Completesports.com’s live blogging of the 2026 FIFA World Cup African Playoffs Final between the Super Eagles of Nigeria and the Leopards of Dr Congo at the Prince Moulay El Hassan Stadium, Rabat.
Nigeria Vs Dr Congo Live Blogging – 2026 FIFA World Cup African Playoffs Final
Nnamdi Ezekute
Nnamdi Ezekute, a sports reporting expert, has risen through the ranks at Complete Communications Limited (CCL) famed for publications like Complete Sports.
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Let’s go boys!!!!
Looking at the team selection, it does look like the coach would go with a 4-3-3 formation but it remains to be seen.
Benjamin Frederick’s versatility continues to see him earn a place in the starting lineup. Had Ndidi been suspended, it is not a stretch to see him replaced by Fredrick.
Semi Ajayi is back and he will have his work cut out against an unpredictable Congolese strike force.
Chelle has gone for midfielders high on defensive orientation. Onyeka and Iwobi played centre midfield with high emphasis on defensive duties under Peseiro. So, I think this shows that Chelle is not taking Congo for granted.
Up front, Ademola Lookman has another opportunity to prove critics wrong. Chukwueze too has come under fire from certain quarters for blowing hot and cold, so both wingers have something to prove.
Osihmen has nothing to prove. He will miss sitters but will make up for those missing with heart, guts and, yes, goals whether he scores or he supplies.
Osihmen is a mixed bag, perhaps the best mix bag in the history of football in how often he misses sitters but never misses the chance to make up for those missed opportunities.
I think we are good. This squad has my vote of confidence.
The defence is capable.
The midfield is defensive.
The attack has bite.
All is left is for Nwabali to stay dialled in and I think we are good to go!
Iwobi fans and supporters how market?
That guy is killing the Super Eagles.
Can’t fault the line up. Balanced and compact. Just wish there was a spot for Akor. I would have preferred an attacking trio of Osimhen, Lookman and Akor. But Chuks on a good day is also a good option. Nwabali, calm down and keep a cool head.
Most important, let’s take our chances when they come!
This Chelle guy is making the classic mistake of trying to start with Iwobi all the time – I hope it doesn’t vome back to bite him in the proverbial- however because It’s only DR Congo we may just be fine, but this guy has to wise up! He can sell his career and more importantly Nigeria’s hopes down the drain with stupidity about Iwobi, he should have found a better option gor that place in the team by now anyway – Also I hope the team handlers know about the dangerous players in this DRC team and none more so than Chancel Mbemba!!
Naval have started again, why only him always see bad ball?
Meant nwabali have start again.
Goal for 9ja. Onyeka scores
Give us this day O Lord…!!!
Nice strike by Onyeka.
When you shoot at gial, good things happen. Let’s see more of this.
A balanced lineup..
The team can win the match but Nwabali must stay composed and focused throughout the duration. Additionally, Iwobi must step up to avoid a repeat of his last three performances for the team.
I think the match will be won in the midfield and by chances conversion.
Onyeka is becoming a force of nature in right attacking midfield for Nigeria: 2 goals in 3 games.
We are not playing 4-3-3 like CSN reported.
We are playing 4-3-1-2.
Nwabali
Frederick-Ajayi-Bassey-Zaidu
Onyeka-Ndidi-Iwobi
Chukwueze (playmaker)
Osihmen — Lookman
The emphasis is currently “narrow”.
No…we are playing 1-3-1-2-1-1-1
Nonsense….!!!
Chukwueze makes one run through the middle and all of sudden Chelles is not playing 4-3-3……..LMAOoooo
Hahaha! Oga Dokita Drey. Okay we are playing 4-4-4-10-10. Satisfied? Hahaha.
Joker.
You no like 7-7-7 is a number, Oluwashina….????
Rubbish.
Don’t go and discard whatever is making you hi*h of late.
Dr Drey you are killing me.
How on earth did both of them miss that and not communicate….Na wa oh
Everybody wants to take the Glory. That was disgusting and shameful the game should have been put to bed there.
Lookmon and iwobi shd be dished asap from this match pls.
DRC scores to make it 1:1
Ndidi lackadaisical defending, Iwobi losing ball in midfield, Nigeria conceded a goal
1:1
Good game so far, iwobi shd leave this game pls.
Before the equalizer, I worried about the sluggishness of the defenders. They’re doing the same thing Nwabali was doing, holding on to the ball and inviting trouble.
