Nigeria beat Malawi 2-0 to qualify for the final stage of the 2014 World Cup qualifiers on Saturday in Calabar.
Nigeria 2-0 Malawi: Emenike & Moses give Eagles play-off ticket
The African champions saw off the challenge of the Flames to earn passage into the final stage of qualification for next year's World Cup


Nigeria earned passage into the final round of Caf
qualification for World Cup
2014 with a 2-0 victory
over Malawi in Calabar on Saturday. The Super Eagles were helped by goals from returnee striker Emmanuel
Emenika and a penalty from attacker Victor
Moses. The game began on a very competitive note
with Liverpool loan signing Moses and Ahmed
Musa tormenting the James Sangala-anchored
Malawian defence. As early as the second
minute, Limbikani Mzava was booked for a rough
challenge on Moses who was on a goal-bound move. Despite gaining most of the ball
possession, Nigeria failed to get the curtain raiser
as they failed to create clear cut chances.  The
attack-minded Eagles did not relent as they
challenged Tom Santifiet's men for every ball. In the 11th minute, Musa saw his opportunity
declared offside after he got a well-tailored cross
from John Obi Mikel. Few minutes later, Ogenyi
Onazi's shot went just wide as Stephen Keshi's
men continued their search of the early goal. Malawi shot-stopper, Simplex Nthara repaid the
faith shown in him by Tom Saintfiet to start the
game with a brilliant save off the boot of Efe
Ambrose followed by another super effort in the
26th minute to deny Moses the opening goal. As the first half petered out, Emenike put Nigeria ahead with a very cool finish off a pinpoint cross
from Onazi. Despite resolute defending from the
Malawians, they allowed the Fenerbahce striker
sneak in to chip the ball past Simplex to calm the
nerves of the hosts. In the early minutes of the second half, Musa
failed to double Nigeria's lead after missing a
one-on-one opportunity with the goalkeeper who
gathered safely to keep the Flames in the game.
Shortly afterwards Emenike was denied by the
same goalkeeper. The Eagles, however, put the game beyond the
reach of the Malawians in the 51st minute after
Brescia forward Nnamdi Oduamadi was forcefully
brought down by Flames skipper James Sangala. Moses shot the resultant penalty past Simplex to give the Eagles a comfortable lead. A few minutes later, the visitors were reduced to
10 men after Limbikani Mzava was sent off for a
second yellow to compound Malawi's misery. Musa's battle with the Malawi goalkeeper
continued in the 68th minute as he was unable to
score again in a one on one situation. Even with
the introduction of Newcastle forward Shola
Ameobi for his competitive debut, Nosa Igiebor
and Uche Nwofor, Nigeria failed to get the third goal after missing several scoring chances. With this result, Nigeria are now through to the
final play-off round of World Cup 2014
qualification and will know their opponents when
the draw is made in a few days.

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