Match of the day – Nigeria – South Africa – 10.July.2019

Nigeria – South Africa

One of Africa’s most surprising team is the South African national representative, a team that managed to score just 2 goals at this tournament, but will play against Nigeria in the quarterfinals of the competition. For the South African team, the most unexpected result was the victory against the tournament hosts, Egypt, a match in which South Africans had a ball possession of only 37%.

Considering these details, it would be no surprise if today Nigeria will dominate the game and South Africa will wait a counter-attack to surprise the opponents. South Africa is one of the few national teams participating at this tournament that has a squad in which most of the footballers are evolving into the domestic championship, which means that the homogeneity of the South Africa team is much higher than that of Nigeria.

Unlike national Bafana Bafana, there are only one footballer in the Nigerian team who evolves in the domestic championship, but there are more players in the strongest competitions in Europe. Nigeria has not defeated South Africa since 2014, although there have been several games between the two sides and today we are proposing bettors to rely on Nigerian victory at 2.00 because South Africa can no longer be underestimated at this stage of the competition.