My only issue with Iwobi is his tackling skills. Ndidi, just stop the ball or shoot it out.
This people are beatable but people like Iwobi and Lookman messing this shit up
Dr Drey, let me pick your brains, at least what’s left of it. Haha! What formation were we playing when we conceded?
We should be leading by high margin if not for some strange passes and final ball. And the multiple back pass plus the poor ball usage is another headache. Every solid team dominates possession at forward positions and not backwards in defense line. Chelle can not be blamed for some senseless play i see in this first half, because our players can not use wisdom to make chances work.
Lukeman, Iwobi and Chukwueze are not in this game at all.
Coach do the needful asap
To Allah be the glory. Let’s Let’s go Naija. Ęlọfökanbalę, by God’s grace Nigeria is winning this match. Ire o. God bless Nigeria!!!
Failure of Lukeman, Iwobi and Chukwueze are causing trouble for the defence and giving Congo courage to come out.
Why is it taken the coach to replace them
Ndidi basically passed the ball to the Congolese attacker to score their equaliser- chain of errors started with Iwobi passing the ball to a Congolese player in midfield. The sort of things he did against a weaker Gabonese side and got away with it; against a fitter, phisical and deadlier Congo you can gift them such opportunity as they will accept the offer with full chest and punish you, as they did.
Well upto Chelle and the coaching team to do the needful for the 2nd half.
Lookman will cost us qualification for the world cup.Aside the last Afcon,Lookman has been in poor form for the super eagles.
However,due to his status as African best for the past year,he will continue to get the nod of the gaffer to the detriment of the team.I will suggest the coach yank off Lookman for Simon at the start of the second half.
Another equally bad player is Alex Iwobi.In his case there’s no like for like replacement,Fisayo Dele-Bashiru who would have come in his place is out injured,sadly.
Congo dr is a good opponent capable of edging this duel we have to be focused to the details,i don’t know why keeping a lead is hard for the super eagles.
It’s halftime, and Chelle is being tactically shackled and subsequently outwitted by Desabre.
Everything he lined up coming into this match ended in 20 minutes.
As I have always said, when star power meets star power, the bench will make the difference.
Knowing Chelle for who he is, he will pull out Lookman for Simon, Samu for Ejuke, Onyeka for Akor or Arokodare. And that is where it will all collapse.
DRC is not Benin with 2-3rd division and clubless players, nor Gabon with 30+ year olds, nor the PSL level players we played in the group phase
Give us this day O lord. These boys must not miss this World Cup.
We lift up our eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh our help in this winner-takes-all match. Our help will only come from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.”
Nuff said already, I rest my case….!!!
Please rest it.
Hehehehehe…..what is happening to your “like-for-like tactical genius”……??? He’s been shackled and outwitted by Desabre o.
Please help us dip into your hat of confusion and look for another 2-3-1-1-2 nonsense to salvage this match. We are seriously struggling ke.
The Congolese have gradually seized this match from our grasp from the 20th minute o.
Hat of confusion? I’ll give you confusion. I kuku know where you Live.
Be warned young man!
Not a bad 1st half. A mistake in midfield was swiftly punished. This Congo side will make you pay for errors. We need to keep it simple and stay focused.
I’d like to see Akor in the 2nd half. His style of play will cause Congo problems.
People that know Peter Rufai and Enyema can confirm that Nigeria don’t have keeper yet
Is everything okay with Osigoal been subbed off?
Somebody said it earlier abt this Ajayi long ball, he need reduce it pls.
Osimhen out…..!!! Game Over…..???
Nigeria living dangerously.
Errors all over the place. Our most dangerous forward is off. Congo are playing with their tails up.
Ajayi need to be replaced and why is the coach playing Fredrik out of position ?
Can’t the Super Eagles play without given Nigerian high blood pressure first?
Arokodare is playing same type of football like Osimhen, I was expecting Arokodare to come in for Osimhen and Adam to pair with him.
Congo is playing Nigeria as if they outnumbered Nigeria. Which kind trouble be this?
We are so toothless going forward!
This game is still a contest because of the extra man we have in the middle. If we had played only Iwobi and Ndidi, the going would have been much tougher.
With Iwobi not clicking today, perhaps an Arokodare can come in and pair Akor in the attack.
Congo have a stranglehold on this game. Something needs to change.
VO substitution have really drop my believe but it’s well.
Our football is very basic most especially when we concede but let’s remain positive. God will do it!!!
Coach as it is now we are being overpowered bring in Raphael and take out Iwobi to apply bandage and pressure in our midfield.
