{"id":82190,"date":"2026-01-27T05:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82190"},"modified":"2026-01-27T05:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:56:11","slug":"green-arrows-take-on-egypt-in-crucial-group-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/27\/green-arrows-take-on-egypt-in-crucial-group-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Arrows Take on Egypt in Crucial Group Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Green Arrows face defending champions Egypt today in a decisive Group I match at the African Men\u2019s Handball Championship, with a semi-final spot and a direct ticket to the 2027 IHF Men\u2019s World Championship at stake.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt top the group with four points from two wins, scoring 83 goals and conceding 56.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria are second with two points, level with Angola but ahead on goals scored despite a minus-one goal difference.<\/p>\n<p>The Green Arrows seek a strong response after a 27-24 loss to Angola, their first defeat of the tournament, ending a run that included wins over Algeria, Zambia, and hosts Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>A win over Egypt would be historic and secure Nigeria a return to the World Championship for the first time since 1999.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s fate could be influenced by the earlier Angola vs Algeria clash. If Algeria wins, Nigeria could qualify before facing Egypt. But an Angola victory would leave Nigeria needing a win to finish in the top two.<\/p>\n<p>Failure would relegate them to fifth\u2013eighth place matches, where only the winner earns a World Championship berth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola Nigeria\u2019s Green Arrows face defending champions Egypt today in a decisive Group I match at the African Men\u2019s Handball Championship, with a semi-final spot and a direct ticket to the 2027 IHF Men\u2019s World Championship at stake. Egypt top the group with four points from two wins, scoring 83 goals and conceding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":82191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82190","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\/82190","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=82190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82192,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82190\/revisions\/82192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}