Benin Republic captain Steve Mounie has declared that the Cheetahs are ready for battle against the Super Eagles of Nigeria, reports Completesports.com.
Gernot Rohr’s side will be up against the Super Eagles in a 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying matchday 10 encounter at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo on Tuesday.
The Cheetahs head into the game in confident mood following Friday’s 1-0 win against the Amavubi of Rwanda at the Amahoro Stadium, Kigali.
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The West Africans top the Group C standings with 17 points from nine matches.
They only need to avoid defeat to book their place at the global fiesta, while even a draw would be enough if South Africa drop points against Rwanda in one of Group C fixtures.
Mounie Ready For Battle
Mounie declared that they will give their best to secure the World Cup ticket.
“We play football for this kind of match. It will be a historic meeting. We will give everything to take Benin to the World Cup,” Mounie was quoted by Mega Sports.
By Adeboye Amosu
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Mounie is about their most potent outlet. We keep him quiet, and 50% of the job is done. It’s sad, though, that Aina is missing this all-important game, same as Lookman.
I have a sneaky feeling, though, that like Egiavoen beat them with Rohr 3-0 in Uyo September last year, that result will be repeated on Tuesday.
Amen o
That match will be different from this one. In this kind of make or Mar battle, with Benin already topping the group, even if they were toothless, they will develop tooth against the super eagles. For me the result of this match is unpredictable.
Ameen!!!
Ęlọ fọkan balę. Put your minds at rest, my people. God is in control. We are topping the group and we are going to qualify on Tuesday by God’s grace. Ire o. God bless Nigeria!!!
And after defeating them 3-0 can you remind us of what transpired the other 2 times we met them on a neutral ground….?
You think it’s the same team and same circumstance as the last time they came visiting, right…..? LMAOoo
Dr Drey, this was just about a year ago (Sept 2024) with the same coach and largely the same players. Our coach then was even a stand-in, so Chelle is expected to replicate or surpass that record.
Yes, the return match ended 1-1, and we maintained the record of never losing to the,m home or away, until Finidi broke that record with a formation-less team. He was subsequently booted out as a result.
While I agree this is a match with higher stakes, they have an old fox as a coach who quickly learns from and fixes the errors from a loss, and they’ll be extra motivated coming from an impressive away win, the record still shows they’ve only won once in 9 games compared to Nigeria’s 6 wins. Let’s see how it pans out tomorrow, but history is on our side.
Hahahahaha….thank God you yourself alluded to the fact that Benin has a coach who learns quickly from mistakes and fixes them promptly.
From losing 3-0, he has gone on to draw 1-1 and win 2-1. It’s like history went to sleep in the other 2 matches.
That should teach you that history doesn’t play football……current form does. ‘
And on current form, forget about putting 3 unreplied goals past this current Benin Republic. They are not the type of team this SE (that has struggled vs Rwanda, Zimbabwe, and Lesotho) under Chelle can steamroll just like that.
Can we win? Oh, yes, we can.
Can we win by 3 unreplied goals? The odds of that happening are skyscraper high
I have seen this Benin team hold Senegal to a draw twice. I have seen them hold CIV to a draw, I have seen them lose to Morocco by just a lone goal, and I have seen them draw and beat Nigeria 2-1, all under the tutelage of the man we called a mechanic and a PE teacher, and I have also seen the SE under Chelle with his elementary and easy to decode and nulify tactics…….and for your own good, I will advise you not to bet on the SE putting 3 unreplied goals past Benin……..not with our shaky backline and our howlering bravadoccious goalkeeper.
Pls sharaap mr dr grey – wat did yuh meant by dis mumu talks sef? ess mumuni abi na mounie not the same man? ees oga mechanic, Rhoar de manager abi watin be hin name not de same man? – if dere ees ani shange in da team it can’t pass 1 or 2 or 3 – ees de same not de case wit Nigraeins an efry oda teams?
oga abeg rest! shioor!
