{"id":19315,"date":"2024-02-12T10:03:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T10:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=19315"},"modified":"2024-02-12T10:03:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T10:03:51","slug":"udeze-faults-peseiro-for-starting-chukwueze-in-afcon-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/02\/12\/udeze-faults-peseiro-for-starting-chukwueze-in-afcon-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Udeze Faults Peseiro For Starting Chukwueze In AFCON Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nigeria international, Ifeanyi Udeze, has faulted Super Eagles coach Jose Peseiro, for starting Samuel Chukwueze in Sunday\u2019s AFCON final.<\/p>\n<p>Chukwueze was picked ahead of Moses Simon in the starting line-up for the final against the hosts.<\/p>\n<p>It was his second start in the tournament unfortunately, he had a game to forget and had to go off for Simon early in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Despite taking the lead through captain William Troost-Ekong, the Ivorians fought back to win 2-1 and claim their third AFCON title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStarting Samuel Chukwueze against C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire was a mistake,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t change a winning team, the Ivory Coast coach made use of the same formation from the semi-final, so I don\u2019t know why Peseiro decided to change his.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former left-back went on to praise the Eagles for reaching the final.<\/p>\n<p>He added:\u201dLet\u2019s appreciate the Eagles because they did their best after all one team must win and one team must lose.\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Nigeria international, Ifeanyi Udeze, has faulted Super Eagles coach Jose Peseiro, for starting Samuel Chukwueze in Sunday\u2019s AFCON final. Chukwueze was picked ahead of Moses Simon in the starting line-up for the final against the hosts. It was his second start in the tournament unfortunately, he had a game to forget and had to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":19320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[659],"class_list":["post-19315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-udeze"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315","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=19315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19333,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19315\/revisions\/19333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}