Iwobi is kind of lazy just like lookman and chukwu.
So chelle is telling us he enjoy watching iwobi in this match so far or what?
Congo are winning all the 50-50 balls, they have more energy, they are more comfortable on the ball. They are looking like the better team. They seem to want it more. We need to step things up a notch!
This goal may go to extra time. Nigeria better not allow this go to penalties.
Iwobi Out, Arokodare in.
We have become even thinner in a midfield that we have already lost control of.
From here on, it will take a miracle of enormous proportions for Nigeria to win this game.
Let’s just pray for another gift from DR Congo or the match drags to penalties.
Otherwise, if Chelle is relying on the predictable move of Simon and Ejuke running to the bylines to cross to Akor and Arokodare, then let’s just call it a night.
Good night, then. Nobody wanted you here.
Well, there can be no sugar coating it: the Super Eagles are not playing well at the moment.
Why the hell is Chelle still fielding Nwabali for God sake?
What happened to Osimhen?
Osimhen must be injured. No other reason makes sense.
We haven’t got a team. The distance betwen the players is just too wide, especially in the midfied. Build up play rather pedestrian and losing all the 50-50 duels. It appears even the players have lost believe on losing Osimhen. The dearth of attacking midfielders doesn’t help….Nididi, Onyedika and Onyeka are all similar in style, slow and defensive. As for the goalkeeper, i rest my case…. a good shot-stopper but too error prone and hasn’t got a good command of his box.
Tbh, this isn’t world cup quality.
Disadvantage of having a star player like Osi who gives 150 percent each time but unreliable because of his injury prone.
His removal suddenly has caused our team to fall apart.
Now we are in injury time our players needs to get motivated and play physically and by God’s grace we shall over power them
I don’t see Nigeria winning this match
Another extra time in lease than 4 days, hope they gat the strength to finish this last 30minutes. God finish this job for this guys now.
The extra time might still not produce a goal. And that might not be in Nigeria’s favor.
Nigeria are playing rubbish football at the moment. And have been for a while now.
More like your like-for-like tactical wizard has been checkmated as early as the 20th minute of the game.
Yeah right! He is just having a bad day in the office.
What’s tolu doing though? Now I know why wolves been keeping him on the bench. Our defence is the reason we are still in this game.
It’s a bad thing when you’re watching your team, and you can’t see where a goal will come from. We can’t even keep the ball. We keep turning it over.
Arokodare and Akor are really bad.
Dr Drey, I calling it a night. Good night. This is not football.
Penalties looking more like our only hope with each passing minute.
Chelle doesn’t even seem to know what to do again
He does. He just made a tactical substitution in removing Zaidu. Gbam!
Whoever is close to the coach should wisper to his ears that he should stop starting chukwuze ahead of Moses simon . Thats where we got it wrong. . Nigeria will hv killed the game since first half.. It was also wrong to start lookman.
The extra time will likely not produce goals, and DRC will be better prepared for penalties.
By “prepared” up there, they brought in a goalkeeper. Guys, please just don’t put your mind to this. Not likely to go Nigeria’s way.
I think onuachu is better than this tolu right now, what’s he doing?
Onuachu plays far more intelligent football than Tolu. I was shocked to see Tolu subbed in cos he doesn’t play with his strike partners. He just wants to score. He could left one golden chance to Akor but he doesn’t even check if his strike partner is better positioned. He’ll just head the ball out.
Abeg Tolu no be SE material at all. All ball he has won have been to d opposition. Diz guy no better reach Onuachu abeg. Onuachu is miles ahead of him. He plays like a horse. Always galloping, no ball sense at all, can’t control d ball. The guy is just poor to be honest. See clear header wen him suppose nid into d net naim him head over an American football goal post. Its so sad. If we win diz game abeg lets look for better goalie and better forwards, we can try d durisimi boy sef.
We need to have some discussions regarding the midfield. We need to inject some young blood in the middle of the park. Enter David Moses and Akinsanmiro.
Can we just go straight to PK shootout? I still have believe nwabali can save one or two pk. But can our players score PK?
My friends, please pray this doesn’t go to penalties. I hope Arokodare plays with Akor and leaves some balls for him to score. There’s a reason I said that. At the moment, there’ll be no goal and there’ll be penalties, which is not looking good. I pray we score now.
It is obvious that Chelle has been riding on the back of Osimhen, zero tactical input once Osimhen is out.
