Nigeria’s Super Eagles once again dropped points in their Group C 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers after they forced Warriors of Zimbabwe to a 1-1 draw in Rwanda on Sunday, completesports.com reports.
The encounter saw the Eagles come from a goal down to draw in the second game running following the 1-1 scoreline with Lesotho on matchday one.
New invitee Nathan Tella made his debut for the Eagles as he was named in the starting 11 before going off before the start of the second half for goal scorer Kelechi Iheanacho.
The next game in the qualifiers for the Eagles will be a home game against South Africa on 2nd June 2024.
After two rounds of games played, the Eagles are second on two points.
Zimbabwe opened the scoring in the 26th minute through a brilliant long range free-kick from Walter Musona.
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Zimbabwe goal scorer Walter Musona
On 56 minutes the Eagles got a big opportunity after they were awarded an indirect free-kick but failed to take advantage.
In the 65th minute Iheanacho drew the Eagles level as he finished off an assist from Moses Simon.
Zimbabwe almost retook the lead on 82 minutes after Francis Uzoho failed to hold a cross but the effort hit the side netting.
Francis Uzoho beaten with a long range strike for the opener
In the 88th minute Zimbabwe got a free kick on the edge of the box following a foul by Jamilu Collins but the wall stopped the goal bound shot.
By James Agberebi
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Guys this coach have nothing to offer. I think emmanuel amuneke is a better option if the nff will give him half support they give to this current coach, I am really disappointed
“We have the best players Africa”….LMAOooo.
“Any coach can win AFCON with these players in 2 weeks”….LMAAooo
2 years later we cannot boast of reaching the AFCON Qfinals for the 2nd consecutive year and in danger of missing out of our 2nd world cup in a row….LMAOoo
The world knows those who got us here….LMAOOo
To add to it
“ I think eagles are ready to END THEIR African drought in Ivory Coast” lol
Mr man don’t u have better things to do with your time, guy plz grow a bit
This narcissistic fool with a huge ego is back on his bullshit again lol
Uzoho…….OH GOD.
Please leave Uzoho out of this. The team lack a coaching in both matches.
How could you talk líke this?
Man who’s squarely at fault for both goals conceded this international window?!
Please be serious….WHAT?!
Hmmmmmmnh
For how long it would take nff to know the quality of a coach.
My candid observation
National team football is different from club football,Orban will be more useful than Boniface, Awoniyi, Moffi, Lookman and Tella, Secondly
African football is different from club football , Only Nigeria skilful and strong players will find it easier,We need players like Victor Moses that Can take on stubborn African players,Ejuke would have been better than Bonafice,Moffi Tella and co, African game is all about strength
@Dr.Drey be objective for once and deal with issues. You are never in the habit of addressing issues and preferring solutions… how is thinking about Rohr and how we cut him loose any help to the present way our national team plays? We want solutions and not this route of jibes and mockery. Fundamentally our problem is always trusting that whitemen are better than those within our ranks. Ladan Bosso, Nduka Ugbade,Manu Garba, Finidin George,Emmanuel Amuneke are all good coaches who can handle the national team with purposeful and result oriented match plans and coaching… but they will never be considered good or given dignity if employed unlike how they will treat a white man. Ladan played good football in the last U-20 WC and even though his team exited at the QF stage… they posted a comannding play and result always… in my opinion, Eguaveon should not be the standard for all local coaches… others like Bosso, Garba and Amuneke are better than him… Ndubuisi Egbo is also there, I will even still give Sunday Oliseh another opportunity… he was owed salaries and frustrated out of the job.
If that crab Lasan Bosso played at the last U-20 world cup is what you call good football then I am sorry you don’t know anything about good football. Ladan Bosso ko Mallam Gbagi ní… lol
The fact that I see the word “objective” in a comment under your name almost made me cough out my lungs in lauhgter….LMAOoo.
Ladan Bosso now plays good football…?? LMAOoo. See Objectivity at its peak….LMAOoo
Ngwa give the SE to Bosso na….LMAOoo.
You have always stated your desire to fail, especially with your owns, so I am not surprised.
