{"id":134565,"date":"2019-07-10T17:46:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T16:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=134565"},"modified":"2019-07-10T17:46:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T16:46:28","slug":"nigeria-vs-south-africa-ben-bruce-predicts-winner-of-afcon-2019-quarter-final-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=134565","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria vs South Africa: Ben Bruce predicts winner of AFCON 2019 quarter-final clash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ben Bruce, the immediate past Senator representing Bayelsa East, has expressed optimism that the Super Eagles of Nigeria would win their African Cup of Nation, AFCON, quarter-final clash against their South African counterpart.<\/p>\n

The business mogul urged Nigerians across the world to support the Super Eagles to win their match against the Bafana Bafana of South Africa.<\/p>\n

In a tweet on Wednesday, Bruce wrote: \u201cLater today, our boys @NGSuperEagles will play for a place in the #TotalAFCON2019 semifinals. Our support is unflinching, and I join fellow Nigerians around the world as we look forward to a rewarding victory this evening.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nigeria will take on South Africa on Wednesday, with a place in the Africa Cup of Nations semi-final up for grabs.<\/p>\n

Both teams have met 13 times in the past, with the Super Eagles winning six of those encounters and Bafana Bafana two.<\/p>\n

Stuart Baxter\u2019s men have seemingly had the upper hand in their recent meetings, winning 2-0 at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, before holding the three-time champions to a 1-1 draw in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

Nigeria eliminated defending champions Cameroon in the previous round, while South Africa caused the biggest upset by sending hosts Egypt out.<\/p>\n

This second quarter-final fixture will be played at the Cairo International Stadium and kick-off is 8pm West African time.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ben Bruce, the immediate past Senator representing Bayelsa East, has expressed optimism that the Super Eagles of Nigeria would win their African Cup of Nation, AFCON, quarter-final clash against their South African counterpart. The business mogul urged Nigerians across the world to support the Super Eagles to win their match against the Bafana Bafana of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134566,"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":[3,4],"tags":[12619,5076,4046],"class_list":["post-134565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-afcon-2019","tag-ben-murray-bruce","tag-super-eagle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134565","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=134565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}