Some Nigerian soccer followers have reacted to the Tremendous Eagles’ 1-1 draw towards South Africa of their 2026 World Cup qualifier on Tuesday.
DAILY POST reviews that an personal objective from captain William Troost-Ekong and a strike from Calvin Bassey ensured each groups shared the factors in Bloemfontein.
The outcome means Nigeria stay six factors behind leaders South Africa in Group C, with solely two matches left to conclude the qualifying collection.
Following the match, supporters took to their X accounts to share their ideas on the sport.
Listed here are some feedback gathered by DAILY POST from X:
@thornsport: “Firstly sack the coach for tactical blunder by taking part in lookman out of place, taking part in Dessers forward of Arokodare, taking part in Ekong who’s aged and may’t maintain the backline once more. Tremendous Eagles assault is nothing with out Osimhen.”
@Stacktopack: “How can a nation of 200+ million football-mad individuals maintain stumbling like this? Nigeria needs to be main Africa, not scraping for {qualifications}. The issues are clear—unhealthy management, poor planning, recycled coaches, and no accountability. Repair grassroots scouting, rent competent fashionable coaches, cease politics in picks, and construct an actual soccer construction. Till you clear home, we’ll maintain embarrassing ourselves as a substitute of being true “Giants of Africa.””
@Deucez144525: “The Tremendous Eagles have fallen.”
@Jhokzy: “Corridor of disgrace efficiency from the boys. They don’t need to qualify for the World Cup. A really ineffective staff.”
@michaelOLite: “Tolu and Lookman. We had solely 2 probabilities however couldn’t capitalize on any. Possibly that is the place we name it a wrap. Tolu plz come again to Wolves now and assist the staff. God go punish SA for bringing us to a rugby substandard dump.”
@FactssHistory: “We’d like Rwanda and Zimbabwe to do us an enormous favour whereas we win our final two in October. Even second place is trying bleak. We’ve got 6 groups forward of us on the rankings.”
@neyodabrain: “Very poor staff, no actual ambition to win, they don’t need to play on the world cup in any respect.”
@Dejilyeee: “Terrible recreation, ineffective choice from coach to begin Dessers, I swear I would like even Onachu on this recreation. The pitch was ineffective, okay, now you as properly play soiled recreation and usher in taller gamers since South Africa is nearly none existence aerially. You then left chukwueze on bench.”
@Adikastakes: “I repeat, this stays probably the most disappointing tremendous eagles squad I’ve ever witnessed. A squad crammed with superstars however they’ve achieved completely nothing.”
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