{"id":135489,"date":"2019-07-13T17:07:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T16:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=135489"},"modified":"2019-07-13T17:08:02","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T16:08:02","slug":"nigeria-vs-algeria-what-were-targeting-against-super-eagles-coach-belmadi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=135489","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria vs Algeria: What we’re targeting against Super Eagles – Coach Belmadi"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Algeria Coach, Djamel Belmadi has said his players are focused on writing history as they prepare to face Nigeria in Sunday\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations semi-finals.<\/p>\n

Algeria had beat Nigeria twice, including 1-0 in the final, to lift for the first time the Africa Cup of Nations trophy in Algiers in 1990.<\/p>\n

However, Belmadi said the fortunes of his team has been revived as they bid to end a 29-year wait for a second continental crown.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is our target, we want to write our history and the players want to write their history as well. It\u2019s not far \u2013 two more steps, but two very difficult steps to this great achievement. We will try our best.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe one that we won was in 1990, a long time ago when it was at home. We\u2019ve never won since. This is away from home, it\u2019s more difficult of course,\u201d said Belmadi at a pre-match press briefing.<\/p>\n

The Desert Foxes were through to the last four of the tournament for the first time since 2010 after defeating one of the title favourites, Ivory Coast, in the quarter-final.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Algeria Coach, Djamel Belmadi has said his players are focused on writing history as they prepare to face Nigeria in Sunday\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations semi-finals. Algeria had beat Nigeria twice, including 1-0 in the final, to lift for the first time the Africa Cup of Nations trophy in Algiers in 1990. However, Belmadi said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135490,"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":[12619,11121,243,4046],"class_list":["post-135489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-afcon-2019","tag-algeria","tag-nigeria","tag-super-eagle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135489","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=135489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/135490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}