{"id":15787,"date":"2026-01-10T19:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T19:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/15787\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T19:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T19:40:11","slug":"who-nigeria-will-face-in-afcon-semi-final-as-opponents-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/15787\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Nigeria will face in AFCON semi-final as opponents confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nigeria<\/a> have discovered who they will face in the Africa Cup of Nations<\/a> semi-final after beating Algeria in the quarter-final.<\/p>\n

The Super Eagles are now the only side left at this year\u2019s AFCON<\/a> with a perfect winning record as second half goals from Victor Osimhen<\/a> and Akor Adams put the gloss on a dominant performance over Algeria on Saturday.<\/a><\/p>\n

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As a result, Eric Chelle\u2019s side are now one win away from the final,<\/a> and they already know who stands in their way of contesting a fourth AFCON title next Sunday.<\/p>\n

Nigeria will come up against Morocco<\/a> in the second semi-final on Wednesday night, with host nation coming out on top against Cameroon on Friday evening.<\/p>\n

Brahim Diaz opened the scoring midway through the first half with his fifth goal of the tournament before Ismael Saibari put the game to bed 15 minutes from time<\/a> to confirm a first AFCON semi-final since 2004 for the Atlas Lions.<\/p>\n

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Morocco will certainly have the home advantage in the heavyweight last-four showdown, but Nigeria have proven they are difficult opposition to beat and will be boosted by keeping back-to-back clean sheets in the knockout phase.<\/p>\n

\"Victor<\/p>\n

Victor Osimhen produced a man-of-the-match performance in Nigeria\u2019s AFCON quarter-final win over Algeria (AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Speaking after the win over Algeria, Osimhen – who scored and claimed an assist – said: \u201cWe are going to play against the host and we know how they are.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know they have a lot of quality players. Of course, they are in front of their massive crowd.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut we are not the kind of team to be intimidated by any opponent. We will give our everything and try to win.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nigeria have discovered who they will face in the Africa Cup of Nations semi-final after beating Algeria in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[146,4447,390,1154,166,10253,2967,165,122,127,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-15787","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria","8":"tag-africa-cup-of-nations","9":"tag-akor-adams","10":"tag-algeria","11":"tag-atlas-lions","12":"tag-brahim-diaz","13":"tag-dominant-performance","14":"tag-ismael-saibari","15":"tag-morocco","16":"tag-nigeria","17":"tag-super-eagles","18":"tag-victor-osimhen"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}