{"id":16275,"date":"2026-11-12T18:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T18:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/afcon-2027q-super-eagles-handed-lifeline-as-guinea-bissau-force-madagascar-to-1-1-draw\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T18:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T18:32:11","slug":"afcon-2027q-super-eagles-handed-lifeline-as-guinea-bissau-force-madagascar-to-1-1-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/12\/afcon-2027q-super-eagles-handed-lifeline-as-guinea-bissau-force-madagascar-to-1-1-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2027Q: Super Eagles Handed Lifeline As Guinea-Bissau Force Madagascar To 1-1 Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles have received a major boost in their Africa Cup of Nations 2027 qualification bid after Group L leaders Guinea-Bissau were held to a 1-1 draw by Madagascar on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Guinea-Bissau had the chance to go nine points clear if they had beaten Madagascar twice but the draw changes everything as Guinea-Bissau remain in first place and now has seven points and Madagascar maintain third spot on two points. The Super Eagles are second on three points.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles now face Tanzania in Uyo on Friday, November 13 and a win will take them to six points \u2013 just one point behind Guinea-Bissau.<\/p>\n<p>If the Super Eagles win both legs against Tanzania, they will go to nine points and could go top if Guinea-Bissau slip again on Tuesday when they host Madagascar again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/2027-afconq-super-eagles-warned-against-underestimating-tanzania-by-ex-intl-iroha\/\">2027 AFCONQ: Super Eagles Warned Against Underrating Tanzania By Ex-Int\u2019l Iroha<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tanzania are co-hosts of AFCON 2027 with Kenya and Uganda, so they are already qualified automatically. CAF rules state that only one other team from Group L qualifies. <\/p>\n<p>So the Super Eagles are not competing against Tanzania \u2013 they are in a three-way race with Guinea-Bissau and Madagascar for that one ticket.<\/p>\n<p>Guinea-Bissau beat Nigeria 3-0 in Bissau in September and hold the head-to-head advantage, so Nigeria cannot afford to finish level on points \u2013 they must finish outright top.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><br \/>By James Agberebi <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles have received a major boost in their Africa Cup of Nations 2027 qualification bid after Group L leaders Guinea-Bissau were held to a 1-1 draw by Madagascar&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}