{"id":133519,"date":"2019-07-07T10:46:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T09:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=133519"},"modified":"2019-07-07T10:47:04","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T09:47:04","slug":"afcon-2019-nigeria-to-face-south-africa-in-quarter-final-as-egypt-crashes-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=133519","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2019: Nigeria to face South Africa in quarter-final as Egypt crashes out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/AFCON-2019-Nigeria-to-face-South-Africa-in-quarter-final-as-Egypt-crashes-out.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Nigeria will take on South Africa in the quarter-final of this year\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles eliminated defending champions Cameroon in their Round of 16 clash on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Gernot Rohr\u2019s men won 3-2, despite losing 2-1 at the break.<\/p>\n<p>Bafana Bafana shocked hosts Egypt later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Stuart Baxter\u2019s men were not given a chance against the Pharoahs, but produced a fine display of counter-attacking football to win 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>Thembinkosi Lorch grabbed the winner with five minutes left.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria vs South Africa will be played on July 10 at the Cairo International Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Kick off is 8pm West African time.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria will take on South Africa in the quarter-final of this year\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations. The Super Eagles eliminated defending champions Cameroon in their Round of 16 clash on Saturday. Gernot Rohr\u2019s men won 3-2, despite losing 2-1 at the break. Bafana Bafana shocked hosts Egypt later in the day. Stuart Baxter\u2019s men were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133520,"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":[11509,354],"class_list":["post-133519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2019-afcon","tag-south-africa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133519","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=133519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}