Super Eagles defender, William Troost-Ekong, has blamed himself for the first goal Nigeria conceded against South Africa at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nation, AFCON, quarter-final encounter on Wednesday night.
He also identified Gernot Rohr’s side as the favourite team to win this year’s AFCON after dumping South Africa out from the competition with a 2-1 victory.
The 25-year-old, who scored the winning goal against South Africa, noted that before the quarter-final, it was the host nation, Egypt that were favourite to win the AFCON but the Bafana Bafana defeated them last weekend.
“Before the game we showed South Africa a lot of respect because they are a good team,” Troost-Ekong told SuperSport.
“We played them last year in the qualification and they won us at home and we drew at their home.
“We are very happy we won this game against them. And I am happy to have scored the winning goal after the mistake I made in the goal we conceded against them during the second half.
“We have a very good team to win the AFCON and before the quarter final everybody were talking about Egypt as the favourite to win this year’s AFCON and South Africa beat them and after that they became favourite and now we have beaten South Africa.”
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