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Papi85: 9:47pm On Jan 14, 2024
zicky:
Bro he got to the Afcon team base on injury to ndidi nothing else. If ndidi was fit, if he like make he win best player for Belgium Peseiro for no call hassan
he made the first list of over 30 players to be considered for the final list

His performance in the UCL made that possible for him to be under consideration to be placed on standby and fortunately for him Ndidi’s injury granted him the opportunity to be included as a replacement for the leicester man

Playing in the europe club competitions opens doors to bigger leagues and clubs for players

Yak earned a move to England as a young star after shining with Maccabi Haifa in the ucl. He even scored a hattrick against man united

Babayaro earned a big move to chelsea from anderlecht after doing well as a 17 year old for the Belgian club in the ucl

Yusuf Atanda Ayinla caught the eyes of national team handlers playing in the ucl with dynamo Kiev against Madrid where he held his own against almighty zizou
humility33(m): 9:51pm On Jan 14, 2024
Barryseal:

Dictating plays from midfield goes beyond playing long es. The Deeplying midfielder should have the most touches of the ball. The game goes through him, both short and long es. I can't Iwobi switching the game from left to right or from right to left. I'm not saying Iwobi is a poor player but Nwakali does these effortlessly. Is it that you guys don't watch football enough to understand what Nwakali brings?

The DLM is supposed to be an arsonist and a fire fighter. He can turn the heat up when gamestates demand it yet quell the flames others ignite.

And yes the fire fighting is done on the ball like Jorginho & off the ball like Rice.

Can you list a Nigerian midfielder you know who can do the above listed effortlessly if you exempt Nwakali?

Nwakali does this effortlessly and top clubs or any club in top 5 leagues still have not come snatch him up

Nwakali ers are the problem of this thread. How you guys glorify and hail the mysterious talent of this journeyman that is invisible to top club scouts in , england, italy, spain and even baffles me

You guys need to come of it.

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Curtisaxel10: 9:52pm On Jan 14, 2024
Cape Verde is doing the Lord's work😎. The pains of the bredas is honey to my soul.

See as Ayew dey bench dey sweat from his bald head😂

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Daninya33: 9:52pm On Jan 14, 2024
I expected our boys to do more for Alhassan Yusuf as he was being manhandled by the E.G Players.

Dude is kinda shy and timid.

His fellow players need to speak up for him every time he is being fouled.

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Barryseal: 9:54pm On Jan 14, 2024
humility33:


Nwakali does this effortlessly and top clubs or any club in top 5 leagues still have not come snatch him up

Nwakali ers are the problem of this thread. How you guys glorify and hail the mysterious talent of this journeyman that is invisible to top club scouts in , england, italy, spain and even baffles me

You guys need to come of it.
Here we go! Lets wait for Man City to sign him before we believe he is good! We are Nigeria you know, the country with 5 world cup trophies.

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zicky(m): 9:56pm On Jan 14, 2024
chrisooblog:
Everyone is dealing with the result in their own way when everybody don calm down we will resume analysis grin

Victor deserves to be criticized for his misses today but I find some of the takes a bit baffling considering that he still scored today. Osimhen is wack, is overated but in two tournament matches he has already scored more goals than some peoples favorites and legends wey no score single goal in 9 tournaments. Make I off mic sha.

Musa has scored more world cup goals than than your favorite and legend. We should then named Musa as Nigeria Goat.

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Donmobi(m): 10:00pm On Jan 14, 2024
Curtisaxel10:
Cape Verde is doing the Lord's work😎. The pains of the bredas is honey to my soul.

See as Ayew dey bench dey sweat from his bald head😂
grin grin abeg oh 😅
Mujtahida: 10:01pm On Jan 14, 2024
chrisooblog:
I hear you chief and I agree with your assertions I'm just saying criticize with fairness how many many AFCONS or WcQs has he F----- up for us to be already have questioning his legacy? If he wasn't trying enough or has a history of constantly letting the team down I would understand some people's points of view but slagging of your best player to prove what?

As per legendary status Drogba didn't win a spoon for CIV but no one doubts his legend so these things happen but that is not my prayer for Osimhen. I still back him to deliver for us in the big moments.

I'm definitely not for trashing him. Not at all. He's been a reliable striker for us. No one can take that away from him.
humility33(m): 10:02pm On Jan 14, 2024
Barryseal:

Here we go! Lets wait for Man City to sign him before we believe he is good! We are Nigeria you know, the country with 5 world cup trophies.
Not Man City let any top 15 club in England, Italy, Spain, or come for him

You guys are just carried away with sentiment.

I will rather pick an NPFL midfielder instead of Nwakali

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MetalJigsaw(m): 10:02pm On Jan 14, 2024
Papi85:
for pple wey no watch the match Mk una see wasted chances and how well the team played
Lookman is still yet to perform in Eagles apart from sao tome game.

Forget about the assist, that was the only thing he did.

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MetalJigsaw(m): 10:02pm On Jan 14, 2024
kingphilip:
Please someone that watched the Egypt match should confirm if the late penalty was worth it or not.
Worth it
Mujtahida: 10:04pm On Jan 14, 2024
humility33:


Nwakali does this effortlessly and top clubs or any club in top 5 leagues still have not come snatch him up

Nwakali ers are the problem of this thread. How you guys glorify and hail the mysterious talent of this journeyman that is invisible to top club scouts in , england, italy, spain and even baffles me

You guys need to come of it.
Thank you. Tell me Nwakali should be invited. I will say yes. Exaggerate his importance and I will ask you why he's where he is if he's that good.

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BascoVanVeli(m): 10:04pm On Jan 14, 2024
safarigirl:
Good evening guys, make I no too talk about our forwards first, what did you guys think about Nwabali between the sticks for us?


I have followed him for years so I'm pretty confident but as far the game there wasn't much to judge.

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solonnachi: 10:07pm On Jan 14, 2024
safarigirl:
Good evening guys, make I no too talk about our forwards first, what did you guys think about Nwabali between the sticks for us?


Longest time Safarigirl.
As for Nwabili, nothing to really judge him for in this match. Until we meet CIV
Papi85: 10:07pm On Jan 14, 2024
humility33:


Nwakali does this effortlessly and top clubs or any club in top 5 leagues still have not come snatch him up

Nwakali ers are the problem of this thread. How you guys glorify and hail the mysterious talent of this journeyman that is invisible to top club scouts in , england, italy, spain and even baffles me

You guys need to come of it.
many of his fans don’t even stream Chaves games to see how he is faring

Na based on hype wey dem read here dem tk Dey make case for him always 🤣🤣🤣

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humility33(m): 10:09pm On Jan 14, 2024
Papi85:
many of his fans don’t even stream Chaves games to see how he is faring

Na based on hype wey dem read here dem tk Dey make case for him always 🤣🤣🤣
Chaves may dem dey beat for home 3 zero which day here

That team na trash.... notwithstanding i wish nwakali well but for now he is not super eagles material

We have much better players

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humility33(m): 10:10pm On Jan 14, 2024
Papi85:
many of his fans don’t even stream Chaves games to see how he is faring

Na based on hype wey dem read here dem tk Dey make case for him always 🤣🤣🤣
Chaves may dem dey beat for home 3 zero which day here

That team na trash.... notwithstanding i wish nwakali well but for now he is not super eagles material

We have much better players....

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mrwilliams9(m): 10:11pm On Jan 14, 2024
This AFCON has goals sha. Last AFCON the group stage was serious binary football.


minfelix:
Moffi or Boniface go bury some of those one on one wey osimhen throway sha

Maybe Moffi but Boniface I no sure. His finishing is worse than Osimhen’s
Papi85: 10:11pm On Jan 14, 2024
humility33:

Not Man City let any top 15 club in England, Italy, Spain, or come for him

You guys are just carried away with sentiment.

I will rather pick an NPFL midfielder instead of Nwakali
even a decent club in Belgium and Holland won’t be bad

Or at worst play for top clubs in obscure leagues like Slavia Prague, Sparta Prague, PAOK, Red star Belgrade, dynamo Zagreb, dynamo Kiev, shaktar doneskt, sturm graz, Austria wein, Salzburg, AEK Athens, Olympiacos, panathiniakos, Basel, fc Zurich, steau bucatesti, etc

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Papi85: 10:18pm On Jan 14, 2024
humility33:

Chaves may dem dey beat for home 3 zero which day here

That team na trash.... notwithstanding i wish nwakali well but for now he is not super eagles material

We have much better players....
no weekend wey Chaves no Dey collect mending for portuguese league 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

The least goals wey dem dey conceive na 2 goals 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
safarigirl(f): 10:18pm On Jan 14, 2024
Hanibal:

He looked calm, claimed crosses well, used his legs well too.
He didn't have much to do, faced one shot all game, which he could do very little about.
So I can't really place him anywhere yet.

