Nick Ames reports on a match in which Gylfi Sigurdsson missed a penalty for Iceland, while Ahmed Musa won the points for Nigeria with an inspired second half brace.

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Fill in your player ratings. Ahmed Musa gets my man of the match award, while I was also impressed by Nigeria’s centre-back Kenneth Omero, Oghenekaro Etebo and John Obi Mikel.

Here’s a snap report from the news wires until our man Nick Ames files his pristine prose from the press box at Volgograd.

Peep! Peep! Peeeeeeep! It’s all over and Nigeria have taken the points courtesy of a fine second half brace from Ahmed Musa. They go second in Group D, blowing it wide open. With Croatia already through, any two from Iceland, Nigertia and Argentina can still qualify for the knockout stages. Argentina face Nigeria next, while Iceland take on Luka Modric and chums.

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90+6 min: Ighalo holds the ball up well in the Nigeria penalty area with Ingason tight on his back. He tees up Iwobi for a shot, but his effort is deflected wide for a corner. There’s no time to take it – the ref blows for full time.

90+5 min: Mikel is helped to the sideline, holding his wrist and grimacing with pain. He comes back on the pitch, but is still holding his wrist and grimacing with pain.

90+4 min: John Obi Mikel is flat on his back and seems to have injured his hand while trying to tackle Hordur Magnusson. He looks in real distress here - as if he might have broken his wrist.

90+3 min: Iceland refuse to give up and Savarsson eschews a shooting opportunity to square the ball. Nigeria clear.

90+1 min: Nigeria get forward again, keeping possession as the clock ticks down.

90 min: Nigeria substitution: Alex Iwobi on for Etebo, who’s had a good game in Nigeria’s engine room.

89 min: Nigeira get forward again with Ndidi on the ball. Sverrir Ingasson tackles him, but Nigeria retain possession. We’ll have a fair amount of injury time here, as it took four or five minutes for Ragnar Sigurdsson to get patched up straight after Nigeria’s opener.

86 min: Igalo turns well and gets in behind Sverrir Ingason, but is dispossessed. Iceland substitution: Aron Gunnarsson off, Ari Skulason on. Gylfi Sigurdsson takes the captain’s armband.

85 min: Nigeria substitution: Odion Ighalo on for Kelechi Iheanacho.

84 min: Iheanacho fires wide of the upright after good work from Musa and Etebo.

83 min: Gylfi sends the goalkeeper the wrong way, but also sends the ball the wrong side of the cross-bar. Aiming for the top right-hand corner, he sends the ball over the bar.

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VAR!!! Ebuehi appears to bring down Finnbodvarsson in the Nigeria penalty area. Referee Matthew Conger takes it to the TV ref. While he’s consulting the TV, Gylfi Sigurdsson places the ball on the spot. The penalty is given!!!

79 min: Of course it’s also worth noting - the more Iceland lose by, the more Argentina’s chances improve of making it into the knocking stages. Of course they’d need to beat Nigeria first and on last night’s evidence, that’s far from a foregone conclusion.

76 min: That’s a splendid goal from Musa. He took and controlled a long ball from the back without breaking stride and galloped towards goal, beating Kari Arnason in the process. Having drawn Halldorsson from his goal and seen the Icelandic keeper commit himself, he shimmied a couple of steps right and then blasted the ball past two covering defenders from about 10 yards out. He did all that at full speed - fantastic stuff.

Musa doubles Iceland’s lead with a fine solo goal.

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73 min: Nigeria attack, with Moses looking a constant menace as he cuts in from the right. Musa picks up the ball on the edge of the Iceland penalty area and rattles the bar with a curling shot.

73 min: Iceland substitution from a couple of minutes ago: Jon Bodvarsson off to be replaced by Bjorn Sigurdarson.

71 min: Another Nigeria corner. Balogun leaps highest and sends a header a couple of feet over the bar.

70 min: Nigeria take a corner, but Etebo’s delivery is cleared. The ball is crossed into the penalty area, where Balogun stoops to head well wide.

68 min: Victor Moses glides up the right flank, with Musa and Iheanacho in support. He attempts to drill the ball into the penalty area, but his effort is blocked. Iceland clear their lines.

66 min: A poor first touch for Jon Bodvarsson sees the Icelandic forward run the ball out of play on the far touchline as he tries to take it around a defender. He waves an apology in the direction of Gylfi Sigurdsson, who was hoping for a cross.

64 min: Iceland substitution: Ragnar Sigurdsson succumbs to the head injury he sustained as Ahmed Musa scored for Nigeria and is replaced by Sverrir Ingason.

63 min: Free-kick for Iceland about 35 yards from the Nigeria goal. Gylfi Sigurdsson floats the ball straight into the hands of Nigeria’s 19-year-old goalkeeper Francis Uzoho.

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60 min: This is match No25 of this World Cup and Ahmed Musa’s goal means we still haven’t had a goalless draw. That’s quite remarkable ... particularly as I think I read somewhere that in terms of goals per game, this is lowest scoring World Cup of all time ... so far.

59 min: Iceland corner. Gylfi Sigurdsson sends the ball into the Nigeria penalty area, where Victor Moses hacks it clear.

58 min: Saevarsson crosses from the right touchline, but his delivery is cleared. Moments later, Iceland get another delivery into the Nigeria penalty area, but Leon Balogun clears well. In the stands, the Iceland fans begin another thunderclap in a bid to rally their team.

56 min: It’s all Nigeria at the moment and Halldorsson is forced to tip a speculative Wilf Ndidi shot from distance over the bar for a corner. That was dipping in.

55 min: Argentina’s players will have been cheered up by that Nigerian goal. A win for Iceland in this match would leave them in even more bother than they find themselves already.

53 min: Sigurdsson is patched up by Iceland’s medics and will resume playing in a clean shirt, with an arresting pink bandage wrapped Terry Butcher-style around his head.

51 min: Ragnar Sigurdsson took an accidental knee to the back of the head as he attempted to block that shot from Musa and is currently receiving treatment. He seems to be bleeding quite heavily from the wound on the back of his head.

49 min: That was a terrific goal from Ahmed Musa. From an Iceland long-throw at the far end of the pitch, Nigeria cleared and galloped upfield on the break. Victor Moses sprinted up the inside right, before curling a cross towards the near post. Up in support, Musa controlled the ball with a wonderful first touch and slammed it past Halldorsson on the half volley.

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Nigeria break on the counter and Ahmed Musa fires them into the lead on the half-volley.

47 min: A long diagonal from Iceland and Bodvarsson tries to head the ball down for Gylfi Sigurdsson. Oh, hold on ...

46 min: Iceland get the second half started. Nigeria have made a change. Brian Idowu has been replaced by attacking right-back Tyronne Ebuehi. Nigeria begin the first half at a tremendous lick, with Oghenekaro Etebo brimnging a smart save out of Halldorsson with a low drive.

Apologies! Apologies! Apologies! Apologies! Apologies! Apologies! Apologies! Apologies! Apologies! Apologies! Apologies! Apologies! Apologies! Apologies! Apologies! Apologies! Apologies! Apologies! Apologies! Apologies! Twenty-five matches in and I’m now imagining goals. It’s scoreless, not 1-1 as I incorrectly stated.

Peeeep!!! After another couple of Icelandic crosses into the Nigeria penalty area, the ref blows for the interval. It hasn’\t been a classic by any standards, but it’s entertaining enough. Iceland began and ended the half brightly, but Nigeria were impressive in between. Both teams are looking toothless up front and with better finishing, Iceland should be a goal or two ahead.

45+1 min: Brian Idowu was booked for that challenge, incidentally. And it was on Bodvarsson, not Sigurdsson. We got there in the end.

44 min: Iceland win a free-kick wide on the right for a Brian Idowu foul on – I think – Gylfi Sigurdsson. Sigurdsson curls a wonderful cross in and Alfred Finnbogason looks certain to score. He’s not able to make meaty enough contact and the ball flashes wide of the far post.

43 min: Nigeria corner. Iheanacho curls it towards the far post and out of play. I wonder if the Leicester City striker’s role as corner-taker is as contentious in Nigeria as Harry Kane’s used to be in England during Euro 2016 ...

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40 min: Both managers will, probably be happy enough with how their teams are playing, although both seem to be lacking quality in the final third. A case in point: Bjarnason finds himself in space in the inside left channel and drills a cross into the penalty area, but fails to pick out Bodvarsson in a good position.

39 min: Wilf Ndidi picks up the ball from Victor Moses about 10 yards outside the Iceland penalty area. He curls in a cross but there’s nobody in a Nigeria shirt in range. Moses castigates his team-mate for not playing the ball back to him.

38 min: Nigeria free-kick, down near the corner flag. Kelechi Iheanacho curls the ball towards the near post but it’s headed out for a throw-in. Mikel chucks the ball to the edge of the penalty area, but Musa is unable to flick it on. The ball eventually goes out for a goal kick.

35 min: Saevarsson curls a wonderful diagonal cross into the Nigeria penalty and a header from Leon Balogan puts the ball out for a corner. Jon Bodvarsson and Birkir Bjarnason were lurking with intent at the far post and one of them would surely have steered the ball goalwards but for the interception of the Nigeria defender. Nothing comes of the ensuing corner.

33 min: Iceland win a throw-in halfway inside the Nigeria hal, but don’t throw it long. Instead, Birkir Saevarsson takes the ball past two men and sprints to the edge of the penalty area, where he’s dispossessed.

32 min: Nigeria continue to dominate possession, albeit without doing anything with it. There’s not a lot going on here at the moment. Iceland win a free-kick deep in their own half for an Ahmed Musa foul.

28 min: The camera cuts to Iceland coach Heimer Hallgrimsson, who is spending most of the match hunkered down on the edge of his technical area constantly communicating with his players. He has them very well drilled – their defenders and midfielders are moving from side to side of the pitch in two lines of four that wouldn’t look out of place on a foosball table.

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25 min: The ball barely leaves them iddle third of the field for three minutes, but eventually ends up back in the hands of Nigeria goalkeeper Francis Uzoho.