Nigeria v Bosnia & Herzegovina

Peter Odemwingie ends Nigeria's nine-match wait for World Cup win

Result and match report for the World Cup 2014 Group F game between Nigeria and Bosnia & Herzegovina at Pantanal Stadium, Cuiaba, on Saturday, June 21, 2014

Nigeria's agonising nine-match wait for a World Cup win and nine-hour wait for a goal from open play finally ended last night.
Peter Odemwingie delivered on both counts - controversially so - asBosnia and Herzegovina and Edin Dzeko's luckless first taste of football's biggest stage saw them suffer the quickest of eliminations.
A match billed as the battle for second place behind Lionel Messi in Group F deserved more than the single goal that put Nigeria on the brink of joining Argentina in the last 16.
Ghana and Germany did not have a monopoly on Afro-European entertainment yesterday, this game picking up where the other left off with fearless attacking play from both sides.
Dzeko will be wondering how he failed to score, although the Manchester City striker was cruelly denied his first World Cup goal when he was wrongly flagged offside after brilliantly timing his run before lashing past Vincent Enyeama.
Por Edinilson de Sousa Matias

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