Somali referee Omar Artan will take charge of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final fixture between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and Algeria, reports Completesports.com.
Artan is one of the most respected referees on the continent.
He is also one of the African referees selected for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
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Artan officiated Algeria versus Mauritania group clash at AFCON 2023.
Nigeria thrashed Mozambique 4-0 to book a place in the last-eight, while Algeria defeated Democratic Republic of Congo 1-0
The Super Eagles and the Desert Foxes will do battle at the Stade de Marrakech on Saturday.
It will kick-off at 5pm Nigeria time.
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Village people wan make Dr drey prophesy come to pass by fire by force.
Which one am I reading those over bloated perennial world cup qualifiers failures sat out a training because of unpaid bonuses AGAIN?
FG wey release 3bn specially for una no be enough motivation to “concentrate for just 4 weeks” and redeem una career for national team?
Wait oh, because we no chop una head as the playoff sit out cost us billions of naira in economic value as una fall to Congo?
I even hear say them tell NFF to always pay them in dollars the bonuses when them dey play OUTSIDE NIGERIA.
Now, na cbn supposed sort out that one and we know how government things dey be.
If una fail on Saturday, make NFF kuku disband the team. Make them all go.
Algeria wey be touch and fall and we don get strong men wey get 3 yellow cards and if God mercifully make our analyst eat the humble pie, we get to play either Cameroon wey get even more points to prove or Morocco wey be host nation, na so these players no wan look at the bigger picture.
Una carry second collect 100 million, imagine if una carry first.
The village people wey dey do eagles never get off their matter. Even Congo fans after the amoura matter for twitter prefer to hug transformer than rejoice if Nigeria beat Algeria.
So, so many nations wan make we fail. Those big for nothing players wan play into their hands. Who do eagles like this?
Chaos we no sure say we don fit thrive. Now, we don invite am in different form.
Dr drey no go let us hear word oh, Ndidi and co.
Leave out distractions na. Una no be Cameroon
I just tire for these guys. Nah so Ndidi wan start him captainship? He can’t talk to his men to see the bigger picture first, as you put it? I know everyone needs money, but let’s be honest, what’s the urgency with these guys as regards money???
The main reason they lost the WC ticket to DRC was decreased focus. A 100% concentrated SE would have beaten DRC in the final. Now we’re back to the same point again, just a couple of months after with hungrier and deadlier opponents lined up ahead of us.
Hehehehe…..we didn’t lose to DRC because of money. We lost because our coach was tactically shackled as from the 20th minute mark of the game till the 120th minute. It went to penalties and the Congolese goalkeeper saved more penalties than our goalkeeper did. Losing to Congo was down to effort, not money
The pay strike was before we met Gabon and not DRC…..so things were all sorted out way before we met the Congolese.
We have a coach who only goes into games with plan A and nothing more…..once that plan fails we resort to defending for dear life. A coach whom lay men like us can predict and decide, talk more of coaches with pedigree.
Watch this space, he will start with his new found 4312 on Saturday, the Algerian coach will double team Iwobi and Lookman, thus effectively cutting out supplies to Osimhen (Akor portends little to no danger once isolated), we will get frustrated and start going for long balls from defence directly to Osimhen to conjure something out of nothing for us, but Bensabaini will effectively curtail him the way Tunazebe did in the playoffs. 2nd half Chelle will remove Onyeka and Akor for Chukwueze and Simon going for a flat 424 and that is where the collapse will begin. Algeria will overrun our thin midfield and continue to run rings around us till the fat lady sings. Chelle will resort once again to defending for dear life and waiting on Nwabali to bail us out.
I’ve never seen a coach in this age and time who pre selects his substitutes even before the ball is kicked….. LMAOooo. Zero match reading ability, zero in-game readaptation…..just attack attack attack and nothing else. That was the same thing that led to his cataclysmic failure with Mali.
Any coach with pedigree can shackle Chelle without breaking sweat. An inexperienced Emerse Fae with 10 man did it successfully at this same stage of the last AFCON. 0-1 down at halftime with ten men, 2-1 up with 10 men by the 120th minute.
I hope come Saturday he will serve me humble pies on this. Like I’ve previously said, I’ve never been more hungrier for humble pies than now.
I’ll be the biggest beneficiary should we eliminate Algeria come Saturday. The pain of that 96th minute Mahrez freekick has never left me till now. I still can’t watch the highlights of that game till today…..it was a game that even the Algerians knew and later confessed they were going to lose should it go to extra time as they were already burnt out, while we on our part we’re about to unleash the pace and trickery of some of our young forwards.
So Mr Chelle, the ball is in your court…..it’s time to earn the bucks you’ve been earning or leave for good.
It is better to start ranting now to CAF on all available Social media outlets against unfair or crooked officiating before the match than after the match.
The weird officiating in this AFCON, ….
We’ve been fighting you guys battle with the onigbese NFF, but trust me if you guys fail on Saturday due to this nonsense money issue, we won’t forgive you all. Because I’m ready to bet with anything that we can defeat this Algeria hand down if this guys approach the game same way they’ve been doing since the match vs Tunisia. And to think they are fighting over bonus at this stage of the competition. Can ndidi just tell this guys to chill for now?
I agree with your post Dr Drey but Fae had the complements of Herve Renard from the background helping him with tactics. Fae didn’t succeed alone Sir.
Chelle could do same by calling for help, otherwise yawa go gas.