Former Nigerian international Dimeji Lawal has expressed dissatisfaction with the performance of the Home-Based Eagles after their elimination from the ongoing 2024 African Nations Championship.
Recall that the team was thrashed 4-0 by Sudan in their second group game on Tuesday.
Prior to this game, Nigeria had lost 1-0 to Senegal in their opening game.
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Reacting after the team’s disappointing loss to Sudan, Lawal, in a chat with Completesports.com, questioned the character of the players against Sudan.
“I’m really disappointed that Nigeria will not progress beyond the group stages of the ongoing CHAN tournament.
“This should have been an opportunity for the players to prove a point to the Super Eagles head coach Eric Chelle that they deserve to be in the main Eagles. But with this performance and against a Sudanese team, I doubt if they have done themselves a favour.
“They can only play for pride in their final group game against Congo.”
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PLEASE THEY SHOULD ALLOW THE HOME BASE TEAM/PLAYERS PROSECUTE THE REMAINING WORLD CUP QUALIFIER MATCHES
SHAMELESS & SENTIMENTAL FOOTBALL MANAGEMENT
Lol facts. Since everything is home based play better blah blah blah. Home based players can’t even win African championship with club but they will still shout for home based coach and players are better than foreign based. Nonsense
I knew there would be problem when this team after several weeks of camping couldn’t defeat Zanzibar twice.
These players are no better than the zanzibar players or players playing in the “zanziban” league (if there is any league like such)
When you start reading news headlines like Zilmanjou FC of comoros league will be tough, just know failure is on the horizon…..as if it wasn’t from the same league the likes of Rangers, Enyimba and Dolphins respectively routed teams like AlAhly (4-0), Asec (3-0) and Al Merriekh (5-2) in the early 2000s.
The fact is that NPFL players are no better than Burundian and Comoros league players……that is why we fall at the same stages teams from those leagues fall too.
Swap the Nigerian jersey with that of Eritrea and this chan team wouldnt have looked out of place. Nobody would have suspecting.
Eric Chelle had hit his luck! Look no further. This is the dream team that every progressive coach aspires to have. What follows is flowing. football, brave tackling, rock-halting defence, and especially agile and efficient goalkeeping. You may judge me wrong, claiming that SE Team B lost the game. This is where you’ve gone wrong! They were facing Sudan, one of the most. formidable teams in. Africa, if not the world. Know what? They were coached by a Ghanaian, who forces his children and grandchildren to swear as perpetual enemies of Nigeria.
That VAR-assisted disallowed Naija goal was top notch. I suspect the VAR ref. was a SA or NA. And the handball. awarded to Sudan? Fake assessment, disgraceful.
Let’s consider the positives of this game and Monsieur Chelle’s luck. Disband the SE A-team and replace them with this B-Team. Period.
I blame nobody for this shambolic disgrace from the based team but NFF.
We could see now that the current NFF has nothing to offer the nation, but why can’t those in power dismantle the NFF and allow the ex-players to take over?
NFF had changed the coaching crew that qualified the home-based team, and they are expecting Eric Chelle to do well?
Football doesn’t work out that way kę.
Why is Chelle in charge of the home-based team when we have the World Cup qualifiers next month?
This should tell Nigerians that those in the NFF are not capable of managing our sports.
I hope these results won’t affect Eric Chelle psychologically.
For me, I won’t blame the entire crew of the home-based team because we all saw what they did during the Chan qualifiers, but NFF just destroyed the team because the FA doesn’t know anything concerning football, period. It is a shame and the current NFF must go. Ire o. God bless Nigeria!!!
This is true. Homebase players are broke, choke, and have no hope. They are from Makoko street.
Thank you.
Oh more. Is coming the flying eagles is the worst than the eagle’s B I watched them play that is the worst team I have seen from Nigeria.
Nepotism is killing our sport!. Look at the women’s team and see why they are blazing the trail. You’ll discover that the team is balanced. A blend of good footballers from across the country especially from the region that has been producing the best crop of athletes right frm independence! Same applies to our women’s basketball team. Nepotism is a killer!