Players of the Nigerian football team practice during a training session on February 5, 2013 at Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban. PHOTO: AFP
Nigeria hope to extend an unbeaten run over fellow west Africans Mali when they clash today for the chance to play in the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations final.
After a laboured group-phase campaign, the Super Eagles defied the odds last Sunday to beat Ivory Coast 2-1 and set up an early-evening showdown against the Malian Eagles. Mali also proved popular expectations wrong to edge past hosts South Africa after a penalty shootout. The countries have clashed at full international level six times with four of those matches at the Nations Cup. Nigeria won three and the others have been drawn. The last meeting of the Super Eagles and the Eagles was at the 2008 African tournament in Ghana and finished goalless.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 6th, 2013.
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