{"id":129283,"date":"2019-06-23T11:23:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T10:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=129283"},"modified":"2019-06-23T15:22:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T14:22:19","slug":"afcon-2019-super-eagles-take-control-of-group-b-after-guinea-hold-madagascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=129283","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2019: Super Eagles take control of Group B after Guinea hold Madagascar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Transfer-Nigerias-most-expensive-player-joins-new-club.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Nigeria are top of Group B, after the first round of Group B fixtures were concluded on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles needed a 77th minute Odion Ighalo goal, to see off debutants Burundi in the first game.<\/p>\n<p>In the second match, Guinea played out a thrilling 2-2 draw with Madagascar.<\/p>\n<p>Sory Kaba had given the Syli Stars the lead before the new comers overturned the game with two goals in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Guinea needed a 66th-minute penalty converted by Francois Kamao, to avoid defeat in their opener.<\/p>\n<p>With these results, Nigeria stay top with three points, while Madagascar and Guinea both have one point. Burundi are yet to get anything so far.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria are top of Group B, after the first round of Group B fixtures were concluded on Saturday night. The Super Eagles needed a 77th minute Odion Ighalo goal, to see off debutants Burundi in the first game. In the second match, Guinea played out a thrilling 2-2 draw with Madagascar. Sory Kaba had given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,7893,4046],"class_list":["post-129283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-afcon2019","tag-super-eagle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}