African Football Discussion Thread: {Current Topic: 👉 AFCON Qualifiers}

[Emjay24]

It's not about scoring early that determines the outcome of the game because already the Super Eagles have conceded and are currently drawing 1-1 with Tanzania. The worst thing to happen to Nigeria is to lose this game because they need the points more than their opponents to qualify as Tanzania have already qualified and will only be looking to frustrate the Super Eagles.
 I'm just here wondering how Nigeria got this poor to the point of struggling with small sides like Tanzania.

Watching Nigeria match without Osimhem would make you want to throw up honestly. Just look at how they're wandering aimlessly around the pitch. Iwobi would not kill himself for them, he's been delivering killer passes to players who cannot make anything of it. This team is not fit to represent us anywhere. I don't know but I think Nigeria should look more into their home based players. Most of them can do far better than these old cargos who aren't dong anything special on the pitch. I'm more disappointed with A. Lookman. I can only imagine how much he's lost form.

[Queen Julie]

It's not about scoring early that determines the outcome of the game because already the Super Eagles have conceded and are currently drawing 1-1 with Tanzania. The worst thing to happen to Nigeria is to lose this game because they need the points more than their opponents to qualify as Tanzania have already qualified and will only be looking to frustrate the Super Eagles.
 I'm just here wondering how Nigeria got this poor to the point of struggling with small sides like Tanzania.

Watching Nigeria match without Osimhem would make you want to throw up honestly. Just look at how they're wandering aimlessly around the pitch. Iwobi would not kill himself for them, he's been delivering killer passes to players who cannot make anything of it. This team is not fit to represent us anywhere. I don't know but I think Nigeria should look more into their home based players. Most of them can do far better than these old cargos who aren't dong anything special on the pitch. I'm more disappointed with A. Lookman. I can only imagine how much he's lost form.

This match de scatter my eye, honestly. I genuinely wonder what these players are doing on the pitch. It's tiring watching Nigeria play like this. I'm live at the stadium, but the energy from the players won't let us sing their names. The Super Eagles without Osimhen are nothing. Iwobi has tried his best to help this team in the midfield until Ndidi decided to gift Tanzania the equalizing goal. The second half has just begun. Let's hope the Super Eagles will come back to their sense.

[Majestic-milf]

It's not about scoring early that determines the outcome of the game because already the Super Eagles have conceded and are currently drawing 1-1 with Tanzania. The worst thing to happen to Nigeria is to lose this game because they need the points more than their opponents to qualify as Tanzania have already qualified and will only be looking to frustrate the Super Eagles.
 I'm just here wondering how Nigeria got this poor to the point of struggling with small sides like Tanzania.

Watching Nigeria match without Osimhem would make you want to throw up honestly. Just look at how they're wandering aimlessly around the pitch. Iwobi would not kill himself for them, he's been delivering killer passes to players who cannot make anything of it. This team is not fit to represent us anywhere. I don't know but I think Nigeria should look more into their home based players. Most of them can do far better than these old cargos who aren't dong anything special on the pitch. I'm more disappointed with A. Lookman. I can only imagine how much he's lost form.

Frankly speaking, I've given up on expecting much from Nigeria. All I know is that they should not mess this one up else they'd begin praying for a particular team to beat another so they can have a little chance of qualifying.

[CryptSafe]

It's not about scoring early that determines the outcome of the game because already the Super Eagles have conceded and are currently drawing 1-1 with Tanzania. The worst thing to happen to Nigeria is to lose this game because they need the points more than their opponents to qualify as Tanzania have already qualified and will only be looking to frustrate the Super Eagles.
 I'm just here wondering how Nigeria got this poor to the point of struggling with small sides like Tanzania.

Although Nigeria is winning the match but I am not really convinced with what is going on. The team needs to improve their form because they can not use such performance for the tournament if they eventually qualify.
It's time Chelles brings in Kelechi Iheanacho into his squad since osimhen is currently not in a good form to play. He could do much better looking at his current form at his club and his last performance in the international friendlies with Russia. Maybe coach Chelles should review his team list and bring in Kelechi Iheanacho.

[hmbdofficial]

Watching Nigeria match without Osimhem would make you want to throw up honestly. Just look at how they're wandering aimlessly around the pitch. Iwobi would not kill himself for them, he's been delivering killer passes to players who cannot make anything of it. This team is not fit to represent us anywhere. I don't know but I think Nigeria should look more into their home based players. Most of them can do far better than these old cargos who aren't dong anything special on the pitch. I'm more disappointed with A. Lookman. I can only imagine how much he's lost form.

