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00:00Important midfielder, who holds off anybody who comes near him and distributes the ball really well.
00:08Cameroon, oh it's Osimed, Osimed, Osimed, can he find his goal?
00:13Oh it's a beautiful opportunity there, Lokman has got it, they get the goal!
00:18Unbelievable, the scenes here, the Nigerians jumping with joy,
00:23and I thought that at one moment it wasn't going to go in, but crikey, they get the goal.
00:28The Super Eagles take full advantage, Osimed reading it, ball out wide, Lokman coming up,
00:34and the shot comes in, squirms underneath and a kerfuffle at the end.
00:38That's what happens when a player gives you 120%, when a player is playing with his heart.
00:43You can see the goal came out of nothing, we didn't even see it coming,
00:47but he continued putting that pressure and then he got tangled into it with the player,
00:51he got the ball and he was very smart enough to raise his head up
00:56to see the incoming player and he just, you know, look at the tangle,
01:00and then he saw it coming, he rolled the ball to him, we thought the goalkeeper got it,
01:03but the ball crossed the line.
01:05Look at that, Osimed just dealing so well, getting in front of him,
01:10that first touch, you've just got to hit it, he's got acceleration like nobody other,
01:15beautifully done, deals with it, takes in the players.
01:20They will get that space because Cameroon will definitely come out looking for an equaliser.
01:25Lukman, Lukman, Alex Iwobi gets the ball out to the left-hand side,
01:28the delivery comes in...
01:30Oh, it's a great goal! They've got a goal, Nigeria!
01:33Goal number two, that is fabulous, fabulous play.
01:37Oh, the follow-up, the pass and the shot was just sublime.
01:42Nigeria are soaring high, that's surely the final word,
01:48the final statement, the top flights of the Super Eagles.
01:53Brilliant play, I'm just trying to see who actually finished it up,
01:58I think it was Lukman.
01:59I think it was Lukman, that's his brace.
02:01There he is, Lukman, look man, it's me!
02:04You can see the excitement from the Nigerian team,
02:08you can see the excitement from the dugout,
02:10and you can see the excitement from the Nigerian spectators in the crowd.
02:14I can see a lot of good faces, that's a good combination played,
02:19and they did it sound right.
02:22Stands over this...
02:26William Trostekom.
02:32Straight down the middle and Nigeria lead,
02:35stellar, sublime, soaring Super Eagles.
02:39Is this the seminal moment in the game?
02:45Celebration in the Stade de la Paix.
02:50The battle is still very much on, but Nigeria have drawn first blood.
02:56Yeah, Brennan, the crowd just rose again,
02:58just like they did at the Victoria Falls in Zambia.
03:01I mean, Ekong definitely did his homework there on Ronwin Williams,
03:05and he just went down the middle because he knew that Ronwin Williams
03:08was going to dive to his left.
03:10Ademola, Lukman to take it.
03:13Kelser towards the near post, flick on from Chukwesi,
03:16Trostekom, goal!
03:18Goal, Nigeria!
03:20Trostekom's third of the tournament,
03:23strong header from a corner,
03:25and the Super Eagles are in the lead.
03:28The Super Eagles are in the lead indeed.
03:30We talked about Trostekom, for me he's one of the best players so far,
03:34he's been strong and solid on the defence.
03:37I remember when we said that Nigeria hold back,
03:40the coach has a game plan, stick by,
03:42you can see Kano's reaction to the goal.
03:45They sit back, absorb the pressure,
03:48and they get one chance, and they break,
03:51and they're in the lead.
03:54High up in the air, and Trostekom rises above the defence.
04:00They'll be very disappointed, the Ivorians,
04:02the way they've conceded,
04:04but credit here to the Nigerian captain.
04:09No chance for the keeper, it was high, it was looping above him.