Completesports.com’s Live Blogging of the AFCON 2023 Final between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and the Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire at Alassane Ouattara Stadium, Abidjan.
Nigeria Vs Cote d’Ivoire Live Blogging – AFCON 2023 Final
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I think peseiro is trying to keep a solid bench in this match. Then the first sub will be Simon and Yusuf coming on to be a driving force in the second half
I think peseiro is trying to keep a solid bench in this match. Then the first sub will be Simon and Yusuf coming on to be a driving force in the second half
And any VAR that will not favour us should just sleep off
Where can I stream the match
SKOREMOB
It is a bit risky to say the least to be playing both Iwobi and his twin in lack of opposition resistance aka tracking back and tackling – Chukwueze and it seems to me almost as if Peseiro is underestimating Cote D’Ivoire but to God be all the glory – and may we be celebrating becomimg the AFCON champions in a few hours.
Peserio will have to evolve as we go along and really refrain from having “favourites” or having players who’s places are guaranteed in the team regardless of the circumstance..
So having said that – Up the SE’s!, Up Nigeria! Let’s bring that cup home!
Oya let’s goo!
Stupid punk
Your own Nigerian brothers knows u are an idiot lol
Hollow write ups lol
Congratulate your players
They did they beat
Alhamdulilah the last day of Afcon Afcon is finally here. NIGERIA 2, IVORY COAST 0 In sha Allah.
The Afcon trophy is coming home in sha Allah.
You can watch the match here “KOORA LIVE TV”
Up Super Eagles. Up Nigeria. Abuja straight. Ire o. God bless Nigeria!!!
Sa ma sin wa lo baba, sa ma sin wa lo, oluwa sa ma sin wa looo. Go bring the cup home guys, we trust and believe in you, up super Eagle.
My issue is this Sanusi. I don’t know why the Coach is so obsessed with the guy. This Zaidu has been poor offensively. Wing backs are meant to be creative and support the defence. But he’s literally doing nothing with the ball. He either make an opponents pass or loose possession even when he’s not under pressure. Plus he’s just returning from an injury. We all see when Bassey moved to that left wing back the kind of beautiful cross he gave Lookman. Likewise Aina. Aina had put in close to 3 or 4 beautiful crosses into the box for Osimhen when convered to left wing. Osimhen was just unlucky not to have convert any of the chances. Had he score all the assist from Aina both from when he played from right & left wing back, Aina would have comfortably has up to 4 or 5 assist in this tournament. I’m not even exaggerating. If you doubt me, try to see full highlights of the SE
Osayi himself is a worthy player who fit in perfectly at the right wing back. Very productive upfront just like Aina and very good while defending.
So the question is why Zaidu ? This guy is not Marcelo or Alphonso Davies for God sake so why the obsession. I really can’t understand tbh. Well i will say goodluck to SE and we fans.
The coach is playing 5 man defense when defending and he would rather have a perfect defense than a shaky one. Zaidu is far better than Osayi in terms of defending. So, it is instructive to play a better defender in a 5 man defense.
Zaidu is obviously not as good as Osayi when attacking. But in an attack consisting of Oshimen, Lookmon, and Chukwueze (if he decides to play for the team), you can’t blame the coach for preferring Zaidu to Osayi.
Where is the midfield?
Where is Iwobi?
Since he’s the playmaker, he should be the one making transition play.
Ivory coast initial gragra don stop. Nigeria should teach them ball now
@Larry, we need one more keg in the middle l, but that would affect our formation, remove Zaidu bring in Yusuf go back to 433
I was thinking 433 too will be best before the match.
Come on lads!
These players are running with heavy boobs. They should take it easy.
Lookman and Simon has better understanding. Unless we’re waiting for more time, Chukweze no dey this all important match.
Iwobi and Chukweze are completely useless and need to be replaced.
GOALLLLLLLL TROOST…..GET IN!!!!!!!!
1 up. 2nd is coming soon. I foresee 2 goals more. I hope they go forward more. Up eagles
Shit, referee is seriously against us. We shoild be careful
This ref though, why would CAF use an inexperienced ref for a cup final…ridiculous!!!
