{"id":80979,"date":"2025-12-30T20:26:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80979"},"modified":"2025-12-30T20:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:26:06","slug":"afcon-2025-nigeria-beat-uganda-31-end-group-stage-unbeaten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/30\/afcon-2025-nigeria-beat-uganda-31-end-group-stage-unbeaten\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2025: Nigeria Beat Uganda 31, End Group Stage Unbeaten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria completed the group stage of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations on a perfect note after defeating Uganda 3-1 in their final Group C match at the Fez Stadium, Morocco, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The victory earned the Super Eagles maximum nine points, confirming their place at the top of the group, while Uganda finished bottom and exited the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Onuachu opened the scoring in the 28th minute, finishing from close range after meeting a low cross from Fisayo Dele-Bashiru.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria dominated the first half, creating several chances as Uganda struggled to cope with their pace and movement.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles doubled their lead in the 62nd minute when Samuel Chukwueze set up Raphael Onyedika, who controlled the ball before calmly slotting it into the bottom corner.<\/p>\n<p>Onyedika grabbed his second goal five minutes later, firing home from about 15 yards after latching onto another Chukwueze cut-back following a swift attacking move.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda, reduced to 10 men, pulled one goal back in the 75th minute when substitute Okello released Mato, who chipped goalkeeper Francis Uzoho.<\/p>\n<p>However, the goal proved a mere consolation as Nigeria comfortably saw out the match.<\/p>\n<p>The result capped a dominant group-stage display by the three-time African champions as they advanced confidently to the knockout phase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Immaculata Nigeria completed the group stage of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations on a perfect note after defeating Uganda 3-1 in their final Group C match at the Fez Stadium, Morocco, on Tuesday. The victory earned the Super Eagles maximum nine points, confirming their place at the top of the group, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":80980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80979","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\/80979","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=80979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80981,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80979\/revisions\/80981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}