{"id":762508,"date":"2022-01-23T08:28:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T08:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/23\/world-cup-playoffs-will-ghana-ride-on-history-to-qualify-against-in-form-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2022-01-23T08:28:17","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T08:28:17","slug":"world-cup-playoffs-will-ghana-ride-on-history-to-qualify-against-in-form-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/23\/world-cup-playoffs-will-ghana-ride-on-history-to-qualify-against-in-form-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup Playoffs: Will Ghana Ride On History To Qualify Against In Form Nigeria?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/4703b71919454677aadbe9c8fd391b50\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The much-awaited draw between CAF playoffs draws came off today in Cameroon where the Black Stars of Ghana was handed what many has labeled as a tough pairing against the Super Eagles of Nigeria. <\/p>\n<p>Where Ghana will take on Nigeria on 24th March with a return leg on the 28th March in Nigeria too. With brief history, the Super Eagles don&#8217;t have a chance against Ghana but with current form Nigeria will wallop Ghana and easily run over them. <\/p>\n<p>As it stands, the last time Ghana went to the World Cup was in 2014. Ghana has been at the World Cup on three occasions; 2006, 2010, and 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana was conspicuously missing in action at the Mundial in 2018. Nigeria has appeared at the World Cup 6 times, [ 1994, 1998, 2002, 2010,2014,2018 ].<\/p>\n<p>However, their best performance has been Round of 16 finishes in 1994, 1998, and 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria has been to the last three World Cups and will be seeking to make it a 4th consecutive World Cup for the 1st time in their history.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana is one of the three African countries that have reached the quarter-final of the World Cup, with the other two beings, Senegal and Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana and Nigeria have played 49 games with Ghana winning 21 games, losing 10, and drawing 18 times.<\/p>\n<p>The last time both teams met was in 2011. It was in an international friendly which ended in a goalless draw.<\/p>\n<p>Head to head\u00a0between Ghana and Nigeria <\/p>\n<p>Games &#8211; 49\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ghana won &#8211; 21\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria won &#8211; 10<\/p>\n<p>Draws &#8211; 18<\/p>\n<p>In all I see the Black Stars of Ghana with a new crop of players and technical team making it past the Super Eagles of Nigeria. <\/p>\n<p>Do you agree with me? <\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: BATACH (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nCAF<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nNigeria<br \/>\nSuper Eagles<br \/>\nWorld Cup<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The much-awaited draw between CAF playoffs draws came off today in Cameroon where the Black Stars of Ghana was handed what many has labeled as a tough pairing against the Super Eagles of Nigeria. Where Ghana will take on Nigeria on 24th March with a return leg on the 28th March in Nigeria too. With [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":762509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762508","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=762508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}