{"id":135092,"date":"2019-07-12T08:18:31","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T07:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=135092"},"modified":"2019-07-12T08:18:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T07:18:53","slug":"nigeria-vs-algeria-feghouli-rules-himself-out-of-super-eagles-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=135092","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria vs Algeria: Feghouli rules himself out of Super Eagles clash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Algeria attacker, Sofiane Feghouli, has seemingly ruled himself out of Sunday\u2019s semi-final against Nigeria at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n

The Desert Foxes beat Ivory Coast on penalties, to book their spot in the last four.<\/p>\n

Djamel Belmadi could be without two of his key players when they play the Super Eagles.<\/p>\n

Sofiane Feghouli and Youcef Atal had to be substituted against the Elephants after they suffered injuries.<\/p>\n

The OGC Nice fullback is all but ruled out of the tournament, while the Galatasaray star is racing against the clock to be fit.<\/p>\n

Speaking in the mixed zone after the quarterfinal match vs Ivory Coast, Feghouli was quoted as saying by Le Buteur: \u201cI do not know exactly the seriousness of my injury. But I will see with the national team doctor.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though I will not be fit to play Nigeria, Algeria will have another warrior to play in this match.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nigeria beat Algeria 3-1 in the 2018 World Cup qualifiers in Uyo and were held to a 1-1 draw in the return leg. But the result was overturned and the North Africans awarded a 3-0 win, after FIFA punished Nigeria for fielding an ineligible player, Abdullahi Shehu.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Algeria attacker, Sofiane Feghouli, has seemingly ruled himself out of Sunday\u2019s semi-final against Nigeria at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations. The Desert Foxes beat Ivory Coast on penalties, to book their spot in the last four. Djamel Belmadi could be without two of his key players when they play the Super Eagles. Sofiane Feghouli […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130443,"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":[11121,243],"class_list":["post-135092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-algeria","tag-nigeria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135092","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=135092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}