Match Report
2 points for Niger (5th), 6 for South Africa (3rd): a 4-point gap. On recent form Niger sat only 16th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 5th overall. Scoring rates set the scale: Niger 0 scored and 0.75 conceded per game, South Africa 1.5 and 1.25, with the league averaging 1.03.
South Africa were unbeaten in 6. Niger had banked 5 of the last 15 points on offer; South Africa, 11.
Stade de l'Amitié in Cotonou, capacity 50,000, hosted the game. On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 0-0 the final score.