Completesports.com’s Live Blogging of Chile 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup Round of 16 match between La Albiceleste of Argentina and the Flying Eagles of Nigeria at Estadio Nacional Julio Martinez, Pradanos, Santiago, Chile.
Argentina vs Nigeria Live Blogging – Chile 2025 FIFA U-20 World Cup Round Of 16 Match
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I believe and have faith in u guys, go out there and defend the green and white jersey, dnt give the Argentina room to intimidate you, be brave, courageous and try to take ur chances. We can do it boys.
Oya let wash de march
Chales, Oya let wash dis march
let wash de march
goooooal Argentinaaaaa!
This harcourt of a keeper is a joke.
I’ve said it before – he is not a good goalkeeper at all!
His decision making and positional sense is seriously lacking – he may be young but he is giving me Uzoho vibes. Although I am not writing him off but so far in the games I have seen in this tournament, he is not ready – still needs to improve a whole lot.
How the market guys? Bullish or bearish?
It is Brullearish lol.
The Ref is cheating,
The boys can’t shoot a ball to save their lives.
We are already 2 nil down.
The boys are playing with no chill or composure because they are now panicking because they are behind and are chasing the game.
They have a mountain to climb against nearly impossible odds – a combo of a bastard referee, a good and clever opponent and a tactically bereft coach
Apart from all that, it’s all good my guy.
we ar washing de march
Argentina 1 Nigreain 0
This is bad. Argentina already leading
2mins in an 9ja is already a goal down.
This ref is bias. How can Fifa appoint an zitaloan ref to officiate this match? Argentina and italy are like brodas and help each other. This is truly ridiculous. We had a penalty call which he didn’t give but was quick to give a freekick to d argentines which they just scored from. Its pathetic to be honest. Our coach can’t appeal for a var review.
The team is trash
Dnt blame the ref. But our dumb ass coach who can’t make the request, their is NO VAR in use so the rule is that the coach of each team gat the opportunity to make/ request for max 2 review per game and extra 1 from the knockout stage, making 3. I expect our coach to request a review bcos that was a glaring push from a scoring position, our coach look so timid and scared to talk.
*Italian
Goalkeeper is useless too….The whole team is trash..Not one talent spotted.
You lie, the whole team is not trash. Infact the Nigerian boys are playing really well, far better than the overhyped and bullying Argentines. But for hardback and Referee oppression Flying Eagles should be winning this game atleast from the half hour mark when I started watching, the FE had a penalty shout and two goal scoring opportunities, the last one in the 3 added minutes at end of first half.
Whatever happens, the boys have done very well and I would suggest drafting some of these boys into the aging and slow pace Super Eagles paticularly the left back/wingback, the left winger and Daniel Daga, and
one of the midfielders to replace the Ndidi,s, Onyeka,s, Moses Simon and even Chukwueze,s.
Common boys fight. The whole world are always joining our opponents to fight us and these boys are up against it- not just the mediocre Argentine u-20 boys.
I stopped watching.The referee turned down a penalty call without having a look and gave Argentina a soft free-kick which resulted to the second goal,it’s going to be a long night for the flying eagles.
Harcourt has been terrible in this tournament,the first Argentina goal was a gift.The team is not good enough for the world cup.
Better luck next time…
The coach needs to go please, he is too poor. His selection is downright bad. Where in god’s name did he get d #20 center back from, dat guy has no football brain at all. He attacks d leg rather than d ball. He falls so easily. Very poor team honestly.
Strange free kick
So far no referee bias noticed and Argentina are just trying to play their own football – level playing field,- if anything the 9ja boys are being too hasty and using too much gra gra – 9ja already 2 goals down. Only a miracle now because are not playing with any chill or composure
this match is really waste of my data no need to watch our boys are too sluggish I don’t know who to blame the COACH or the PLAYERS now I off my laptop nonsense
last two years u20 is far better than these boys both technically and physical
Lets see if he will give a penalty now
See bias officiating
First bias shown by ref – two incidents and he is claiming no penalty??