@Dr Drey
I am one who appreciates your realist stance as I have always been driven by logic rather than feeble emotions. Even though, it is not in my place to, since we all have our personal positions but, in this circumstance, I have to ask, why the support for Benin rep. over Nigeria?
Is it ok to insinuate that your respect for Rohr outweigh your patriotism?
We all know the failures and shortcomings of the Nigerian state. We all know that Tuesday might not go the way we want. However, it shouldn’t stop us from being patriotic and supportive of our own. We have no other than our own.
Even if we fail to qualify this time around, we learn (I would hope so) and we fight for the next one.
That said, as much as I know South Africa has the probable chance to qualify over Benin and us, this is football, anything can happen. I will be rooting for us getting a convincing win against Rohr’s Benin.
Hahahahaha Mr Hush, thank you for your well put out statement of concern.
Eugene V. Debs once said “….I would rather a thousand times be a free soul in jail than to be a sycophant and coward in the streets…”
That quote resonates with me to the hilt.
Patriotism without realism is nothing but empty sycophancy and fallacy.
The patriot in me wants me to be able to tell everyone I meet everywhere I go that Nigeria is the best country to live in, in the world, but the realism in me tells me I’ll be a fool to go blurt that out in public. Not when current realities and recent statistics have put Nigeria as no 1 on the list of countries with the worst quality of living.
Of course, I support Benin to qualify for the World Cup…..why not?
An FA has worked hard, done everything needed for its team to succeed, from getting a very good coach, to providing the best home away from home (I heard the Beninoise team stays in the hotel that was reserved for the CAF and FIFA presidents during the last AFCON anytime they play in Abidjan), to ensuring salaries and allowances are not owed, to ensuring the best possible travel arrangements for the players and coaches, and many others to mention but a few. Then you expect me to kneel down and pray to God that such a team should fail……..??? Because God created himself for only Nigeria and Nigerians right….???
Let me even burst your head, I switched to the Rwanda vs Benin game on Friday after watching 30 mins of painful football from our not-so-super eagles vs Lesotho, a team Benin whooped by 4.
While we were rabble rousing all qualifier long, Benin was silently gathering the points they needed to get to the finish line, and you want me to celebrate an arrogant and nonchalant team with a 25% chance of qualifying over a smaller but hardworking team with a 75% chance…??
I am sorry, I am not like that, nor am I a bandwagoner.
If Nigeria ends up qualifying, congrats to all Nigerians, I’ll celebrate. In fact, I will rechristen the Almighty God as Nigerian. For the sake of the careers of these boys, I wish we would qualify. But other teams, too, have careers that will receive major uplift if they too qualify.
Mind you, I have seen this Benin team hold Senegal to a draw, I have seen them hold CIV to a draw, I have seen them lose to Morocco by just a lone goal, and I have seen them beat Nigeria 2-1, all under the tutelage of the man we called a mechanic and a PE teacher, so if you want me to come here and declare that a Super Eagles that struggles to score goals without conceeding will put 3 unreplied goals past them tomorrow, simply because I possess a nigerian passport……..then Im sorry to disappoint you….you are expecting too much from me.
For the sake of my health and sanity, I choose not to support Nigeria for now. Expectations is the mother of disappointment.
It is even worse that our biggest enemies (not rivals, ENEMIES) in everything, as far as the African continent is concerned, South Africa, is also in the mix. God forbid it will be Nigeria that will give South Africa a World Cup ticket. If I were to pray any prayer to God for Nigeria, it would be that we shouldn’t be the ones to give a ticket to the World Cup to South Africa.
But I am not God, so let His will be done.
Benin needs the easiest results to qualify for this World Cup, so I will support them to get the results they need. And yes, Gernot Rohr is the coach of Benin, HELL YES, I will support Benin to qualify ahead of Nigeria and I seriosuly pray that happens. That will confirm my belief that God is a God of Justice. Let whoever wants to hang himself because of my choice go ahead.
