{"id":132327,"date":"2019-07-03T08:59:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T07:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=132327"},"modified":"2019-07-03T09:00:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T08:00:20","slug":"afcon-2019-super-eagles-to-face-cameroon-in-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=132327","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2019: Super Eagles to face Cameroon in Round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2019-AFCON-Obi-Mikel-reveals-who-caused-Nigerias-shock-2-0-loss-to-Madagascar.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Nigeria will play Cameroon in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations Round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles had already qualified, following their consecutive 1-0 wins over Burundi and Guinea, but they were shocked 2-0 by Madagascar in their final Group B fixture.<\/p>\n<p>It meant that Gernot Rohr\u2019s men finished in second place and would face the runners-up from Group F.<\/p>\n<p>The Indomitable Lions could only draw 0-0 with Benin Republic on Tuesday in their final group match.<\/p>\n<p>The result saw them lose top place to Ghana, who beat Guinea-Bissau 2-0 in their own game.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s game against Cameroon will be played this Saturday, July 6.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria will play Cameroon in the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations Round of 16. The Super Eagles had already qualified, following their consecutive 1-0 wins over Burundi and Guinea, but they were shocked 2-0 by Madagascar in their final Group B fixture. It meant that Gernot Rohr\u2019s men finished in second place and would face [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131651,"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":[7893,243],"class_list":["post-132327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-afcon2019","tag-nigeria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132327","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=132327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}