Honestly it’s really annoying especially when you know there are bunches of players out there that will do better and give their best than most of those players playing like it’s not their home country. Talking about Iwobi he has  always being one of the player I like among this current Nigeria squad people don’t appreciate him much because they really do not observe him on the pitch, he always delivers his job as a midfielder in most cases and that’s his primary assignment on the pitch. just that sometimes he’s sluggish with his marking and opponents capitalises on that and get to us, the super eagle doesn’t seem ready yet to win anything and if they don’t qualify for the next world cup again I won’t be surprised because with what they are playing currently they really do not deserve to go to the world cup stage and disgrace Nigeria flag.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

Guess many of us didn't know the AFCON Qualifiers are currently ongoing as we're on international break. Lots of games are currently playing and just updating our scotrline so far as this already a sealed and comfortable win for the super eagles. Hopefully the boys can take some motivation from what our young girls did in winning the under 17 world cup and make the country proud. It all starts from we qualifying for the next AFCON and if they can do that without we heaving to calculate their chances for qualifying is a good start for the boys heading in the right direction. We have other African counties playing and more games to come, don't miss other games as I already know many of us missed this Nigeria game being played right now.

[Emjay24]

Guess many of us didn't know the AFCON Qualifiers are currently ongoing as we're on international break. Lots of games are currently playing and just updating our scotrline so far as this already a sealed and comfortable win for the super eagles. Hopefully the boys can take some motivation from what our young girls did in winning the under 17 world cup and make the country proud. It all starts from we qualifying for the next AFCON and if they can do that without we heaving to calculate their chances for qualifying is a good start for the boys heading in the right direction. We have other African counties playing and more games to come, don't miss other games as I already know many of us missed this Nigeria game being played right now.

I watched the match from start to finish. The first half was a mess, but Chelle did the right substitution in the beginning of the second half and it was a blessing Lookman got injured and got replaced by a more energetic M. Simon. I enjoyed the second half, it's good to see the boys play with some confidence and precision. Arokodare showed some real class, it isn't easy to pull off that second goal from that tight corner. Congratulations to the boys, we really needed this 3 points.

[Mayor of ogba]

Guess many of us didn't know the AFCON Qualifiers are currently ongoing as we're on international break. Lots of games are currently playing and just updating our scotrline so far as this already a sealed and comfortable win for the super eagles. Hopefully the boys can take some motivation from what our young girls did in winning the under 17 world cup and make the country proud. It all starts from we qualifying for the next AFCON and if they can do that without we heaving to calculate their chances for qualifying is a good start for the boys heading in the right direction. We have other African counties playing and more games to come, don't miss other games as I already know many of us missed this Nigeria game being played right now.

I myself know that the AFCON Qualifiers are currently ongoing and I also know that the Super Eagles are playing against Tanzania today. When Tanzania levelled up against us I was thinking our team was going to do their usual thing, which is to drop points when we expect them to win a match, frankly speaking I didn't expect them to later win the match 3-1. We always do permutation when it comes for the Super Eagles to qualify for a tournament, but after today's win against Tanzania the Super Eagles remain in the second position in the qualification table, and I think if they win more of their remaining qualifying matches there will not be permutation for the Super Eagles to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations.

[Dreadboost]

Guess many of us didn't know the AFCON Qualifiers are currently ongoing as we're on international break. Lots of games are currently playing and just updating our scotrline so far as this already a sealed and comfortable win for the super eagles. Hopefully the boys can take some motivation from what our young girls did in winning the under 17 world cup and make the country proud. It all starts from we qualifying for the next AFCON and if they can do that without we heaving to calculate their chances for qualifying is a good start for the boys heading in the right direction. We have other African counties playing and more games to come, don't miss other games as I already know many of us missed this Nigeria game being played right now.

Until Nigeria qualifies, gets to the semi-final or the final, that's when most Nigerians will think of watching the Super Eagles play.

Another thing I noticed. See the way the dashboard in the stadium was shining into people's eyes. Bringing out light everywhere. It can even display anything.

Like, why can't Africans do things right?

[Odusko]

Another thing I noticed. See the way the dashboard in the stadium was shining into people's eyes. Bringing out light everywhere. It can even display anything.

Like, why can't Africans do things right?

African stadiums are still very backwards in terms of equipment and improvements to technical facilities. In Nigeria, most football stadiums are now used for political campaigns, which leads some state governments to deface their stadiums with various campaign posters and billboards that don't meet international football standards. One very good example is the UYO National Stadium, which was renovated recently with political rallies as the target.

[Somto9Light]

Guess many of us didn't know the AFCON Qualifiers are currently ongoing as we're on international break. Lots of games are currently playing and just updating our scotrline so far as this already a sealed and comfortable win for the super eagles. Hopefully the boys can take some motivation from what our young girls did in winning the under 17 world cup and make the country proud. It all starts from we qualifying for the next AFCON and if they can do that without we heaving to calculate their chances for qualifying is a good start for the boys heading in the right direction. We have other African counties playing and more games to come, don't miss other games as I already know many of us missed this Nigeria game being played right now.