Not qualifying for the 2026 World cup would probably be the best thing that would happen to Nigerian football in 20 years. It will most likely give us time to flush our football system that is reeking of corruption, incompetence and pungent maladministration.
@Dr Drey
Totally understand where you are coming from. Trust me when I say, I am actually looking beyond this qualifier, (cause it’s obviously out of our hands.) I am rather looking forward, hoping whatever happens, we end this qualifier on a positive note to give us the necessary boost going forward as we match into the AFCON et al.
‘It is even worse that our biggest enemies (not rivals, ENEMIES) in everything, as far as the African continent is concerned, South Africa, is also in the mix. God forbid it will be Nigeria that will give South Africa a World Cup ticket. If I were to pray any prayer to God for Nigeria, it would be that we shouldn’t be the ones to give a ticket to the World Cup to South Africa.’
That statement you made @ Dr Drey, deeply touched me. It’s the simple truth. I am far from being a hateful or vengeful man but if I have two nations I despise, it would be Ghana and South Africa. The latter even more. Their hate for Nigeria is simply ludicrous. So, I am giving back what they mutually dish out.
But I wouldn’t let my vengeance cloud my passion for my country. As much as our win over Benin would be of service to that sadistic South Africa. I would bite that bullet just for the little pride and joy it will bring me as a Nigerian.
Anyway, we will see what tomorrow brings.
Mr dr grey learn to be humble – yuh don’t knows efrytins in fact sontimes yuh yan opata a lot.
nobody hear is kneeling down praying to God for Benin or anibody to fail, onli a fullish men wii did sush a tings – so stop fulling youresel about dat one mr grey
Las times eet was de xenophobical south africans yuh was praising and worshipping, now eet ees Benin and oga Roah de mechanic turn and yuh claims to be patriotism, pls went an looked up de meaning of de word in de dichtionery, wat yuh are displaying ees not patriotist, and whu nor no, e go no
if yuh loves south hafrica or Benin so mush den packed yur load and go and join dem, good luck wit dat lol
Listened to Chima Eediat Samuel – dat triblastic man can be wise when he chooice to be – and he already telled yuh a very wise sonting today whish is –
“I too sabi is a sign of weakness and not brilliance.”
Gbam to yuh Mr eediat Sameul
he whu have ear let hin here sonting, whu nor no e go no las las! Robbish
We all wanted Nigreain to pik da world cup ticket, if not let Benin pik eet, but if al else fail and de xenophobist fulls of south hafrica piks eet, nobody here wii dead and life wii stii going on we dont like south hafrica at all, but we had noting against Benin we ar just working wit wat we haf. Oga rest abeg.
goh and dirink rat poizin if e two pain u say bcos i hia my opinons.
Okponu.
Let’s put the fact straight before the continuous misinformation. Yes Rohr has overachieved with Benin but he deserved to be sacked and swept away from Nigeria because his last days with Nigeria was really terrible not only was the results not coming but we could not play out of our defence with every team dominating us and doing whatever to us both home and away.
His early days were good and he qualified us for World Cup without stress, but he became corrupt at the latter stage alongside Pinnick and their DW agency agenda. Please I don’t have to mention your name because I have no business with you. But you know yourself stop spreading nonsense on forum and putting rubbish panic because we’re going to play Benin.
Come tomorrow your loud mouth will be shut because Nigeria will prove themselves against Benin. Or is it not Benin that are specialist in Okrika. Rohr Peseiro and Finidi caused us damages and we have moved on. Let’s keep a positive atmosphere and stop this nonsense Rohr talk that is not even making sense.
Group has not ended and one clown is raising alarm for us to join him in praising a coach that made us suffer in his last days with us. Maybe your brain has been formatted that is why you’ll forget the last days of Rohr as Nigerian coach. I too sabi is a sign of weakness and not brilliance.
“……he deserved to be sacked and swept away from Nigeria because his last days with Nigeria were really terrible…..”
Telling lies has been mixed with the sperm with which some people were conceived.
