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[AYOBA]

Yes, we all saw what happened in the South Africa World Cup match today, it was a poor performance from South Africa and they lost the game in a disgraceful manner. They had the opportunity to kick off the world cup competition, got two red cards in the second half and lost the match by 2 goals, of only Mexico was clinical enough, they would have ended up with many goals. Nigeira would have either tied or won Mexico today, the mid field was fully dominated by Mexico, South Africa players could barely hold the ball, it was a disgraceful start for them, two more games left to safe themselves.

Honestly South Africa had so many chances and opportunities to score goals but they couldn’t maintain their chances of scoring goals which is why end up losing the match against Mexico, although that is because they they received two red cards that’s what affected their performances but that’s not enough reason to me since before the red cards they had opportunities to score goals right from the first half  but only wasted their efforts entirely. They allowed the Mexico dominated the entire match both the ball possession, and the raise activities of the game which was a very shameless display from the South Africa.

[Rgram]

Honestly South Africa had so many chances and opportunities to score goals but they couldn’t maintain their chances of scoring goals which is why end up losing the match against Mexico, although that is because they they received two red cards that’s what affected their performances but that’s not enough reason to me since before the red cards they had opportunities to score goals right from the first half  but only wasted their efforts entirely. They allowed the Mexico dominated the entire match both the ball possession, and the raise activities of the game which was a very shameless display from the South Africa.

I didn’t see South Africa having many chances as much as the Mexican team did. The Mexican team could have easily scored at least 5 goals in this match. Right from the first half, they had balls on the post and created some good forward moves and all that was left was to get the ball across the goal to a player and they couldn’t get those finishing touches to put it behind for a goal.
For South Africa, I couldn’t see anything decent from them and this isn’t coming from the fact that, the rest of the continent isn’t behind them in this tournament.

[SuperBitMan]

Yes, we all saw what happened in the South Africa World Cup match today, it was a poor performance from South Africa and they lost the game in a disgraceful manner. They had the opportunity to kick off the world cup competition, got two red cards in the second half and lost the match by 2 goals, of only Mexico was clinical enough, they would have ended up with many goals. Nigeira would have either tied or won Mexico today, the mid field was fully dominated by Mexico, South Africa players could barely hold the ball, it was a disgraceful start for them, two more games left to safe themselves.

Honestly South Africa had so many chances and opportunities to score goals but they couldn’t maintain their chances of scoring goals which is why end up losing the match against Mexico, although that is because they they received two red cards that’s what affected their performances but that’s not enough reason to me since before the red cards they had opportunities to score goals right from the first half  but only wasted their efforts entirely. They allowed the Mexico dominated the entire match both the ball possession, and the raise activities of the game which was a very shameless display from the South Africa.

South African didn’t play as I expected them to play how will a player be careless to take red card in first world cu match I’m disappointed at them, the only African team that will perform well is Senegal and Morocco the rest Africa teams will not perform well this World Cup, congratulations to Mexico they played very well but they will not go far this World Cup, South African was just fearful and not determined that was why they ended up winning South African.
South African will just come back after the group stage except they will pick up but I don’t even see them doing that.
I wish Nigeria qualified for this World Cup I’m sure they would have done well.

[Lida93]

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It has always been a bad mentality that we have hen we assume that as long as we are not there then team Africa is not complete. as much as we pose ourselves as the giant of Africa, we have to also note that some African teams are paying the price to put their country at the continental stage while we sit back to talk like an entitled people.

Apart from south Africa that has turned her back on the rest of Africans, i think we should believe in all the other African teams that are represented in the world cup and expect that they will make us proud. we didn't qualify and that is where we are. if we want it as much as we claim, then it is only better to start preparing for the next while we clap for those that have qualified.

Some Nigerians are yet to understand it that Nigeria national team has greatly declined in rankings in the continent and even in world ranking too, with other African nations take over up the ranks. They're just living with yesterdays glory of the times of Kano Nwankwo, Jayjay Okocha, Yekini, Finidi George, and the rest of them of that era. The current Super Eagles haven't being well able to live up to that expectations, not to mention going beyond it.

I would be really happy to see other African teams who are in the World Cup representing Africa continent going in flying colours in the tournament. I want to see them win and exceed beyond the semis up to the finals, except for South Africa for reasons you have mentioned and Morocco who didn't see it fit to dedicate their success in the last World Cup where they reached the semifinals to Africans who showed solidarity support to them.