Discussions about the match events were already going on before you posted it so I believe that most people who always follow this thread are already aware of the matches. Nigeria won Tanzania but they played very poor especially in the first half. Tanzania is not a difficult team that should take us till the second half before we could win, the winning was supposed to start from first half till full time and they are not even supposed to score against Nigeria if we are to look at the strength of both teams. The other African teams that played did impressively except South Africa who played 2:2 draw against Kenya. Teams Like Cape Verde won Liberia by a score of 4:2, Gabon won Lesotho 2:0, Burkina Faso won Mauritania 1:0 and Tunisia suffered 2:0 defeat against Libya. The other set of today's games just kicked off and Egypt is already winning Malawi 2:0 in less than 20 minutes of play.

[AYOBA]

It’s really a good news to hear, those girls made us provide, and they should be appreciated. I just hope those girls will be able to receive the money, we all know how things are done in this country, it has been announced publicly that the president promised them 100 million each, but the question is will they be able to get the money, hope some people won’t end up embezzling the money? Is the president really ready to release the money? Hope he is not just making fake promise. Am sure when those girls receive the money, they not going to lavish it because opportunity like this might not come again.

I’m really proud of those girl they’ve make the all Nigeria proud by a great World Cup victory. Coming to the promised that president Tinubu made earlier after the victory, he might fulfill the promise in one condition and why i said that in one condition since the election is almost to take place, he may use that for campaigning purposes.

Another reason why the money may not reach to those girls even though it will be reach to them it won’t be in full payment has the president promised, is because of our country we all know what our people can do they will be actually release this money to them; but they will take some percentage before handover the money to those girls.

[Brizi5000]

Guess many of us didn't know the AFCON Qualifiers are currently ongoing as we're on international break. Lots of games are currently playing and just updating our scotrline so far as this already a sealed and comfortable win for the super eagles. Hopefully the boys can take some motivation from what our young girls did in winning the under 17 world cup and make the country proud. It all starts from we qualifying for the next AFCON and if they can do that without we heaving to calculate their chances for qualifying is a good start for the boys heading in the right direction. We have other African counties playing and more games to come, don't miss other games as I already know many of us missed this Nigeria game being played right now.

It’s a Home win for Nigeria but for me this wasn’t a comfortable win as the super Eagles really struggled especially in the first half. Tanzania have nothing to play for, whether they lose or win they’re already qualified because they’re the host team so it’s automatic qualification for them. For Tanzania to score against us here in Nigeria is not acceptable, they forget to understand that only one team will be qualifying from this group to join Tanzania who have automatically qualified and they need to score as many goals as possible and try to keep a clean sheet especially against teams like Tanzania. This super eagles team really need to up their game whenever they are called upon to represent the country, they usually give their all to their clubs in Europe but when it comes to playing for the country they start playing safe to avoid injuries.

[yixichloro2xx]

Guess many of us didn't know the AFCON Qualifiers are currently ongoing as we're on international break. Lots of games are currently playing and just updating our scotrline so far as this already a sealed and comfortable win for the super eagles. Hopefully the boys can take some motivation from what our young girls did in winning the under 17 world cup and make the country proud. It all starts from we qualifying for the next AFCON and if they can do that without we heaving to calculate their chances for qualifying is a good start for the boys heading in the right direction. We have other African counties playing and more games to come, don't miss other games as I already know many of us missed this Nigeria game being played right now.

I swear, I thought this match was scheduled tomorrow until I came online on X and started seeing Goal highlights. This is an important win for us even though Tanzania might not put too much seriousness in the game because they've qualified already. Since they are one the host , but my question why are they still playing qualifiers if they has already qualified before? Our loss against Guinea Bissau was so annoying, by now we could have already accumulated 9 point's. Big shout out to Tolu Akodare because everyone have been praising him since the match ended, he gave us the win today.  If I am to be honest, I am not fully convinced or confident that this team can win the AFCON. But let's see if there will be any improvement before the AFCON starts.

[IjawMan]

Guess many of us didn't know the AFCON Qualifiers are currently ongoing as we're on international break. Lots of games are currently playing and just updating our scotrline so far as this already a sealed and comfortable win for the super eagles. Hopefully the boys can take some motivation from what our young girls did in winning the under 17 world cup and make the country proud. It all starts from we qualifying for the next AFCON and if they can do that without we heaving to calculate their chances for qualifying is a good start for the boys heading in the right direction. We have other African counties playing and more games to come, don't miss other games as I already know many of us missed this Nigeria game being played right now.

