Nigeria vs Egypt 1-0

[Lolly]

Aribo my MOM by a country mile...

With many to choose from... he is mine too!

Moses Simon is mine

Meanwhile, the organisers gave it to Kelechi.

[King Futcha]

awesome

[uglyoneiamagain]

If Ejuke will look up.....he will be one hell of a player

Difficult to train that out of him now. Old habits die hard.

It has to be removed otherwise we are down with another Pius Ikedia (no disrespect).

[Benedict Iroha]

Lucky win. We go take you in 2nd leg.

How is that a lucky win, you are a freaking moronic clown.

[olu]

Moses Simon was my man of the match, but they probably gave it to Kelz because he scored the winning goal. Btw, Ejuke is not the only selfish winger we have, he is just the most selfish. Chuwkueze, Iwobi, Kalu, and at times Simon have all shown that tendency in recent times. Passing to the open man in the final third is something that needs to be instilled in our wingers.

[deanotito]

Aribo my MOM by a country mile...

With many to choose from... he is mine too!

Moses Simon is mine

Meanwhile, the organisers gave it to Kelechi.

Aribo got robbed. Stellar performance

[Damunk]

awesome

Beautiful!

[goke313]

Best game in a long time

[Robbynice]

Our guys played like they were tired of hearing Salah this, Salah that...

I was definitely tired of hearing Salah this Salah that. Like I was telling some on one of my whatsApp group, Salah is good but he hasn't won jack with Egypt not even when they hosted the AFCON in 2019. Egypt with Salah is not even ranked Top 5 in Africa. So I didn't know what the fear in facing them was. On well, we move...

[TonyTheTigerKiller]

My overall take on the game:

The starters played very well except for Chukwueze, who was t in his element today. I don’t what the problem was; perhaps an off day?

Now, about the most talked about peripheral players:

1) Chidera Ejuke

I called him out a while back on his style of play. Some think he is a selfish player. I think it’s more like he has t really developed his field vision and consequently, he has trouble passing or swuaring the ball under pressure. That’s an area of his game he needs to work on and improve drastically.

2) Sadiq Umar

All I can say about him today is that he came, he saw but failed to conquer. He wasn’t really in the game. Hopefully, he’ll do better next time; if there’s a next time.

3 Kelechi Nwakali

Not much that was very conclusive about him. The flow of the game started to shift in favor of Egypt when he came on. Wasn’t necessarily his fault. The entire team sort of took a step back.

Well, there you have it. All in all, a good shift for the SuperEagles. I don’t think anyone who saw today’s game, including the most ardent Rohr supporters, would quarrel with the coaching change


Cheers.

[Cellular]

My only disappointment today was Chukwueze. Hope he starts the next match and Egu doesn't replace him with Ejuke.

I wasn't disappointed at all with him. He was pinching inside and was rather disciplined with his defensive responsibilities. I think the team/game made Simon a focal point for the wing play.

We did not switch plays consistently enough to isolate Chukwueze and get him the ball.

I respected that he swallowed his ego and provided midfield solidity.

[Cellular]

Aribo my MOM by a country mile...

With many to choose from... he is mine too!

Moses Simon is mine

Meanwhile, the organisers gave it to Kelechi.

As they should for his sublime goal.

[maceo4]

Aribo served me serious humble pies, I'm starting to believe...

[mutiman]

Moses Simon was my man of the match, but they probably gave it to Kelz because he scored the winning goal. Btw, Ejuke is not the only selfish winger we have, he is just the most selfish. Chuwkueze, Iwobi, Kalu, and at times Simon have all shown that tendency in recent times. Passing to the open man in the final third is something that needs to be instilled in our wingers.

Well said. All our forwards/wingers tend to be selfish in those positions, they need to be taught to pass to the best placed teammate.

[TonyTheTigerKiller]

Our guys played like they were tired of hearing Salah this, Salah that...

I was definitely tired of hearing Salah this Salah that. Like I was telling some on one of my whatsApp group, Salah is good but he hasn't won jack with Egypt not even when they hosted the AFCON in 2019. Egypt with Salah is not even ranked Top 5 in Africa. So I didn't know what the fear in facing them was. On well, we move...

Salah is a very dangerous player as he demonstrated towards the end but Nigeria is considerably better than Egypt


Cheers.

[blueangel]

My only disappointment today was Chukwueze. Hope he starts the next match and Egu doesn't replace him with Ejuke.

I wasn't disappointed at all with him. He was pinching inside and was rather disciplined with his defensive responsibilities. I think the team/game made Simon a focal point for the wing play.

We did not switch plays consistently enough to isolate Chukwueze and get him the ball.

I respected that he swallowed his ego and provided midfield solidity.

Agree with the bolded

The Egypt defender NO 6 was quite good including their Right winger

[Bigpokey24]

[Robbynice]

Our guys played like they were tired of hearing Salah this, Salah that...

I was definitely tired of hearing Salah this Salah that. Like I was telling some on one of my whatsApp group, Salah is good but he hasn't won jack with Egypt not even when they hosted the AFCON in 2019. Egypt with Salah is not even ranked Top 5 in Africa. So I didn't know what the fear in facing them was. On well, we move...

Salah is a very dangerous player as he demonstrated towards the end but Nigeria is considerably better than Egypt


Cheers.

Oh I know Salah is a very dangerous player. He is a world class player. My emphasis was more on team. Salah is good but as a team Egypt haven't done anything to warrant all the fear IMHO

[Bigpokey24]

just look at the celebration after Kele's goal... a true 100% Nigerian Celebration.. Egu is the man a true Super Eagles , he bleeds it , he knows it, it is part of his DNA... he knows the pain of the SE .. he lived it. He is a naijaman 100% to the core.. he knows our football... he is tactical and intelligent .. he has been there.. this is just the beginning

[green4life]

Ejuke needs a serious talking to. He should've squared the ball during that last fastbreak. He had the goalie and two defenders on him. But he wanted to go for glory.

So Moses once again terrorises Egypt.

He really needs to learn how to involve his teammates and pass the damn ball.

Once he gets that into his repertoire of skills he will be a star.

This. Ejuke's brain doesn't work in the critical areas of the last third. Also, defensively, he lacks a bit of awareness which betrays his attacking exuberance. So much talent but still comes up short mentally.

[theYemster]

Zaidu Sanusi looks a lot like Antonio Brown.

[green4life]

My only disappointment today was Chukwueze. Hope he starts the next match and Egu doesn't replace him with Ejuke.

I kept waiting for him to explode on his wing like Simon was doing on the left but the bobo didn't get the message to show up for the party.

[ohenhen1]

Good first game. Still a lot of work to be done. But good first start. We have to do better with the final ball. Nigeria should have won by 4 goals today. But only scored one goal. Continue to work on crosess and finishing. Hopefully we can play our beset football at the later stages of the tournament.