The Super Eagles of Nigeria remain unbeaten in the ongoing 2025 AFCON, have the player with the most goal contributions in the competition in their ranks and have sealed qualification to the next round.
Nigeria made it two wins from two games by beating Tunisia 3-2 in an exciting game that had the West Africans almost blow away a 3-0 lead with Tunisia almost registering a wonderful comeback to mess the Nigerian party.
However, Nigeria survived thanks to goals from Victor Osimhen, Ademola Lookman and Wilfred Ndidi to clinch the win to qualify to the next round after beating Tanzania 2-1 in the opening round of games.
For Lookman and Osimhen, the game marked the perfect response to football legend Rigobert Song’s criticism that neither player is a world class player. (Click highlighted text to read full story)
In the win over Tunisia, Lookman provided two assists and scored Nigeria’s third goal to improve his tally to two goals and two assists two games into the competition. Nigeria is the second country to officially qualify to the next round after Egypt did so in Group B.
Tunisia rank second in Group C despite losing to Nigeria with three points while Tanzania and Uganda follow in third and fourth place respectively with one point apiece. Nigeria play Uganda while Tunisia take on Tanzania in the final round on December 30.
