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The Super Eagles visit Bafana Bafana as they look to take a step towards qualification

Nigeria were held to a frustrating draw in Bloemfontein tonight, drawing 1-1 with South Africa. Captain William Troost-Ekong opened the scoring with a clumsy own goal after 25 minutes, before Calvin Bassey equalised with a similarly clumsy header shortly before half-time, which stood despite ricocheting off his arm. A goalless second-half meant the points were shared.

It marks a significant blow to the Super Eagles’ World Cup qualification hopes - they now face a convoluted set of permutations if they are to attend the tournament in the United States. In the first place, they need group leaders South Africa to lose both of their remaining qualifiers, an unlikely prospect as they visit Zimbabwe and host Rwanda. Nigeria must also win both of their remaining outings and recover sufficient goal difference to surpass Bafana Bafana atop the group.

Nigeria will face Lesotho and Benin in their final two qualifiers, due to be played in the October international break. They will hope for Victor Osimhen, Ola Aina, and Wilfred Ndidi to return to fitness ahead of those crunch fixtures after all three picked up injuries in this camp. Catch up on all the action as it happened below with our dedicated match blog!