An own goal from captain William Troost-Ekong and a strike
from Calvin Bassey ensured both teams shared the points in Bloemfontein.

The result means Nigeria remain six points behind leaders
South Africa in Group C, with only two matches left to conclude the qualifying
series.

Following the match, supporters took to their X accounts to
share their thoughts on the game.

Here are some comments gathered from X:

@thornsport: “Firstly sack the coach for tactical blunder by
playing lookman out of position, playing Dessers ahead of Arokodare, playing
Ekong who is aged and can’t hold the backline again. Super Eagles attack is
nothing without Osimhen.”

@Stacktopack: “How can a nation of 200+ million football-mad
people keep stumbling like this? Nigeria should be leading Africa, not scraping
for qualifications. The problems are clear—bad leadership, poor planning, recycled
coaches, and no accountability. Fix grassroots scouting, hire competent modern
coaches, stop politics in selections, and build a real football structure.
Until you clean house, we’ll keep embarrassing ourselves instead of being true
“Giants of Africa.””

@Deucez144525: “The Super Eagles have fallen.”

@Jhokzy: “Hall of shame performance from the boys. They
don’t deserve to qualify for the World Cup. A very useless team.”

@michaelOLite: “Tolu and Lookman. We had only 2 chances but
couldn’t capitalize on any. Maybe this is where we call it a wrap. Tolu plz
come back to Wolves now and help the team. God go punish SA for bringing us to
a rugby substandard dump.”

@FactssHistory: “We need Rwanda and Zimbabwe to do us a big
favour while we win our last two in October. Even second place is looking
bleak. We have 6 teams ahead of us on the rankings.”

@neyodabrain: “Very poor team, no real ambition to win, they
don’t deserve to play at the world cup at all.”

@Dejilyeee: “Awful game, useless decision from coach to
start Dessers, I swear I would prefer even Onachu in this game. The pitch was
useless, okay, now you as well play dirty game and bring in taller players
since South Africa is almost none existence aerially. Then you left chukwueze
on bench.”

@Adikastakes: “I repeat, this remains the most disappointing
super eagles squad I’ve ever witnessed. A squad filled with superstars but they
have achieved absolutely nothing.”