{"id":20961,"date":"2024-11-18T22:09:51","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T22:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=20961"},"modified":"2024-11-18T22:09:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T22:09:51","slug":"rwanda-stuns-super-eagles-with-2-1-comeback-in-afcon-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=20961","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda Stuns Super Eagles with 2-1 Comeback in AFCON Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles suffered a surprising 2-1 defeat to Rwanda in their final Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Group D qualifier on Monday in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.<\/p>\n<p>Despite taking the lead through Samuel Chukwueze in the 59th minute, Nigeria\u2019s defense crumbled as Aimable Mutinzi and Imanishimwe Nshuti scored in quick succession to secure a historic victory for the underdogs.<\/p>\n<p>While the loss shocked fans, it had no impact on Nigeria\u2019s qualification for AFCON 2025 in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles finished top of the group with 11 points, ahead of Benin, who also qualified. Rwanda, despite their heroic win, missed out on goal difference.<\/p>\n<p>Libya rounded off the group in last place with 5 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles suffered a surprising 2-1 defeat to Rwanda in their final Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Group D qualifier on Monday in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20962,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4326,9549,386,707],"class_list":["post-20961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-afcon-qualifiers","tag-comeback","tag-rwanda","tag-super-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20961"}],"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=20961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20963,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20961\/revisions\/20963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}