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| Kanu's Nigeria progress to quarter-finals |
by Rupe
on 4/2/00 at 11:50
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Kanu's Nigeria beat Morocco 2-0 in Lagos yesterday afternoon
to progress as winners of their group. Morocco were one
of the tournament favourites, thanks partly to their impressive performances
in the 1998 World Cup in France (when they beat Scotland in style, and only failed to
qualify from the group thanks to Brasil's lacklustre display against
Norway in the final match). But Tunisia's win over Congo means that they go through ahead of Morocco on goals scored.
So Coventry get Hadji and Chippo back, but Kanu will be in Africa a good while longer. At least, he will if Nigeria continue to impress as they
did against Morocco, and don't repeat the poor performance that saw them draw goal-less with Congo. Kanu played another blinder
yesterday as a pair of fanstastic goals from Finidi George and
young substitute Aghahowa made Nigeria's dominance count.
See BBC News report, and Cyber Eagles Nigeria site for their report, full Nations Cup coverage and links.
Nigeria play Senegal in the Quarter-Final, which is in Lagos on Monday 7th February. According to SportList.com, the match will be shown delayed on
EuroSport, starting at 9:15 pm.
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