Nigeria 4-3 Morocco

33′ 0 – 1 Moutouali

37′ 0 – 2 Lajour

40′ 0 – 3 Moutouali

49′ Ogonna Uzochukwu

1 – 3
56′ Rabiu Ali

2 – 3
90′ Uzoenyi

3 – 3
111′ Aliyu Ibrahim

4 – 3

Nigeria will take on Morocco in the African championship Quarter Finals as they qualified to the knock out stage as the group runnerups.

Nigeria has one defeat in the group matches as they had six points with two victories. However, Morocco although gained one less point that that of Nigeria, they were the group leaders and remained unbeaten in the group. However they lost few points on ties as they won one match and drawn two matches in the group stages.

The only defeat for Nigeria came against Mali as they faced a 2-1 defeat.

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Morocco are currently ranked 74th in the FIFA ranking while their opponents Nigeria are better with 41 rank in the latest updated FIFA ranking.

Nigeria vs Morocco

Nigeria – A team to watch in the tournament

Morocco started their journey in the tournament with a goal less draw against Zimbabwe followed by a 1-1 draw against Burkina Faso. However they managed to register a 3-1 victory over Uganda to confirm their place in the last 16 of the tournament.

Rafik, Lajour and El Ouadi scored in their victory which confirmed their place in the next round as the group winners.

In the same time, Nigeria started in the tournament with a defeat, conceding two goals before they could halve a deficit to face 2-1 victory in their opening match against a team that ranked 1 higher than them, however they bounced back well to win their remaining matches against Mozambique before they won against to host to knock them off the tournament.

Nigeria has scored 8 goals, the highest amount of goals in their group, in fact is the highest number of goal scored in the tournament so far by any team.

Morocco should certainly have to focus defensively against the team that has been in a firm form for making some notable clinical finishes.

 

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