it's a single goal but I was really disappointed that they could not even score. Nigeria has done well and I hope there next match is going to be something similar to this so that their fans can be getting the maximum victory as giant of Africa.

If it were to be before, people wouldn't have been surprised with the Nigeria super eagles performance against benin republic but because of their recent underperformance many of us doubt the outcome of any match they are involved in, with what played out last weekend one will conclude that the problem this team has been encoutering is as a result of their coach and the entire managent negligence of tackling the necessities and chasing shadows instead, for any team to get it right, it all requires the managemant, coach and the players to work in synergy to give the country senior football team the best for people to see, ordinarily benin republic shouldn't be Nigerian match in terms of football but all this while there has been serious lapses in the team and i think the new manager is going to do his best to rebrand the team but thats if NFF give him the support he needs without interfering or ordeimg him aroumd to  accomplish their selfish motives.

Yea it is common for everyone to expect both team to score in that encounter but I'm football things don't always happen the way we want it, although we can't predict what their next result will be like but with the impression they have created already I somuch believe that their next encounter wouldn't  be different from this one.

[Stepstowealth]

I have confidence that Nigeria will win Rwanda today Victor Osimhen and Ademola Lookman and the Nigeria team will put a smile on the faces of the fans today I have already place my bet Nigeria to win and over 1.5 goals.

Over 1.5 bet on the super Eagles may not enter at this point because both teams are still struggling to find the goal, and it is looking like a game that will just have one goal at the end. Victor Osimhen starts the second half for the super Eagles after Victor Boniface had his chance in the first half. We need a win in this game as we had in our game against Benin.
Something I have noticed about this Rwanda team is that in the second half they have attacked the Nigerian defense more so it will be very wise for the Super Eagles to also remember to defend as they try to attack and get a goal. We had some good chances in the first half but we couldn't score maybe the bad football pitch is contributing to it

[Roseline492]

Over 1.5 bet on the super Eagles may not enter at this point because both teams are still struggling to find the goal, and it is looking like a game that will just have one goal at the end. Victor Osimhen starts the second half for the super Eagles after Victor Boniface had his chance in the first half. We need a win in this game as we had in our game against Benin.
Something I have noticed about this Rwanda team is that in the second half they have attacked the Nigerian defense more so it will be very wise for the Super Eagles to also remember to defend as they try to attack and get a goal. We had some good chances in the first half but we couldn't score maybe the bad football pitch is contributing to it

The Rwanda attack on the supper eagles defense on the second half was stronger than the first half, with the way the both side is struggling getting over 0.5 on this match may not even be possible, well it would have been very nice if the supper eagles will win this match so that it will add for them on there table, today's match is tougher for them because the Rwanda team is very difficult to beat if not with all the efforts of Lookman and Osimhen they would have gotten one goal by now, though I think it would have been more better if Osimhen had played on the first half instead of the second half because on the first half Rwanda team was a bit weak, so that would have been the opportunity for Osimhen to utilize.

[Fiatless]

The Super Eagles of Nigeria have been held to a goalless draw in Kigali in the African Cup of Nations qualifies. The Nigerian team had a good performance and result against Benin when they won the game by a high goal margin. One would have expected that the Eagles would have an easy win today, but this was not the case. The match statistic shows that the Nigerian side had twenty shots, and ten were on target without a goal. These statistics indicate that they had many chances that were not maximized.

[Hatchy]

Nigeria has recorded one victory and two draw against Rwanda in their previous meetings. What is your expectation today?

My take on this is that we should just wait for the match to end. Though we still have a upper hand here in the game. Looking from the current hand, we are pressing with 20 shots and 9 shots on target. I can see my guy osimhen doing his best. Hopes on God. I just pray they are able to win this one so they can qualify. I wished osimhen had played on the first half, it would have gotten us a winning strike against Rwanda. So far like I said before, we still have a upper hand here and let's just wait till the match ends.

[knowngunman]

The Rwanda attack on the supper eagles defense on the second half was stronger than the first half, with the way the both side is struggling getting over 0.5 on this match may not even be possible, well it would have been very nice if the supper eagles will win this match so that it will add for them on there table, today's match is tougher for them because the Rwanda team is very difficult to beat if not with all the efforts of Lookman and Osimhen they would have gotten one goal by now, though I think it would have been more better if Osimhen had played on the first half instead of the second half because on the first half Rwanda team was a bit weak, so that would have been the opportunity for Osimhen to utilize.

