{"id":14348,"date":"2024-01-14T20:11:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T20:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=14348"},"modified":"2024-01-14T20:11:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T20:11:28","slug":"eagles-stalled-by-equatorial-guinea-in-afcon-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/14\/eagles-stalled-by-equatorial-guinea-in-afcon-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles Stalled by Equatorial Guinea in AFCON Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adekunle Samuel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles began their quest for a fourth African crown with a disappointing 1-1 draw with The Nzalang Nacional of Equatorial Guinea at the Alassane Ouattara Stadium, Abidjan on Sunday afternoon, Abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/<\/p>\n<p>Two goals in quick succession for both teams in the first half meant that the spoils were shared between the two sides.<\/p>\n<p>Iban Salvador got the Guineans in front in the 36th minute with a well taken strike at the edge of the box to leave goalkeeper Stanley Nwabili helpless.<\/p>\n<p>2023 Africa footballer of the year, Victor Osimhen gave an instant reply as he headed in Ademola Lookman\u2019s cross to restore parity for the Super Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria had six shots on target and were only able to convert one with Osimhen missing a seater that could have been the winner late in the game.<\/p>\n<p>The results leaves Nigeria third in Group A with a second group game against host Cote D\u2019Ivoire to come next on Thursday, 18th January 2024. The host tops Group A with three points following their 2-0 victory over Guinea Bissau in the opener on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adekunle Samuel Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles began their quest for a fourth African crown with a disappointing 1-1 draw with The Nzalang Nacional of Equatorial Guinea at the Alassane Ouattara Stadium, Abidjan on Sunday afternoon, Abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/ Two goals in quick succession for both teams in the first half meant that the spoils were shared between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":14349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14350,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14348\/revisions\/14350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}