{"id":81192,"date":"2026-01-06T07:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T07:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81192"},"modified":"2026-01-06T07:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T07:17:14","slug":"super-eagles-cruise-into-last-eight-after-4-0-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/06\/super-eagles-cruise-into-last-eight-after-4-0-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Eagles Cruise Into Last Eight After 4\u20130 Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles have secured a place in the AFCON 2025 quarter-finals after a dominant 4\u20130 win over Mozambique in their Round of 16 match in F\u00e8s.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria carried on from their perfect group stage run, where they won all three games to finish top of Group C. Mozambique, playing in the Round of 16 for the first time after qualifying as one of the best third-placed teams, could not cope with the Eagles\u2019 pace and attacking strength.<\/p>\n<p>Ademola Lookman opened the scoring in the 20th minute from an Akor Adams assist. Victor Osimhen made it 2\u20130 five minutes later, before Lookman set him up again early in the second half for Nigeria\u2019s third. Akor Adams sealed the rout with the fourth goal in the 75th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Wilfred Ndidi led the midfield alongside Frank Onyeka and Alex Iwobi, while Stanley Nwabali returned in goal. The defence of Bright Osayi-Samuel, Semi Ajayi, Calvin Bassey and Bruno Onyemaechi stood firm, keeping Mozambique quiet throughout.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Chelle made several second-half changes, bringing on Paul Onuachu, Samuel Chukwueze, Tom Dele-Bashiru, Onyedika and Moses Simon to maintain the tempo.<\/p>\n<p>By the 80th minute, Nigeria had recorded eight shots on target, while Mozambique failed to trouble Nwabali.<\/p>\n<p>The win keeps Nigeria\u2019s title chase alive as they eye a fourth AFCON crown. The Super Eagles will now face the winner of the clash between Algeria and DR Congo in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola\u00a0 The Super Eagles have secured a place in the AFCON 2025 quarter-finals after a dominant 4\u20130 win over Mozambique in their Round of 16 match in F\u00e8s. Nigeria carried on from their perfect group stage run, where they won all three games to finish top of Group C. Mozambique, playing in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":81193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81192","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\/81192","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=81192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81194,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81192\/revisions\/81194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}