{"id":47631,"date":"2024-09-09T07:45:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T07:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=47631"},"modified":"2024-09-09T07:45:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T07:45:28","slug":"afcon-2025q-super-eagles-in-kigali-for-maximum-points-troost-ekong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/09\/09\/afcon-2025q-super-eagles-in-kigali-for-maximum-points-troost-ekong\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2025Q: Super Eagles In Kigali For Maximum Points \u2014 Troost-Ekong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Troost-Ekong insists the Super Eagles are in Kigali to beat the Amavubi of Rwanda.<br \/>\nThe West Africans started their 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying campaign with a 3-0 victory over the Cheetahs of Benin Republic.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the three-time African champions will take on Rwanda at the Amahoro Stadium, Kigali.<br \/>\nTroost-Ekong reckoned the game would be difficult but was adamant that the Super Eagles have what it takes to emerge victorious.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is nothing much to say other than that we are here for a purpose. Our target is the three points, and we have spoken among ourselves on the imperative of going hard for it from the first blast of the referee\u2019s whistle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is going to be a tough game because Rwanda have a good team and got a point from their first match. We must not relent throughout the 90 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Troost-Ekong insists the Super Eagles are in Kigali to beat the Amavubi of Rwanda. The West Africans started their 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying campaign with a 3-0 victory over the Cheetahs of Benin Republic. On Tuesday, the three-time African champions will take on Rwanda at the Amahoro Stadium, Kigali. Troost-Ekong reckoned the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":47632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[1490,903],"class_list":["post-47631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-afcon-2025q","tag-troost-ekong"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47631","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=47631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47633,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47631\/revisions\/47633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}