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

[Homemade-IQ]

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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.

I credit Eric Chelle for this victory against Tanzania because if he wasn't tactically smart, or knows how to twick his team properly, the best they would have gotten from this game is a draw because their was no better  threat up front in the first half, but the changes he made in the second half changed the dynamism of the game which resulted to their victory today.

Our super eagles team has been a pain to watch recently, and it's because of that, the viewing center that is watched the game today was scanty. People were saying that they are not interested in any form of heartbreak if you ask them why they wouldn't be watching the Nigerian game, so until they start performing better I don't think that Nigerians will have high hopes on them anytime soon.

[Jegileman]

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.

The management will be the one to decide on who gets to play for the team and who qualifies to represent the country in the international level. I also do not see them playing brilliantly well as supposed of a team that really wants to dominate and win the game against countries like this. Osimhen is a good player and he has shown to the team that he’s the better example of them and that they cannot do much without him being in the pitch. I hope they can do better in their coming games because they need to show a better performance than what we see in them in most of the recent matches they’ve played now, or they’ll not even get to go far in the competition overall.

[Davidvictorson]

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.

Dude, you had me rolling with laughter as I read your comments  
I thought Nigerians are the only one who get real upset when our team plays nonsense.
I can literally feel your pain bro… as some who has had to live with this for something, accept my deepest consolation.
Hopefully, in the next game let’s hope that they have learned from their mistakes and there will be improvements.

[Sticky Bomb]

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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.

Well, they had a disappointing start, but the win has softened every grudge I had against them. I fell asleep multiple times streaming the match in the first half. It feels like the super eagles just tapped from the glory of the Falconets in the second half and performed better. I feared they'll be disgraced at home, but thank goodness they were able to save their face and grab important points for the qualifications round.

[Spaceman1000$]

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.

I think kelechi iheanacho's time with the super Eagles is gradually coming to an end and I don't really see any thing wrong with it, kelechi gave us his best when he was at his prime, and we all enjoyed it. Today there are other youngsters that have almost the same fire power or even better fire power than kelechi at the moment in the super Eagles. However today's win looked like an easy one, as it was looking as though we met an easy team, but we all know that this same super Eagles have issues when it comes to being consistent especially during the tough times. I won't start giving them praises until they are able to show to us that they can do better than what they've given us in recent years.

[BIT-BENDER]

Yesterday and today match days has really seen the big teams doing what they are meant to do. All big teams has come to play even Ghana who hasn't had the best of times in the African nations cup qualifies won yesterday.
The only big team that lost is Tunisia, but looking at their form even at the world cup I am not shocked and I think they aren't what they used to be over the years.

[Jerrycrypto2024]

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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.

Despite the wining our management team need do more people are lossing interest while watching the game as they equalized many who stayed around to see how the game will be begin to go home the team is not really impressing people, emerging what the U17 did so impressive why is super eagles always be on narrow gate and on Mercy to escape either to qualify or not , they needed this wining more than anything else hard it been they loss or play draw it would have sorry for them but that is not even a guarantee that today victory has changed the narrative and mess people are seeing in the team except the change begin now with good management strategy.

[348Judah]

The Nigerian super eagle make us proud today because the had a nice time playing against Tanzania, even though I was so nervous when I discover that they had the first goal too early, then discover that start seeing pattern of their play wasn't as expected and that was what gives their opponent the right to equalize by scoring a goal, the only last option that the Nigerian super eagle had was when the substitution work in their favor, which made them score up to three goals in total against one that Tanzania had against them.

[Tonimez]

[Edited out]

Well, they had a disappointing start, but the win has softened every grudge I had against them. I fell asleep multiple times streaming the match in the first half. It feels like the super eagles just tapped from the glory of the Falconets in the second half and performed better. I feared they'll be disgraced at home, but thank goodness they were able to save their face and grab important points for the qualifications round.

Truth be told, Tanzania is not a team to be scared about at all. Even though we know how uncertain the Super eagles team can be in most cases but loosing to Tanzania would have been a very big error on their side. The super eagles have to wake up and stop all these interesting games they play. If not for Tolu this night, so It could have been a draw or even loss and their chances to qualify would have been a very difficult one.

Nigeria now sits one point behind Guinea Bissau in a table where they should actually be at the top by now. If we could struggle to beat them in our home, how then will a visit to Tanzania look like?  Anyways, congratulations to the super eagles for winning this night to remain in the qualification race.

[samadam007]

Truth be told, Tanzania is not a team to be scared about at all. Even though we know how uncertain the Super eagles team can be in most cases but loosing to Tanzania would have been a very big error on their side. The super eagles have to wake up and stop all these interesting games they play. If not for Tolu this night, so It could have been a draw or even loss and their chances to qualify would have been a very difficult one.

