{"id":763482,"date":"2022-01-24T03:46:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/24\/2021-afcon-tunisia-crash-10-man-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2022-01-24T03:46:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T03:46:16","slug":"2021-afcon-tunisia-crash-10-man-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/24\/2021-afcon-tunisia-crash-10-man-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 AFCON: Tunisia crash 10-man Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/tun-696x392.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"tun\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Tunisia upset 10-man Nigeria to set up a quarter-final tie against Burkina Faso at the Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Youssef Msakni beat Super Eagles keeper Maduka Okoye with a long-range effort two minutes into the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s task was made harder when Alex Iwobi was sent off following a video assistant referee review.<\/p>\n<p>The West Africans were the only side to win all three group games in Cameroon, but were largely subdued against a Tunisia side hit by Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria forward Umar Sadiq fired across goal and wide in injury time after Moses Simon had earlier had an effort blocked by Bechir Ben Said.<\/p>\n<p>Tunisia, Nations Cup winners in 2004, will face Burkina Faso in the last eight on Saturday, 29 January.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"HufyLFXe2RM\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Fatal Apeatse Explosion - Nnawotwe Yi on Adom TV (22-1-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HufyLFXe2RM?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunisia upset 10-man Nigeria to set up a quarter-final tie against Burkina Faso at the Africa Cup of Nations. Youssef Msakni beat Super Eagles keeper Maduka Okoye with a long-range effort two minutes into the second half. Nigeria\u2019s task was made harder when Alex Iwobi was sent off following a video assistant referee review. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":763483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2921,93,2922,633,2904],"class_list":["post-763482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-10man","tag-afcon","tag-crash","tag-nigeria","tag-tunisia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763482","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=763482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}