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  Nigeria took on Cape Verde away from home in a world cup qualifier, the super eagles were without ten of their first team stars for the encounter, eight UK based players were excused from the eagles camp and the duo of Tyrone Ebuehi and Samuel Kalu were unavailable leaving Rohr with just 19 squad players.. Despite the absentees Gernot Rohr still managed to name a strong squad. Cape Verde got the lead in the 20th minute but they were unable to hold on as Nigeria piled pressure on them, Victor Osimhen equalized in the first half and Cape Verde scored an own goal in the 76th minute giving Nigeria a 2-1 victory. It was a well contested game but it was marred with some controversial officiating decisions that would have been made easier had VAR been used in the game. Below are three VAR decisions that went against Nigeria. This happened in the first half as Cape Verde opened the scoring, a Cape Verde midfielder played a through ball from midfield for his teammate to chase down the striker