[Frankolala]

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It has always been a bad mentality that we have hen we assume that as long as we are not there then team Africa is not complete. as much as we pose ourselves as the giant of Africa, we have to also note that some African teams are paying the price to put their country at the continental stage while we sit back to talk like an entitled people.

Apart from south Africa that has turned her back on the rest of Africans, i think we should believe in all the other African teams that are represented in the world cup and expect that they will make us proud. we didn't qualify and that is where we are. if we want it as much as we claim, then it is only better to start preparing for the next while we clap for those that have qualified.

Some Nigerians are yet to understand it that Nigeria national team has greatly declined in rankings in the continent and even in world ranking too, with other African nations take over up the ranks. They're just living with yesterdays glory of the times of Kano Nwankwo, Jayjay Okocha, Yekini, Finidi George, and the rest of them of that era. The current Super Eagles haven't being well able to live up to that expectations, not to mention going beyond it.

I would be really happy to see other African teams who are in the World Cup representing Africa continent going in flying colours in the tournament. I want to see them win and exceed beyond the semis up to the finals, except for South Africa for reasons you have mentioned and Morocco who didn't see it fit to dedicate their success in the last World Cup where they reached the semifinals to Africans who showed solidarity support to them.

I think, this is a big dream for you that might not come true in this world cup. Africa teams are weak compared to Europe and America teams when it comes to football, I am not expecting any miracle from them because they cannot go beyond the quarter finals talk more of reaching the finals. Nigeria is a disgrace to their past football heroes

[Mayor of ogba]

We are finally here, the much anticipated world cup starts today. The opening match starts in few minutes from now between one of the hosts Mexico Vs South Africa. As an African, we are meant to support other African countries naturally, but in this this I won't be supporting the "go beck to your country" people, my support tonight will be fully for Mexico. I don't want a situation were I will be supporting South Africa and their country men will say I'm taking their jobs away from them.

South Africans said that foreigners are taking their jobs away from them. Supporting South Africa in the World Cup is the same thing as taking their jobs away from them. I will not support them in the World Cup even though we are of the same continent and I wish them, not to qualify for the next round of the World Cup in order for them to go back home and take their jobs.

[Barikui1]

I didn’t see South Africa having many chances as much as the Mexican team did. The Mexican team could have easily scored at least 5 goals in this match. Right from the first half, they had balls on the post and created some good forward moves and all that was left was to get the ball across the goal to a player and they couldn’t get those finishing touches to put it behind for a goal.
For South Africa, I couldn’t see anything decent from them and this isn’t coming from the fact that, the rest of the continent isn’t behind them in this tournament.

The south Africa team look very confused and unprepared for this tournament because with the rate at which they were misplacing passes, it's as if they were not even training with each other, and if they did not improve in their upcoming games, I wouldn't be surprised if they go back home  with zero winnings and zero point, because against the mexicans, they were just playing rubbish. The 2-0 win doesn't really reflect the gap between both teams or how the game played out because the Mexican team was by far the most superior team in the game.

[Localhostspeed]

We are finally here, the much anticipated world cup starts today. The opening match starts in few minutes from now between one of the hosts Mexico Vs South Africa. As an African, we are meant to support other African countries naturally, but in this this I won't be supporting the "go beck to your country" people, my support tonight will be fully for Mexico. I don't want a situation were I will be supporting South Africa and their country men will say I'm taking their jobs away from them.

South Africans said that foreigners are taking their jobs away from them. Supporting South Africa in the World Cup is the same thing as taking their jobs away from them. I will not support them in the World Cup even though we are of the same continent and I wish them, not to qualify for the next round of the World Cup in order for them to go back home and take their jobs.

At first when this movement to support Mexico in the match between them and South Africa, they didn't believe it at first, some of them were asking exactly what went wrong and why would all Africans not support their own but later the realised it was a good opportunity for them and they have jumped on it. Go to any social app, Mexicans are celebrating Africans for supporting them, that's how cool and what football represent, show love to one another.

Perhaps after this world cup, the South Africa governments will get the message that we should be for each other and not to be chasing foreigners from their country. At first I was even thought the taking jobs was between them and Nigerians but later I got to know that those people were chasing all other Africans from there country, I saw how they were brutalizing family that has been there for years and their government didn't do anything about it.

[Different patterns]

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It has always been a bad mentality that we have hen we assume that as long as we are not there then team Africa is not complete. as much as we pose ourselves as the giant of Africa, we have to also note that some African teams are paying the price to put their country at the continental stage while we sit back to talk like an entitled people.

