{"id":762928,"date":"2022-01-23T16:25:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T16:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/23\/super-eagles-coach-vows-to-beat-tunisia-in-round-16\/"},"modified":"2022-01-23T16:25:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T16:25:56","slug":"super-eagles-coach-vows-to-beat-tunisia-in-round-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/23\/super-eagles-coach-vows-to-beat-tunisia-in-round-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Eagles Coach Vows to Beat Tunisia in Round 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Interim head coach of Nigeria, Augustine Eguavoen has opened up on their round 16 clash against Tunisia in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/22e8dee8a9b94fb7b49ea71a53518e2b\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles produced a one hundred percent record in the group stages &#8211; winning all three games and topping Group D. The three time African champions have been paired against North African side, Tunisia who finished group F on three points and qualified as one of the third best teams. Eguavoen, who will revert to his position as Technical Director of the Nigeria Football Federation when Portuguese coach, Jos\u00e9 Paseiro takes over, spoke to NFF TV.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/01781581a75a45929325a3954cfac959\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations to our team,we qualified and now it\u2019s clear we are playing against Tunisia which is another North African strong team. \u201cWe will continue to work hard like we\u2019ve always done, the same approach, same determination, tactics might differ a little bit. \u201cSo we are ready, yesterday [Thursday] we did a little bit of recovery training so today [Friday] we start working on how we shall approach the Tunisia\u2019s game. \u201cThey [Tunisia] had ups and downs. The first game ended in a dramatic fashion.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/49a6fdbad6b0429f95ddf5cae4c91434\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey lost two penalties, two games as well and yesterday [Thursday] so for them, having qualified for the knockout stage is a different ball game, you know what knock out stage is. \u201cIn the round of 16, if you don\u2019t get it, you are off, if you get it you move to the quarter finals and it\u2019s going to be very different. \u201cIt\u2019s a good team, technically very good and they are fast as well, typical North African team. \u201cSo we will find a way to see how will counter them and make sure we come top at the end of the day.\u201d Augustine Eguavoen told NFF TV.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/fea3c1e34ff34ad2bbafa735aa4d8242\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles won their third AFCON title in 2013 under the guidance of late ex-international, Stephen Keshie. They will face Tunisia at the Roumde Adjia Stadium at 19:00 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: AdamuMuftawu (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\">\nAugustine Eguavoen<br \/>\nJos\u00e9 Paseiro<br \/>\nNFF<br \/>\nNigeria<br \/>\nTunisia<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interim head coach of Nigeria, Augustine Eguavoen has opened up on their round 16 clash against Tunisia in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon. The Super Eagles produced a one hundred percent record in the group stages &#8211; winning all three games and topping Group D. The three time African champions have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":762929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762928","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\/762928","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=762928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}