I said this earlier that Nigeria should not underrate Rwanda because from the results of their previous meetings you'll see how sturbon and solid they've always been against Nigeria. It's not the result we wanted and I must admit that super eagle played a perfect match but unfortunately the officiating was too bad. I see nothing wrong with that fantastic goal that refree canceled.

I have the same belief too that Osimhen would have score at least one or more if the couch had start with him from first half. All praise to Rwanda goal keeper who denied super eagle numerous goals with those excellent saves.

[Franctoshi]

The Rwanda attack on the supper eagles defense on the second half was stronger than the first half, with the way the both side is struggling getting over 0.5 on this match may not even be possible, well it would have been very nice if the supper eagles will win this match so that it will add for them on there table, today's match is tougher for them because the Rwanda team is very difficult to beat if not with all the efforts of Lookman and Osimhen they would have gotten one goal by now, though I think it would have been more better if Osimhen had played on the first half instead of the second half because on the first half Rwanda team was a bit weak, so that would have been the opportunity for Osimhen to utilize.

I said this earlier that Nigeria should not underrate Rwanda because from the results of their previous meetings you'll see how sturbon and solid they've always been against Nigeria. It's not the result we wanted and I must admit that super eagle played a perfect match but unfortunately the officiating was too bad. I see nothing wrong with that fantastic goal that refree canceled.

I have the same belief too that Osimhen would have score at least one or more if the couch had start with him from first half. All praise to Rwanda goal keeper who denied super eagle numerous goals with those excellent saves.

When that goal was disallowed by the referee, that did set me off from watching the game, sometimes the Super Eagles of Nigeria are being robbed off some points by some certain referees through their not being fair with some of their decisions in a given match. However, the supper eagles will still be topping their group table even though that the Libya team happened to win their own game tonight,  hope isn't lost as they took a point home.

[Marvelockg]

The Rwanda attack on the supper eagles defense on the second half was stronger than the first half, with the way the both side is struggling getting over 0.5 on this match may not even be possible, well it would have been very nice if the supper eagles will win this match so that it will add for them on there table, today's match is tougher for them because the Rwanda team is very difficult to beat if not with all the efforts of Lookman and Osimhen they would have gotten one goal by now, though I think it would have been more better if Osimhen had played on the first half instead of the second half because on the first half Rwanda team was a bit weak, so that would have been the opportunity for Osimhen to utilize.

I said this earlier that Nigeria should not underrate Rwanda because from the results of their previous meetings you'll see how sturbon and solid they've always been against Nigeria. It's not the result we wanted and I must admit that super eagle played a perfect match but unfortunately the officiating was too bad. I see nothing wrong with that fantastic goal that refree canceled.

even though I expected the super eagles to win this game very comfortably, playing host to a team like Rwanda was never going to be an easy task. There are a lot of positive things to take out from the game, at least, we've seen the mentality and how solid our defense is for our boys. The Rwanda goal keeper was at the top of his game and protected his post so well thereby preventing the eagles from scoring despite all the opportunities they had both at the first and second half.

I have the same belief too that Osimhen would have score at least one or more if the couch had start with him from first half. All praise to Rwanda goal keeper who denied super eagle numerous goals with those excellent saves.

one thing with Victor Boniface kind of attack is that he's more of a technical attacker than an aggressive one like Victor osimehn. For his club, those kind of pattern works well because they play organized football but for the African football setting, you need to be very aggressive with defenders and goal keepers or they suppress all your tactical effort. Honestly, he wasn't bad at all today. In terms of chances created by osimehn, lookman and himself, the one he played that for to the bar was the closest to entering the goal and he made one or two great move that helped the team to a large extent. Maybe for next game, the coach will want to start osimehn to see how he weakens the defense first before bringing Boniface into the game for the goals but the summary is that with or without the win, they played well. With 4 point already secured after the second goal, they need to win thier next game so as to remain top on the group.

[Spaceman1000$]

Over 1.5 bet on the super Eagles may not enter at this point because both teams are still struggling to find the goal, and it is looking like a game that will just have one goal at the end. Victor Osimhen starts the second half for the super Eagles after Victor Boniface had his chance in the first half. We need a win in this game as we had in our game against Benin.
Something I have noticed about this Rwanda team is that in the second half they have attacked the Nigerian defense more so it will be very wise for the Super Eagles to also remember to defend as they try to attack and get a goal. We had some good chances in the first half but we couldn't score maybe the bad football pitch is contributing to it

The Rwanda attack on the supper eagles defense on the second half was stronger than the first half, with the way the both side is struggling getting over 0.5 on this match may not even be possible, well it would have been very nice if the supper eagles will win this match so that it will add for them on there table, today's match is tougher for them because the Rwanda team is very difficult to beat if not with all the efforts of Lookman and Osimhen they would have gotten one goal by now, though I think it would have been more better if Osimhen had played on the first half instead of the second half because on the first half Rwanda team was a bit weak, so that would have been the opportunity for Osimhen to utilize.