Apart from south Africa that has turned her back on the rest of Africans, i think we should believe in all the other African teams that are represented in the world cup and expect that they will make us proud. we didn't qualify and that is where we are. if we want it as much as we claim, then it is only better to start preparing for the next while we clap for those that have qualified.

Some Nigerians are yet to understand it that Nigeria national team has greatly declined in rankings in the continent and even in world ranking too, with other African nations take over up the ranks. They're just living with yesterdays glory of the times of Kano Nwankwo, Jayjay Okocha, Yekini, Finidi George, and the rest of them of that era. The current Super Eagles haven't being well able to live up to that expectations, not to mention going beyond it.

I would be really happy to see other African teams who are in the World Cup representing Africa continent going in flying colours in the tournament. I want to see them win and exceed beyond the semis up to the finals, except for South Africa for reasons you have mentioned and Morocco who didn't see it fit to dedicate their success in the last World Cup where they reached the semifinals to Africans who showed solidarity support to them.

It's true that Nigeria has memorable moments and has legendaries like Jay-jay okocha and Raheed Yekini and many of the supporters have compared them with the recent super eagles squad but other nations have improved too and football has greatly evolved. You will see national teams like Morocco and Senegal, they have proven that African teams can perform well at the highest team, they have been well managed over the years and have done well also, Nigeria also needs to have stability and be well organised so that they can meet the expectations of their fans. Deep down every African supporter, they want the African teams to perform well in this world cup because it's going to inspire other teams to also prepare to compete at the highest level. I know there will be personal opinions and football rivalry but the bigger goal will still be that African teams should compete with the biggest team.

[Jostern]

Yes, we all saw what happened in the South Africa World Cup match today, it was a poor performance from South Africa and they lost the game in a disgraceful manner. They had the opportunity to kick off the world cup competition, got two red cards in the second half and lost the match by 2 goals, of only Mexico was clinical enough, they would have ended up with many goals. Nigeira would have either tied or won Mexico today, the mid field was fully dominated by Mexico, South Africa players could barely hold the ball, it was a disgraceful start for them, two more games left to safe themselves.

Honestly South Africa had so many chances and opportunities to score goals but they couldn’t maintain their chances of scoring goals which is why end up losing the match against Mexico, although that is because they they received two red cards that’s what affected their performances but that’s not enough reason to me since before the red cards they had opportunities to score goals right from the first half  but only wasted their efforts entirely. They allowed the Mexico dominated the entire match both the ball possession, and the raise activities of the game which was a very shameless display from the South Africa.

South African didn’t play as I expected them to play how will a player be careless to take red card in first world cu match I’m disappointed at them, the only African team that will perform well is Senegal and Morocco the rest Africa teams will not perform well this World Cup, congratulations to Mexico they played very well but they will not go far this World Cup, South African was just fearful and not determined that was why they ended up winning South African.
South African will just come back after the group stage except they will pick up but I don’t even see them doing that.
I wish Nigeria qualified for this World Cup I’m sure they would have done well.

You were expecting too much from South Africa, First of all they were not supposed to have qualified for the World Cup when Nigeria was there in the qualifying group, but you know how this things works, a host nation is always going to be ready for anything that is going to play out, South Africa looked like a team that didn’t train before they got to the World Cup.

And I’m also happy that they’re out of the World Cup now, considering what they’re doing with other African countries with their xenophobic rhetoric attacks on other African countries most especially Nigerians, a very lazy country, and they keep saying that Nigerians are taking there jobs, I’m happy they’ve lost in the World Cup and they’ve to keep loosing games and get out of the World Cup.

[Mayor of ogba]

Honestly South Africa had so many chances and opportunities to score goals but they couldn’t maintain their chances of scoring goals which is why end up losing the match against Mexico, although that is because they they received two red cards that’s what affected their performances but that’s not enough reason to me since before the red cards they had opportunities to score goals right from the first half  but only wasted their efforts entirely. They allowed the Mexico dominated the entire match both the ball possession, and the raise activities of the game which was a very shameless display from the South Africa.

In the Mexico vs South Africa match yesterday, it seems I watched back of the television because I didn't see where South Africa had so many chances or opportunities against Mexico in the opening match of the 2026 World Cup tournament, what I saw in the South Africa team was a team that seemed unprepared and ready for this World Cup because their performance was poor to some point that I started thinking that the Super Eagles would have represented African continent very well if they had qualified for o the World Cup in the group C of CAF World Cup qualifiers, Mexico was already winning South Africa 1-0 before South Africa had their first red in the match which Mexico capitalize to increase their lead to 2-0 but even without South Africa receiving two red cards against Mexico, Mexico would have still won South Africa because South Africa was never a threat to Mexico.