Rohr’s last days (March 2021 to November 2021):
Played 10 matches:
Won 6:
(AFCONQ vs Benin 1:0), (AFCONQ vs Lesotho 3:0), (WCQ vs Liberia 2:0), (WCQ vs CPV 2:1), (WCQ vs CAR 2:0), (WCQ vs Liberia 2:0)
Drew 2:
(Friendly vs Cameroon 0:0), (WCQ vs CPV 1:1)
Lost 2: (Friendly vs Cameroon 0:1), (WCQ vs CAR 0:1)
Rohr’s last days saw him record a 60% win ratio, yet it was REALLY TERRIBLE……LMAOoooo. Says the idiot who wants to “…put the fact straight before the continuous misinformation…”
Rohr’s terrible last days saw us lose and draw only 1 competitive match each in the entire year.
Rohr’s terrible last days saw us score 13 goals, concede 4, and keep 6 clean sheets in 10 games in the entire year.
Rohr’s “terrible” last days in office seem to be looking like heaven compared to what we are experiencing now………LMAOOooo. And they say Rohr is not the best coach Nigeria has ever had…….LMAOooo???
Common sense once again is not common. It is better to have a formatted brain than to be outright brainless.
If we had a 60% win ratio in these World Cup qualifiers, by now we will not be needing Brazil to beat Raja Casablanca for us to qualify for the World Cup…..LMAOooo
Better being an “I too sabi” than being an imbecile.
And same u glorifying Rohr 60% win ratio want the head of Chelle with almost 80% win rate with 11/15 score in the qualifier and yet to loose a match with the eagle. Continue with ur double standard okay.
Hahahahaha…..you don’t know how to use Google, you still don’t know how to do simple arithmetic. Your problems are multidimensional
6 wins out of 11 matches equals 80% win ratio abi.
Continue.
May your hatred for Rohr not let you offend his creator.
Shebi qualification for tournaments is not a big deal….Ngwa, tell your Chelle to qualify us for the World Cup na……LMAOooo.
Read to comprehend and not to attack dude, “emphasis on qualifier “ and Nt the entire matches he has coached us, 3 win and 2 draw from 5matches is aprox. 80%, stop with ur ITK attitude it sucks. Common.
Hahahahaha…..you still can not use Google properly, nor can you do simple arithmetic. Your problems are indeed multidimensional.
What happened to the “…..and yet to lose a match with the eagle….” part of that sentence…..? Abi no be you write am.
As desperate as your attempt to save face is…..3/5 isn’t still anywhere near or approximate to 80%……..LMAOooo
Continue dancing around in circles because you are desperate to evade the truth………LMAOoooo
I do not need the help of Google to solve simple problems, chelle record in the qualifier is not 3/5, it will be 3/5 if he has lost 2 matches but 3 win and 2 draw is nowhere a 3/5. Out of total available 15pts, he got 11, 1.5 is 10% of 15, 80% of 15 is 12 that was the reason I used aprox. bcos his score was 11 and Nt upto 12. Again read to comprehend and not to display ur over sabi on everybody. Lastly let it sink, if the eagle eventually win the group and qualify for the WC in less than 5hrs from now pls do the needful, break ur tv or whatever system you are using to watch soccer and do not watch them in the mundial okay.
You have dementia or Skonskon. Only a jobless person will come and be going back and forth with you son of a nuisance. Spreading nonsense non stop because Eagles got themselves into tight corner you come here glorifying nonsense and lying all over the place for us to keep a man who made Nigeria to look miserable towards the end of his so called reign as Coach. Don’t add me to your nonsense and if you insult me God will not only punish you but you’ll eat the seed of your word. I don’t have time for nonsense people. Keep quiet let tomorrow come and stop the rubbish talks that makes no sense!!!
Hahahahaha…..complete idiot.
Come and keep me quiet na. It is your wretched father who owns CSN, right…?
Shameless liar.
