{"id":17493,"date":"2024-01-31T09:06:58","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T09:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=17493"},"modified":"2024-01-31T09:06:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T09:06:58","slug":"afcon-2023-game-against-angola-not-a-walkover-for-eagles-udeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/31\/afcon-2023-game-against-angola-not-a-walkover-for-eagles-udeze\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2023: Game Against Angola Not A Walkover For Eagles \u2014Udeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nigeria international Ifeanyi Udeze has warned the Super Eagles players that the AFCON 2023 quarter-final clash with Angola would not be a walk in the park.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles and Angola will meet for the first time at the AFCON come Friday, 2 February.<\/p>\n<p>To reach this stage, the Jose Peseiro side defeated Cameroon 2-0 while Angola thrashed Namibia 3-0 in the round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking ahead of Friday\u2019s tie, Udeze explained why the Eagles would not find the game against Angola East.<\/p>\n<div id=\"protag-in_article_2\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cAngola is not a walkover because they have shown what they can do in this tournament,\u201d the former left-back said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have played against Angola in the past and whenever they play Nigeria they always put in everything.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Eagles should approach the game against Angola just like the way they did in the game with Cameroon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, one of the favourites for this year\u2019s AFCON Morocco\u2019s Atlas Lions we\u2019re shocked 2-0 by South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The Qatar 2022 World Cup semi-finalists alongside heavyweights like Ghana, Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt have now exited the AFCON 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nigeria international Ifeanyi Udeze has warned the Super Eagles players that the AFCON 2023 quarter-final clash with Angola would not be a walk in the park. The Eagles and Angola will meet for the first time at the AFCON come Friday, 2 February. To reach this stage, the Jose Peseiro side defeated Cameroon 2-0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":17494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[406],"class_list":["post-17493","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\/17493","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=17493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17496,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17493\/revisions\/17496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}