Nigeria beats Tunisia to clinch 3rd place at AFCON 2019

The Super Eagles of Nigeria, Wednesday night slogged out a win over Tunisia to clinch the third place in the ongoing African Cup of Nations, Egypt 2019.

A lone goal from Odion Ighalo in the opening minutes of the match was enough to secure victory for the Eagles, who saw their dream of winning a fourth AFCON titled dashed Sunday night by the Desert Warriors of Algeria.

Enjoy @ighalojude‘s goal as he led his country to bronze - this is our penultimate @1xbet_Eng goal of the day for #TotalAFCON2019? pic.twitter.com/1vYK89pcqm

- CAF (@CAF_Online) July 17, 2019

Pending tomorrow’s final between Senegal and Algeria, Ighalo has emerged the tournament highest scorer with five goals.

It’s been a long tournament - I’m losing my memory. I’ve forgotten who the top scorers are at #AFCON2019.

So I needed to ask someone… pic.twitter.com/NAaqnVO9vz

- John Bennett (@JohnBennettBBC) July 12, 2019

While a third place was not the original goal, the players are happy to have come home with some honours.

“Happy to take home a bronze medal and Man Of The Match tonight. Proud of this team! NAIJA SPIRIT“, tweets William Troost-Ekong who scored one of the goals in Nigeria’s 2-1 win over South Africa in their quarter-final match.

Happy to take home a bronze medal? and Man Of The Match tonight. Proud of this team! NAIJA SPIRIT!?? #AFCON2019 pic.twitter.com/cK4UgpfZkR

- William Troost-Ekong (@WTroostEkong) July 17, 2019

Fun Fact!

The Super Eagles of Nigeria has never lost a third-place match at the AFCON. How consoling is that?

#SuperEagles have never lost a 3rd place tie at an AFCON ?#TotalAFCON2019 pic.twitter.com/wgUkOZS1Ws

- CAF (@CAF_Online) July 17, 2019