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And I think anyone saying the Super Eagles has the best squad right now in Africa isn't making a wrong statement.

Having some famous players in the national team does not make the national team the best in Africa. What will make the national team the best in Africa are the achievements that a national team has achieved at that time. At the moment, the reality is that the Nigerian national team is the worst in Group C, along with Zimbabwe.

In all these 4 games in which the Nigerian national team lost points, they were playing with the same famous players that they have, and the result was that they lost against Benin, drew against Zimbabwe, against South Africa and against Lesotho. If the Nigerian players today play with inflated egos and consider themselves the best team in Africa, they may lose points again. They should not underestimate the opponent or set themselves a title when they are not winning anything big at the moment.

I don't think the players pride themselves as the best in Africa or played those matches with inflated egos. What happened was that we had a bad coach who did not know what he wasn't doing and this led to our poor performance. We've a new coach now and today's game is his first match in charge of the super eagles. I won't say we played very well but I'm happy we got all three points and I hope we improve more and get some good results.

I don't think it has anything to do with the coach, it's about the seriousness of the players, what difference did Chelle bring to the super Eagles team yesterday that made Nigeria to win, it is not the same players we've been using.the players felt that their is need for them to get the three points after losing Several of their qualifying games. There was nothing extra ordinary that the coach did. I don't also think they had ego, I felt they've realized how important it is to qualify for the World Cup, so they don't want to give room for excuses anymore, from the first half, you could see how desperate the likes of Victor Osimhen, Ademola lookman and the rest forwarders where pushing forward the ball, until they secured that first two goals in the first half.

@Spaceman1000$ are you saying these players never knew how important fixturing for the world cup means for them in their national shirts? I am making no mistake on agreeing with that. Secondly, all the previous coaches were really bad with their tactics and philosophy with the players because how is it that same players that they all failed to get all three points in those early games are the set of players Eric Chelle is using and advancing excellently with in all departments on the field. Lets give Chelle the accolades for doing what those other coaches failed to do and that's simple.

Are we not being too quick to judge the exceptional performance of Chelle the new coach over the past coaches, this is his first game managing the team, not that Rwanda are like a more tough opponent, Rwanda are 3rd in the group table, we can't call them the toughest in our group so i doubt if we should be celebrating this much, next match is against Zimbabwe not also a tough opponent where they hold the last in the group. Our next match should be a success, a compulsory win for the team.

Chelle arrangement of players on the pitch is really confusing, watching the game made me realized he might be up to something good but with the new tactics it will be best if we don't face a stronger opponent, we are not yet ready for the big games, the squad is there but the tactics still needs some level to it.