[Marvelockg]

Yes, we all saw what happened in the South Africa World Cup match today, it was a poor performance from South Africa and they lost the game in a disgraceful manner. They had the opportunity to kick off the world cup competition, got two red cards in the second half and lost the match by 2 goals, of only Mexico was clinical enough, they would have ended up with many goals. Nigeira would have either tied or won Mexico today, the mid field was fully dominated by Mexico, South Africa players could barely hold the ball, it was a disgraceful start for them, two more games left to safe themselves.

Honestly South Africa had so many chances and opportunities to score goals but they couldn’t maintain their chances of scoring goals which is why end up losing the match against Mexico, although that is because they they received two red cards that’s what affected their performances but that’s not enough reason to me since before the red cards they had opportunities to score goals right from the first half  but only wasted their efforts entirely.

where did you see the opportunity? south Africa that suffered from the start of the game till the end? from the start of the game, it was almost like they were playing against a team like brazil because the dominance was on another level. lets just say that the pressure was hot on them because you could literally see a team that is struggling to even make complete passes.

we should even be talking about the fact that Mexico were not able to play with the same intensity they played with in the first half. if México were very brutal in the second half, south Africa would have conceded at least five goals. but then, you have to also give credit to the south African goal keeper. he as never been missing in putting up quality performance for his team. he helped south Africa greatly.

[AprilioMP]

south Africa that suffered from the start of the game till the end? from the start of the game, it was almost like they were playing against a team like brazil because the dominance was on another level. lets just say that the pressure was hot on them because you could literally see a team that is struggling to even make complete passes.

we should even be talking about the fact that Mexico were not able to play with the same intensity they played with in the first half. if México were very brutal in the second half, south Africa would have conceded at least five goals. but then, you have to also give credit to the south African goal keeper. he as never been missing in putting up quality performance for his team. he helped south Africa greatly.

I predicted that this opening match would hold a surprise in the final result, but everything turned out differently and was far from what I expected. The only surprise was the red card issued by the referee, which will go down in the history of opening matches.
In the first half, South Africa struggled with nearly every pass to the front line. Almost every forward pass was cut off, even though they should have been perfect passes.

Mexico played very well throughout the match, and it’s true that if Mexico had played even more aggressively, perhaps more than one goal would have been scored in the second half. I only watched one half. But from the replays I saw, South Africa didn’t make many changes to their play compared to the first half.

[alankasman]

The south Africa team look very confused and unprepared for this tournament because with the rate at which they were misplacing passes, it's as if they were not even training with each other, and if they did not improve in their upcoming games, I wouldn't be surprised if they go back home  with zero winnings and zero point, because against the mexicans, they were just playing rubbish. The 2-0 win doesn't really reflect the gap between both teams or how the game played out because the Mexican team was by far the most superior team in the game.

It seems so because their play in that match was often inaccurate in their passing resulting in them losing possession more often when they wanted to attack. This led many to believe the South African team lacked a purpose in participating in this World Cup leading many to doubt their chances of advancing to the next round.

Indeed in that match Mexico dominated the course of the match which made them succeed in giving their first victory to their supporters who had given extraordinary motivation because currently Mexican supporters want their team to be able to advance further in this World Cup for another reason they are the hosts with a high desire and can qualify for the next round because the team in the same group as them is not that good only South Korea will be their competitor in getting the group champion position in this preliminary round.

[Futurexxx]

Honestly South Africa had so many chances and opportunities to score goals but they couldn’t maintain their chances of scoring goals which is why end up losing the match against Mexico, although that is because they they received two red cards that’s what affected their performances but that’s not enough reason to me since before the red cards they had opportunities to score goals right from the first half  but only wasted their efforts entirely.

where did you see the opportunity? south Africa that suffered from the start of the game till the end? from the start of the game, it was almost like they were playing against a team like brazil because the dominance was on another level. lets just say that the pressure was hot on them because you could literally see a team that is struggling to even make complete passes.

we should even be talking about the fact that Mexico were not able to play with the same intensity they played with in the first half. if México were very brutal in the second half, south Africa would have conceded at least five goals. but then, you have to also give credit to the south African goal keeper. he as never been missing in putting up quality performance for his team. he helped south Africa greatly.

