{"id":16684,"date":"2024-01-26T09:58:25","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T09:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=16684"},"modified":"2024-01-26T09:58:25","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T09:58:25","slug":"afcon-2023-i-hope-we-will-improve-against-super-eagles-says-cameroonian-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/26\/afcon-2023-i-hope-we-will-improve-against-super-eagles-says-cameroonian-legend\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2023: I Hope We Will Improve Against Super Eagles, Says Cameroonian Legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary Cameroon goalkeeping legend Joseph-Antoine Bell hopes the Indomitable Lions will improve when they face Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>Both giants of African football will clash in the round of 16 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon had to rely on a stoppage time goal against Gambia to secure qualification into the knockout round.<\/p>\n<p>The five-time AFCON winners went into the clash against Gambia with just one point, following defeat to Senegal and a draw against 10-man Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles cemented their place in the round of 16 thanks to a hard fought 1-0 win against Guinea-Bissau in their final Group A game.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead to the big encounter Bell, in a chat with former Super Eagles media officer Toyin Ibitoye, admitted that the Indomitable Lions have not been impressive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to witness a good game and the best team would win,\u201d the 1984 and 1988 AFCON winner said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-body-inner\">\n<p><span id=\"ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-114\" data-inserter-version=\"2\"><\/span>\u201cI hope Cameroon would improve it\u2019s game because what we\u2019ve seen so far has not been good.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cOf course they qualified but you cannot compare both teams and I hope Cameroon will match up to standard.\u201c<\/p>\n<p>In the last meeting between both teams at the AFCON 2019 the Eagles won 3-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary Cameroon goalkeeping legend Joseph-Antoine Bell hopes the Indomitable Lions will improve when they face Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles. Both giants of African football will clash in the round of 16 on Saturday. Cameroon had to rely on a stoppage time goal against Gambia to secure qualification into the knockout round. The five-time AFCON winners went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":16687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[406],"class_list":["post-16684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-afcon-2023"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16684","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16684"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16745,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16684\/revisions\/16745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}