Chukwuze should leave this match. He is not playing anything. Just running around
Chukwueze had an assist in this game already
IWỌ LO RANWA NIṢẸ O BABA ṢA MA SIN WA LỌ. OLUWA ṢA MA SIN WA LỌ.
The referee’s biased nature is glaringly evident. Despite previous praise for CAF officiating, this instance has completely undermined their credibility.
Hope the VAR assistants, the ref and lines are not set-up to spoil the match.
No playmaker, midfield completely collapsed putting pressure on the defence.
Iwobi is not good, iwobi is useless did you see build up to goal. He and sanusi combine for the corner kick that leads to the goal. Some people needs to calm down
Oh ho so now you agree abi? Was it not you trying to insult me when I mentioned this right from the first game??
We played next to nothing in the first half but who cares, 1-0 and more to come in the second half, I hope chuckueze won’t return to that pitch ? Iwobi need up his game too.
Which midfield and what do you want to create when you are defending and only waiting for counter attack?. Some of you arefunny. Isn’t same Iwobi a d Sanusi build to the corner kick that led to the goal. Thank God most of you are not the coach
Has Nigeria being playing in the competition before? What do you expexlct with 343 formation?
Iwobi has tried in this match, at least in this first half. So, we can be blaming him at this time of the game. We have only created 2 chances so no blame to Iwobi at all. The person that should do more is Chukwueze.
As for officiating, it has been ok so far. Take tension away and watch the match with an open mind. Officiating has been ok so far.
1-nil up so all going according to plan but I still have bones to pick with Peseiro se…ani why the obsession with always playing Iwobi who we all know is short 1 in the midfield against us and now you go and add Chukwueze who is playing true to form so another short 1 which means we’re playing short two so far and then to add insult to injury Zaidu is also not good enough I’m afraid which equals a grand total of short 3!? Because by my maths 1+1+1=3 Abi I lie??
How can you be prosecuting a major championship finals with a self imposed short 3!?
God help us o – I just thank God that we are already in front by a goal but Pasiero needs to be real careful!! Ah ah wetin?
I wonder why they brought that female Moroccan ref again as lineswoman. She was poor whistling the Nigeria vs Guinea Bissau game.
Asides the flicked on header to Eking to score, Chukwueze has not been in this game. Dimon will offer more both offensively and defensively.
Iwibi needs to be careful with stray passes in the midfield. The defense is weathering so much pressure. 62% to 38%. That’s worrying.
Honestly I am tired of this c**p – Iwobi REALLY NEEDS TO COME OFF! And so does Chukwueze abi what is happening? Is Peseiro trying to sabotage this game??
Iwobi has boobs of Confidence.
See your life??
Keep on condemning yourself – lol boobs this boobs that – have you ever heard of HELL FIRE?? Let me tell you, it’s no holiday down there, you are already a rent boy – an abomination and then you are here broadcasting it lol – Woe betide you BATTYMAN teehehehe
Sanusi don finish us. Useless player
You know what? I am absolutely loving Frankie boy Onyeka at the moment!
He is playing like 3 men – covering for that lightweight Iwobi – I will NEVER criticise Frankie boy again o – Never!
Referees are very biased with some weird decisions.
No way…1-1….!! Kessie
Aina is very nervous, lookman is not in the game Iwobi is tied so what do we do?
SHIT!!! LOL
YOU BETTER SHINE YOUR EYE PESEIRO AND TAKE IWOBI OFF NOW!
For Peseiro to win this he has to shore up the right side….Adingra is giving Aina problems, Remove iwobi and bring in Alhassa…
Kessie has been their best player – he is fighting like a squadie out there lol
Kessie is from the barracks of quality.
Go and remove them. They want to be creating when they are not set up to play but to defend and counter attack. Every team we have played against in this competition posses us go and check very well but we have been winning. You heard the coach saying score one goal and defend.
Totally outplayed what is Peseiro’s plan??????
