{"id":885493,"date":"2026-01-16T16:44:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/egypt-edge-nigeria-2-1-in-tense-afcon-warm-up-friendly\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T16:44:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T22:44:45","slug":"egypt-edge-nigeria-2-1-in-tense-afcon-warm-up-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/16\/egypt-edge-nigeria-2-1-in-tense-afcon-warm-up-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt edge Nigeria 2-1 in tense AFCON warm-up friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GistReel<br \/>\nThe Pharaohs of Egypt secured a narrow 2-1 win over the Super Eagles of Nigeria in a fiercely contested international friendly on Tuesday. The game cones just days before the start of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2025 tournament. Played at the iconic Cairo International Stadium&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gistreel.com\/egypt-edge-nigeria-2-1-in-tense-afcon-warm-up-friendly\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Victor Akuma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GistReel The Pharaohs of Egypt secured a narrow 2-1 win over the Super Eagles of Nigeria in a fiercely contested international friendly on Tuesday. The game cones just days before the start of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2025 tournament. Played at the iconic Cairo International Stadium&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":885494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28579,27096,192],"tags":[47619,15956],"class_list":{"0":"post-885493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-egypt","8":"category-nigeria","9":"category-sports","10":"tag-egypt","11":"tag-nigeria"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=885493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=885493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}