The reason is that, the Rwanda side was able to observe the Nigerian pattern of play during the first half and they had to go back and  restrategize on how to attack the Nigerians. the major opportunities Nigerian had was during the first half and they would have scored more goals, I definitely agree with you on playing victor osimhen that first half instead of Boniface, the duo of lookman and osimhen upfront would have given them a goal.

however despite the fact that the game was a tough one for both Nigeria and Rwanda, I think CAF should do more to improve on their technology, it was really embarrassing to know that there was no VAR for this game, at least to help the referee at least to help checkmate somethings, take the Ademola lookman's goal for instance, that goal was disallowed for no just cause and there was No VAR to check the authenticity of that goal, at least to see if there was any infringement anywhere.

CAF should do more to improve on the technology of football in Africa, even the quality of the televised game was even poor, as it was looking as if we are watching a football match from the 1980s.

[Agbe]

Snip.

I was expecting Nigeria team to win the Match but opposite was the case. Really Super Eagles didn't try for this game. Mostly in the first half. Rwanda played well in the first half and they defended their second half very well so Super Eagles could not scored them. Rwanda would have been a work over for Nigerian Super Eagles today but the Amavubi were gallant to be defeated. And the one of the shot Victor Osimhen gave was too direct to the goalkeeper at least he would have bend the ball. And I think there next Match should be next month. The amavubi really dominated the first half and became the strongest defendant of the second half. Nigerians are not happy about this Match but it still better than Finidi's tenure lolz 😂. And I believed they can work hard to do well in their next Match.

[Marykeller]

Here we go again as Nigeria super eagle take on Rwanda on their play ground at Kigali by 15:00.

Super Eagle is the favorite team with odds of 1.5 while Rwanda to win is 6.5. Does this mean super eagle will win the match? Absolutely No! Nigeria should not take Rwanda for granted despite their convincing victory against Benin republic in their last match.

Nigeria has recorded one victory and two draw against Rwanda in their previous meetings. What is your expectation today?

Nigeria is favorite to win todays game against Rwanda despite they will be playing at away, Nigeria have more quality players compare to Rwanda though wining in football doesn't necessarily mean you have quality players but there is an advantage, if Nigeria didn't take Benin republic for granted by winning benin republic 3-0, I don't think they will take Rwanda for granted for no team should be underated.

I have confidence that Nigeria will win Rwanda today Victor Osimhen and Ademola Lookman and the Nigeria team will put a smile on the faces of the fans today I have already place my bet Nigeria to win and over 1.5 goals.

Most Nigeria thought that the Super Eagles would win over Rwanda in today's AFCON Qualification match, but it didn't happen as predicted, as the match ended in a draw match(no goal scored).

A draw point is something, even though we anticipated 3 points. But that doesn't mean the Super Eagles are not topping the Group D table, because they are, with 4 points, followed by Rwanda with 2 points.

In tonight's match between Benin and Libya, any win from the match will take either of the countries to appear at the 2nd spot of the Group D table, topping Rwanda, while Super Eagles remain at the top spot.

[Oshosondy]

Most Nigeria thought that the Super Eagles would win over Rwanda in today's AFCON Qualification match, but it didn't happen as predicted, as the match ended in a draw match(no goal scored).

Very disappointing kind of football players. I guess that they have known that there is nothing that would happen that will not make them qualify for AFCON and they played rubbish today. I expected Nigeria to score not less than 2 goals.

A draw point is something, even though we anticipated 3 points. But that doesn't mean the Super Eagles are not topping the Group D table, because they are, with 4 points, followed by Rwanda with 2 points.

In tonight's match between Benin and Libya, any win from the match will take either of the countries to appear at the 2nd spot of the Group D table, topping Rwanda, while Super Eagles remain at the top spot.

You can not say that yet until the match has been played. If Libya scored more than 2 goes, the country will top the table.

[Pandorak]

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[...] In the other match, Madagascar and Comoros are still 1 - 1 with like 15 minutes left. Such score will make Tunisia 4 points at least in front of all of the other 3 nations.

