At 03:00 Beijing time on January 24, the African Cup of Nations quarterfinals staged a direct dialogue between the seeded teams, Nigeria against Tunisia. In the first half, neither team achieved anything; in the second half, Msakni's long-range shot broke the deadlock and Iwobi was red. In the end, Nigeria lost 0-1 to Tunisia and stopped in the round of 16.
In the 47th minute, Drigg assisted, Msakni suddenly fired a cold arrow outside the penalty area, the ball was directly on the ground and went straight to the goal, the goalkeeper pounced on it but could not stop the loss of the city! Tunisia leads 1-0!
In the 66th minute, Iwobi made a mistake in stopping the ball, Msakani was alert to grab it, and Iwobi stepped directly on the opponent's foot. The referee showed a yellow card at the first time, checked the replay and changed the judgment to a direct red card! The premier came on as a substitute for 5 minutes and 07 seconds, completing just two touches, including one of which was a big mistake. Nigeria became 10 men in the fight.
In the end, Tunisia beat Nigeria 1-0 and advanced to the quarter-finals of the African Cup of Nations for four consecutive times, which was also the best result in their team history. It is worth mentioning that this is the 6th meeting between the two teams in the African Cup of Nations and the first time Nigeria has lost to their opponents.
Known as the "Eagle of Africa", Nigeria is one of the favourites to win this year's Africa Cup of Nations, and they have won the event three times. In the group stage, they defeated rivals Egypt, Sudan and Guinea-Bissau successively, and were the only team to have won three consecutive games. Although Tunisia is also a regular visitor to the Africa Cup of Nations, it only won 1 game in this group stage and finally qualified as the third in the group.
Because of this, the result of this game is somewhat surprising. It was also the first time in nearly 14 years that Nigeria had been eliminated in the African Cup of Nations knockout rounds.
So far, the six seeded teams of the African Cup of Nations have 2 out-of-pockets, namely the defending champion Algeria at the bottom of the group, and Nigeria at the bottom of the group.