Nigeria vs Angola LIVE! AFCON 2024 result, match stream and latest updates today – Evening Standard
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Nigeria were the first side to book a semi-final berth at the Africa Cup of Nations after Ademola Lookman’s first-half goal ensured a 1-0 win over Angola in the last eight on Friday.
Lookman finished off a flying run down the left by winger Moses Simon, who skipped the challenge of defender Kialonda Gaspar to break free and then teed up his team mate for his third goal of the tournament.
The 26-year-old’s 41st-minute strike at the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Stadium was enough to set up a semi-final meeting on Wednesday against either the Cape Verde Islands or South Africa, who play their quarter-final on Saturday.
Later on Friday, also in Abidjan, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Guinea meet in the second of the quarter-final clashes.
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Africa Cup of Nations favourites Nigeria reached the semi-finals thanks a 1-0 win over Angola. Read our full match report here!
Nothing comes of the corner! Nigeria are through!
96 mins: Angola are running out of time!
One last chance from a corner…
92 mins: Luckily for the Super Eagles, Osimhen is fine to continue.
90 mins: SEVEN minutes added on!
Osimhen looks like he’s being forced off here in a major worry for Nigeria.
87 mins: Angola trying their luck from range now but Nigeria dealing with it all rather well.
84 mins: Nervous finish now!
Angola are going to pour everything into this
81 mins: So close to 2-0!
Lookman dallies freeing Osimhen on the counter and the striker does so well to keep the chance alive but is eventually blocked off
76 mins: It won’t count and we’re back to 1-0.
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