Issorait.

We will see what the next game brings. I agree he wasn't really tested this game.
Papi85: 10:21pm On Jan 14, 2024
Ghana don equalize
safarigirl(f): 10:23pm On Jan 14, 2024
Mujtahida:

Thank you. Tell me Nwakali should be invited. I will say yes. Exaggerate his importance and I will ask you why he's where he is if he's that good.

It really makes you wonder.

I think we have managed the Nwakali hype for too many years and it's not translating to his club career. Whatever went wrong post-U17 has only gotten worse.

Maybe he shouldn't have signed for Arsenal to start with, if he had started small like Osimhen, his career projection may have been different.

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Odunayaw(m): 10:23pm On Jan 14, 2024
Daninya33:
I expected our boys to do more for Alhassan Yusuf as he was being manhandled by the E.G Players.

Dude is kinda shy and timid.

His fellow players need to speak up for him every time he is being fouled.
Aina did

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Papi85: 10:27pm On Jan 14, 2024
safarigirl:


It really makes you wonder.

I think we have managed the Nwakali hype for too many years and it's not translating to his club career. Whatever went wrong post-U17 has only gotten worse.

Maybe he shouldn't have signed for Arsenal to start with, if he had started small like Osimhen, his career projection may have been different.
g for arsenal wasn’t the issue but he felt so relaxed believing that only his talent and achievements in youth football will pave way for him

Arsenal tried and loaned him to smaller clubs in less competitive leagues but still he couldn’t make the cut

I was a huge fan of his then but gave up when he couldn’t mk the starting 11 of Porto’s B team regularly
Mujtahida: 10:29pm On Jan 14, 2024
safarigirl:


It really makes you wonder.

I think we have managed the Nwakali hype for too many years and it's not translating to his club career. Whatever went wrong post-U17 has only gotten worse.

Maybe he shouldn't have signed for Arsenal to start with, if he had started small like Osimhen, his career projection may have been different.
I really can't tell why he's career has gone this route. Personally, due to the constant talk about his qualities, I've always wished for him to be invited just so we know how he'd made us tick. Unfortunately I'm not the coaches

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Papi85: 10:31pm On Jan 14, 2024
Mujtahida:

I really can't tell why he's career has gone this route. Personally, due to the constant talk about his qualities, I've always wished for him to be invited just so we know how he'd made us tick. Unfortunately I'm not the coaches
if u wan watch am play stream Chaves game next weekend 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Papi85: 10:33pm On Jan 14, 2024
Djiku is good
Kog45(m): 10:34pm On Jan 14, 2024
chrisooblog:
Yekini baba himself it took time before he found his rhythm many years of below average performances in the national team before he hit his peak. Please criticize and push Osimhen to be better but easy on the demoralizing comments.

Yes you are right about Yekini.He was in Afcon 84 in Ivory Coast but we have Chibuzor Ehielegbu as the main man.Yekini didn't have a goal in Afcon 84 but from 1988 to 1994 Afcon he rose as one of the best strikers in Africa.

Osimhen is young and still has a long way to go but today's match is a reflection that he need to do more.

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Mujtahida: 10:35pm On Jan 14, 2024
Papi85:
if u wan watch am play stream Chaves game next weekend 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

In SE. At least make the argument die. It's over five years now. And the argument about him is not only on this forum. The guy is like a ghost that haunts the imagination of some fans.
Papi85: 10:38pm On Jan 14, 2024
Mujtahida:

In SE. At least make the argument die. It's over five years now. And the argument about him is not only on this forum. The guy is like a ghost that haunts the imagination of some fans.
you are right, even on Twitter the same sentiment is all over there 🤣🤣🤣

Many crying injustice for him not been included in the afcon team don’t even know the club he plays for 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Marjoribanks: 10:41pm On Jan 14, 2024
Ghana will top this group!! "from bottom"

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