A objective and two assists from Ademola Lookman, together with a brace from Victor Osimhen, helped Nigeria beat Mozambique 4-0 and attain the quarter-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations.
Akor Adams additionally performed a vital position within the victory as he, like Lookman, registered a objective and two assists to arrange a final eight tie towards both Algeria or DR Congo in Marrakech.
There have been early warning indicators for Mozambique when Osimhen noticed a objective disallowed by VAR for offside in simply the second minute, however Nigeria finally broke the impasse within the twentieth minute when Lookman despatched Adams’ cut-back into the top-right nook.
Osimhen then obtained his first of the match quickly after with a easy end from Adams’ centre, whereas his second got here early within the second half as he was available on the again publish to show Lookman’s move throughout the objective into the web.
Lookman was the supplier as soon as once more within the seventy fifth minute, this time taking part in Adams into the field earlier than the Sevilla ahead despatched a robust strike previous Ernan Siluane on the close to publish.
Moses Simon examined the Mozambique goalkeeper late on after Raphael Onyadika didn’t hit the goal with an try of his personal as Nigeria needed to accept a 4-0 win at Complexe Sportif de Fes.
A stable W underneath the rain #Naija4TheWin #NGAMOZ pic.twitter.com/YRgUul9zYU
— Tremendous Eagles (@NGSuperEagles) January 5, 2026
Information Debrief: Complete domination from Nigeria
Nigeria despatched an announcement out to all their remaining opponents within the AFCON with this efficiency. They produced 2.79 anticipated targets (xG) from 22 photographs to Mozambique’s 0.1 from two makes an attempt, whereas the Tremendous Eagles additionally had 61.2% of possession and accomplished 462 passes to their counterparts’ 267.
And it was a scintillating show from Lookman. He created a match-high six possibilities and recorded the joint-most touches within the field (9 – degree with Adams), whereas no participant on this version of the match has extra assists (4).
Nigeria have scored of their final 11 video games within the AFCON, their longest run of video games with a objective within the competitors (since no less than 2009-2010).
