{"id":73708,"date":"2025-08-20T12:46:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73708"},"modified":"2025-08-20T12:46:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T12:46:42","slug":"nigerias-home-eagles-bow-out-of-chan-2024-with-win-over-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/20\/nigerias-home-eagles-bow-out-of-chan-2024-with-win-over-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s Home Eagles Bow Out of CHAN 2024 with Win Over Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Home Eagles ended their campaign at the 2024 African Nations Championship (CHAN), on a positive note, defeating Congo 2-0 in their final Group D match.<\/p>\n<p>Anas Yusuf opened the scoring in the 56th minute, finishing off a cushioned header from Sikiru Alimi, who later doubled Nigeria\u2019s lead with a stoppage-time header.<\/p>\n<p>Congo\u2019s Charles Atipo was shown a red card in added time after a VAR review.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the victory, Nigeria finished third in the group with three points, having lost earlier games to Senegal and Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>The result meant the Home Eagles were already eliminated, as Sudan and Senegal advanced to the quarter-finals after a goalless draw.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Eric Chelle admitted that costly mistakes in the opening matches undermined Nigeria\u2019s chances of progressing.<\/p>\n<p>However, he described the win against Congo as a morale booster for the players after a difficult tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Former Nigerian international, Friday Ekpo, praised the team\u2019s improved performance, urging them to build on the positives as they look ahead to future competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke &nbsp; Nigeria\u2019s Home Eagles ended their campaign at the 2024 African Nations Championship (CHAN), on a positive note, defeating Congo 2-0 in their final Group D match. Anas Yusuf opened the scoring in the 56th minute, finishing off a cushioned header from Sikiru Alimi, who later doubled Nigeria\u2019s lead with a stoppage-time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":73709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73708","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73710,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73708\/revisions\/73710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}