{"id":11373,"date":"2024-01-14T18:08:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T18:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=11373"},"modified":"2024-01-14T18:08:22","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T18:08:22","slug":"equatorial-guinea-explodes-the-first-surprises-in-the-african-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/14\/equatorial-guinea-explodes-the-first-surprises-in-the-african-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Equatorial Guinea Explodes the First Surprises in the African Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Equatorial Guinea caused the first surprises in the African Cup of Nations, snatching a point from Nigeria by drawing 1-1 with them on Sunday in the second match of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria launched its campaign in the tournament held in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire until next February 11, with a disappointing draw at Alassane Ouattara Stadium in Abidjan, in the first round of Group A competitions, which the host opened with a victory over Guinea Bissau with two clean goals, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Eban Salvador scored for Equatorial Guinea in the 36th minute, then Napoli&#8217;s Italian star Victor Osimhen equalized for Nigeria two minutes later.<\/p>\n<p>C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire leads the group with 3 points, ahead of Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea, each with a point, and then Guinea Bissau with no score.<\/p>\n<p>In the second round, scheduled for January 18, Equatorial Guinea will play against Guinea Bissau, and C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire will play against Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Agencies &#8211; Sudan Events Equatorial Guinea caused the first surprises in the African Cup of Nations, snatching a point from Nigeria by drawing 1-1 with them on Sunday in the second match of the tournament. Nigeria launched its campaign in the tournament held in C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire until next February 11, with a disappointing draw &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11375,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11373\/revisions\/11375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}