Aina is scared of Adingra or he respects him too much. Adingra is having a field day.
I talk am…. Adingra!!!
Midfield is dead, Iwobi uselessness is causing alot of havoc. Iwobi needs tobe replaced now
Please remove Iwobi.
IF THIS PASERO DOESNT TAKE IWOBI OFF WE WILL LOSE THIS GAME – GOD FORBID!!
THE MIDFIELD IS NON EXISTENT!!!
Go and sit down Barracks boy.
No way…Ivorians have scored again!!! Sinusitis how can you chest the ball there!!
dat one tire me. Opponet dey with you, you carry chest put. Where did he expect that ball to go ?
Peseiro had time to shore up the right side of our defence but he ignored….If Ivory coast win then they deserve it.
OKAY – GAME OVER!
I BLAME PASERIO FOR THIS!!
This is what happens when you use the same strategy in the final against a team you first used the strategy against
IHEANACHO IHEANACHO – CAN YOU ALL SEE NOW?
HE DIDN’T COME BACK TO HELP AINA AND ADINGRA GOT FREE FOR THE GOAL AND THEN SEE HIM TELEGRAPHING SIMPLE CORNER?? mtcheew!
Noooo…Aina has been scared of Adingra throughout the match. He was basically roaming free and delivering crosses all through the game. Maybe Awaziem would have kept him out. But Aina is the main culprit. All the same we did well, 2nd place no easy. The refs were biased today.
Ivory Coast is the new African Champion and sorry to say, deservedly so because the better team won.
We had a white coach that got outsmarted by an African coach. After starting the tournament with his usual 4-4-2, he reverted to 4-5-1 formation which made us to compact as against our usual progressive game but took us this far, when this formation was not functioning he lacked ideas again.
Our overconfidence did not allow us to have a plan B. We rode our luck with plan A until it backed fired today.
This final needed our 4-3-3 for it will allow us push up but instead we maintain our defensive shape even before we scored. At one point in the match, Osimhen was tell the others to push. You know why he struggle in this tournament because of the coach, most at times he was isolated and all of us will be saying that he is disturbing defenders when his work was suppose to be scoring goals. This coach and Aina cost Us this match, with the players Nigeria have we should be playing like Spain and not Italy. This was the easiest AFCON to win but we blew it.
I don’t want to talk about Aina because I always doubt him and Zaidu, but he cause us a goal. Aina should be blame for that second goal. I play as a defender and the simple basic of defending is first mark from your post side first and not player’s leg. That was schoolboy defending and the thing pained me more than even the goal they scored. No need to cry over spilled milk Ivory Coast deserve their win, they wanted it more and attack for it while we where defending…imagine.
@Knet, wow….. wow….wow….. you know how football works kę. You said it all.
I saw the same thing but the coaching crew did not see that I guess.
Aina is a fantastic player, but he should have made it known to the coach that he was not in the game.
Zaidu is not a national team player. Bruno is better than him.
Sorry, my people, but Super Eagles is already letting us down big time. Ire o. God bless Nigeria!!!
433 would have been the best for this match from the start. Peseiro is loosing it in this final.
Didn’t i say it that Zaidu is very useless defensively and offensively. Just why on earth will he chest down when you’re being chased by an opponent. What happened to his head ? The guy is crap.
What is your problem this field Marshall. Were you not the one shouting remove this and put that. They removed him and put you Alhassan has there been any meaningful change in the midfield? Team that is set up to to defend. We are not playing football to be sincere that is why our defenders have been the best player.. upon everything I still give kudos to all the players and the coaching staff
You are just a confused RETARD lol – JOG ON MORON!
Wishing naija nothing but the best tho
U tried and u can build from this
The SUPER ARE now SUPER for real
Ivorians need to say a big thank you to the ref and his assistants. Ref was the man of the match for the Ivorians!!!
I hope this was Jose’s last game! Terrible coach!!
