The Cheetahs of Benin Republic thrashed Lesotho 4-0 in Group C, matchday 8 of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers on Tuesday.
With the victory Benin Republic, on 14 points, reclaimed the second place from Nigeria’s Super Eagles.
The Super Eagles temporarily occupied the second spot after holding South Africa to a 1-1 draw also on Tuesday.
With the win against Lesotho, Benin Republic are three points behind Bafana Bafana.
The South Africans gave their qualification hopes a huge boost thanks to a 1-1 draw with Nigeria.
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Steve Mounie gave Benin Republic a very good start after opening the scoring on six minutes.
In the 23rd minute Andreas Hountondji doubled the lead and Hassane Imourane made it 3-0.
Then in the 67th minute Junior Olaitan got on the score sheet to put his side 4-0 ahead.
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The mechanic is successfully building a sound and durable engine, meanwhile the Eagles are falling apart day after day. Should FIFA deduct 3 points and 3 goals from SA, I’ll not be surprised if GR takes Benin to the World cup. ” na qualification for major tournaments we won chop”, “Any coach can win the AFCON with our world class players,” “His coaching is boring, no particular pattern of play” Shey una don see?
Hahaha your comment made my day!
Let’s do what litoto & Zimbabwe are doing to favor SA to Benin, right now Benin have more bright chance of qualifying than us, we shd continue to pressure fifa on the 3pts reduction at least for Benin our brother sake and if possible allow them win our match against them. As it stand, we have zero hope of going to the WC, let’s start planning for 2030.
Hahahaha…….MuYiwa, you just made me pour coffee down my nostrils…….LMAOOoo
Honestly, we have come a long way on this forum……LMAOoo…… “Any coach can win the AFCON with these players in 2 weeks……LMAOOoo”
We’ve just missed our 2nd World Cup in a row with the same players under 4 coaches……LMAOooo…and got to the final of AFCON playing heart attack football that even claimed the lives of innocent Nigerians……LMAOooo
What is special about qualifying for tournaments…….I hope they now understand how special it is.
Imagine it was even back-to-back AFCONs we couldn’t qualify for (which is even worse) b4 Rohr popped it….that was how low we sank…..yet the man was never appreciated.
At a time, when they had nothing to criticize Rohr for, they criticized him for not calling up enoigh homebased players claiming “We have MANY TALENTS in our local league”. Even Eguavoen who is the TD of nigerian football never dared call up home based players o……LMAOoo
The 3 points we wanted to kill ourselves for FIFA to deduct from South Africa may just end up working in favour of Rohr and his minnows. It will be a massive anti-thesis if Benin republic ends up qualifying for the WC.
Although I dont see SA dropping even half a point anymore (they got 2 “home” matches vs Rwanda and Zimbabwe), but wouldnt it be double joy for Benin to pip SA to the sole automatic ticket…???
Femi……I second your motion….LMAOoo
NFF should parade Amuneke and his relegated Heartland team when we host Benin…….let us allow Benin win 4 or 5-0 as a way of apologising to him and making up for wickedly denying him his hard earned chance to be at the 2022 world cup…….LMAOOooo
Dr Drey, you are laughing with what’s paining me. I lost appetite after that soulless match yesterday. Shame.
Omo9ja and jimmyball, can you see what rohr is doing with Benin Republic? You clowns said qualifying for tournaments isn’t a big deal and we are on the verge of missing another World Cup. I hope Benin Republic qualifies while we see if odegbami writes those useless articles he always wrote. “Let us fail with our own”, “any coach can do well with this squad except rohr”. Now you guys have all gone into hiding