{"id":745200,"date":"2022-01-11T19:46:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T19:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/nigeria-vs-egypt-afcon2021-live-commentary\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T19:46:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T19:46:47","slug":"nigeria-vs-egypt-afcon2021-live-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/nigeria-vs-egypt-afcon2021-live-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria vs Egypt (AFCON2021 Live Commentary)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Sports News of Tuesday, 11 January 2022<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n<p>2022-01-11<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/14291515.295.jpg\" alt=\"Egypt's Mahmoud Trezegate takes on Nigeria forward, Ahmed Musah\" title=\"Egypt's Mahmoud Trezegate takes on Nigeria forward, Ahmed Musah\" width=\"295\" height=\"240\" \/> <span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Egypt&#8217;s Mahmoud Trezegate takes on Nigeria forward, Ahmed Musah<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\">Nigeria goes head-to-head with Egypt in a Group D opener at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations(AFCON) in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles face the Pharaohs at the AFCON for the 9th time- the fourth most-played fixture after Cameroon-Egypt, C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire-Egypt, and C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire-Ghana \u2013 all played 10 times.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt won the last meeting between the two teams in 2010. However, Nigeria have the most wins of the fixture, 3 with Egypt winning two.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt are on 16 games unbeaten run in the group stage group matches at the Africa Cup of Nations with 14 of those. Their last defeat in the group phase dates back to the 2004 tournament. <\/p>\n<p>Nigeria, three times competition winners will be making their 19th appearance at the AFCON. Whereas, Egypt, the most successful country in the tournament with seven titles will be making the 25th appearance. <\/p>\n<p><b>Follow the live stream here<\/b><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"tqeHuNBR-Aw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"LIVE COMMENTARY:  NIGERIA VRS EGYPT @ AFCON 2021\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tqeHuNBR-Aw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports News of Tuesday, 11 January 2022 Source: www.ghanaweb.com 2022-01-11 play videoEgypt&#8217;s Mahmoud Trezegate takes on Nigeria forward, Ahmed Musah Nigeria goes head-to-head with Egypt in a Group D opener at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations(AFCON) in Cameroon. The Super Eagles face the Pharaohs at the AFCON for the 9th time- the fourth most-played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":745201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-745200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745200","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=745200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}