Okay, let get some dose of reality. Nobody really expected Nigeria to go this far. It has been a blessing to be in the final. Ivory Coast spent more than $1b for this games. make God give them something to rejoice. Our coach was given a target of Semis and he exceeded. He should continue. He needs to look for more competeition. Not too bad after all.
This Paseiro lost his tactics in this one. Al-hassan should have been introduced in the firsr half when the pressure was so much. Iwobi was not mobile at all. He lost it in the midfield
Iwobi was better it was Yusuf not suppose to be in the team
No, watch well, Yusuf was more mobile and won more balls in the midfield. His addition from the first half would have reduced the pressure.
PESEIRO START LOOKING FOR MIDFIELDEES….EVEN THE COMMENTATORS SAID ITS LIKE NIGERIA HAS A NON EXISTENT MIDFIELD. LIKE THERES NO WAYYYYYY IWOBI IS OUR BEST MIDFIELDER IN THE WORLD. VERY DISAPPOINTING DISPLAY AND FOR HALLER, THIS IS SOME NETFLIX STUFF..From beating prostate cancer to score the winning goal in the Afcon final…wow!
Testicular cancer not prostate.
Thank you for the correction.
Well said @Tols
Immediately I saw the line up with chukwueze starting I lost interest in the match and didn’t bother watching, the outcome didn’t come to me as a surprise.
But since when has he offered anything reasonable to the national team? A whole AC Milan player that has no impact on his team? Musa and Aribo too took the spots of better players who were supposed to make the team.
I never knew they could make it out of the group stage They really tried.
Osimeh offer nothing just complaining
What do you expect Osimhen to do. When we were play straight from the defense to attack. No midfield and Iwobi was totally nonexistent in the second half. Iwobi could not mark or track back. Using a player Like Chukwueze was also a mistake by the coach. You literally had 2 player – Iwobi and Chukwueze who did nothing in the midfield for Nigeria. So how can Osimhen function in this type of set up?
Help me ask dem o..
Please leave all these dullards my guy – it’s bad enough that we have to lose this game when we could easily have won.
I repeat, the one I blame personally is Pesiero but only for this game – I would still let him carry on as long as he learns from this –
Iwobi is not good enough for our midfield unfortunately – the other players carried him throughout but the stakes were just too high in this final because the Ivorians came to play and were very serious indeed!
All; in all they deserved to win today so more power to Cote D’Ivoire!
Congratulations to Ivory Coast, they were the better and more complete team. The Nigerian team did not have enough in the tank at the end. The SE did the nation proud and can hold their head up.
If there is one key thing I learnt is that Nigeria seriously needs a better midfield. The host had a better midfield and it showed but bravo to the boys!
The better side won.
CIV had the better opportunity, won most 50-50 ball, won more possession,and more determined.
Only 1 shot at goal.
Bassey and Aina were playing with fear. Iwobi and Sanusi are the worst starters in the team.
Ekong ball watching the second goal.
Congrats Ivory Coast.
…cote d’voire deserved to win. We had that game up in our hands but Peseiro continue to play defensive. How do you play defensive game for 90minutes? If they had not scored a second goal… even if we play for three hours we won’t score because Peseiro just got away with the semi finals against SA and came to the final with the same kind of negative play. When we were leading he ought to have changed to three man midfield in the second half… the players told him to change tactics that they really suffered against SA but still he stuck to his usual 90minutes defensive play… how can you be playing final match against host team with 33% ball possession? With the pressure it was only a matter of time before they scored. We were outplayed for adopting negative football. Iwobi has a very poor tournament…we should find better midfielders. The
Well deserved victory for the Ivorians. The Coach has himself to blame for fielding Zaidu and Chukwueze Iwobi himself has been poor. We all can see the bite Ihaenacho add when he came in. Also Simon should stop taking set pieces be it free kick or corner. He’s poor in that aspect.
In all good effort from the guys nobody predict they will reach the final myself inclusive.