We only pray that Nwabali doesn’t make a silly and costly mistake in this last 15 minutes. Hopefully he might still become the hero if we manage to get to penalty shootout
This needs to be done after this game. This problem has been prevalent for some time but we keep ignoring it.
Can chelle just remove this tolu pls and bring onyedika? Let’s just finish this last 15minutes without a striker, watching this dude is pissing me off seriously.
If this team proceed to afcon they wont still perfome. They needs to ne disbanded.
Please FG disband this team, please dont let us go to afcon with these players, they have been riding on osimhe.
Nigeria has never been a country that depends solely on a striler to be saviour.
Please disband this teqm and nff now. We are saying this now, Tinubu disband nff and se, yes let fifa band us for 12years.
Lolll I said it, take the yeye tolu out again.
Thank you Stanley bobo, anything from here I will take, u guys try.
Let’s be honest we don’t have a formidable team nff should give Chelle Free hand to Sach for younger players .Ndidi.iwobi.lookman.Bassy . chukwueze.moses Simon are overrated i keep wondering why the coach keep benchin onyedika an Allassan Yusuf.
Hey….God abeg o.
Penalties it is…..!
Nwabali, please save us, I promise to be your friend forever and close my eyes to your incompetence henceforth if you do.
See you in 2030 guys…..!!!
This marks the end of an era.
Has he saved us now?
See you in 2030.
This marks the end of an era.
Congrats to DRC…….a win well earned
Well good luck next time. U guys try ur best.
Super Eagles are out. Valiant effort but fell short. The better team won.
Serious work still needs to be done on this team.
CDR deserves the win they outplayed us in all departments of the game, they were more passionate, confidence, organized and purposeful.
The players tried at a time I thought we were playing against Brazil or Germany. World Cup doesn’t deserve NFF corruption
It’s all over guys
Saved us massive stress ahead now we can weed out the following and aim for Afcon str8
Arokodare
Ekong
Al Hassan
Semi Ajayi
And replacements for
Simon
Best officiating we got in decades but we couldn’t make it count due to tactical deficiencies. No Osimhen no football and the technical crew thinks it’s a good excuse to fail. Congo used the ball better and could have won long before pk.
Is it Osimhen that will teach Nigeria how to pass the ball precisely or avoid needless back pass? This is a national loss, we can rest now. God is great!!!
At least we can rest from player Ekon,Ndidi,iwobi,chuwkueze,Simon, and the rest. Those guys are over hype,over rated and under acomplish players.
Pay our bonuses, pay our bonuses it has all come to and end.
Chelle, hope you know you are not going to afcon sha, trust me your coffin had already been caved by serezo and boso.
To Nigeria fan, be like itlay console yourself and pick a team to support in woldcup.
We don’t deserve the World Cup honestly. Government should please in the name of Jesus ban this team for the next 30 years.
They should not play football ball again and also cancel the next nationals cup. Haba! Ordinary dr congo.
This stupid nff caused this. Thank God the boys have collected their outstanding.
Awon were.
The sad aspect is that after all that went down in Morroco, they still will not learn from it. Players will pay to get in the team whilst the better players are not in the team.
Why is Rafiu not given a shot? Philip Otele? David Moses? Anthony Dennis? Akinsanmiro?
Instead, we continue with Simon and Iwobi who have consistently failed us. We just keep going round in circles. Also, clearly the coach does not believe in Onyedika. Why do we keep inviting him?
Arokodare should not be in an eagles shirt, Lookman is off form. Is Ajayi the best defender we have ?
We were completely outplayed in all departments, particularly in the midfield. The coach was exposed today. We could not play through their press and resorted to lumping the ball to our strikers in what was a total indictment on our MIDFIELD players.
The end of the road.
When you have a mediocre team and awful administrators, this is what you reap. If we had won today, it would have been HEARTACHE DEFERRED. Defeat would still have come in the future. All because of systemic failures.
Truth is we don’t deserve to qualify. Congo were miles ahead of us. The individual effort was ok, but the talent fell short. With more quality, we should have seen off DRC.
With better administration, we definitely would have already qualified, and would not need playoffs.
NFF leadership must go. That is the necessary first step to redemption.
I am not watching Nigerian games no more…….Shey una wan kill person ni??????? totally outplayed…Disband the team honestly.
Haha
Hmmm. Thanks to God in any situation. Congratulations to DR Congo, they deserve the win.
