Nigeria’s home-based Super Eagles Sunday beat their visiting counterparts from Burkina Faso 2-0 in their first leg, first round qualifiers of the African Nations Championship for locally-based players. The goals were scored by Bello Kofarmata in the 28th and Uche Otorogu in the 50th. The Nigerians were not impressive in the match, watched by a capacity crowd at the U.J. Esuene stadium in the South-eastern city of Calabar. Nigeria coach Okey Emordi said the Stallions of Burkina Faso had a better game plan that his wards, hence the second leg in a fortnight will be a tough affair. Here are the results of the other qualifying matches played across Africa at the weekend:
Algeria 1-1 Morocco
Libya v Egypt (withdrew)
Senegal 0-0 Mali
Mauritania 2-2 Guinea
Ghana 2-0 Togo
Cameroon 1-2 Gabon
DR Congo 3-0 Congo
Sudan 4-0 Rwanda
Tanzania 2-0 Uganda
Mozambique 1-1 Angola
Botswana 1-0 Zambia
Zimbabwe 0-0 Namibia
South Africa v Mauritius (withdrew)
