Lesotho vs Nigeria dwell: Super Eagles determined to maintain their World Cup 2026 qualifying hopes alive | EUROtoday

Luca Zidane, son of France nice Zinedine Zidane, has been referred to as as much as Algeria’s squad for this month’s World Cup qualifiers towards Somalia and Uganda after switching allegiance to the nation the place his grandparents hailed from.

The goalkeeper, who performed for France at junior degree, made the swap after the transfer was permitted by soccer’s world governing physique FIFA final month.

The Cape Verde Islands stand on the point of a historic World Cup qualification, requiring only one victory from their subsequent two matches to safe a spot in subsequent 12 months’s match.

This achievement would underscore the outstanding progress of a nation that, twenty years in the past, had barely registered on the worldwide soccer stage.

South Africa have been stripped of three factors of their World Cup qualifying marketing campaign for fielding an ineligible participant, denting their hopes of reaching subsequent 12 months’s finals.

Fifa mentioned on Monday that its disciplinary committee had discovered South Africa responsible of taking part in midfielder Teboho Mokoena in a 2-0 dwelling win over Lesotho in March when he ought to have sat out the qualifier after two cautions in earlier Group C video games.

Nigeria’s pursuit of 2026 World Cup qualification is getting into crunch time as they tackle Lesotho in an important conflict.

The Super Eagles at present sit third in Group C, with solely prime spot guaranteeing participation within the United States, Canada and Mexico subsequent 12 months. The 4 greatest second-place groups will then enter the play-offs vying to qualify.

Placed three factors behind Benin and South Africa within the two spots above them, Eric Chelle’s facet are actually determined to safe six factors of their subsequent pair of outings to present them any hope of both final result, however their probabilities have been just lately boosted when Bafana Bafana have been docked three factors for fielding an ineligible participant earlier within the qualifying marketing campaign.

Lesotho will in the meantime look to trigger an upset and successfully finish Nigeria’s hopes of qualification by conserving their very own World Cup desires alive, with it nonetheless mathematically attainable that the enclaved nation can shut the five-point hole between themselves and the highest two.

Welcome to The Independent’s protection of the World Cup qualifiers.

We normally deal with the European facet of issues however right this moment’s motion comes from the African qualifiers have been Nigeria are in a little bit of hassle.

They sit third in Group C with two matches to play and solely the highest group in every group is assured a spot on the World Cup.

The Super Eagles have to win their final two matches and hope different outcomes additionally go there means.

We’ll have the most recent permutations, group information and updates all through the day so persist with us as we construct as much as kick off at 5pm.