The referee identified as Bakary Papa Gassama apologised to the Nigerian team after wrongly denying them two goals due to wrong offside calls, according to a report by The Sun.
The Nigerian team was denied two goals during the match due to wrong offside calls, which could have given them all three points instead of just one for drawing the match.
The game ended 1-1 with Nigeria sealing her passage to next year’s Africa Cup of Nations but officials of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) still expressed their unhappiness to Gassama over the poor decision which cost Nigeria a win.
Gassama admitted the error and went a step further by sending his apologies to Musa over the incident. He also admitted that such errors are sometimes unavoidable particularly due to the non-availability of the Video Assistant Referee (VAR).
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