Moving forward, we need some players to be drafted into the team. At the central defence, Igho Ogbu, Frederick Benjamin, Tosin Adarabioyo & Gabriel Osho if he is willing to play for Eagles. Reason why i suggested these defenders is simply because we don’t have a ball playing central defender. No disrespect to the 3 man Central defence but their passes from the back have been wayward. Other than that, they’ve been fantastic.
At the midfield, the young guy Dele-Bashiru should be integrated into the team and we should look for more creative midfielders who are willing to play for Nigeria. Iwobi is not good enough and that’s the simple truth. We’ve defensive midfielders but no playmaker. That’s why we keep struggling. Also from the wings, Tella should be drafted in to compete for a shirt as well as any other performing winger We’ve in europe be it foreign born or Nigerian born.
Lastly, Musa needs to finally retire. Zaidu need a break from the National Team in other to rediscover the form that put him in the NT. Iwobi need to sit on the bench as long as possible bcos he’s not ready to be the SE playmaker
South Africa should have been allowed to play this final if this defensive football is all we have to offer. How can you be playing Ivory and be this defensive when is not as if you are playing Spain or Argentina . Osimhen was even shouting at the players to come out to attack but they kept drawing back.
Let the coach be relieved of his job , he might be fantastic at this tournament,at the qualifying games he would be humiliated.
They have been praising this coach, I held my views. The truth is that these Eagles are indeed super chickens, a team that could not string passes, just one shot on target for the entire duration of the game!Men, this is terribly abysmal. The people that invented the saying that attack is the best form of defence did not say it for nothing. How can you depend on parking the bus as a way of winning games? The presentation today was terribly flawed. This coach needs to excuse us.
Stop this!
Congratulate the boys
They did their best!!
Thanks Selfmade! The boys tried. We didn’t give them any chance in this 24-team nations cup, yet they reached the final.
I agree. Someone had to win after all. Our NFA was terrified about how the eagles would perform in Abidjan and thought Paseiro would not make it beyond 1/4 final. To be in the Finals and lose was not the end of the world. Nigeria just needs to step up and keep winning. Congratulations to Ivory Coast. Well done Nigeria.
Please who is this one? Congratulate them for beating South Africa on penalties? That’s all their achievement. As for today’s game, they were totally absent from the party. Check the match statistics and you would understand.
Why’re you complaining when you didn’t even expect them to go beyond group stage. And if you should say you have been supporting them, then you most have been hailing them, why’re you complaining now just bcos they lost in the final.
I don’t think that should be the end of the world.
This is one funny thing about Nigeria fans, you will be hailing the team but when they loose, you guys will be acting like is not the same you that has been hailing and singing their names.
The coach most have seen where the issue lies and he will work on it and come back better.
@UBFE First thing I will say is not all lost is a bad lost, it may be very painful, but it could be a wake-up call just like it happened with the goal keeping department and just bcos on that singular change we are able to get to the final.
And that is where serious scouting comes in for good midfielders,it is good we have midfielders that can run with ball, not just midfielders that can run with ball like the ones we have presently, we also need midfielders that can hold ball and use it effectively.
Our challenge in that match was glaring and peseiro has seen it himself and he needs to go back and watch the match and analyse the game and look for how to improve the team base in what. And what and he most have seen that he needs tactical flexibility and that can be achieved when you have options in both midfield and attack. And I’ve already mentioned that he will need to scout for midfielders in any standard league at all and he needs to know what he’s looking for in them. One thing is that some players have hidden talents and desperately in need of opportunity to showcase it.
So, this is not a time to sack coach, after all the coach didn’t do badly, but time to rebuild and rebuild until we get the desired team, which also depend on if he qualifies for the world cup. Between now and then we want to see some work in place base on what I just said.
Though I know Siasia will be a good option but peisero is good enough for now.
We lost this game due to bad tactics….Culprits were IWOBI, Zaidu, Aina was helpless. When they Equalized the dumb Peseiro was supposed to shore up things but he kept playing as if we were still leading.
in all sincerity, Aina caused us this match.He was tired and the coach should have sub him at half time.Adingra beat him for pace for the cross that Haller scored , the corner for the equalizer also came from his wing.Maybe Bruno should have played
Peseiro’s stubbornness caused us. It would have been unfair to Ivory coast if we won lol we didn’t play shit. Adingra dog walked Aina the whole game and Peseiro kept looking doing nothing.
