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Nigeria went six video games unbeaten on the AFCON 2023 match, earlier than shedding within the closing to the hosts, Ivory Coast on the Stade Olympique Alassane Ouattara.
The Tremendous Eagles of Nigeria have moved up fourteen locations within the newest FIFA rankings after their outing in Ivory Coast, Soccernet.ng reviews.
The Nigerian group scored eight targets and conceded 4 targets in Ivory Coast, maintaining 4 clear sheets within the course of, however couldn’t discover the leading edge within the AFCON 2023 closing below the tutelage of Portuguese tactician, Jose Peseiro.
Regardless of their loss, their show in Ivory Coast has seen them shot up within the newest FIFA rankings, and are additionally essentially the most improved African group on the desk.
Beforehand ranked 42, Nigeria moved up fourteen locations and are actually 28, and third in Africa, simply behind Morocco and Senegal who occupy twelfth and seventeenth locations respectively.
AFCON 2023 winners, Ivory Coast, moved up ten locations, and are fifth in Africa and occupy thirty ninth place on the planet, simply behind Mohammed Salah’s Egypt who occupy the thirty sixth place.
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AFCON 2023 bronze medallists, South Africa moved from 66 to 58 within the rankings, and Asian Cup winners, Qatar, transfer up twenty-one locations to carry the thirty seventh place.
The highest ten stay unchanged, with FIFA 2022 World Cup winners occupying the highest spot, intently adopted by the FIFA 2018 World Cup winners, France.
England, Belgium, Brazil, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Italy and Croatia make up the record for the highest ten ranked nations on the planet.
Nigeria return to the twenty eighth place, their highest since they received the AFCON match in 2013.
