Nigeria’s Super Eagles B have crashed out of this year’s Africa Nations Championship (CHAN) after suffering a humiliating 4-0 defeat to Sudan in their second Group D match on Tuesday.
It is the team’s joint heaviest defeat in the history of the tournament after they also lost 4-0 to Morocco at the 2018 edition.
Eric Chelle’s side went into the encounter hoping to bounce back from their 1-0 defeat to champions Senegal on matchday 1.
For the Sudanese, they secured a 1-1 draw with Congo in their own opening fixture.
In the group’s other match also played on Tuesday, Senegal forced Congo to a 1-1 draw.
After the conclusion of matchday 2, Sudan seat top of the group on four points while Senegal, also on four points are second.
Congo are third on two points and the Super Eagles B are bottom with no point.
The Super Eagles B will face Congo in their final Group D game on August 19 while Senegal will battle Sudan also on the same day.
Congo must beat the Nigerian team to stand a chance of progressing to the knockout round.
The Super Eagles B bossed the early exchanges and thought they had taken the lead on 22 minutes through Anthony Ijoma but his effort was ruled out for offside after consultation with VAR.
However, Sudan took the lead in the 25th minute as Abdel Yagoub’s strike hit the crossbar and came off defender Leonard Ngenge for an own goal .
Things wemt from bad to worse for Ngenge as he conceded a penalty for handball, which Walieldin Khidir converted to put Sudan 2-0 up.
In the 56th minute Sudan went 3-0 ahead through Omer Yagoub who volleyed home a low left-foot strike after the Super Eagles B failed to deal with a cross.
Yagoub then made it 4-0 in the 62nd minute with a superb volley which came off the bar before settling inside the net.
By James Agberebi
22 Comments
What a disgrace of monumental proportions! Unbelievable! Are these guys actual footballers? Our women, the Super Falcons, would have pulled off a draw with this Sudanese team.
Right from the first match, I noticed the so-called “super eagles” (they should find a name for them so they stop staining the brand and Nigeria’s name) couldn’t string up to 4 passes before losing it.
They were not up to the level of the other teams in the tournament. They were playing as individuals, not as a team. They clearly were each playing to impress scouts, not for the team to progress.
I can’t even recognize the team or the names from the one that beat Ghana to qualify. A totally new, disjointed schoolboy team. Every single NPFL player is playing to hop on the next plane to trial anywhere, even in Benin, Rwanda, Slovenia, Lithuania… Anywhere but the NPFL. The league is a cocoon, a shell, a mirage, empty, nothing.
Shame on the NPFL and whoever the chairman is. Shame on the NFF for always trying to push NPFL players to the main Super Eagles while lying to themselves that they have actual players in the league.
The NPFL is dead. We should withdraw from all international competitions. Like almost all Nigerian institutions, it is corrupt beyond redemption.
Chelle should have stayed out of this. I hope it does not affect his morale or confidence going into next month’s 2 crucial matches. The good news is that he and his assistants now have enough time to map out plans and focus on those matches and further analyzing the opponents, Rwanda and South Africa.
Nigerian league is a joke
Home base !!!
I don’t know why this should also be part of determinant factors for FIFA rankings.
If not, who cares.
Just to let them know that they should not try to get near our super eagles A.
in the first place the NFF are to blame. the way i see it, players of the U23 playing at home should have been used for this tournament because even if you loose, you are developing experience. But this lot is an exception, there is nothing experience can do to make them better.
Look at our national team in the last few years….No talent from the local league. Please start calling these guys National Team B.
These Eagles just run and run with not direction. Very difficult for them to string 7 neat and purposful passes. A true picture of the Nigerian league. These set of players are really poor technically. Poor Chelle.
I don’t even feel distrubed that we lost. I’ve always said it on this forum that our local league is a dumpsite filled with crap footballers. The fact that Sudan won 4-0 without leaving gear one makes it more insulting.
If we werent convinced this league is gone when Tanzania and Ethiopian league became a destination for our homebased lads…..If we weren’t convinced this league is gone when our teams crash out of CAF club competions in the first round……if we werent convinced this league is gone when we couldnt transfer beyond Taiye Taiwo and Ahmed Musa straight into 1st teams in mainstream Europe in the last 20years….. What other evidence do we need now that Sudan homebased has humbled us without us getting a shot on target for 90 mins.
And please, of what use is the sports ministry and federations like the NFF now that it is evident that local sports development is ZERO….???
D’tigress — foreign
Super Falcons — foreign
Super Eagles — foreign
The moment homebased dominate any Nigerian team in any sport, they fail with flying colours.
All our recent successes In almost even sports now are from athletes/players who were developed abroad
So what sports exactly is the sports ministry developing locally….???
If I hear anybody mentioning homebased in the same sentence with our main Super eagles again………
The funny thing is some fans are still too proud to kneel down and beg Tosin. To come and play for us , this is the guy that is rated third best central defender in the whole of England . Only Gid knows where our national team will be if our foreign born players decided not to honor duty. No talent whatsoever is coming from our league anymore . Poor Nigeria and shame to those saddled with the responsibility of managing our football
This is a very stupid comment honestly! Kneel down and beg who? Are you being serious or just catching cruise? Yes our league might be nothing to write home about but kneel down and beg who? Smh ..