I missed the match and it was a deliberate one cause I do not feel interested to watching any super eagles match till I know they have qualified for the AFCON without giving us the headache of doing the usual calculations as you mentioned.

Tanzania losing to Nigeria should not be what I will celebrate that much, this nation is not close to Nigeria in terms of football ranking but is a good start in the qualifiers that they won with a compelling score.

In all the games for today it was the defeat of Tunisia by Libya was my most surprising result. Tunisia trailing 0:2 in their own ground was what I did not saw happening.

[Callido]

Tanzania losing to Nigeria should not be what I will celebrate that much, this nation is not close to Nigeria in terms of football ranking but is a good start in the qualifiers that they won with a compelling score.

In all the games for today it was the defeat of Tunisia by Libya was my most surprising result. Tunisia trailing 0:2 in their own ground was what I did not saw happening.

I wasn't able to watch the match, this is a game we won, it would have made my day a lot better. We keep fighting for the qualifiers till the very end, all i need is for us to win the remaining games till the last game, starting from beating Tanzania by next week, and all the countries for the return leg.

I'm also happy for Tolu, he represented well today, the club has to find a way to excel without Osimhen in the lineup.

[Nwadiche]

I missed the match and it was a deliberate one cause I do not feel interested to watching any super eagles match till I know they have qualified for the AFCON without giving us the headache of doing the usual calculations as you mentioned.

Tanzania losing to Nigeria should not be what I will celebrate that much, this nation is not close to Nigeria in terms of football ranking but is a good start in the qualifiers that they won with a compelling score.

In all the games for today it was the defeat of Tunisia by Libya was my most surprising result. Tunisia trailing 0:2 in their own ground was what I did not saw happening.

Same thing with me, watching super eagle this days isn't fun to me anymore. The only time i'll watch them is when they must have qualify, because watching those guys playing good football when they're for clubs side then see them with so many errors they make isn't that fun to me. Sometimes i wonder if maybe is due to the level of our football here, or is due to the money they're being paid that made them to display such errors on the field. Nigeria has good players playing for top clubs in Europe, yet during international break they played rubbish, imagine as big as Nigeria we didn't qualify for the last World Cup sounds so bad, even some top players where saying that Nigeria needed to be among the country in Africa to play the last World Cup but we didn't.

[Livingleged]

Discussions about the match events were already going on before you posted it so I believe that most people who always follow this thread are already aware of the matches. Nigeria won Tanzania but they played very poor especially in the first half. Tanzania is not a difficult team that should take us till the second half before we could win, the winning was supposed to start from first half till full time and they are not even supposed to score against Nigeria if we are to look at the strength of both teams.

Erik Chelle deployed four midfielders in the first half of the game, and that tactical decision practically rendered both flanks dormant because there was little or no attacking threat coming from the wings.
The substitutions he made in the second half changed the dynamics of the game and ultimately produced the desired result. This clearly shows how important tactical adjustments are in football.
As far as I am concerned, every department of the team is equally important. You cannot afford to sacrifice your attacking width by overloading the midfield. A balanced team needs a functional midfield, active wingers and an effective attacking force.
Hopefully, the coach will learn from this experience and avoid repeating such a formation in subsequent matches. Football is about balance, not just numbers in the midfield.

[Slow death]

Mozambique 0 - 1 Ethiopia

 

This is a disappointing result. Ethiopia was the worst opponent and would have given my country's national team 3 easy points, with 2 games played, 2 goals scored, 2 goals conceded, 0 wins. That was Ethiopia's data before the game against my country. I even put my country in my parlay, confident that they would win easily. I confess that I didn't expect a defeat against Ethiopia. It was a great humiliation that these players from my country gave us.

I watched the game and it just irritated me. They always prioritized passing the ball less and focusing on attacking, but for some reason today they looked like Barcelona, ​​who pass the ball a lot. The difference between them and Barcelona is that Barcelona scores many goals, and those damn players from my country were just playing around with many passes on the field. Now we are in a very difficult situation in Group J.

[Amphenomenon]

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I missed the match and it was a deliberate one cause I do not feel interested to watching any super eagles match till I know they have qualified for the AFCON without giving us the headache of doing the usual calculations as you mentioned.

Tanzania losing to Nigeria should not be what I will celebrate that much, this nation is not close to Nigeria in terms of football ranking but is a good start in the qualifiers that they won with a compelling score.

Nigeria won three goals to one and regardless I would have been really pissed if we couldn't get a simple win against them.

While I don't want to speak about our win or performance, like the goal we conceded, it was really disappointing seeing the number of fans that was available especially at the beginning of the game things needs to be more different and I think our football federation needs to look at it critically.