{"id":65637,"date":"2025-05-12T16:29:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65637"},"modified":"2025-05-12T16:29:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:29:59","slug":"flying-eagles-soar-past-senegal-into-last-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/12\/flying-eagles-soar-past-senegal-into-last-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Flying Eagles Soar Past Senegal into Last Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Flying Eagles have booked their place in the semifinals of the 2025 Africa U20 Cup of Nations after edging out Senegal in a nerve-racking penalty shootout.<\/p>\n<p>The tightly contested quarterfinal clash ended without goals in regulation time, forcing both teams into a tense shootout.<\/p>\n<p>The Nigerian side held their nerve, converting from the spot with precision to outlast their West African rivals.<\/p>\n<p>The hard-fought victory highlights the grit and composure of the Flying Eagles, who showed resilience from kickoff to the final whistle. Their reward is a ticket to the semifinals, where an even stiffer challenge awaits.<\/p>\n<p>With this triumph, Nigeria inches closer to continental glory, and fans will be hoping the team carries its momentum into the next round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke Nigeria\u2019s Flying Eagles have booked their place in the semifinals of the 2025 Africa U20 Cup of Nations after edging out Senegal in a nerve-racking penalty shootout. The tightly contested quarterfinal clash ended without goals in regulation time, forcing both teams into a tense shootout. The Nigerian side held their nerve, converting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":65638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65637","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65639,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65637\/revisions\/65639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}