Against Germany they played very well, and scored, although they allowed the Germans to score what were very cheap goals on the two seperate occasions they took the lead through very well worked goals.
All these is postmortem, but how could you lose a match you were in control of and with a man advantage.

And how about a certain Lukeman Haruna, touted before the start of proceedings in Egypt as one of the stars to watch. It turns out he was the nemesis of the team and his team-mates today. What the hell was he thinking about. A lose ball gets to you about 25 yards to goal, a player of his stature should know that with barely a minute of added time to play, the only thing to do would be to unleash a powerful shot to the keeper and hope that it takes a deflection off somebody in the crowded 18 yard box for either a goal or a corner, instead he gives the ball away for the Germans to score and win the game.

Well, its over, and we should stop crying over spilled milk. But this inevitably brings reflections and a few comparisons. We went to Netherlands 2005 and won a silver. Other players that played in that tournament have gone on to become bigger stars, while most of our own players had since faded into oblivion because of attitude exhibited like the one by Haruna today.
He has caused us a match we still had a chance of winning at least by penalty shoot-out. Well, every player has his day and this certainly was not Lukeman Haruna’s day. He was way too slow and at times, way too casual for a match of that magnitude.