{"id":1120735,"date":"2022-06-13T18:58:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T18:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/13\/osimhen-scores-4-in-record-10-0-win-for-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2022-06-13T18:58:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T18:58:42","slug":"osimhen-scores-4-in-record-10-0-win-for-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/13\/osimhen-scores-4-in-record-10-0-win-for-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Osimhen Scores 4 In Record 10-0 Win For Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Victor Osimhen scored four goals as Nigeria thrashed minnows Sao Tome and Principe 10-0 in qualifying for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles missed out on a place at the 2022 World Cup in Africa\u2019s play-offs in March but have made a perfect start in Group A as they seek a spot at next year\u2019s Nations Cup in Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n<p>The victory away from home is the biggest win the west Africans have recorded, surpassing a 10-1 triumph over Benin in 1959.<\/p>\n<p>Watford striker Emmanuel Dennis and Ademola Lookman, who spent last season on loan at Leicester City, were also on the score sheet for Jose Peseiro\u2019s Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Napoli striker Osimhen, 23, now has 15 goals in 22 international caps.<\/p>\n<p>Sao Tome e Principe are ranked 183 in the world by Fifa and had to come through a preliminary qualifying tie against Mauritius to reach the group stage.<\/p>\n<p>The islanders were then thrown out of qualifying for fielding an ineligible player \u2013 but Sao Tome were subsequently reinstated just nine days before Group A got under way following a successful appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria join holders Senegal, Algeria, Burkina Faso and Mali with two wins from their first two qualifiers, with the next two rounds of matches scheduled for September.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Osimhen scored four goals as Nigeria thrashed minnows Sao Tome and Principe 10-0 in qualifying for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations. The Super Eagles missed out on a place at the 2022 World Cup in Africa\u2019s play-offs in March but have made a perfect start in Group A as they seek a spot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1120737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[633,17462,998,2929,309],"class_list":["post-1120735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-nigeria","tag-osimhen","tag-record","tag-scores","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}