Nigeria and Cameroon Set for Crucial Africa Cup of Nations Clash

Coaches Peseiro and Song express mutual admiration as teams face off in last-16 tie, with Nigeria's goal drought and Cameroon's defensive issues in focus.

• Nigeria and Cameroon are set to clash in the last-16 at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, with both teams' coaches praising each other's squads.
• Nigeria's coach, José Peseiro, has compared his team's lack of goals to a blocked ketchup bottle, suggesting they might all come at once in the upcoming match.
• Cameroon's coach, Rigobert Song, has faced criticism for his team's porous defence, which let in six goals in their three pool matches.
• Cameroon is seeking a sixth continental crown and will play the match at the Stade Félix Houphouet-Boigny in Abidjan, where the country won its first Cup of Nations in 1984 after beating Nigeria 3-1.
• The winner of the match will take on either Angola or Namibia, who play on Saturday afternoon in Bouaké.

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