{"id":17273,"date":"2024-01-30T09:48:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T09:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=17273"},"modified":"2024-01-30T09:48:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T09:48:37","slug":"afcon-2023-super-eagles-cote-divoire-title-contenders-oliseh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/30\/afcon-2023-super-eagles-cote-divoire-title-contenders-oliseh\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2023: Super Eagles, C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire Title Contenders \u2014Oliseh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nigeria international Sunday Oliseh has tipped C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire and Super Eagles as title contenders at this year\u2019s AFCON.<\/p>\n<p>Oliseh stated this after struggling C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire defeated champions Senegal 5-4 on penalties following a 1-1 draw.<\/p>\n<p>The Ivorians went into the game against Senegal on the back of a poor group stage performance where they lost 4-0 to Equatorial Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>The Elephants managed to progress into the round of 16 thanks to Morocco\u2019s win against Zambia in their final group game.<\/p>\n<div id=\"protag-in_article_2\"><\/div>\n<p>Reacting to the win against Senegal, Oliseh wrote \u201dChange of Coach to a Local one 4 days ago &amp; Cote D\u2019ivoire are in my eyes, now, potential title contenders with Naija!<\/p>\n<p>5 days ago,they were begging Morocco to beat Zambia to help them qualify, Tonight (Monday) they eliminate Title Fav\u2019s, Senegal. Football is A fantastic, Crazy Rollercoaster.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ivorians will be back in action on Saturday against a year to be identified opponent in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>For the Eagles they will take on Angola on Friday, 2 January inside the Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium, Abidjan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nigeria international Sunday Oliseh has tipped C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire and Super Eagles as title contenders at this year\u2019s AFCON. Oliseh stated this after struggling C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire defeated champions Senegal 5-4 on penalties following a 1-1 draw. The Ivorians went into the game against Senegal on the back of a poor group stage performance where they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":17278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[406],"class_list":["post-17273","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\/17273","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=17273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17279,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17273\/revisions\/17279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}