{"id":16920,"date":"2024-01-27T16:59:52","date_gmt":"2024-01-27T16:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=16920"},"modified":"2024-01-27T16:59:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-27T16:59:52","slug":"nigeria-vs-cameroon-troost-ekong-back-to-starting-xi-as-osimhen-lookman-lead-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/27\/nigeria-vs-cameroon-troost-ekong-back-to-starting-xi-as-osimhen-lookman-lead-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria vs Cameroon: Troost-Ekong Back to Starting XI as Osimhen, Lookman Lead Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Peseiro, Super Eagles head coach, has announced the starting line-up for the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) second round clash against Cameroon<\/p>\n<p>William Troost-Ekong returns to the team and will captain Nigeria against the Rigobert Song-led Indomitable Lions at the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan.<\/p>\n<p>Peseiro kept faith with the 3-4-3 formation, with Stanley Nwabali in goal behind the defensive trio of Troost-Ekong, Semi Ajayi, and Calvin Bassey, while Ola Aina and Zaidu Sanusi will be on both flanks as wingbacks.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Iwobi will start in the midfield alongside Frank Onyeka. Moses Simon, Ademola Lookman and Victor Osimhen will lead the front line.<\/p>\n<p>The line-up omits Kenneth Omeruo, Samuel Chukwueze, Bright Osayi-Samuel and Joe Aribo, who all featured against Guinea-Bissau on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Yusuf Alhassan is also not included despite shaking off the injury he copped against Equatorial Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles qualified for the AFCON second round after picking seven points from three games in Group A, while Cameroon had to rely on a stoppage time winner in their last group match to progress.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Peseiro, Super Eagles head coach, has announced the starting line-up for the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) second round clash against Cameroon William Troost-Ekong returns to the team and will captain Nigeria against the Rigobert Song-led Indomitable Lions at the Felix Houphouet-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan. Peseiro kept faith with the 3-4-3 formation, with Stanley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16920","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\/16920","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16920"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16924,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16920\/revisions\/16924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}