{"id":915472,"date":"2022-01-11T22:26:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T22:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/11\/afcon-2021-three-best-players-in-nigerias-1-0-win-over-egypt\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T22:26:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T22:26:05","slug":"afcon-2021-three-best-players-in-nigerias-1-0-win-over-egypt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/afcon-2021-three-best-players-in-nigerias-1-0-win-over-egypt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2021: Three Best Players In Nigeria&#8217;s 1-0 Win Over Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Nigeria began their AFCON 2021 journey on a good note as they defeated seven-time champions Egypt on Tuesday evening. Leicester City striker Kelechi Iheanacho scored the only goal of the game in the first 45 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/26eb06f5a43f454e9f681353df869a66\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria dominated the game and created more chances, with Liverpool star Mohamed Salah not having a chance to prove himself against the Super Eagles defence.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/3e5f1bd2ffe64d9486e00985b1de8dae\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Here are the three best players in Nigeria&#8217;s win over the Pharaohs of Egypt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1 Moses Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He was a terror to the Egyptian defenders on the left wing and was involved in the Super Eagles goal scored by Iheanacho in the first half.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1ebb47db544e4648b75249e1c64d36d6\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>2 Kelechi Iheanacho<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Leicester City forward scored the only goal of the game and was instrumental when the Super Eagles are on the attack.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/fd9c9544189344b19f77fd16922a3760\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3 Kenneth Omeruo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The former Chelsea defender was solid in the back and did a good job in keeping out Mohamed Salah alongside William Troost-Ekong.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/34ba2be32b0c475e89bb8a772aa6fd24\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Who do you think should be crowned the man of the match in Super Eagles wonderful win over Egypt?<\/strong> <strong><em>Share your thoughts on this in the comments section below.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: SportingAbimbola (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\">\nEgypt<br \/>\nKelechi Iheanacho<br \/>\nMohamed Salah<br \/>\nMoses Simon<br \/>\nNigeria<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria began their AFCON 2021 journey on a good note as they defeated seven-time champions Egypt on Tuesday evening. Leicester City striker Kelechi Iheanacho scored the only goal of the game in the first 45 minutes. Nigeria dominated the game and created more chances, with Liverpool star Mohamed Salah not having a chance to prove [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-915472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915472","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=915472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}