The sooner we realise that the league needs to be reworked , the better for us.
The truth is, there is little or no quality in the NPFL, the best prospects and potentials locally are now found in the academies. The academies are now hotbeds for trade dealing directly with football clubs abroad. The NPFL is comatose.
We are certainly blessed to have foreign born Nigerians and international trained Nigerian players that are still willing to play for us or else, I can’t imagine the state of our sports teams and fortune if the reverse was the case. Currently, all our hopes and successes have been aided by these foreign raised and trained Nigerians. We are indeed fortunate. But how far our fortune go, God only knows.
Why una dey lie like this….3rd best central defender that can’t break into the 3 lions and why should we beg someone to play for us for so many years…He is not the only Defender we have. The heavens won’t fall if Tosin doesn’t play for us. He is not committed to the Nigerian cause….Someone that we have been begging for at least 7 years.
Forget Tosin. The guy playing for Orlando pirates Ndah is better than him. He wants England and should get out. An average player to say the least.
Hahaha
Omo but this is shocking! Sudan!!
The boys might not have been able to interprete tactics of CHELLE. Our local players are not used to tactical interpretation or positional play.
We’re they properly paid before and during the competition?
They might have placed bets to lose deliberately. or in protest against Chelle for replacing Ogunmodede. Some might have played with Europe in mind or divided attention. But with the way the Super Chickens are playing now , is something fundamentally or spiritually wrong with the our men’s team?
A league where highest paid in the entire enyimba squad is earning less than #2m monthly and that also he need to drag the club for it and to think enyimba is one of the biggest club in the country. Good thing I didn’t watch the match bcos I knew it’s not going to cut it judging from the first match.
Thanks God sey l no watch the match, what a disgrace
The players don’t woke up. They are broke. The Super Eagles has no rope to pull. Lols.
Makoko street, here we come. Lolz
The home-based Eagles’ loss to Sudan is not just a defeat—it’s a mirror reflecting the rot in our local league. For years, the NFF has neglected coaching education, leaving players at the mercy of outdated training methods. Talents abound in Nigerian clubs, but they are tactically and technically bankrupt. The result? Our clubs embarrass themselves in continental competitions, and national teams with heavy local-player presence crumble against well-drilled opponents.
Just look at South Africa. From the Amajitas to Bafana Bafana, from Sundowns to SuperSport United, their teams—coached mostly by locals—play with clear tactical identities, dominating possession and forcing opponents into errors. No wonder they’ve become our biggest hurdle at every level. Whether it’s Sundowns Ladies tormenting Edo Queens, Banyana Banyana giving the Super Falcons a scare, or the Amajitas outthinking The Flyimg Eagles at the u20 championship, the story is the same: they are well-coached, we are not.
The rot deepens when the NFF forces NPFL players into the Super Eagles in the name of “developing the league.” The national team should showcase finished products, not be a testing ground for half-baked talents. Dropping warriors like Frank Onyeka for an unproven Papa Daniel Mustapha in crucial World Cup qualifiers was a footballing crime. At least, we all saw the difference at the Unity Cup in London and the friendly match against Russia.
So no, I didn’t feel pain when Sudan humiliated our home-based Eagles. What do you expect from a team built on tribalism, poor preparation, and zero tactical discipline? If they can’t beat Zanzibar, why dream of beating Sudan? Until the NFF stops sacrificing competence for politics, Nigeria will keep trading glory for shame. 4:0 loss to Sudan is absolutely humiliating.
Rohr once said there were no good players he could see in the Nigerian league. In fact, he frankly told the nff the truth that the nigeria league was below standard! but the got angry, fought against him and eventually sacked him for saying the bitter truth. Where are those clamoring for our home based players to be the main crux of our super eagles team? Where are Dare and mr Odegbami and those who said ‘let us fail with our own’?????? I thought they said our home bass players can win the world cup??? E don happen now again and all of them have gone into hiding. I look forward to mr Ode’s column to see what he would say about this ‘wonderful’ perfromance of his local league players That should be drafted straight into the national team. Remember, 90 percent of the players in this team were drafted from the club that won the local league last season….he he he he….
I hereby call out Gbenga Elegbeleye as Chairman of the NPFL and more importantly, Shehu Dikko, Chairman of the National Sports commission. They have both failed.
No vision, framework or policies set out.
Terrible state of sports infrastructure across the country.
Comatose state of local football and the decline of other sports .
No sign of development of local sporting personnels and players.
These are a few of the shortcomings under Dikko. So why is he still around as Chairman of the sports commission?
He is simply a parasite leeching of the success and hardwork of Nigerian foreign born and international trained Nigerian players fighting hard to bring glory to the country despite the incompetence of those that we call leaders.
Till he make changes for the good. Shehu Dikko is a failure.