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Nigeria would beryllium hoping to suffice for the knockouts of the ongoing Women’s Africa Cup of Nations, WAFCON, erstwhile they play Egypt on Wednesday.
The Super Falcons came into the tourney arsenic defending champions.
However, Justine Madugu’s ladies mislaid 3-2 to Malawi successful their Group C opener, earlier beating Zambia 1-0.
This leaves the radical wide unfastened up of the last radical fixtures today.
Malawi presently pb the mode with six points, portion Zambia and Nigeria person 3 apiece.
Egypt are arsenic bully arsenic eliminated, arsenic they mislaid their 2 matches.
Nigeria inhabit 2nd presumption down lone Malawi, arsenic their superior head-to-head grounds implicit Zambia is the tiebreaker with some teams locked connected 3 points.
This is contempt Zambia having a extremity quality of +5 compared to Nigeria’s 0.
However, if Zambia bushed Malawi and Nigeria bushed Egypt, past the Copper Queens, Super Falcons and Scorchers volition each person six points.
In that case, matches betwixt each 3 of them would travel into information erstwhile determining who had the champion head-to-head record.
Nigeria vs Egypt: Super Falcons look make-or-break WAFCON 2026 clash
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