As Nigeria prepare to face South Africa in a massive semi-final later this week, Angola's captain has made a big admission about the Super Eagles ahead of the crunch 2023 Africa Cup of Nations tie.
Nigeria head into their final-four encounter with Bafana Bafana in impressive fashion, having kept four clean sheets in their previous four matches, and winning all of those games too.
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It was a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Angola in the quarter-final at the Stade Felix Houphouet Boigny that set up their titanic clash with Hugo Broos' charges this week.
While South Africa have perhaps beaten the better opposition en route to their semi-final against their west African rivals, Palancas Negras captain Fredy Ribeiro, believes the Super Eagles have what it takes to add a fourth title to their name.
When quizzed on whether he thinks Nigeria can win AFCON, the attacking midfielder told members of the media: "I hope so. I hope they win the title.
"The coach is Portuguese, I know him and they have an amazing group of players and I hope for the Nigerian people that they are able to achieve this."
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The Super Eagles will go up against a second successive SADC nation when they face the 1996 AFCON winners in Bouake on Wednesday, but might have do so without the services of their talismanic forward Victor Osimhen after an official statement from the Nigeria Football Federation confirmed that the striker may be unavailable for the match due to abdominal pains he is currently struggling with.
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