Just the first foul when the attacker is clearly pushed down is a very clear penalty not to mention the second one when the defender stood on the attacker’s foot – this is some serious BS!!
It didn’t last long – the fair play!
And now the boys have lost one of 2 reviews – so they must do it through hard graft and superior quality now – this needs a lot of composure because they have it in them, but it won’t manifest without calm and composure, and no stupid wayward shooting as Maigana just showed again there ffs!
Two blatant penalty call for 9ja dat d ref has called off. If 9ja was a country we should have walked out in protest. How in God’s name do u appoint an Italian ref to officiate a match involving Argentina, its absurd to be honest.
I dont understand the obsession between this our coach and Maigana. The guy cannot score to save his life
From promoting the Elkanemi Warriors of Maiduguri to the NPFL from the second division, NNL to leading the team to win the President Federation Cup (FA Cup) which they last won in 1992 and eventually leading them to the Confederation Cup,…… The only notable qualification of coach zubairu is qualifying 2 teams from NNL to the NPFL and he was deemed good enough to manage a national team. Talk of mediocrity at the highest level, just a pity we keep destroying the beautiful talents that abound every where in the country because of tribalistic and religious sentiments. I am just glad God is rewarding all these tribalistic appointments with failures and shall continue to be their portion. Inshallah!
I dont understand the obsession between this coach and Maigana. The guy cannot score to save his life
Our penalty was overlooked twice and the ref said ball was played by Argentine which was a big lie. At this point does it mean lies have join the game? Can we stop playing and just come back home so we let them know enough is Enough???
Why given the u20 and u17 jobs to Northern coaches that have no clue on modern football. Putting nepotism ahead of football will kill our future.
Sorry to say am very close to Northerners majority of them take tramadol to be active and they equally lack football sense we all Know the home of football in Nigeria is SE SS and SW NC all these abokis running up and down purposelessly is frustrating
Diz team is worsa dan d team @ d Afcon to be honest. Maigana dat was always a substitute during the afcon is now an automatic in the WC. What a joke of a coach. The young #11 and #7 of the afcon were replaced by dis mediocre team, how is diz improving d team? This coach is just mad. I blif dat afcon team with few additions would have made diz team alot stronger. Dis coach is crazy walahi.
Stop blaming the Coach! The boys are playing well, even better than the referee-aided Agentines. What the boys need is a good psychologist to boost their moral. Except we are not watching the same match, otherwise since I started watching from the 30th minute of 1st half, the flying Eagles have been better especially those left wingers and wing back.
You must be one of those bastard NFF officials that sneak up here…You must be blind.
Now 3:0. Again poor decision making both by players and coaches. D less spoken about d team d better. NFF is to blame for dis shit. What about d talked about sani suleiman from as trencin? #20 of 9ja is supposed to be in a farm not on a soccer field. Not a single good player on dis team.
After the third goal the commentator said all three goals conceded from Nigeria perspective are alll avoidable, this goes to show we went to the World Cup with a clueless coach who brought senseless players to the World Cup . The present NFF chairman is the most useless manager have ever seen in Nigeria history
It’s over Mens football is dead in Nigeria. Officiating plus average talents and coaches has messed the system. All they do is talk lies like politicians before tournaments and games. We will this and that even though they know they’re not good enough. They say a lot knowing fully well that they’ll crash out like NPFL teams. CS is also part of the bad blood!!!
Have now switched to SA vs Colombia watching this is far better than those clueless tramadol made players from the North. If FIFA conducts drug test you would understand what am saying.
See the way SA is playing with good organization.
If not for foreign players Super Eagles would have been reduced to Zimbabwe national team
3 avoidable goals. Make the boys come back home I beg.
4:0 wow. Diz coach should be fired there in Chile for diz national embarrassment. When he gets to 9ja, the military should bring him out and publicly flog him as he has wasted the time and data of millions of nigerians. This is a public shame and a big stain on our collective pride. This man should neva smell any coaching job in 9ja ever again. Such a he goat
The cow called a coach dropped Oliseh and suddenly a bunch of Northerners in the team that didn’t even play the afcon…like 5 additions would have been better. This team is worse than the Wafu and afcon team. I believed some of these people paid for slots lol.
okay na, I has stop washing dis yeye march. let me going and boil some kenke and wack it wit good tilapia abeg. Robbish!