Continue reeling out their names ehn. It was 9 of them (including Amuneke who was brought in to add “tactical sagacity”) that got you booted out of both AFCON and World cup within 5 months the last time…..LMAOoo
We just don’t want flimsy excuses of “he had 2 months to prepare the team” yada yada yada.
What a man sows, he reaps. Period. ….LMAOoo.
Bosso is worse than Peseiro
If GENERAL ROAR was still in charge and is blessed with these sets of players he would have qualified us after just these two games
Uzoho the basket denied us Qatar ticket, the same Uzoho is denying us 2026 ticket after just 2;matches! Beaten from 40 Meters out and you say that is a national keeper? shame
I SAID THIS LAST YEAR MANY PEOPLE ATTACK ME HERE
IF NIGERIA DID NOT SACK THIS COACH THERE WILL BE NO PROGRESS IN NIGERIA FOOTBALL
EMMANUEL AMUNEKE IS VERY GOOD COACH BUT NIGERIA DID NOT VALUES WHAT THEY HAVE
Please, guys pay no mind to some of these cries. Nothing but sour grapes.
A good number of them did not play this game and do not comprehend it that much.
I thought they said any foreign coach was better than a Nigerian coach.
Self-immolators.
You also played the game like the others….LMAOoo.??
1989 U17 national team right….?
We’ve seen that movie before….LMAooo
Yes, foreign coaches with CVs are better than Nigerian coaches with nothing tangible on their CVs….especially the ones that only get jobs when NFF decides to help them out of their joblessness.
The last time we checked, Peserio did not fail to qualify for ordinary AFCON….neither has he failed to qualify for the world cup…..at least not yet…LMAOoo
Rhor was an average coach, and towards the end of his tenure, he became really bad.
Eguavoen was worse.
Paseiro? One of the worst we have ever had.
But I really don’t blame these coaches.
Someone employed them.
The buck stops at the table of the NFF.
Give the Eagles job to Many Garba and Emmanuel Amunike. Shikena, to hell with all these average white trash.
Without mincing words.
Fire Peseiro ASAP.
It’ld be a long ride but we still have time to turn things around, starting with the AFCON. But definitely not with Jose Peseiro. He is not it.
Like I stated before, no matter the formation we adapt, if we lack the mentality to get things done, there would be no positive results. We miss leadership and bravery in this qualifying window.
Peseiro needs to be sacked
THIS UZOHO IS AN ENEMY WITHIN
SHORT OPEN LETTER MESSAGES TO NFF SUPREMO OFFICIALS.
Sack peseiro and Just hand over that job to amuneke already, tell amuneke to hand his 3 or 4 qualified assistants effectively immediately! no excuses for failure! Pay off that oyibo pereira since Nff were more foolish enough to continue with him! Nff should have not renewed coach rohr contract after his failed World Cup campaign but the foolishly did, and foolishly extended pesiero contract after failing results prove! They are all incompetent at the Nff. Second world Cup qualification failure already visible after only two matches, this is a national embarrassment! SACK PESIERO NOW AND APPOINT AMUNEKE EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY. pesiero has a loaded history of career failure and dire lack of success everywhere he has been! At his age is it now that success will suddenly come? Incompetent NFF!
All thanks to people like:
The former sport minister @Dare
The former NFF chairman @Pinnick
The racist bigot @segun odegbami
The greedy @Equavon
The sentimental and clueless fans like @Omo9ja
@Jimmyball
@christian ministry
@Iwunze
Etc.
When we warned you guys about sacking Rohr, you guys told us any coach can win a trophy with the super eagles under two weeks. We ended up not:
1. Qualifying for quarter finals at the last nations cup. And we were beating by a corona virus invested team, headed by their assistant coach.
2. We ended up not qualifying for world cup held @Qatar.
IS SUPER EAGLES MOVING FORWARD OR BACKWARD AFTER THE SACK OF ROHR????
IS SITUATION BETTER THAN WHEN ROHR WAS AROUND??????
