{"id":69807,"date":"2025-07-06T18:30:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T18:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69807"},"modified":"2025-07-06T18:30:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T18:30:29","slug":"super-falcons-cruise-past-tunisia-3-0-in-wafcon-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/06\/super-falcons-cruise-past-tunisia-3-0-in-wafcon-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Falcons Cruise Past Tunisia 3\u20130 in WAFCON Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Super Falcons of Nigeria began their 2024 Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), campaign on a high note, defeating Tunisia 3\u20130 in their Group B opener at the Stade Larbi Zaouli, Casablanca.<\/p>\n<p>Asisat Oshoala opened the scoring in the 4th minute with a powerful header from a pinpoint Rinsola Babajide cross. Babajide added her name to the scoresheet just before halftime, slotting home a low shot that stood after a VAR check.<\/p>\n<p>Chinwendu Ihezuo sealed the win in the 84th minute with a calm finish, assisted by Esther Okoronkwo.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Justine Madugu\u2019s team dominated the encounter, showcasing superior technical quality, ball movement, and cohesion.<\/p>\n<p>Babajide stood out with a goal and an assist, causing persistent problems for the Tunisian defense.<\/p>\n<p>The victory places Nigeria at the top of Group B, pending the result of the Algeria vs. Botswana match.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons will next face Botswana on Wednesday as they continue their pursuit of a record-extending 10th WAFCON title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke The Super Falcons of Nigeria began their 2024 Women\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON), campaign on a high note, defeating Tunisia 3\u20130 in their Group B opener at the Stade Larbi Zaouli, Casablanca. Asisat Oshoala opened the scoring in the 4th minute with a powerful header from a pinpoint Rinsola Babajide cross. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":69808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69807","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\/69807","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69809,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69807\/revisions\/69809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}