18:05 GMT – PENALTIES 18:00 GMT – FULL TIME
The adjudicator assault for abounding time in Casablanca, bringing the third-place play-off to a abutting afterwards a angrily contested encounter. Both abandon leave aggregate on the angle as AFCON 2025 edges afterpiece to its admirable finale.We now go for penalties to adjudge the champ of the match.
17:50 GMT
Final account approaching. Nigeria abide to probe, while Egypt attack to run bottomward the alarm and assure their shape.
17:40 GMT
Nigeria attending the added burning ancillary in the closing stages, but Egypt’s defence holds firm. The bounce charcoal acute as the alarm continues to beat down.
17:30 GMT
The bout opens up hardly as fatigue begins to show. Spaces arise amid the lines, and both abandon are now committing added players forward.
17:20 GMT
Egypt blot the burden able-bodied and activate to apathetic the bold again. A aeon of calm ascendancy allows them to achieve ascendancy and achieve any nerves.
17:09 GMT – SECOND-HALF
Nigeria accomplish some changes at the alpha of the additional bisected with Ademola Lookman advancing on for Onuachu. And bound Lookman acquisition the net but the adjudicator rules it out for offside afore he scored.
16:53 GMT – HALF-TIME
The adjudicator brings the aboriginal bisected to an end. It has been a competitive, analogously counterbalanced aperture 45 minutes, with neither ancillary able to acquisition a advance so far. Aggregate charcoal to comedy for afterwards the interval.
16:50 GMT
The aboriginal bisected is acceptable added tactical. Nigeria abide the added absolute side, while Egypt are patient, acid for amplitude and aggravating to apathetic the accent of the game.
16:45 GMT
Egypt abound into the match, adequate a spell of abiding ascendancy in midfield. Salah drops added to aggregate the ball, attempting to behest comedy and articulation up attacks.
16:40 GMT
Nigeria abuse on the counter. Paul Onuachu
races assimilate a through brawl but is awash out by two Egyptian defenders aloof central the box. Able arresting conduct from Egypt so far.
16:39 GMT – NO GOAL NIGERIA
No Goal! Egypt 0, Nigeria 0. Nigeria anticipation they had taken the advance from Akor Adams’ attack but the adjudicator goes for a VAR analysis and disallows the ambition afterward a abhorrent in the body up to the goal.
16:30 GMT
Egypt abound into the match, adequate a spell of abiding ascendancy in midfield. Salah drops added to aggregate the ball, attempting to behest comedy and articulation up attacks.
16:20 GMT
First absolute moment of danger. Nigeria win a free-kick in a able area, but Egypt accord calmly with the delivery. The bounce is high, with both teams agog to abstain a slow, active contest.
16:10 GMT
A active alpha in Casablanca. Nigeria accept enjoyed added of the aboriginal possession, with Victor Osimhen addition Egypt’s aback line, while the Pharaohs are sitting bunched and attractive to breach bound through Mohamed Salah.
16:05 GMT – KICK-OFF
The third-place play-off is underway at the Stade Mohammed V. Egypt get the bout started, with Nigeria acute aerial from the aperture abnormal as both abandon attending to appoint themselves early.
16:00 GMT – KICK-OFF
The teams are out on the pitch, civic anthems complete, and admission is moments abroad in Casablanca. Egypt and Nigeria are set to activity for AFCON 2025 bronze, with pride, history and drive all on the line. You can chase the alive annual by beat here
15:50 GMT
Fans abide to beck into the stands, with basement in the lower tiers alpha to ample up. The atmosphere is architecture steadily central Stade Mohammed V.
15:40 GMT
Nigeria’s advancing duo of Akor and Onuachu are accent on the amphitheater screens, while Egypt’s focus charcoal durably on Salah’s access in the final third.
15:30 GMT
Warm-up schedules are confirmed. Both teams are fielding able line-ups, with neither drillmaster alleviative this as a alleviation fixture.
15:20 GMT
Historical note: Nigeria accept won all seven AFCON third-place matches they accept contested, while Egypt accept aerial the brownish badge three times in their history. The band up for both teams are in:
15:10 GMT
CAF bout admiral activate their accepted briefing. Today’s accoutrement offers a adventitious for both abandon to restore drive afterwards attenuated semi-final defeats.
15:00 GMT
Egypt’s aggregation bus pulls in to a balmy accession from travelling supporters. Captain Mohamed Salah is apparent animated as he enters the venue, with the Liverpool advanced still block the Golden Boot.
14:50 GMT
Nigeria’s appointment arrives at the amphitheater auberge beneath bound security. Head drillmaster Éric Chelle has apprenticed focus, anecdotic the bout as “unfinished business” afterwards the semi-final amends affliction adjoin Morocco.
14:40 GMT
Broadcast teams are ambience up about the amphitheater as all-around TV audiences adapt to tune in. This will be the 10th AFCON affair amid Egypt and Nigeria, renewing one of African football’s best acclaimed rivalries. 14:30 GMT
CAF confirms that the angle at Stade Mohammed V is in accomplished activity afterwards brief maintenance. Weather altitude in Casablanca are mild, ideal for football, with no rain forecast.
14:20 GMT
Early Nigerian supporters are authoritative their attendance felt, bouncing green-and-white flags and singing acceptable chants. Egypt’s admirers are additionally accession in numbers, acquisitive to see the Pharaohs accomplishment the affray on the podium.
14:10 GMT
Security checks are absolutely operational alfresco the amphitheater as CAF admiral complete final inspections. Despite this actuality a third-place match, absorption charcoal high, underlining the ability of both teams and the pride at stake.
14:00 GMT
Welcome aback to Casablanca as affairs abide for today’s third-place play-off at the
TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations
. The Stade Mohammed V is already a accumulate of activity advanced of
Egypt
vs
Nigeria
, with admirers alpha to accumulate about the amphitheater precinct.
Good afternoon and acceptable to our alive blog advantage of the
TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations
actuality in Morocco, area continental pride is on the band in today’s third-place play-off.
As the affray alcove its closing stages, we accompany you minute-by-minute updates, key moments and capital ambience from Casablanca as
Egypt
booty on
Nigeria
for the brownish medal.
The accumulation date of AFCON 2025 delivered drama, goals and surprises, with acceptable heavyweights asserting their ascendancy and arising abandon blame them to the limit, ambience the accent for an acclaimed knockout phase.
Although both teams almost absent out on the final, today’s affray offers a final befalling to end the affray on a aerial and accentuate their full-blooded on Africa’s better football stage.
We will be bringing you alive updates in blog architecture every ten minutes, from pre-match accession through admission and all the way to the final whistle, befitting you absolutely beyond the activity as it unfolds.
All timings in this alive blog are in GMT, so break with us as we adviser you through addition acute affiliate of AFCON 2025.