{"id":133474,"date":"2019-07-06T19:35:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-06T18:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=133474"},"modified":"2019-07-06T19:35:27","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T18:35:27","slug":"nigeria-vs-cameroon-super-eagles-defeat-defending-champions-qualify-for-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=133474","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria vs Cameroon: Super Eagles defeat defending champions, qualify for quarter-final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2019-AFCON-Ghana-loses-key-player-ahead-possible-clash-with-Nigeria.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Nigeria are through to the quarter-final of the Africa Cup of Nations, after they defeated Cameroon 3-2 on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Odion Ighalo opened scoring in the 19th minute, after his shot was deflected in by Banana.<\/p>\n<p>The Indomitable Lions fought back to lead 2-1 before the break, thanks to goals from Stephane Bahoken and Clinton N\u2019Jie.<\/p>\n<p>However, Gernot Rohr\u2019s men turned it around with two quickfire goals from Ighalo and Alex Iwobi.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria are through to the quarter-final of the Africa Cup of Nations, after they defeated Cameroon 3-2 on Saturday. Odion Ighalo opened scoring in the 19th minute, after his shot was deflected in by Banana. The Indomitable Lions fought back to lead 2-1 before the break, thanks to goals from Stephane Bahoken and Clinton N\u2019Jie. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132227,"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":[1258,4046],"class_list":["post-133474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cameroon","tag-super-eagle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133474","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=133474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/132227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}