Sun-News carried a story over the weekend about a reward promised the Super Eagles if they won the quarter-finals match.
We cannot authoritatively say the promised reward was the only reason for the Eagles victory, if even at all.
Convincing gameplay by the Eagles was undoubtedly a part of the formula for the recorded victory.
Sunday Mba grabbed the winner 12 minutes from time after Ivory Coast’s Cheik Tiote had cancelled out Emmanuel Emenike’s first-half opener.
