Nigeria Football Weekly

Kelechi Iheanacho scored a banger for the Super Eagles in our very impressive 1-0 win over Egypt on Tuesday in Garoua to send us top of Group D after the 1st round of matches. It’s safe to say the team exceeded all expectations considering what we had seen under Gernot Rohr and it was probably the best performance from Nigeria in a good 2/3 years especially considering the opponent. Coupled with t...

In this episode, I previewed the upcoming Africa Cup Of Nations, which gets underway in Cameroon tomorrow with Nigeria drawn in Group D to face Egypt, Sudan & Guinea-Bissau and also playing our opening game of the tournament on Tuesday against Mo Salah’s Egypt. I ran through how the teams in Group D qualified while also previewing the Egypt game in detail including my anticipated starting XI f...

I ran through how our Super Eagles players performed in the top European leagues over the past week including Samuel Chukwueze scoring in back to back games for Villarreal initially in a 7-1 Copa Del Rey win on Wednesday before rounding up the scoring in their 3-1 win over Real Sociedad in La Liga on Saturday. In Germany, Kevin Akpoguma scored a last minute equaliser for Hoffenheim at home against...

On Sunday, the Nigeria Football Federation confirmed the termination of Gernot Rohr’s contract as Super Eagles manager after over 5 years with former Super Eagles player & coach Augustine Eguavoen appointed as Interim manager ahead of AFCON taking place in January Additionally, I ran through how our Super Eagles players performed in the top European leagues over the past week including Emmanue...

I ran through how our Super Eagles players performed in the top European leagues over the weekend and midweek including Emmanuel Dennis continuing his great goalscoring form against Leicester City and Chelsea. Despite the losses, he has now accumulated 12 goal involvements in 13 appearances in the Premier League this season In La Liga, Samuel Chukwueze scored his 1st league goal of the season for...

I ran through how our Super Eagles players performed in the top European leagues over the weekend including Emmanuel Dennis getting a goal & 2 assists in Watford’s exceptional 4-1 win against Manchester United culminating in Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s inevitable sacking. In the Bundesliga, Taiwo Awoniyi continued his fantastic start to the season scoring his 8th league goal of the campaign in Unio...

Nigeria drew 1-1 at home against Cape Verde on Tuesday to seal top spot in Group C and qualify for the final playoffs round of the CAF World Cup qualifiers as one of the seeded nations due to being one of the top 5 ranked teams from the 10 teams that have qualified for the playoffs. Victor Osimhen scored Nigeria’s goal in the 1st minute to take his WCQ qualification tally to 4 goals and he’s now s...

Nigeria beat the Lone Stars of Liberia 2-0 on Saturday in Tangier Morocco courtesy of two penalties dispatched by Victor Osimhen and Ahmed Musa setting up a final game showdown against Cape Verde taking place in Lagos on Tuesday at 5pm with the Super Eagles needing a win or draw to book our place in the final playoff round of qualifiers, which will take place in March 2022. Check out our Youtube C...

With the international break now upon us, I previewed the Super Eagles upcoming game against the Lone Stars of Liberia taking place on Saturday in Tangier, Morocco as a win will leave Nigeria needing just a solitary point to win the group and qualify for the final round of the CAF World Cup qualifiers In other news, Watford announced the signing of Super Eagles no.1 goalkeeper Maduka Okoye on a 5...

The Super Eagles squad list was announced for our final two group stage matches of the World Cup Qualifiers against Liberia & Cape Verde including a baffling recall to the national team for Odion Ighalo after his international retirement following the 2019 AFCON. Wilfred Ndidi, Alex Iwobi & Samuel Chukwueze all return to the national team after missing the last qualifiers due to injury whi...

I ran through how our Super Eagles players performed in the top European leagues over the weekend including Emmanuel Dennis getting a goal & 2 assists in Watford’s exceptional 5-2 win over Alex Iwobi’s Everton at Goodison Park to hand Claudio Ranieri his firs win as Watford’s manager. In the Bundesliga, Taiwo Awoniyi continued his fantastic start to the season scoring his 7th league goal of th...

I ran through how our Super Eagles players performed in the top European leagues over the weekend including Victor Osimhen continuing his excellent form with the winning goal on Sunday in Napoli’s 1-0 win over Torino to make it 8 wins from 8 games in Serie A so far & taking his club tally to 8 for the season including 5 in Serie A while Simy Nwankwo also scored his 1st Serie A goal of the seas...

