On behalf of the fifth day of the qualifiers at the 2022 World Cup, Equatorial Guinea welcomed Tunisia for the shock of group B. If successful, the Carthage Eagles were guaranteed to play the play-offs. For this decisive confrontation, Mondher Kebaier established in particular Wahbi Khazri or Dylan Bronn and Naim Sliti. The Tunisian selection thought they were getting closer to the dams with this draw, but Ganet opened the scoring in the money time (1-0, 84th) for Equatorial Guinea. With this third victory, the locals came back up to their evening opponent in the standings with ten units.
In the other 5:00 p.m. match, Liberia hosted Nigeria. Gernot Rohr’s men were playing their qualifying for the play-offs this afternoon. On this occasion, the Super Eagles coach lined up the heavy artillery with Iwobi, Osimhen and Iheanacho in attack. From the quarter of an hour of play, Nigeria opened the scoring by Victor Osimhen on penalty (0-1, 15th). In additional time, Musa from the penalty spot (0-2, 90 + 4) put his people permanently safe. With this fourth success, Nigeria got even closer to the dams. Finally, Cape Verde fully intended to maintain hope by winning the bet against the Central African Republic. Unfortunately, Ngoma ideally launched his own at the start of the match (0-1, 11th). The Blue Sharks equalized just before the hour mark by Julio Tavares (1-1, 51st) before taking the advantage in the last quarter of an hour by Stopira (2-1, 76th). With this important victory, Cape Verde was two lengths behind the Super Eagles in Group C and could still believe in qualifying for the play-offs.
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