Nigeria Football Weekly

Episode 69: Super Eagles 2023 Africa Cup of Nations Preview! In this episode, I previewed the upcoming Africa Cup Of Nations, which gets underway in Ivory Coast on Saturday with Nigeria drawn in Group A alongside the hosts Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea & Guinea-Bissau. Our first game takes place on Sunday January 14th against Equatorial Guinea  I ran through how the teams in Group A qualified...

Zaidu Sanusi came off the bench to score his 1st ever Champions League goal as FC Porto brushed aside Bayer Leverkusen 2-0 on Tuesday night! Prior to that in Italy, Ademola Lookman scored his 2nd Serie A goal of the season, which was the winner as Atalanta beat Fiorentina 1-0 to stay 2nd in the league In the Premier League, Alex Iwobi bagged his 3rd assist of the season for Everton as they came fr...

The NFF announced the Super Eagles squad list for the friendly against Algeria taking place on Tuesday September 27th in Oran as part of the launch of the new Olympic Stadium in Algeria. I went through the list talking about the first time call ups, returnees & baffling snubs from the list. Additionally, I previewed the game against Algeria including an anticipated starting XI based on Jose Pe...

Chidera Ejuke bagged his first goal contribution in the Bundesliga with an assist in Hertha Berlin’s 2-2 draw against Bayer Leverkusen over the weekend at home & looked generally lively for his new club In Portugal, Saviour Godwin continued his great start to life in the Portuguese top-flight with a goal in Casa Pia’s 3-2 win away to Pacos Ferreira leading to the newly promoted side impressive...

Calvin Bassey’s reputation continues to grow massively as he’s been in excellent form for Ajax, initially starring & getting an assist in their 4-0 win league over Cambur over the weekend before making his UEFA Champions League debut on Tuesday against his former team Rangers. He went on to get another clean sheet & assist as Ajax ran out comfortable 4-0 winners on the night! He is easily...

In France, Terem Moffi seems to have regained his 20/21 season form as he bagged a brace over the weekend in Lorient’s 2-1 win at home against Clermont Foot before scoring another 2 goals on Wednesday night in a 5-2 loss away to Lens leaving him as the 4th top scorer in Ligue 1 so far with Lorient sitting comfortably in 7th place. Moses Simon was also on target over the weekend in Nantes 3-1 home...

In Italy, Victor Osimhen continued his excellent start to the Serie A season with his 2nd goal in as many games for Napoli in their 4-0 thrashing of newly promoted Monza on Sunday, which has taken them to the top of Serie A after two games. In Spain, Umar Sadiq scored his 1st ever La Liga goal on Monday night in Almeria’s 1-1 draw away to Elche while in Portugal, Saviour Godwin scored his 1st goal...

It’s been a great weekend of football for Super Eagles players with a number of our players putting in excellent performances for their respective club sides! In Italy, Victor Osimhen got his Serie A campaign off to an excellent start for Napoli bagging a goal & assist on Monday night in their 5-2 thrashing of Verona while Ademola Lookman scored on his debut for Atalanta in a 2-0 win over Samp...

First weekend of Premier League football is in the bank! Serie A + La Liga return this weekend Ademola Lookman has completed his permanent transfer to Atalanta & Cyriel Dessers has been signed by Cremonese taking the Nigerian contingent in Serie A to 9 players as at today David Okereke & Isaac Success both scored goals for their Cremonese & Udinese respectively over the weekend in the...

Football is back! I previewed the new upcoming football season starting with all the major transfers involving Nigerian players in Europe so far before touching on the top players to watch this season across the top leagues I also gave my predictions for the Premier League season including the winner, top 4, teams to be relegated, player of the season, top scorer and the team of the season Cyriel...

The Nigeria Football Federation announced the appointment of Jose Peseiro on a 1 year deal on Sunday with the Portuguese manager expected to charge of the upcoming friendlies against Mexico & Canada as well as the AFCON qualifiers against Sierra Leone & Mauritius. Finidi George has also been appointed as the 1st assistant of the national team with Salisu Yusuf appointed the 2nd Assistant,...

The Nigeria Football Federation announced the Super Eagles squad list for the friendly games taking place in the USA against Mexico at the AT&T stadium in Texas on Sunday May 29th and against Ecuador on Friday June 3rd taking place at the Red Bull Arena in New Jersey including a recall for Cyriel Dessers & a first call up for Royal Antwerp’s Alhassan Yusuf. The NFF also called up 8 home ba...

