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NAIROBI, Kenya, December 28, 2025 – Nigeria secured their place in the knockouts of the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) with a nervy 3-2 win over Tunisia in Fez, Morocco on Saturday night.<\/em><\/p>\n The Super Eagles cruised to a 3-0 lead after 66 minutes before a vicious fightback from the Carthage Eagles had them biting on their nails and holding on to their slim lead.<\/p>\n Dangerman Victor Osimhen had drawn first blood in the 44th minute, his powerful header flashing past Tunisian goalkeeper Aymen Dahmen.<\/p>\n \n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> NAIROBI, Kenya, December 28, 2025 – Nigeria secured their place in the knockouts of the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) with a nervy 3-2 win over Tunisia in Fez, Morocco on Saturday night. The Super Eagles cruised to a 3-0 lead after 66 minutes before a vicious fightback from the Carthage Eagles had them biting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":218442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[9488,258,256,7887,5232,36727,11727,257,4687,10456,254,11667,4703,653,22942],"class_list":["post-218441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-battle","tag-eagles","tag-fightback","tag-kenyatunisia","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-overcome","tag-south-africa-today","tag-survive","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-vicious"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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