No hidden place for the NFF Ajewomasan. They must go. NFF must go. No Oshimen no Super Eagles! Too bad. Ire o. God bless Nigeria!!!
Chelle made one silly mistake, I expect him to bring in Ekong in that close minute instead of awazien, at least Ekong shd have taken our first PK instead of bassey. Seriously I give it to our defense today, u see that tolu, I dnt wanna see him near this team again. Chelle shd continue at least for now.
I agree with you @Femi. Chelle should have brought in Ekong towards the end of extra time to take the first Penalty. Ekong has never missed a penalty for SE- Scored all 3 taken, including in the Shoot-out in semi-finals against South Africa- in the last Afcon in Ivory coast. He also scored a penalty against Lesotho in the group qualifiers, match day 9.
I was wondering who will take the penalties with Osimhen and Ekong not in the field! Well it shows Nigeria SE is a one-man team- all of the 5 games he did not play in the WCQ group stage- we could not win, not even against lowly Lesotho, Zimbabwe and Benin who even beat us 2-1 away.
Time to find replacement for these slow and weak players with young, fitter and pacier ballers, especially in midfield- Ndidi, Iwobi, Ajayi, Moses Simon, Chukwueze, Arokodare, even Ejuke. Tital overhaul before Afcon.
If this team proceed to afcon they wont still perfome. They needs to ne disbanded.
Please FG disband this team, please dont let us go to afcon with these players, they have been riding on osimhe.
Nigeria has never been a country that depends solely on a striler to be saviour.
Please disband this teqm and nff now. We are saying this now, Tinubu disband nff and se, yes let fifa band us for 12years.
Let’s go USMNT, PORTUGAL, BRAZIL, FRANCE AND ANY OTHER NT WITH RM PLAYERS in that order.
Like I said Nigeria football is at a cross road and we went down the wrong path.. NFF must go. We need seriousness now. Develop the league. No more poaching of average European players if we are too poach players of dual national status it must be those who have 2 options, The Saka’s and Eze’s and Musiala’s and Alaba’s Akanji’s not average half baked players like Ajayi, Osayi Samuels Ekong and co the ones with only a fall back plan. NFF needs to stop this rubbish it is enough our football has descended to the depths of were we do not recognize and it will get worse.
On one hand with a functioning Federation we could have had a line up of Osimhen Saka Eze Alaba in the same team but because NFF always concedes defeat when a dual national player is of world class caliber and they do not even approach them since Gasau took charge how many Dual nationals have made the switch? Non..
We need a functional football system functioning league no more quota system in Youth teams as that has even caused a block for another 2years now. Our football is really in deep trouble if serious intervention is not met.
lol ugo
Definitely I will not be watching the World Cup. I’m not interested.
To you Osimhen, please don’t honour any invitation from Nigeria anymore. Let the nff bring their family any play the nations cup.
This NFF is very wicked and shameless. May the wrath of God pursue and punish you in Jesus name.
I heard there was a ruckus at half time that made Osimehin to be taken off. Still to confirm. But these guys don’t deserve to be in the world cup. They did not take it serious from the beginning. Wasted generation
why did Caf clear Ndidi to play this game´?
I said it!, abi did I not say it???
Even though I strongly prayed against it that this thing where this useless Chelle cannot seem to see that Iwobi is a minus one in this team – something that I and some other very discerning fans have been saying for years….YEARS O!, that Iwobi is a glaring short one, brings absolutely nothing worthwhile to the team and actually to the contrary makes the team very dangerously weak with his absolute no tackling football – that is ZERO CONTACT whatsoever ! I’ve been banging on about this for DONKEYS! but some idiots along with the so called “good coach/manager” that the fools at the NFF brought in due to their stealing, selfish and scheming ways could in no way see this very very obvious and glaring fact – Some goats will even come here and start insulting people who have a lot more sense than them and their whole families – like that absolute idiot @tayo or wtfe his stupid name is and a few others who I won’t even bother mention their irrelevant names – these idiots will come here and say it is hatred lmaaoo, in their myopic and sluggish minds, Iwobi is some great playmaker, midfielder – hehehehehehehe I’m laughing so hard that it hurts!
Can you all now see?? Complete twats!
I am flabbergasted that no one – NOT EVEN ONE PERSON here tonight has acknowledged the ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM! No one has mentioned who’s error DIRECTLY led to the goal that Congo DR equalised with, a certain Iwobi!! – abi are you people for real??
