The 1st and 2nd quarterfinal matches have been played today which are both exciting and very interesting. The first match saw the senegal team defeating the Beninnese by 1 goal to nil, goal scored by Idrissa Gueye whom was assisted by the star man Sadio Mane.
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This win has taken senegal to the semifinals where they await the winner between Algeria/Madagascar to be played on july 14 same 5:00pm WAT.
The 2nd match was between the super eagles of Nigeria and the Bafana Bafana of South Africa which made us see a total of 3 goals with Nigeria having the upper hands by opening and closing the goalscoring activities in the game.
Goals from Chukwueze Samuel (nigeria) and bongani Zungu (south africa) gave the match a high tempo until troost Ekong of nigeria scored the winning goal in the last mimute of the match thereby pushing nigeria to the semifinals which is going to be against Algeria/Ivory coast on the 14th of this month, same 20:00pm WAT.
The two matches of today really worth the hype and time as they were highly competitive and breathtaking.
Tomorrow is another day to complete the AFCON 2019 Quarterfinals stage.
Up super eagles of Nigeria!!! Up lions of teranga of Senegal