Soccer News of Sunday, 23 January 2022<\/p>\n
Source: <\/strong>ghanasoccernet.com<\/p>\n 2022-01-23<\/p>\n Ghana’s 2022 World Cup play-off opponents Nigeria suffered a shock exit at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations when they were defeat 1-0 by the less-fancied Tunisia in Garoua on Sunday.<\/p>\n The Super Eagles, who were tipped as favourites for the competition, were stunned in front of their own supporters in the neighbouring Cameroonian city.<\/p>\n The Carthage Eagles upset 10-man Super Eagles to reach the quarter-final where they will face Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n The result means the Nigerians ended just one step ahead of Ghana that finished their campaign at the group stage of the competition.<\/p>\n Youssef Msakni beat Nigeria goalkeeper Maduka Okoye with a long-range effort two minutes into the second half to end the Super Eagles hopes of winning the title.<\/p>\n Nigeria’s task was made harder when Alex Iwobi was sent off following a video assistant referee review.<\/p>\n The West Africans were the only side to win all three group games in Cameroon, but were largely subdued against a side hit by Covid-19.<\/p>\n Nigeria forward Umar Sadiq fired across goal and wide in injury time after Moses Simon had earlier had an effort blocked by Carthage Eagles keeper Bechir Ben Said.<\/p>\n Tunisia, Nations Cup winners in 2004, will face Burkina Faso in the last eight on Saturday, 29 January.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Soccer News of Sunday, 23 January 2022 Source: ghanasoccernet.com 2022-01-23 The Super Eagles were unbeaten prior to the Tunisia game Ghana’s 2022 World Cup play-off opponents Nigeria suffered a shock exit at the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations when they were defeat 1-0 by the less-fancied Tunisia in Garoua on Sunday. The Super Eagles, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":763245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[93,1972,2902,633,1962,2903,1181,2904],"class_list":{"0":"post-763244","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-afcon","9":"tag-exit","10":"tag-favourites","11":"tag-nigeria","12":"tag-shock","13":"tag-stunned","14":"tag-suffer","15":"tag-tunisia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763244","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=763244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/80240422.295.jpg\" "\\"The")
The Super Eagles were unbeaten prior to the Tunisia game<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n