{"id":78687,"date":"2025-11-13T21:25:49","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=78687"},"modified":"2025-11-13T21:25:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:25:49","slug":"super-eagles-crush-gabon-4-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/13\/super-eagles-crush-gabon-4-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Eagles Crush Gabon 4-1\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles have advanced to the final round of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying play-offs after defeating Gabon 4-1 in extra time on Thursday in Rabat.<\/p>\n<p>Akor Adams opened scoring in the 78th minute after Nigeria had missed several chances, but Mario Lemina equalised for Gabon in the 89th minute, forcing extra time.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria dominated the additional period, with Chidera Ejuke restoring the lead in the 97th minute before Victor Osimhen netted twice in the 103rd and 110th minutes to seal the win.<\/p>\n<p>The victory follows the squad\u2019s recent resolution of a bonus dispute with the Nigeria Football Federation.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles will now face the winner of the Cameroon vs. DR Congo match for a place in the inter-continental play-offs in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat The Super Eagles have advanced to the final round of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifying play-offs after defeating Gabon 4-1 in extra time on Thursday in Rabat. Akor Adams opened scoring in the 78th minute after Nigeria had missed several chances, but Mario Lemina equalised for Gabon in the 89th minute, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":78688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78687","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\/78687","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=78687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78689,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78687\/revisions\/78689"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}