Episode 45: Simon stars in Nigeria’s 3-1 win over Sudan to qualify as group winners!
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Nigeria fielded an unchanged line up as we impressively beat Sudan 3-1 to seal our progression to the Round of 16 as group winners on Saturday night Samuel Chukwueze opened the scoring early in the 1st half after a fine cut back from Moses Simon before Taiwo Awoniyi scored his 1st goal for the Super Eagles to double our lead just before half time. Moses Simon then capped off his man of the match performance with the 3rd goal of the game just after halftime although Ola Aina conceded a sloppy penalty, which Sudan converted to make the scoreline a bit more respectable for themselves In the other group game, Egypt beat Guinea-Bissau 1-0 courtesy of a Mo Salah goal but Nigeria have sealed top spot due to our superior head to head record over the Egyptians I also previewed our final group game against Guinea-Bissau taking place on Wednesday at 8pm in Garoua, which is where the Super Eagles will also play our Round of 16 tie before rounding up with an update on the other groups at AFCON 2021 Check out our Youtube Channel where you can also watch the episode: https://bit.ly/NigeriaFootballWeekly Twitter - https://twitter.com/NFWPod Host: @GoonerTwin Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/nigeriafootballweekly/ Facebook page Link - https://www.facebook.com/NigeriaFootballWeekly Email - [email protected] Anchor Link:  https://anchor.fm/nigeriafootballweekly Podfollow:  https://podfollow.com/nigeria-football-weekly --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nigeriafootballweekly/message