Africa Cup of Nations (CAN 2025) <\/a>in style by clinching third place against Egypt.<\/p>\nThis African football classic is scheduled for Saturday, January 17 at 4 p.m. GMT.<\/p>\n
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The Super Eagles bowed out in the semi-finals after a penalty shootout loss to Morocco (4-2) following a tightly contested match that ended goalless (0-0). Meanwhile, the Pharaohs were edged out by Senegal by the narrowest of margins (0-1).<\/p>\n
Historically, Nigeria have played in seven third-place matches\u2014and won them all.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a look at the Super Eagles\u2019 record in Africa Cup of Nations third-place playoffs:<\/p>\n
January 25, 1992: Nigeria 2\u20131 Cameroon<\/p>\n
February 9, 2002: Nigeria 1\u20130 Mali<\/p>\n
February 13, 2004: Nigeria 2\u20131 Mali<\/p>\n
March 16, 1978: Nigeria 2\u20130 Tunisia<\/p>\n
January 31, 2006: Nigeria 2\u20131 Senegal<\/p>\n
January 30, 2010: Nigeria 1\u20130 Algeria<\/p>\n
July 17, 2019: Tunisia 0\u20131 Nigeria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s history in the CAN third-place match Nigeria\/@CAF Nigeria will be aiming to wrap up the Africa Cup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[146,390,1982,165,122,159,127,16457,174],"class_list":{"0":"post-26832","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-algeria","10":"tag-egypt","11":"tag-morocco","12":"tag-nigeria","13":"tag-senegal","14":"tag-super-eagles","15":"tag-third-place-playoff","16":"tag-tunisia"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26832","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=26832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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