{"id":167598,"date":"2019-11-13T21:27:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T20:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=167598"},"modified":"2019-11-13T21:28:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T20:28:39","slug":"nigeria-vs-benin-republic-super-eagles-begin-2021-afcon-qualifier-with-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=167598","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria vs Benin Republic: Super Eagles begin 2021 AFCON qualifier with win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Ukraine-vs-Nigeria-Super-Eagles-arrive-Dnipro-without-kits-players-bags-missing.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Nigeria began their quest to be at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, with a narrow 2-1 win over Benin Republic on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles had to fight from a goal down, as the Squirrels opened scoring at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium in Uyo.<\/p>\n<p>Stephane Sessegnon latched on a defensive error to make it 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Osimhen made it 1-1 from the penalty spot, shortly before half time.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Kalu grabbed the winner, with a fine solo goal.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria will now take on Lesotho on Sunday in their next Sunday.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria began their quest to be at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, with a narrow 2-1 win over Benin Republic on Wednesday. The Super Eagles had to fight from a goal down, as the Squirrels opened scoring at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium in Uyo. Stephane Sessegnon latched on a defensive error to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167403,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,2514,4046],"class_list":["post-167598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-benin","tag-super-eagle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167598","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=167598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/167403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}