Down But Never Out! How 10-Woman Super Falcons Escape WAFCON Humiliation

For nearly an hour, Nigeria’s Super Falcons Women’s Africa Cup of Nations title defence hung by the thinnest of threads.

One goal.

One player down.

Wave after wave of relentless Zambian attacks.

And the terrifying possibility that Africa’s most successful women’s football nation could crash out in the group stage as defending champions for the very first time, but champions rarely surrender…