By Our Correspondent

Super Eagles head coach, José Peseiro has disclosed that their Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON 2023 opponents, South Africa created many problems for the three-time champions on Wednesday.

Nigeria won 4-2 on penalties after an entertaining 120 minutes of football ended 1-1 at the Stade de la Paix in Ivory Coast.

The Portugese who said that his players deserved to be in the final added that the boys had to achieve the victory in a hard way.

“The players deserve to be in the finals, it’s a very good victory against a good team. I said it earlier that South Africa have the best of organization because they play together and they created more problems for us. It was very difficult to beat them,” he said after the game.

The Portuguese stressed on the fact South Africa are stronger because of the cohesion between them and also credited Hugo Broos for organizing the squad.

“I think it was very difficult to beat them. Huge congratulations to Hugo Broos, who put this team together. They played well.”