With Rohr qualification was a tea party, I lost my calculator during his reign. But now I just bought two calculators for super eagles. Rohr never draw two qualifiers opening games. Rohr would have win one out of this two, and am sure we would have top this group. Forgot about Rohr in Benin, Benin is short of talents compared to Nigeria, so job done will be different.
Dr. Dre, monkey post, etc see what we told this guy’s but they became clueless about the warnings. Bye Bye to world cup qualification, South Africa will never allow this chance slip. Lesotho and Zimbabwe are 100% ready to sacrifice for South Africa.
Don’t mind them marvelous..by the way where is that clown @ugo iwunze..him don run abi..shame no fit allow show face…
How did we get here.
How come NFF never learns from mistake.
I saw it coming, I spoke out but here we are again.
What we are facing now is purely the fault of our administrators and the arrogance of the Nigerian fans. And so we drove who was making progress and got who we deserved that will take us backwards.
Yes every employer has the right to hire and fire. But that right must be used with fainess and justice. When you pay evil for good you set yourself up for disaster. When your employee meets his set target what he deserves is continuity or promotion not to be fired.
In 2010 Amodu met his target gave us bronze in Afcon and qualified us for World Cup. Guess what he was fired because we said we wanted a World class coach. We got Lars lagaback who led us to our worst World cup ever. What next we paid for it as a Nation by missing out from 2012 World cup.
Then Keshi came to the rescue and qualified us and won us Afcon and qualified us to 2014 World cup. He did well. After the World Cup he became untouchable and we began to get bad results. Until he was duly sacked, Oliseh tried to rescue but couldn’t and we missed out 2015 and 2017 Afcon and Suped Eagles were at its worst ever position. Then came a quiet and gentle Franco German. Who said he could do it. Take us to Afcon and World cup. He did it in style qualified us to Afcon and got us bronze also gave us a memorable World cup outing.
Suddenly his antagonist came, and mobillized all Nigerian fans against him. Inspite of all the hatred and name calling he achieved his targets with games to spare. He qualified for Afcon 2019, and about to do same for World Cup with just the last hurdle of Ghana. They rushed to sack him. Someone that met all his targets.
What followed the same old spell of going round in circles. We had our worst Afon in several decades. Fail to go to the world cup in 2022. Now at the verge of missing out 2026.
When will we learn.
Never repay a good staff with evil it will backfire.
U am not saying Rohr or Amodu was the best coaches, but if they do well treat them well. If a coach is doing poor, then you should sack them. Like Pisero currently deserves his now.
Correction, we missed out from 2012 Afcon not World cup
You are as shameless as DR DREY and his aaslickers! So GERNOT RHOR gave you a MEMORABLE 2018 World cup by losing to CROATIA and the worst Argentinian WC Team in the last 30 years? Ngwanu, your RHORmessiah should take BENIN REPUBLIC to WC, after all STEPHEN KESHI took their neighbors TOGO to WC!
ROHR this ROHR that and yet when NIGERIA fired him, it was ordinary SQUIRREL of BENIN that engaged him
The Arrogance of Nigerian fans, that want to win the world cup. If world cup was so easy why have you not won it. Rohr is not any mesiah but why has all the coaches after him never been able to match his record.
Rohr us over 70years and does not need a new job to prove his quality.
Westahoff and Bonfre Jo never achieved much after coaching Super Eagles but their records cannot be
Erased. Until a new coach improves on his record we will keep reminding you of the injustice done to him and the nation at large.
Until we have a coach better than ROHR, we will never stop talking about him
Did you even have any business being at the 2018 WC in the first place….???
Imbecile.
If not for Rohr, 2026 World cup would have been the 3rd consecutive World cup we will be missing….LMAOooo
See who is talking about shamelessness, a person whose origin keeps changing every year is the one talking about shamelessness….LMAOOoo.
Please where did you even say you are from, this last time sef….?? LMAOoo
Leave am make e dey imagine.
Croatia wey beat us no be France beat am for final? Argentina too, no be France beat am!
Lol..now it has become na ordinary benin republic na em employ am…lol but I been think say una been dey say no country go fit employ…