According to The Cable, Ighalo said, “I take responsibility for this game because if I had taken those chances I had, that would have made it a different ball game now.”
“I missed a couple of chances that would have finished the game but that’s football because sometimes you win and sometimes you lose.” Nigeria lost 2:1 to Argentina which means, the country is out of the 2018 World Cup.
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Meanwhile, Nigerian Twitter has been awash with a lot of criticisms directed at him and his teammate, Kelechi Iheanachor.
See some of the tweets below:
“Nothing unites Nigerians more than football.”
But Nigerians are on Ighalo’s wife’s Instagram cussing her out because of football.
As with many cliches, a little interrogation & the shallowness of it is exposed.
Everything divides Nigerians. That’s the reality.
— Babanla (@biolakazeem) June 27, 2018
#NGAARG calm down guys
Ighalo was wasteful but
Rohr was supposed to make substitutions to assist the defence in calm the game for just 10 more mins so let’s just #winlosedraw together as a team.— Uche Jombo Rodriguez (@uchejombo) June 26, 2018
I don’t think it’s a penalty if a player *unintentionally* nods the ball against his own hand.
But if you’re really looking for something to be mad about, be mad about Ighalo missing that chance after the ball fell to him. Forget this referee talk.
— Yomi Kazeem (@TheYomiKazeem) June 26, 2018
You went on the refs page and insulted him. Went on Ighalo’s page and when you couldnt insult him you moved on to his wife.
If you are reading this and you were part of this despicable act. You are a sorry excuse for a human being. With no modicum of decency
— Cinderella Man (@Osi_Suave) June 27, 2018
Mickel to Buhari
Hello Sir, Yes we almost qualifi…Ighalo?
Wait lemme give him the phone!??♂️??♂️ pic.twitter.com/0veuIw62Is— #StayWoke King (MSA) (@FRIISTII) June 26, 2018
If you are madder at Ighalo or whoever else who choose as your personal object of hate for losing yesterday than you are at Buhari,you are part of the problem.Ighalo or anyone else actually tried to do something for their country yesterday.They felt something when we lost.Buhari?
— Babanla (@biolakazeem) June 27, 2018