• Mauritius join Nigeria in AFCON qualifying series’ Group A
Group B winners, Nigeria, will these days confront the second–placed workforce in Team A, Cote d’Ivoire, in the next semifinal of the ongoing WAFU B U20 Championship in Niamey, Niger Republic.
At stake is a ticket to upcoming year’s Africa U-20 Cup of Nations in Egypt, presently scheduled for February 18 to March 12. Only the two finalists from the WAFU B match will qualify for the 8-workforce finals in Egypt.
Ladan Bosso’s wards will file out against the Ivoirians at the Stade Typical Seyni Kountché at 8.00 pm, right after the initially semifinal in between Benin Republic and Burkina Faso at the identical venue.
Ibrahim Muhammad and Ahmed Abdullahi scored the objectives that consigned African champions, Ghana, to a 2- defeat very last Sunday, prior to the Flying Eagles drew 2-2 with Burkina Faso on Wednesday. The latter’s 2-1 defeat of Ghana attained them a put in the last four.
Irrespective of scorer Ahmed Abdullahi’s harm that has knocked him out of the tournament, Mentor Bosso is self-assured that his boys will rise to the occasion in opposition to the Ivoirians and select a ticket to Egypt. In the meantime, Director of Competitions of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Mr Samson Adamu, has confirmed that Mauritius gained a situation it submitted in opposition to Sao Tomé and Príncipe concerning their 2023 Africa Cup of Nations preliminary qualifying fixture and will, for that reason, sign up for the combatants in Group A of the qualification sequence starting up future thirty day period.
Victory for Mauritius at the CAF Disciplinary Committee usually means they now sign up for Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Guinea-Bissau in Team A of the six-match stage that finishes in March following 12 months. Nigeria will engage in Sierra Leone in Abuja on Thursday June 9 and then perform Mauritius on Monday June 13.
Mauritius had filed a protest in opposition to São Tomé and Príncipe, who gained their preliminary qualifying fixture, insisting that just one São Tomé participant experienced tested beneficial for COVID-19.
“The make any difference became somewhat far more exciting due to the fact the player at the centre of the controversy is the just one that scored the only target of the match,” explained our supply at the time.
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