{"id":65181,"date":"2025-05-01T18:09:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T18:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65181"},"modified":"2025-05-01T18:09:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T18:09:55","slug":"flying-eagles-soar-past-tunisia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/01\/flying-eagles-soar-past-tunisia\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Eagles Soar Past Tunisia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria&#8217;s Flying Eagles got their 2025 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations campaign off to a flying start with a gritty 1-0 win over Tunisia, thanks to a first half strike from Auwal Ibrahim.<\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim found the net in the 38th minute after a moment of brilliance from Odinaka Okoro, who threaded a precise through pass that sliced open the Tunisian backline.<\/p>\n<p>Calm under pressure, Ibrahim placed the ball beyond the goalkeeper to hand Nigeria an early advantage at the 30 June Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Though Tunisia responded with waves of second half pressure, Nigeria\u2019s defense held strong.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Daniel Bameyi and Adamu Maigari were rock solid at the back, snuffing out threats and ensuring the Flying Eagles maintained their slender lead.<\/p>\n<p>The hard-earned victory keeps Nigeria\u2019s record strong in tournament openers, having now gone unbeaten in eight of their last ten.<\/p>\n<p>With three points in the bag, Nigeria now looks ahead to Group B clashes with Morocco and Kenya as they chase a place in the knockout rounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke Nigeria&#8217;s Flying Eagles got their 2025 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations campaign off to a flying start with a gritty 1-0 win over Tunisia, thanks to a first half strike from Auwal Ibrahim. Ibrahim found the net in the 38th minute after a moment of brilliance from Odinaka Okoro, who threaded a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-65181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65181","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65183,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65181\/revisions\/65183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}