Egypt 2023: Podium finish for Nigeria as Flying Eagles hammer Tunisia 4-0

FIFA World Cup-bound Nigeria eased to a four-goal victory over Tunisia’s Younger Carthage Eagles on Friday to say the bronze medals on the seventeenth Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt.

It was clear from the primary couple of minutes that the seven-time African champions had shaken off the lethargy from their lone purpose semi-final defeat to The Gambia on Monday, which upturned their goals of an eighth continental title for Nigeria

Ibrahim Muhammad, whose rocket accounted for one of many two targets that sank Mozambique within the group section and shot the Flying Eagles to the quarter-finals, put the Tunisians to process by scoring solely 9 minutes into the conflict on the mammoth Cairo Worldwide Stadium.

Belgium-based ahead Ahmed Abdullahi elevated the yoke on the North Africans with the second purpose barely after the re-start, and Jude Sunday made it three for Nigeria solely two minutes after to place daylight between themselves and the Younger Carthage Eagles

Man-of-the-match Jude Sunday rounded off a blistering afternoon and good day within the workplace for the Flying Eagles with a fourth purpose within the ninetieth minute.

Victory earned Nigeria the bronze medals for a record-extending fourth time on the Africa U20 Cup of Nations, and the Flying Eagles may also be one of many 24 groups within the pot on thirty first March when FIFA conducts the draw for the FIFA U20 World Cup going down in Indonesia twentieth Might – eleventh June.

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