I was also as surprised as you bro, because if he was actually talking about the game last night between south Africa vs Mexico, then it's clear that he didn't really pay attention to the game because the Mexican team was extremely dominant in the game, that's why I feels like the 2-0 winning was pure flattery, it would have been five to six nil.
  What really disappointed me about this south African team last night was that, they can't even make up to five pass without being intercepted, that shows how poor they were last night against the mexicans.

[Italian Panic]

The South African team were absolutely dreadful; I don’t know how they even made it to the World Cup. They were completely disorganised and lacked any sense of play, at times it was embarrassing. Then to have two players with red card in a World Cup final phase is truly unacceptable. Honestly, I didn’t even see any quality or flashes of good play, not to mention the last free kick where they even messed up the backheel pass before taking the shot.

[knowngunman]

I didn’t see South Africa having many chances as much as the Mexican team did. The Mexican team could have easily scored at least 5 goals in this match. Right from the first half, they had balls on the post and created some good forward moves and all that was left was to get the ball across the goal to a player and they couldn’t get those finishing touches to put it behind for a goal.
For South Africa, I couldn’t see anything decent from them and this isn’t coming from the fact that, the rest of the continent isn’t behind them in this tournament.

If Mexican were clinical enough, they could have scored nothing less than five goals just as you said. From South Africa formation, you'll see where the mistakes came from that led to their defeat. As a coach, how can you play a player who's supposed to be CB as a LB? And play CM as LM? When put wrong formation, even if you have good players, they'll definitely struggle and chance to succeed is very slim. South African had no creative midfielder to distribute passes to strikers. In fact, their midfield was empty and it looked as if they were playing to defend when there was no goal to defend.

[Nightwalker(NW)]

The South African team were absolutely dreadful; I don’t know how they even made it to the World Cup. They were completely disorganised and lacked any sense of play, at times it was embarrassing. Then to have two players with red card in a World Cup final phase is truly unacceptable. Honestly, I didn’t even see any quality or flashes of good play, not to mention the last free kick where they even messed up the backheel pass before taking the shot.

So far the South Africans have more red card than shot on target, I purposely skipped goals because they have non of it. Very embarrassing football, some people say it was haram football that the South Africans were playing. The Mexicans opened up play, created lots of chances but were not convincing when they got to the front of goal, they scored two great goal, for me, that second goal was impressive, the cross and the positioning for the goal was it. México could have scored more than this but it didn't happen so, they still have two more matches to play, let's see what happens in them.

[Agbe]

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South Africans said that foreigners are taking their jobs away from them. Supporting South Africa in the World Cup is the same thing as taking their jobs away from them. I will not support them in the World Cup even though we are of the same continent and I wish them, not to qualify for the next round of the World Cup in order for them to go back home and take their jobs.

Social media is booming right now. The massive support of Mexico in Yesterday Match but African Nations were too much. Someone was saying if South Africa is playing alone on the field they will still support the stadium to beat South Africa. Though that is just a figure of speech. Well I also supported Mexico in yesterday match and I was impressed by their performance. The referee of the opening match was perfect and there was no biased in the red cards and all the three red cards were genuinely given. South Africa and Morocco will learn it in the hard way.

[yixichloro2xx]

The South African team were absolutely dreadful; I don’t know how they even made it to the World Cup. They were completely disorganised and lacked any sense of play, at times it was embarrassing. Then to have two players with red card in a World Cup final phase is truly unacceptable. Honestly, I didn’t even see any quality or flashes of good play, not to mention the last free kick where they even messed up the backheel pass before taking the shot.

So far the South Africans have more red card than shot on target, I purposely skipped goals because they have non of it. Very embarrassing football, some people say it was haram football that the South Africans were playing. The Mexicans opened up play, created lots of chances but were not convincing when they got to the front of goal, they scored two great goal, for me, that second goal was impressive, the cross and the positioning for the goal was it. México could have scored more than this but it didn't happen so, they still have two more matches to play, let's see what happens in them.

South Africa were awful throughout yesterday game. They couldn't withstand the constant pressure coming from the Mexico players. It's just too much for them. The only player that did well in that team yesterday was Robert Williams, who got multiple save and denied mexico from scoring more than 2 goals in the game. That Giminez save was so good. The rest of south African players were just running around the pitch. Sithole will never forget this game in his life as this will be the worst of his career and also for the rest of the team. 2 red card at the start of the world cup competition feels like a bad luck. I dont see going far in this competition with the way they've played yesterday. They will lose to south Korea and maybe dra Ceczh republic.