Super Eagles Coach, Berti Vogts says his team will qualify for the quarter final of the African Cup of Nations despite their 1-0 defeat to Ivory Coast in their opening Group B match.

We have lost against the best team in Africa but we will be back,

said the 61-year-old German.


Nigeria next play Mali, who they now trail by three points.
Ivory Coast won the cagey duel thanks to a superb individual goal in the second-half from Chelsea's Salomon Kalou.

The win was a repeat of the semi-finals of the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt where the Super Eagles were also defeated 1-0 after a Didier Drogba strike.


The next Group B matches take place on Friday in Sekondi where Ivory Coast play Benin before Nigeria take on Mali.


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