The coach tried with his 5-4-1 or 3-4-4 formation which ever way you look at it. But that kind of packing the bus strategy can only take you so far. Reason why Mourinho has problems everywhere he goes to coach. You can depend on packing the bus strategy all the time. It is always successful 25% to 45 % of the time. The statistics are there. You only need to look at the reason why the apostle of this strategy, Jose Mourinho has ended up being fire almost everywhere he goes.
I said it that if we keep playing the Jose Mourinho type of football. we will get the result of Jose Mourinho. This is what has happened.
In all the boys tried. At least for once they fought for this cup. Better luck to them next time.
That being said, players like Iwobi, Chukwueze and to some extent Simon and Zaidu needs to either be on the bench in the super eagles or vacate the team entirely. Iwobi especially, needs to be removed from the team. He is just lazy and never ready to support the team in terms of marking opponent.
Lastly, I think Nigeria should go back to 4-3-3 formation and perfect it with the right set of players just like Pesiero did with his 5-4-1 formation. If NIgeria had come out to play today, someone like Adingra would not have given Aina that much problem. Nigerian attacking threat would have forced him to help out in defense thus, relieving Aina of pressure in the match
It amazes me how Adingra had a full 90 to play on that right side and Peseiro never thought to lock it down.
Personally, the one I blame is Pesiero but only for this game – I would still let him carry on as long as he learns from this –
Iwobi is not good enough for our midfield unfortunately, there are also a couple others who should be removed and replaced by mush better players who we already have waiting in the wings not to mention other much better options who we have not even brought in at all yet.
The other players carried Iwobi and Zaidu throughout but the stakes were just too high in this final because the Ivorians came to play and were very serious indeed!
All in all they deserved to win today so more power to Cote D’Ivoire!
I blame Peseiro for his choice of players and not seeing how Iwobi especially weakened this team, and if he did then the question is why did he continue playing him??
If Pesiero wants to stay he can stay as the super eagles coach. But he should not be allowed to continue with his 5-4-1 or 3-4-3 formation. That approach is very counter productive and does not give you result all the time.
We are super eagles and we should be playing like Spain not anti football like Italy. This coach came into this match without plan B
**mush better** lol Was obvs supposed to be **much better**
I don’t have any complain bcos you’ve already exceeded my expectations. I said “if the team can go beyond quarter final that will be a miracle”. And they did go beyond the QF.
I’m waiting for omo9ja to tell us how we will fire the coach and hire combination of mutiu adepoju, garba lawal, yobo, babayaro as the coach crewthat will bring desired result.
This is very disappointing for @omo9ja bcos he was already boasting and telling us how Peseiro is showing Rohr is a bad coach, pitty.
Hahaha I can see that you are ready for Omo9ja ke..lol, please go easy on him hehe
Kudus to the boys…. Nobody expected them to go this far….
What’s the way forward?
More competition for places!
Congratulations the Elephants. A well deserved victory no doubt. For the Eagles, we shall learn from this. Good luck.
My fuel has finished so i can’t see anything. Pls anyone in the stadium should update us.
Final thoughts. Adingra is a winger. Adingra was not trying to score but provide opportunities for strikers to try and score. Maybe our wingers can borrow from Adingra and do same for our strikers.
Thanks everyone for all the comments. If only our politicians were like our players doing their best with all the limitations facing them. Nigeria would be better. Also if our politicians were like all of us here, doing their best to uplift the team for the best, then Nigeria will be a lot better. We all just want our country to be better and do better. It is not too much to expect and ask.
To God be the glory. God gave the Super Eagles a rare opportunity, but the coach and our players missed the game.
This is the worst display of the Super Eagles at the Afcon final I have ever seen since I have been watching the Super Eagles.
The coach should be blamed for this. There’s a lot of distractions after the South Africa match. I trust Keshi for that.