Nigeria now sits one point behind Guinea Bissau in a table where they should actually be at the top by now. If we could struggle to beat them in our home, how then will a visit to Tanzania look like?  Anyways, congratulations to the super eagles for winning this night to remain in the qualification race.

These super eagle players were annoying to watch in first half, no professionalism at all. Especially that Akor Adams, very poor striker. His move from Sevilla has really affected his performance. Normally, I was expecting more than that 3 goals, because of the opportunities he ruined. But regardless I am happy we won, all thanks to tolu for saving the team. They subbed him in at the perfect time. Hopefully they do better when they meet Tanzania again next match. They have to also be prepared to face tougher teams later, because I don’t really see Tanzania squad as a challenge.

[Cryptoprincess101]

Yesterday and today match days has really seen the big teams doing what they are meant to do. All big teams has come to play even Ghana who hasn't had the best of times in the African nations cup qualifies won yesterday.
The only big team that lost is Tunisia, but looking at their form even at the world cup I am not shocked and I think they aren't what they used to be over the years.

One thing I like about these qualifiers matches is that they are scoring lots of goals and that is what they should do in order to make African football interesting, instead of those boring 1:0 and 0:0 matches. Today, Majority of the matches played over 2.5 goals and even BTTS. Did anyone realize that BTTS for some of the matches where 2 odds which if you are lucky to pick 3 BTTS with 2 odds that about 8 odds total. Morocco versus Niger was the last match of today and they showed that they are the best team in Africa by winning with a score of 5:1. Egypt won their match 5:0, those are interesting score line unlike Nigeria that always struggle to score. After Nigeria score 3:1 there was still a lot of time which they would have used to score more goals but they didn't even push further. In fact, the win against Tanzania is not even supposed to be celebrated because they are one of the weak teams in the qualifiers.

[Fiatless]

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.

Nigerians were in the same condition on the 29th of September when Guinea-Bissau disgraced our team. Mozambique lost with honour as they conceded just one goal. In our case, we conceded three goals and scored none. Guinea-Bissau is ranked 125th in the FIFA ranking, while Nigeria occupies the 30th position. The loss was heartbreaking, but that's football. Sometimes the unexpected happens.

But today we are all celebrating because the Super Eagles put up an encouraging performance. Although there was some sloppy defending, we outclassed Tanzania.

[Nightwatchmare]

One thing I like about these qualifiers matches is that they are scoring lots of goals and that is what they should do in order to make African football interesting, instead of those boring 1:0 and 0:0 matches. Today, Majority of the matches played over 2.5 goals and even BTTS. Did anyone realize that BTTS for some of the matches where 2 odds which if you are lucky to pick 3 BTTS with 2 odds that about 8 odds total. Morocco versus Niger was the last match of today and they showed that they are the best team in Africa by winning with a score of 5:1. Egypt won their match 5:0, those are interesting score line unlike Nigeria that always struggle to score. After Nigeria score 3:1 there was still a lot of time which they would have used to score more goals but they didn't even push further. In fact, the win against Tanzania is not even supposed to be celebrated because they are one of the weak teams in the qualifiers.

African football is more of a physical football which makes it hard for goals to rain the way it rains in Europian football but still it is very good as plenty of goals was scored on thursday and Friday. I do not like playing BTTS often in African games, it made me not check the odds the bookmarkers give today's Africa cup of nations qualifiers so i did not realize that BTTS for some of the games were 2 odds. Morocco is on the level of its own in African football, i knew Niger is a walk over game for Morocco, even as Morocco won Niger 5:1 i am not surprised.

[Nwadiche]

I'm really seeing different things this days on this African cup of nation, we've known this countries that they hardly scored much goals whenever they meet each other. But it's seems there's an improvement when it comes to scoring goals this days, the score line doesn't passed 0-0 1-0, 2-0 right now they're scoring up to 5 goals in one match. Means things are really changing right now in Africa cup of nation.

[Jessie2121]

The Nigerian super eagle make us proud today because the had a nice time playing against Tanzania, even though I was so nervous when I discover that they had the first goal too early, then discover that start seeing pattern of their play wasn't as expected and that was what gives their opponent the right to equalize by scoring a goal, the only last option that the Nigerian super eagle had was when the substitution work in their favor, which made them score up to three goals in total against one that Tanzania had against them.

They tried to have won this game without giving us too many complains, at least the 3point is ours to claim. My happiness is that the Ajax forward did all what was expected from him, scoring and his performance was even better than the last time I saw him play for the Super Eagles, it was indeed a spectacular display. Another issue is that they should not stop here, the winning must continue and showing more aggression in every game will always make their opponent have the fear of attacking back and clean sheet is a problem for the Eagles, I hope they keep a clean sheet in their next game and every game should be very important like a do or die affair.