{"id":625,"date":"2022-06-17T11:55:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T11:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=625"},"modified":"2022-06-17T11:55:34","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T11:55:34","slug":"nigeria-thrashes-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=625","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria Thrashes Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 January 2022<br>Jeremiah Harrison<br>Sports Writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nigeria &#8216;Super Eagles&#8217; are through to the last 16 in Cameroon after beating Sudan by 3-1 in their second AFCON group match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Villarreal winger Samuel Chukwueze struck after just three minutes of Saturday\u2019s clash at the Stade Roumde Adjia in Garoua to set Nigeria &#8211; who beat Egypt in a heavyweight opening fixture &#8211; on their way to a straight win in the group of Death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nigeria scored their second goal in the 45th minute just before the half time break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nigeria&#8217;s coach half time message to players was effective as Moses Simon scored a third goal a minute just after the break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twenty minutes later match official Victor Gomez awarded a penalty to Sudan for a foul committed in the penalty box by Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He pointed to the screen for a review Video Assistance Referee (VAR) and it was a clear penalty for the Falcons of Jediane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They did not disappoint, Walieldin Khedr Safour Daiyeen converted from the spot Sudan\u2019s maiden goal of the tournament sending the Nigerian goalkeeper the wrong direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/HLTr91OAOOZ3jHdEI7418Z\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nigeria tops group D with 6 points from two outings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In their first match the Super Eagles beat highly rated Mo&#8217;Salah&#8217;s Egyptian side by a goal collecting three points from the Pharaohs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 January 2022Jeremiah HarrisonSports Writer Nigeria &#8216;Super Eagles&#8217; are through to the last 16 in Cameroon after beating Sudan by 3-1 in their second AFCON group match. Villarreal winger Samuel&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}