The coach also knew that Ola Aina wasn’t in the game but did not take him out.
I said a lot about Zaidu, and he did not disappoint me.
The coach should be blamed for this match. No creativity in this team and the team were exposed today. Our midfield were nowhere to be found.
I am so happy that Eagles did not wear the white, so no excuses.
Congratulations to Oga Rohr followers. Their wishes count in the end. I hope you all are happy now.
The Ivory Coast wanted the trophy most, and they went for it.
Super Eagles should have themselves to be blamed.
This is the first time that the lost at the Afcon final did bother me that much because our players did not play anything for the entire 90 minutes.
The coach tried his best compared to Oga Rohr, who spent six with our boys.
Should the coach stay or leave? Yes, he should leave. Not because he lost at the final, but his pattern of play did not work for our players.
If a local coach can win Afcon for Ivory Coast, then our own should take over this team.
As I said before this tournament, I did not believe in Oga Paseiro’s capability, but we were fortunate to make it so far in this tournament.
I also said I would Oga Paseiro’s fan if he won against Ivory Coast, but he did not.
Long story short, our boys should win a tournament before celebrating, but in their own case, they celebrated first before the final, and they were down now.
God gave us the opportunity to win today’s match, but our players and the coach our nation and the entire fans of the Super Eagles down.
Musa, Zaidu, and Uzoho should not return to the national team.
I still believe in our “own” because they can do much better than Oga Paseiro and Oga Rohr. Once again, blame nobody but the coach and his troops, Eagles did not play anything meaningful game today.
After watching the first
half of the match, I was shaking my head for our players and the coach. Eagles would have letting South Africa play against the host country. Hmmm. Ire o. God bless Nigeria!!!
The other you were here singing the praise of PESEIRO, today you’re blaming him.
Your home based coach that got us booted out of the competition last edition couldn’t even do two-third of what this innocent man did.
Now you’re singing the praise of Fae the ivorian coach, if our ex international is called upon, can he deliver the way this young man did?
Don’t be a Fair weather fan, try to support the team even when they’re down.
The injury that hit NIGERIA is enough to have got us knocked out in the knock out the, but PESEIRO used the resources at his disposal to grinder out results for us.
Imagine if NDIDI, BONIFACE, SODIQ were all fit and present, don’t you think the coach would have a enough options in that midfield?
Criticize constructively please.
***SHALOM***
@Omo9ja
The other you were here singing the praise of PESEIRO, today you’re blaming him.
Your home based coach that got us booted out of the competition last edition couldn’t even do two-third of what this innocent man did.
Now you’re singing the praise of Fae the ivorian coach, if our ex international is called upon, can he deliver the way this young man did?
Don’t be a Fair weather fan, try to support the team even when they’re down.
The injury that hit NIGERIA is enough to have got us knocked out in the knock out the, but PESEIRO used the resources at his disposal to grinder out results for us.
Imagine if NDIDI, BONIFACE, SODIQ were all fit and present, don’t you think the coach would have a enough options in that midfield?
Criticize constructively please.
***SHALOM***
Please sorry for the double posting and error in typing.
Thanks.
WOw, where should i begin, not surprised one bit. The hungrier team won this match. When i was shouting that this team was playing to defensive, was told i don’t know football. When i said the coach’s tactics will come back to bite him, i was told i don’t know football. When we said some selected player’s don’t deserve to be in the team , we were called all kinds of name. Now some have mute themselves, they can’t come out and defend this shambolic display. First the coach needs to leave. The determination of the players got us this far not the stupid tactics some forumites were believing won us this game. At this stage some players just need to vacate this team. This is not the super Eagles many of us grew up watching. After conceding thats when we now came out to attack. Imagine the few chances we had in that short span in the First half. If peserio had watched the DR congo match with the ivorians, DRC came out to attack, had begging chances which i believe if the Eagles had would have buried. It was share luck and Strong will of the players that got us here. We didn’t play anything fantastic
Just Let a local coach take over this team