In this episode of the podcast, I reviewed both of our World Cup qualification games against Central African Republic starting with the shock 1-0 loss at home in Lagos on Thursday, which was the Super Eagles first home qualifier loss in 40 years & the performance was easily one of the worst I’ve witnessed in a long time. The Super Eagles did gain a measure of revenge on Sunday in the reverse f...

In this episode of the podcast, I preview our upcoming World Cup qualifiers against the Central African Republic taking place on Thursday October 7th at the Teslim Balogun stadium with the squad announced last week including 1st time call ups for Rangers left back Calvin Bassey & Union Berlin hotshot striker Taiwo Awoniyi who’s been rewarded for his excellent start to the season in the Bundesl...

In this episode of the podcast, I ran through how our Super Eagles players performed in the top European leagues over the weekend including Victor Osimhen continuing his excellent form with another brace on Thursday in Napoli’s 4-0 win against Sampdoria before firing in another against Cagliari in a 2-0 victory on Sunday to take his tally to 6 goals over the past 4 games as Napoli maintain their 1...

In this episode of the podcast, I ran through how our Super Eagles players performed in the top European leagues over the weekend including Victor Osimhen getting off the mark for the season with a brace on Thursday in the Europa League against Leicester & also getting off the mark in Serie A with the opening goal in Napoli’s 4-0 thrashing of Udinese to go top of of the league with maximum poi...

In this episode of the podcast, I ran through how our Super Eagles players performed in the top European leagues over the weekend including David Okereke’s stunning winner for Venezia who won their 1st Serie A game since 2001. Terem Moffi was also in incredible form as he bagged a superb assist plus the winning goal for Lorient on Friday night as they defeated league Champions Lille 2-1 at home In...

The depleted Super Eagles team left Cape Verde with maximum points after winning 2-1 in a hard-fought encounter against our closest challengers in Group C of our World Cup Qualifying group on Tuesday with Chidera Ejuke, Kinglsey Michael & Jamilu Collins in particularly impressive form. The win means Nigeria has 6 points from 2 games and stands us in good stead heading into the Home & Away...

The Super Eagles kicked off their World Cup Qualification journey on Friday with a 2-0 win over Liberia at the Teslim Balogun Stadium in Lagos courtesy of a Kelechi Iheanacho brace & I go through all the key elements of the match. I then previewed our upcoming qualifier away to Cape Verde taking place this Tuesday September 7th where Nigeria will be playing without the core spine of our team i...

In this episode, I preview Nigeria’s upcoming World Cup qualifiers stating with Liberia at home this Friday before we face Cape Verde away on Tuesday September 7th including running through our called up squad and who I expect to start the game at the Teslim Balogun stadium on Friday. I then run through how our star Super Eagles players fared in all the top European leagues including Taiwo Awoniyi...

In this episode, I run through how our star Super Eagles players fared in all the top European leagues including the Italian Serie A which resumed over the weekend although Victor Osimhen got a red card after 22 minutes meanwhile Taiwo Awoniyi continued his impressive start to the season for Union Berlin in the Bundesliga with his 2nd goal in consecutive Bundesliga games after scoring a mid-week b...

In this episode, I cover the Africa Cup Of Nations draw, which took place this past Tuesday with Nigeria drawn in Group D to face Egypt, Sudan & Guinea-Bissau. I run through how each of those teams qualified, our head-to-head record & the key players to watch out for from each of those countries while also touching on why finishing in 1st place in our group is essential I then go through a...

In this episode, I run through how our star Super Eagles players fared as the Premier League, Bundesliga & La Liga leagues all kicked off this past weekend with Emmanuel Dennis, Peter Etebo & Frank Onyeka all having very impressive debuts in England while Taiwo Awoniyi kicked off the season with a goal too! Terem Moffi scored his 1st goal of the season in Ligue 1 as Lorient continued their...

In this episode, I run through the major transfers in Europe involving Nigerian players so far in the summer transfer window before touching on 10 players to watch for the season I then give my Premier League predictions for the season before previewing the games kicking off this weekend in the Premier League, Bundesliga & La Liga as well as the Champions League Qualifiers + the European Super...

In this episode, I run through how our star Super Eagles have fared for their club sides over in Europe & Nigeria over the last week of the club season in Europe including Samuel Chukwueze’s Villarreal beating Manchester United on penalties on Wednesday to win the UEFA Europa League for the 1st time in their history & secure a Champions League spot for next season. I also had the pleasure...