{"id":81250,"date":"2026-01-07T06:14:42","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T06:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=81250"},"modified":"2026-01-07T06:14:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T06:14:42","slug":"algeria-edge-dr-congo-set-up-afcon-quarter-final-clash-with-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/07\/algeria-edge-dr-congo-set-up-afcon-quarter-final-clash-with-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Algeria Edge DR Congo, Set Up AFCON Quarter-Final Clash With Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Algeria have booked a quarter-final meeting with Nigeria at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations after edging DR Congo 1-0 in a tense round-of-16 clash decided in extra time in Rabat on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The contest remained goalless after 90 minutes, with both sides locked in a midfield battle.<\/p>\n<p>Goalkeepers Luca Zidane and Dimitry Mpasi made crucial saves, while DR Congo\u2019s Fiston Mayele narrowly missed a late winner.<\/p>\n<p>Algeria dominated possession but struggled to break down a resolute defence until substitute Anis Boulbina struck in the 119th minute, firing a powerful shot into the top corner after linking up with Isma\u00ebl Bennacer.<\/p>\n<p>The victory sets up a quarter-final showdown with the Super Eagles, who cruised past Mozambique 4-0 on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria and Algeria will meet on Saturday, January 10, at 5 p.m., as the Super Eagles chase a fourth AFCON title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Algeria have booked a quarter-final meeting with Nigeria at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations after edging DR Congo 1-0 in a tense round-of-16 clash decided in extra time in Rabat on Tuesday. The contest remained goalless after 90 minutes, with both sides locked in a midfield battle. Goalkeepers Luca Zidane and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":81251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81250","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\/81250","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81252,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81250\/revisions\/81252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}