If it is that you lot actually didn’t see it, in which case I wonder what you people were watching, and I suspect it’s the same thing you all have been watching all these years – the back of the TV and deceiving yourselves that you are watching football or that you know anything about football – I actually don’t blame you lot because even your so called manager too failed the test – I wonder what that Iwobi is doing that has blinded all these simpletons – whatever the dude is using must be very very strong indeed., but please go and wear your specs and find a real TV and watch again and you will see that it was Iwobi!
Iwobi took the ball in midfield, panicked and passed directly to a Congo player and that passage of play led directly to the goal! Ha! O mase o!
The whole hopes of a nation and you slow pokes destroyed it because you were too blind or too emotional to see that Iwobi should NEVER be anywhere near that team, and now you people have reaped what you sowed but unfortunately to the massive detriment of Nigeria!
If Congo had not equalised from Iwobi’s error, the chances are very much in favour of the fact that we would have won this game – I say the chances would have been in favour because even though Iwobi is the SE’s biggest problem, the truth is that he is not the only one – the list is long and it includes the NFF, Chelle, and some other below par players, and also why did Chelle take Osimhen off? He better have ben injured o! Because if he was not and he took him off then that in itself is a capital offence and deserves capital punishment lol.
But jokes aside, and after everything has been said and done – If we love ourselves and want to stand any chance going forward and counting up to 2030 – which is the next available opportunity. from now, then we better jettison the whole NFF and get serious minded, competent people in there, get rid of Chelle – he is not good enough – and his greatest sin is not recognising that Iwobi is a liability to the team, and then start a rebuild that only a very few of the current players will have any chance of being a part of – anything short of these simple and straightforward measure will mean that Nigeria (once a footballing great) will never ever be so again! Not with the likes of Chelle and Iwobi and the NFF as it stands now!
It is as they say – A word is enough for the wise!
Long thing.
You are on point. If we don’t do something drastic and urgent, a time is coming that we won’t even qualify for AFCON.
Disband NFF and SE NOW.
My papa used to say that WEAK PASS is a failure.
With all the strikers we have, ours is the weakest attack in the entire continent.
Peseiro knew this, so he focused on defense by deploying 3 center backs. He sure looks like a genius now! How on earth did he manage to get this rag tag team to the Afcon final?
Simple. Since the team is allergic to scoring, he set them up to stop the opponent from scoring.
Our back four has always been, and is still vulnerable. We are not good with possession, often turning the ball over, which puts even more pressure on an already suspect backline. And with Osimhen unavailable, we got even weaker.
We can’t rely on only Osimhen for goals anymore! We have to cast our net far and wide for good strikers. Rafiu Durosinmi and Gift Orban would have likely made a difference. We need to also get quality players in other areas. And Nwabali seems determined to send fans to the ER with his recklessness. Enough is enough. We need reliable, cool headed, sensible goalies.
Most important, NFF ONIGBESE must go. We need quality administrators. We need a real technical director. No charlatans please. Let’s have a sit down with FIFA and carry them along in the whole process. I’m sure FIFA will understand that the time has come for radical change in the way our football is managed.
Ndidi yab i swear, how can u captain a side and not be one of d 1st five penalty takers. Same with Onyeka, a premier league player. Frederick sef for play penalty as I’m sure dat boy would’ve buried his. Bassey just balloon d ball. Simon play penalty as him short lol. We can clearly see se, as bad as lookman and Chukwueze were, immediately they came off and simon and ejuke came in, DRC imposed dia will on us as we didn’t pose any threat. VO9 was a great miss today. But lets be realistic, Chelle has been with this team for less tgan 1yr but Desabre has been with DRC for atleast 3yrs (he took dem to d afcon in Ivory coast and thru d qualifiers fir dat afcon). Lets be patient with Chelles but he needs to infuse some new blood into our midfield. Nnadi, Ogbelu, Akinsanmiro, etc are some names to look at. We need wingers not in d mold of moses simon abeg and over runs d ball most times. There is dis young striker dat plays in seria A, i think for Genoa, dat boy plays like VO9, chases everything, someone like dat is what we need to understudy VO9 not d likes of Tolu abeg or Moffi or woteva. Just a thought
Gift Orban might be having a rethink about playing for Nigeria. Loool!
With the way we played today, he might as well cast his lot with Togo. He will get the star treatment there, and enjoy better training and recovery facilities.
Besides, they won’t owe his match bonuses. Lol!
If he still wants to play for Nigeria, that’s evidence of real love. Only real love will move a player with other options to chose Nigeria at the moment!