I ran through how our Super Eagles players performed in the top European leagues over the past week including Moses Simon playing a stellar role for Nantes by scoring a brace in their 2-2 draw away to Lens in Ligue 1 as they continue to prepare for their French Cup final taking place next week against Nice. Terem Moffi on the other hand scored a magnificent solo goal for Lorient in their 2-1 loss...

I ran through how our Super Eagles players performed in the top European leagues over the past week including Moses Simon playing a stellar role for Nantes in their 5-3 win over Bordeaux in Ligue 1 as they continue to prepare for their French Cup final taking place in just under a fortnight In Italy, Isaac Success continues to settle in nicely in Serie A at Udinese and he bagged his 2nd league goa...

I ran through how our Super Eagles players performed in the top European leagues over the past week including Taiwo Awoniyi scoring his 13th Bundesliga goal of the season in a 2-0 win over Entraicht Frankfurt this weekend In England, Emmanuel Dennis scored his 10th Premier League goal of the season for Watford in their 2-1 loss at home to Brentford, which makes for an intriguing summer with Watfor...

I reviewed the 1st leg on the episode which took place on Friday March 25th at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi with both teams settling for a 0-0 draw before previewing the crucial 2nd leg taking place tonight at 6pm in Abuja including predicting our anticipated starting XI & the key questions ahead of the crunch tie Check out our Youtube Channel where you can also watch the episode: https://b...

The international window is here again as the final spots for the 2022 World Cup get finalised over the next fortnight with Nigeria vying for a place against our West African rivals Ghana. I previewed the 1st leg on the episode which takes place on Friday March 25th at the Baba Yara Stadium in Kumasi including predicting our anticipated starting XI & the key questions ahead of the crunch tie K...

The NFF announced the squad list for our crucial World Cup qualifying double-header against Ghana including recalls for our superstar Victor Osimhen with Emmanuel Dennis, Leon Balogun, Abdullahi Shehu, Peter Etebo, Odion Ighalo & Calvin Bassey also being recalled to the squad after the Africa Cup of Nations. Akinkunmi Amoo & Ademola Lookman also received their 1st ever call-ups to the Supe...

I ran through how our Super Eagles players performed in the top European leagues over the past week including Taiwo Awoniyi becoming the 1st Nigerian to hit double figures this season for goals in the top 5 European leagues with his 10th of the season in Union Berlin’s 3-1 win over Mainz In Belgium, Paul Onuachu notched his 16th league goal of the season in Genk’s 2-0 win over KV Kortrijik while A...

I ran through how our Super Eagles players performed in the top European leagues over the past week including Emmanuel Dennis scoring his 9th league goal of the season to give Watford a 1-0 win over Aston Villa on Saturday, which was a much needed boost to their hopes of staying in the Premier League In Italy, Victor Osimhen scored his 7th league goal of the season for Napoli on Monday night after...

I ran through how our Super Eagles players performed in the top European leagues over the past week including Moses Simon scoring his 3rd league goal of the season with a brilliant free-kick to win their Ligue 1 encounter against Reims over the weekend moving Nantes up to 9th place. In Spain, Asisat Oshoala scored 3 goals in Barcelona’s two previous games (9-1 win over Real Sociedad & 3-0 win...

I ran through how our Super Eagles players performed in the top European leagues over the past week including Victor Osimhen scoring the opener in Napoli’s 2-0 win over Ebuehi & Okereke’s Venezia. It was his 1st start in Serie A since he fractured his cheekbone on November 21st against Inter Milan at the San Siro and the win moved Napoli within a point of Inter Milan in the title race with bot...

Nigeria’s AFCON journey is unfortunately over after we lost 1-0 in our Round of 16 tie against Tunisia courtesy of a 47th minute goal by Youssef Msakni who’s shot got parried into the net by Maduka Okoye. Nigeria fielded the same starting XI we started the tournament with but it just wasn’t meant to be especially after substitute Alex Iwobi got sent off in the 66th minute We’ll see what happens wi...

Nigeria fielded a line up with 8 changes against Guinea-Bissau to round up the group stage, winning 2-0 courtesy of goals from Umar Sadiq and on-field captain William Troost-Ekong to claim maximum points so far. Moses Simon also had another incredible game after coming on as a substitute culminating in him and Troost-Ekong being named in the XI of the group stages. As a result of finishing 1st, Ni...

Nigeria fielded an unchanged line up as we impressively beat Sudan 3-1 to seal our progression to the Round of 16 as group winners on Saturday night Samuel Chukwueze opened the scoring early in the 1st half after a fine cut back from Moses Simon before Taiwo Awoniyi scored his 1st goal for the Super Eagles to double our lead just before half time. Moses Simon then capped off his man of the match p...