De Nigraien couch is not good and as for de referee…………Kwasiaaa!
As long as we will not allow excellence to thrive we will keep struggling and I really like that these boys have shown that they are not the best we have. When you take money to select plyers, this is what you get. Zubair should not be close to coaching any National team grade if Nigeria was a serious country
Worst Nigeria team and coach ever.
I knew it from the coach appointment to players selection this is the best they can offer. NFF with sentiment in appointment of coaches is killing youth football development in Nigeria and that’s why we hardly groom boys from home again, after the likes of Mikel, taiwo, obasi, etc
One idiot said this team plays good football……..LMAOoooo
Nigerians have been so starved of good football that they no longer recognize what good football should look like anymore.
Between this team and Aigbogun’s team, I don’t know which one is worse. And just like Aigbogun’s team, I don’t see anyone in this team making it into the Super Eagles in the immediate or remote future.
This team is even playing worse at this world cup than it did at the WAFU B and U20 AFCON tournaments.
Once again, the NFF needs to make Coaching Education its priority for the next 5 years. The kind of talentless players and coaches we are breeding domestically is giving me cause for worry.
I have never seen any of Nigeria football national teams performing like this in my entire life till now.
What happened, or am I dreaming????
Everywhere you turn to in this team is just aboki. Nepotism and sentiment at the center of it all.
That Guaso or what is nff chairman doesn’t mean it has to be this way. Giving Nigerian sadness each time it concern our male football has been the achievement of this nff president or chairman as you guys might want to call it.
Yet another one is loading with se, this very unfair on the path of Nigeria fans. No solid under 17 and 20 that will take over from some of our older se players
The referee decided that Nigeria would not win this match.
The referee has killed the morale of the Flying Eagles.
FIFA is very corrupt, and we have seen what the referees have done to our Flying Eagles in this tournament. It is a shame.
However, there’s no point in African teams representing Africa.
FIFA should go ahead with their people. Enough of this wicked act.
For the coach, and the NFF, no merits in the selection and management.
Our national team will keep struggling as long as we don’t put tribalism aside. No matter where we come from, we are all Nigerians.
4:0 at the world stage is a shame.
I don’t need to waste my time because NFF have never learned its lessons.
As a good Nigerian, I believe this current NFF should be scrapped. I have been saying this for so long, but here we are, Super Eagles are struggling to make it to the World Cup again, while all the national teams are going backwards. Why keep the same set of people who are killing the progress of our sports?
What do I know ba? Ire o. God bless Nigeria!!!
Agreed! Very well said!
Corruption has finally ruined Nigeria football. Kick NFF administrators out of glass house if we truly want to develop our football
That SANI guy is a miss, no wonder Leverkusen and Man U are tracking him, the team really missed him today.
This the worst game the team has played in this tournament, if they played this game with the same intensity and determination they displayed against Colombia that wallop SA today, we would have been singing a different tune right now, the Argentine aren’t all that superb but for the dummy of a coach who refused to request a review for a glaring PK, you have 2 review per match but you hold on to them like u wanna sell them to buy kunnu when u return home.
Nigeria should just go learn from Japan how football is structured and run (kaizen). See dia female and male teams both youth and senior teams, they play same way. Consistency and continuous improvement is rule of d game. They dominate posession in most games, their passes are crips and purposeful. Japan is the best structure fir 9ja to emulate in my view and just add the physicality aspect of our game to it, we will be unbeatable honestly, not dis gra gra style wen we dey folo. All african teams don catch up to us, 9ja dat was once d dominant force in youth football now find it difficult to qualify for age grade competitions. One of d worse Ghana u17 beat Garba lawal led u17 team, what a dusgrace. Morocco now is a force to reckon with both in men and female football but 9ja is struggling. 9ja u dey fall hand i swear.