Yes, the Madagascar vs Comoros match was very exciting, i can say. Through a scrimmage in front of the Comoros goal, C. Andria managed to put Madagascar ahead, but the equalizer by Y. M'Changama, although his shot failed to go over the fence, but he didn't save it at the next opportunity, and i think everyone has to admit that it was an amazing goal. However, with the Madagascar vs Comoros draw, Tunisia is like 'My Chemical Romance' because they are like 'So Long and Goodnight' to the other teams in the group.

[Pokapoka124]

The Super Eagles of Nigeria have been held to a goalless draw in Kigali in the African Cup of Nations qualifies. The Nigerian team had a good performance and result against Benin when they won the game by a high goal margin. One would have expected that the Eagles would have an easy win today, but this was not the case. The match statistic shows that the Nigerian side had twenty shots, and ten were on target without a goal. These statistics indicate that they had many chances that were not maximized.

I’m disappointed with the results of the game. How come the Super Eagles - with their world class strikers cannot beat Rwanda? This draw will only give room to the doubts and naysayers that believe we won the last game by luck. The Rwanda goalkeeper was impressive today, he saved 5 balls that were sure to enter the net. Lookman tried his best, unfortunately the only goal we got was canceled by the referee. To all those who defended Victor Boniface performance in the last game, he has proven to us today that he’s not ready for the first team.

[Agbe]

Our super eagle legend, Victor Moses has just returned back to the game after signing into Luton Town as a free agent. The 33 year old currently plays at FC Spartak at Moscow. It's good to know that the one time Chelsea, Liverpool And inter Milan legend is back once more to England after going silent for some years back.

What's your take on this development. From the look of things, Nigerian players have been the talk of the world in this current transfer period.

I was not focusing on Victor Moses transfer and I am noticing it from this your comment but fully aware and focusing  on Victor Osimhen transfer. Moses was a good player in the Super Eagles. And was playing well in Liverpool, Inter Milan and also in Chelsea and I believed he will still deliver to FC Spartak club. Nigerian dominate whenever they found themselves and do well. Really Nigerian Footballers have been discussed everywhere in the internet. But the most popular footballer in this transfer period was the Osimhen's own.

[snipie]

The Super Eagles of Nigeria have been held to a goalless draw in Kigali in the African Cup of Nations qualifies. The Nigerian team had a good performance and result against Benin when they won the game by a high goal margin. One would have expected that the Eagles would have an easy win today, but this was not the case. The match statistic shows that the Nigerian side had twenty shots, and ten were on target without a goal. These statistics indicate that they had many chances that were not maximized.

I’m disappointed with the results of the game. How come the Super Eagles - with their world class strikers cannot beat Rwanda? This draw will only give room to the doubts and naysayers that believe we won the last game by luck. The Rwanda goalkeeper was impressive today, he saved 5 balls that were sure to enter the net. Lookman tried his best, unfortunately the only goal we got was canceled by the referee. To all those who defended Victor Boniface performance in the last game, he has proven to us today that he’s not ready for the first team.

I assume most people are disappointed right now when seeing the upsetting result of Nigeria. Worst no goal was scored in that game. Rwanda hasn't world class players, yet look how they embarrassed their opponent. Nigeria failed to finish their opportunities and to drive the ball to the net correctly. We all said that their group is one of the easiest ones in that competition. I wonder how they would performed if they played with Egypt or Morocco...

[rachael9385]

Snip.

I was expecting Nigeria team to win the Match but opposite was the case. Really Super Eagles didn't try for this game. Mostly in the first half. Rwanda played well in the first half and they defended their second half very well so Super Eagles could not scored them. Rwanda would have been a work over for Nigerian Super Eagles today but the Amavubi were gallant to be defeated. And the one of the shot Victor Osimhen gave was too direct to the goalkeeper at least he would have bend the ball. And I think there next Match should be next month. The amavubi really dominated the first half and became the strongest defendant of the second half. Nigerians are not happy about this Match but it still better than Finidi's tenure lolz 😂. And I believed they can work hard to do well in their next Match.

So was I.
I expected Nigeria to win the game today but they didn't win, instead they draw the game. However they tried but it wasn't enough at all compared to their past performances, they had enough chances to win Rewanda but they missed it.
Today, the super eagles played a defensive game and they didn't do too well to score a goal. Well, it was because of how they played last week Saturday that made me expected them to play well today but they did the opposite of what I was expecting from them. Although, the Rewanda tried to play Nigerian team, Rewanda goalkeeper did well by saving his team during the dye minutes, they also missed some of their chances too.