2022 World Cup Play-offs: Nigeria May Play Against Cameroon, Ghana, Egypt In Third Round

2022 World Cup Play-offs: Nigeria May Play Against Cameroon, Ghana, Egypt In Third Round By Niyi Busari Three-time African champions, Super Eagles of Nigeria may be drawn against Egypt, Cameroon, Ghana, DR Congo or Mali when the draws for the Third Round is made in December, BSNSports.com.ng can report. Super Eagles being rated among the Top Five African countries means, the bronze medal winning team at the 2019 African Nations Cup will not face the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations Champions as well as runners-up, Algeria and Senegal. Also, the Gernot Rohr-led lads will not face Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia as well. To determine the five countries that will represent Africa at the 2022 World Cup, the 10 nations qualified for the final stage of the qualifying series after they emerged winners of their various groups during the second round of qualifiers that were concluded on Tuesday across the continent will have to trade tackles against each other on home and away basis. Based on FIFA rankings, the first five teams, Algeria, Senegal, Morocco, Nigeria and Tunisia in that order are seeded teams ahead of the draw while the unseeded teams are Egypt, Mali, Ghana, DR Congo and Cameroon. The seeded teams cannot be paired against one another in the play-off draw but they can face anyone from the unseeded teams. The 5 seeded teams will be drawn against the 5 unseeded teams and the winners will qualify for the 2022 World Cup. Only five countries will represent Africa in the 2022 World Cup holding in Qatar late next year The draw will be conducted on December 8th, 2021 while the matches will be played in March 2022. Nigeria gas participated in all FIFA World Cup final tournament since her debut in 1994 in the United States of America, but narrowly missed the 2006 finals hosted by Germany following head-to-head rule that favoured Angola after finishing with the same points.