Facts and records have slapped the imbecile; he has started coughing blood……LMAOOooo.bIt is anytime he has been fed with sand he will claim he is not ready to go back and forth…….LMAOooo
Go back and forth with facts and figures na……..LMAOOo…..are you not a shameless, ignorant fool who argues things he doesn’t know jack about…??
I thought ” Rohr’s last days with Nigeria were really terrible…..” LMAOOooo
Go back to school and get quality education, you will not hear. Only to come on CSN and expose the wretchedness in your family that made you stop schooling halfway. Shameless Illiterate does not know the meaning of the word “terrible” and cannot defend his lies anymore……..LMAOoooo.
See, you’d better watch your mouth if you don’t want to receive curses in advance for your children and their children. Once again, better watch your arrogant gutters.
I am not one to toy with, you arrogant for nothing fool.
For Me Chelle is miles ahead of Rohr Miles, It is just a Pitty that Most Nigerians cannot see past their nose when it comes to sentiments and Indigenous Coaches, This Coach Chelle will win AFCON with Nigeria I have no doubt. just a pitty he is being blamed for a mess he came to clean up and which he is doing, and Because most Nigerians are such clowns they will probably god forbid follow the Mischievous Clown Ex Internationals that will be probably hoping Chelle fails so they can call for his head and continue taking SE down the rabbit hole other wise why will Finidi Call Tanimu and the other clown defender Sadiq as well as that Igbokwe guy? for Improtant world Cup Qualifiers infact I did not know Nigeria actually wanted to go to world cup because they started this Qualifiers like a team that did not give a damn about WC..
If Anybody blames Chelle God will surely punish that Person, As Of Now I am saying it Nigeria will go to World Cup, SA has About 4 key players injured including their Star Defender Mbokazi, Zwane and Mofokeng players that caused Nigeria So much Concern in AFCON recently, Nigeria missing Lookman (who has not been in form anyways) is our Only concern..
My only Problem if Nigeria Makes World Cup the Sabateurs will come again before the Mundial and tell the coach who to select for WC infact they will push for the coach to reintergrate the same Igbokwe’s and Sadiqs and Some Fans including a lot on this platform will start callin for Ahmed Musa to take us to the World Cup Fans and Media outlets alike, I can even bet that the detractors will start campaigning for a local indigenous Coach to come and lead the team to World Cup, who know’s maybe they will even Pity Finidi and Eguavoen and say give them AFCON to test the team for WC propper…
Do you people think this Nigeria of a country understands the correct ways of doing things well watch this space.
As for Chelle I believe he will make it, and if he does God will punish any person that tries tp scape goat this man
My fear is that beating Benin will help South Africa come tops in the group and qualify for the world cup.
The South Africans won’t let us “hear word” when they qualify.
I am so unhappy with our football administrators for letting things get to this point.
What makes Rohr”s performance even more remarkable is that he did it INSPITE OF NFF ONIGBESE. We must never forget that!
To illustrate, a student is capable of scoring 90% in an exam. If he has to work with NFF, his score will drop to 60% ot less. He might even struggle to pass the exam.
Thanks to NFF, Rohr had some issues, but still managed to deliver. With Benin, working with inferior players but a superior administration, we all see his performance..
No one is saying he should come back to Nigeria. What we are insisting on is that he did well while he was with us, given his circumstances. He is a decent coach. His record speaks for him.
A coach is as good as his last match. Rohr was completely awful in his second term with the team. His last 2 years were prolly the worst ever managed SE. He lost a 4 goal lead to a very lowly rated team, our first home loss in a decade happened under him, he still holds the record as the first national team without a win a year.
In my honest submission, he ranks below the top 5 SE coaches.
Iyanu Ma Chelle! Make everybody kukuma dey craze together Lmao! SuperEagles you do this one.
In as much as i want these corrupt NFF administrators to be kicked out of the glass house,the patriotism in me will not allow me to wish the super eagles to fail to qualify for the World cup…Hence i’m predicting that Nigeria will qualify by beating Benin Republic by 3-0 and South Africa will lose to Rwanda by 0:1 …