Rivers United lost 3-0 to Moroccan side RS Berkane in their CAF Champions League fixture on Saturday night.
Finidi George’s side finished their group stage campaign with one draw, and five defeats.
Rivers United struggled in the game, failing to create any clear cut scoring opportunity.
Youssef Mehri gave RS Berkane the lead in the 38th minute.
The home team doubled their advantage two minutes before the break through Paul Bassene.
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Bassene scored his second of the game in the 53rd minute.
RS Berkane secured a place in the quarter-finals following the win.
Holders Pyramids FC defeated Power Dynamos of Zambia 3-1 in the other group game.
The Egyptians finished top of the group with 16 points from six matches.
By Adeboye Amosu
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6 matches, 5 defeats (disgraceful margins like 3-0, 4-1 o) and 1 draw.
How worse can it get?? Even a South Sudanese or Eritrean club will fare better in the same group.
Did Finidi really qualify as a coach or he lied? Are Rivers United players actually footballers or part-time plumbers and electricians???
My pain is they go to these self-disgrace fests as a “Nigerian’ club. They should be bearing their own name only and full stop.
Hehehe….I’m still wondering how any sane human being will watch Rivers United play in the CAFCL this season, will not ask what their coaches teach them in training…. LMAOooo. Of course, dumbskulls like Tony K wouldn’t. Their laziest excuse is always that the NPFL is the poorest league, while the Nigerian economy is the worst in Africa.
Even Sudanese teams don’t perform this horribly despite not having a functional league at the moment and playing all their games outside their country.
But just wait till that jalopee-brained, lying, pathetic prince of darkness that calls himself Tony K, and his double-speaking uncle, Uncle Sege, summon some courage from their shamlessness to come here to tell you this horribly awful, poorly coached team shouldn’t be blamed for such a disgraceful campaign….LMAOoo
Funding is the reason why Rivers United barely had a decent shot on target in every one of their 6 matches in this season’s CAF Champions League….. LMAOoo. It is the reason they can hardly advance with the ball into the opposition’s territory. It is the reason they don’t even know where to stay on the pitch at different points in time. It is the reason they scored just 2 and shipped in 15 goals in 6 matches…….LMAOOoo.
The NPFL was swimming in dollars those years when we used to post credible performances on the continent, when Kano Pillars would go and play a 2-2 draw with Zamalek in Egypt, Rangers would hammer Al-Ahly completely with the likes of Essam Elhadary and Mohd Aboutrika 4-0 in Enugu, Dolphins would defeat, was it Kazier Chiefs or pirates, home and away. Back then in the 2000s to 2010, our clubs were recruiting players and coaches from Europe……LMAOooo
It’s all the fault of poor funding. Nigerian coaches are better than other African coaches, they just don’t have funding…….LMAOooo. Nigerian referees are better than other referees on the continent, they just dont have funding……LMAOoo. There are many talents in the NPFL, they just don’t have funding……LMAOooo. That is how shallow-minded, mentally impoverished hypocrites think.
These were the “we will swim and sink with our own” bunch of charlatans who would insult and accuse Dr.Drey of suffering from colonial mentality and liking anything foreign, a few years ago, when I openly said No to imposition of substandard local players and coaches on our national teams….. LMAOooo.
The Tony K. dude doesn’t get what a critical critique is. If a review of a Nigerian footballing situation is not so palatable to him, he feels offended and thinks one is not patriotic enough.
As long as he’s concerned, any commentary on Nigerian football (except it has to do with the NFF board) must be positive and “understanding” cos the players or clubs are just victims of circumstances.
One is no longer free to praise or criticize players or situations, so as not to offend some personal or group opinions, whereas this is a football forum where people are expected to have differing opinions, which may align with or not align with others.
No, opinions must agree with his own universal wisdom, or the commenter risks being cancelled by his tacit group members.
@Brothetly Kel. Rivers United tried their best. Finidi is far better than other African coaches .There is a conspiracy against Nigerian teams on the continent. CAF has a lot of explanations to do.
No, Tarara, I disagree. They lost fair and square cos they were simply not good enough. 6 embarrassing scorelines are a loud statement of fact about a team and their coach’s ability, not a coincidence.
@kel even if finidi didn’t qualify as a coach, what happened to learning on the job? He has been coaching for some years now and you would expect growth on what u do on a daily basis, dude keep disgracing the country .
I just tire @Femi. This guy practically started our WC woes cos NFF thought that since he was assistant to Paseiro, that would be continuity. Then gbam, 1 point out of 6, just like he’s doing now at Rivers United. Since then, we began to struggle.
He’s already promising they’ll learn from the experience. Lol. Forever “learning” but never actually knowing. If I were the club’s administrator, I would have sacked him after the first 3 scandalous losses cos 3 losses is never coincidental. It’s a statement of fact about your ability.