{"id":135474,"date":"2019-07-13T17:01:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T16:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=135474"},"modified":"2019-07-13T17:02:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T16:02:05","slug":"nigeria-vs-algeria-what-samuel-chukwueze-said-about-afcon-semi-final-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=135474","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria vs Algeria: What Samuel Chukwueze said about AFCON semi-final clash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Super Eagles winger, Samuel Chukwueze, has disclosed that his side are not scared of Algeria ahead of both teams\u2019 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, semi-final fixture on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The Villarreal star, who won the Man of the Match award in Nigeria\u2019s 2-1 win over South Africa last Wednesday, stated that the Desert Foxes are beatable.<\/p>\n

The 20-year-old noted that Algeria have a good team but that the Super Eagles are not afraid of any team at this stage of the competition.<\/p>\n

Nigeria head to the game after defeating South Africa in the quarter-final, while Algeria defeated Ivory Coast to advance further.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlgeria is a good team, but we are not scared of them. We can\u2019t be scared of any team at this stage of the competition,\u201d Chukwueze told Completesports.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is true that a lot of people have tipped them to win the trophy, but we will prove them wrong on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw their game against Ivory Coast. It was an interesting game between two top quality teams. For us, we are not afraid, they are beatable\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Super Eagles winger, Samuel Chukwueze, has disclosed that his side are not scared of Algeria ahead of both teams\u2019 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, semi-final fixture on Sunday. The Villarreal star, who won the Man of the Match award in Nigeria\u2019s 2-1 win over South Africa last Wednesday, stated that the Desert Foxes are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134701,"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":[12705,4046],"class_list":["post-135474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-samuel-chukwueze","tag-super-eagle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135474","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=135474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}