Super Eagles sun nuna azama da kuzari tun daga farkon mintuna. Najeriya ta samu nasara mai ban sha’awa bayan ta lallasa Mozambique da ci 4-0 a wasan zagaye na 16 na gasar AFCON, inda Victor Osimhen ya zura kwallaye biyu, yayin da Ademola Lookman ya jagoranci nasarar da kyakkyawan wasa.
Lookman ya fara bude zare a minti na 20 kafin ya taimaka wajen kafa sauran kwallayen. Osimhen wanda ya fara wasan ba tare da mask dinsa ba, ya dawo da shi kafin ya zura kwallo ta biyu a minti na 25 sannan ya kara wata bayan hutun rabin lokaci. Akor Adams kuma ya tabbatar da rufe wasan da kwallo ta karshe, abin da ya sa wannan nasara ta zama mafi girma a fafatawar karshe ta AFCON tun 2010.
Super Eagles yanzu za su fafata a wasan quarter-final a Marrakesh ranar Asabar da ko dai Algeria ko DR Congo. Idan DR Congo ta yi nasara, hakan na iya ba Najeriya damar rama rashin nasarar su a wasan cancantar World Cup da suka sha a bugun biyu-biyu.
Mozambique kuwa ta yi tarihi ne kawai da kai farmakin farko a irin wannan mataki na AFCON, amma ba su iya jure karfin Najeriya ba. Lookman ya cigaba da taka rawar gani, yana taimaka wajen kafa abubuwan da suka tabbatar da cewa babu damar dawowa a wasan.
