Nigeria progressed to the Africa Cup of Nations semi-finals by beating Zambia 5-4 on penalties and will meet Ghana in the semi-finals on Thursday.
It took 120 minutes and a penalty shoot out for the Eagles of Nigeria to fly past the Chipolopolo of Zambia and qualify for the semi-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola. Nigeria got the advantage after Nyirenda missed the third spot kick for Zambia. Eagles' goalkeeper secured a win by for Nigeria by scoring the last spot kick to make the shoot 5-4 in favour of the Eagles.
Egypt will meet north African rivals Algeria, in a repeat of their tense and controversial World Cup play-off match in November, which saw Algeria progress to South Africa. "Interesting semi-finals then, it is going to be a west-west and north-north battles." -said a fan
Source: GHP
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