Super Eagles defeat Ethiopia 2-0 to become first African country to qualify for Brazil 2014

Victor Moses and Victor Nsofor scored from set-pieces, as Nigeria confirmed their spot in next year’s World Cup in Brazil.
The Super Eagles came into the game, with a healthy 2-1 advantage over the Ethiopiansand started brightly, with Emmanuel Emenike testing the goalkeeper and Brown Ideye failing to score from pointblank range.
However, in the 20th minute, the referee adjudged that a Walya Antelope defender had handled the ball inside the area and pointed to the spot. Moses, who is on loan at Liverpool, stepped up and sent the keeper the wrong way, deflating the East Africans’ hope  of an unlikely comeback.

The hosts seem to relax, after extending their advantage and failed to convert some of the good chances they had, until Nsofor was summoned from the bench. With his very first kick, he curled a majestic free-kick into the top corner, to seal Nigeria’s place at Brazil 2014.
It will be the West African country’s fifth World Cup in the last six editions – they lost out to Angola in 2006.