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Nigeria beat Senegal 2–1 at AFCON 2000 on 7 February 2000

Nigeria 2–1 Senegal was the completed AFCON 2000 quarter-final after extra time result on 7 February 2000.

7 February 2000 Africa Lagos
Source-checked report card · FootballFinal after regulation and extra time: Nigeria 2–1 Senegal

7 February 2000 · Lagos

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The story

Nigeria beat Senegal 2–1 in the quarter-final after extra time of the 2000 Africa Cup of Nations on 7 February 2000. The completed result is recorded as Nigeria 2–1 Senegal in Lagos, Nigeria.

How it unfolded

Nigeria finished 1 goal ahead after a match that produced 3 combined regulation-and-extra-time goals. The result is counted once as a single completed contest, not split into separate team, score or shoot-out reports.

The wider picture

CAF's official historical coverage establishes the competition context and outcome, while the independent tournament and international registers corroborate the date, venue city and score. This archive report does not infer lineups, attendance, refereeing or tactical detail, and the original match date remains separate from iintroo's later archive-publication timestamp.

Period by period

Nigeria v Senegal
FinalNigeriaSenegal
After extra time21

Sources

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