Hello and welcome to Eurosport's LIVE African Cup of Nations coverage. It's time for one of the most anticipated contests of the tournament so far as Ivory Coast and Nigeria battle for a spot in the semi-finals.

Moses pops up on the left, beating Eboue then brilliantly backheeling Emenike in, but Bamba closes him down and the Nigeria striker just bounces off the big man's frame. Lovely backheel from Moses though!

Romaric's corner is met by a Bamba bicycle kick, but they're not his speciality and he blasts it well over. Nice try though!

Kalou with a nice turn away from Echiejele, finding Drogba who is challenged by Oboabona, who concedes a corner.

All Nigeria at the moment as Emenike tries to get a shot away, closed down by Tiote.

Now Echiejele with a long-range effort but it's going well wide as Barry watches it pass.

Nigeria have been ranked as outsiders for this tie but with Moses in there you can never discount them - he fires a rasping long-range drive that Barry bats away!

Moses will take this free-kick, great ball into the six-yard box and Brown flies in but heads over!

Foul on Emenike on the Nigeria right, Tiote - who is wearing no.9 confusingly - with the clumsy shove.

Flag is up on Drogba after Romaric swings a lofted pass through - he was level too, poor decision!

The linesman signalled a goal-kick in the end, must have taken a touch off an Ivorian en route. Bamba is fouled while winning a header.

Looks like Drogba is going to shoot, it's a few yards to the right of the edge of the D... Nope, lefty Tiene took it with a surprise effort, little run up, off the wall and a corner.

A delay in taking this as Ivory Coast have a mothers meeting while Nigeria play games over the wall.

Drogba wins a free-kick off Echiejele, the Galatasaray striker backing into the defender and quite lucky to have got the decision.

The first half is underway!

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If you want to get in touch with your pre-match predictions, feel free to Tweet me @Reda_Eurosport. Just to whet your appetite, William Hill have Ivory Coast as 4/11 favourites to go through, with Nigeria at 10/3 and definitely worth a punt in my view.

Nigeria boss Stephen Keshi has repeatedly shuffled his pack at these finals, sometimes bizarrely. There are only two changes today, which is conservative by Keshi's standards, as Brown Ideye comes back in for Ike Uche, whole Ogenyi Onazi replaces Fegor Ogude in midfield. Sunday MBa continues, despite failing to impress against Ethiopia. Victor Moses has been a revelation for Nigeria - as if we didn't already know how good he was - and he seems to be the main man now.

Ivory Coast fielded an experimental line-up for their dead rubber against Algeria, so the big guns return for this match. Indeed, the only players to remain are Didier Drogba, Romaric and Salomon Kalou, all of whom had been rested for at least one of the previous group matches. Talk about using your squad! Didier Zokora plays centre-back alongside Sol Bamba, with Kolo Toure apparently no longer trusted in that position.

Referee: Djamel Haimoudi (Algeria)

TEAMS - Ivory Coast: 1-Boubacar Barry; 21-Emmanuel Eboue, 5-Didier Zokora, 22-Souleman Bamba, 17-Siaka Tiene; 9-Cheick Tiote, 6-Romaric, 19-Yaya Toure, 10-Gervinho; 8-Salomon Kalou, 11-Didier Drogba. /// Nigeria: 1-Vincent Enyeama; 3-Elderson Echiejile, 22-Kenneth Omeruo, 14-Godfrey Oboabona, 5-Efe Ambrose; 19-Sunday Mba, 17-Ogenyi Onazi, 10-John Obi Mikel, 11-Victor Moses; 8-Brown Ideye, 9-Emmanuel Emenike