AFCON 2025Q: Nigeria 1-0 Benin Republic - 2nd half underway as Lookman puts Super Eagles ahead

Follow each the enactment connected Pulse Sports LIVE from the Godswill Akpabio Stadium arsenic the Super Eagles instrumentality connected the Cheetahs successful their opening radical crippled of the AFCON 2025 Qualifiers.

• 50' NGA 1-0 BEN: Super Eagles person truly travel retired guns blazing. Dominating similar they did successful the archetypal half. They conscionable request to beryllium much objective successful the last third.

• SECOND HALF: Nigeria 1-0 Benin Republic - We're underway for the 2nd 45 minutes... Can the Super Eagles widen their pb here?

• HALF TIME: Nigeria 1-0 Benin Republic - Ademola Lookman's onslaught is the quality betwixt some sides astatine the break.

• 45' NGA 1-0 BEN: GOOAALLL!!! Ademola Lookman fires location for the Super Eagles to springiness the hosts a deserved lead!

• 45' NGA 0-0 BEN: In the closing minutes of the archetypal fractional present successful Uyo. Neither broadside is yet to interruption the deadlock. There volition beryllium conscionable 2 minutes of added time.

• 38' NGA 0-0 BEN: Yellow Card to Calvin Bassey. Benin Republic person a escaped kick.

• 36' NGA 0-0 BEN: The Super Eagles person dominated this brushwood truthful far, but there's inactive thing to amusement for it. The chances support coming but idiosyncratic has to score....

• 30' NGA 0-0 BEN: Victor Boniface runs the shot retired of play successful the absorption box. Still goalless.

• 25' NGA 0-0 BEN: No goals to archer you yet...just immoderate fractional chances that deficiency the needed finish.

• 20' NGA 0-0 BEN: If you're conscionable joining us, you haven't missed immoderate existent enactment here. The Super Eagles person had the lion's stock of possession, but thing to amusement for it truthful far.

• 13' NGA 0-0 BEN: It would beryllium absorbing to spot the dynamic of this Super Eagles squad erstwhile much nether interim manager Austin Eguavoen. Having failed to suffice for the 2022 World Cup nether his leadership, perhaps...he's present been presented with different accidental to redeem himself portion the NFF searches for a imperishable successor to Finidi George. Still goalless here.

• 10' NGA 0-0 BEN: Opening 10 minutes gone and there's inactive thing to abstracted some sides.

• 🚨KICK-OFF!! (NGA VS BENIN): And we're underway successful Uyo! Goodluck to the Super Eagles!!

• ALMOST TIME! Three minutes distant from kick-off successful Uyo. Follow Pulse Sports crossed each our societal media channels to real-time updates from Nigeria vs Benin.

• There volition besides beryllium AFCON qualifying enactment from different lucifer centres crossed the continent.

• 🚨Team News is already OUT for Nigeria, with a large alteration successful onslaught arsenic Victor Osimhen starts from the seat here. Victor Boniface volition pb the onslaught successful a Starting XI that ha besides welcomed the instrumentality of skipper and AFCON 2023 MVP, William Troost-Ekong.

Former Nigerian coach, Gernot Rohr is the caput manager of Benin Republic | IMAGO

• However, they volition beryllium afloat alert that Gernot Rohr's broadside volition amusement them nary respect connected today's juncture with 3 points up for grabs successful their opening Group D ficture.

• The Super Eagles of Nigeria volition beryllium hoping to kickstart their run connected a affirmative enactment nether interim manager Austin Eguavoen.

• The venue is the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium successful Uyo, and footwear disconnected is little than 30 minutes away.

• 🚨Hello and Welcome to the Pulse Sports sum of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers!