{"id":17599,"date":"2024-02-02T20:11:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T20:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=17599"},"modified":"2024-02-02T20:11:26","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T20:11:26","slug":"nigeria-soar-into-afcon-semi-finals-beat-angola-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=17599","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Soar into AFCON Semi-finals, Beat Angola 1-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Super Eagles of Nigeria beat Angola to advance into the semi-finals game of the ongoing 2023 TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup in Cote d\u2019Ivoire on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A lone goal from Ademola Lookman in the 41st minute gave Nigeria the lead and victory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In a highly contested match at the 33,000-capacity Felix Houphouet-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan, Nigeria emerge victorious, securing a coveted spot in the AFCON semi-finals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The keenly fought battle showcased the resilience and prowess of the Nigerian team, solidifying their journey towards AFCON glory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Four yellow cards were in between the team, with the Palancas Negras getting three and Nigeria, one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Senegalese referee, Issa Sy overruled a 75th minute header from Napoli striker,\u00a0Victor\u00a0Osihmen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Details later<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Super Eagles of Nigeria beat Angola to advance into the semi-finals game of the ongoing 2023 TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup in Cote d\u2019Ivoire on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3815,17,92,4200,707],"class_list":["post-17599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-afcon","tag-angola","tag-nigeria","tag-semi-finals","tag-super-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17601,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17599\/revisions\/17601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}