{"id":18636,"date":"2024-01-14T17:23:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T17:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=18636"},"modified":"2024-01-14T17:23:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T17:23:46","slug":"afcon-super-eagles-draw-1-1-to-equatorial-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=18636","title":{"rendered":"AFCON: Super Eagles draw 1-1 to Equatorial Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFCON: Super Eagles draw 1-1 to Equatorial Guinea<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria vs Equatorial Guinea line-ups<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria: Nwabali, Aina, Ekong, Ajayi, Zaidu, Onyeka, Yusuf, Iwobi, Lookman, Moses, Osimhen<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18640\" src=\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/f5d07b50-b2c0-11ee-bc2f-cb5579b90709-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/f5d07b50-b2c0-11ee-bc2f-cb5579b90709-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/f5d07b50-b2c0-11ee-bc2f-cb5579b90709-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/f5d07b50-b2c0-11ee-bc2f-cb5579b90709-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/f5d07b50-b2c0-11ee-bc2f-cb5579b90709-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/f5d07b50-b2c0-11ee-bc2f-cb5579b90709.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Equatorial Guinea: Owono, Akapo, Orozco, Coco, Ndong, Ganet, Bikoro, Buyka, Machin, Slavado, Nsue.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18641\" src=\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0dabb360-b2c2-11ee-93eb-234a913c4e21-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0dabb360-b2c2-11ee-93eb-234a913c4e21-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0dabb360-b2c2-11ee-93eb-234a913c4e21-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0dabb360-b2c2-11ee-93eb-234a913c4e21-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0dabb360-b2c2-11ee-93eb-234a913c4e21-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/0dabb360-b2c2-11ee-93eb-234a913c4e21.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The match kicks off at 3 pm (Nigerian time) as Victor Osimhen, Moses Simon, and Alex Iwobi, among others lead Nigeria\u2019s attack.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles of Nigeria were held to a 1-1 draw against Equatorial Guinea in their first game of the 2023 African Cup of Nations in Ivory Coast on Sunday.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Equatorial Guinea drew first blood in the 37th minute when Iban Salvador scored a well-placed shot, leaving the Super Eagles\u2019 goalie, Stanley Nwabali, motionless.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">An instant response from Nigeria following a kickoff saw Victor Osimhen head an equalising goal for Nigeria before the break.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Makua Ubanagu of Punch online reports that despite many chances, Nigeria failed to get the winning goal. Although Osimhen scored his first AFCON goal on his first appearance, he, in the 75th minute, missed a big chance.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Nigeria, in Group A, will further challenge Ivory Coast, and Guinea Bissau later in the tournament.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Source: Punch<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p>Getty images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFCON: Super Eagles draw 1-1 to Equatorial Guinea Nigeria vs Equatorial Guinea line-ups Nigeria: Nwabali, Aina, Ekong, Ajayi, Zaidu, Onyeka, Yusuf, Iwobi, Lookman, Moses, Osimhen Equatorial Guinea: Owono, Akapo, Orozco, Coco, Ndong, Ganet, Bikoro, Buyka, Machin, Slavado, Nsue. The match kicks off at 3 pm (Nigerian time) as Victor Osimhen, Moses Simon, and Alex Iwobi, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.3.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>AFCON: Super Eagles draw 1-1 to Equatorial Guinea -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=18636\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AFCON: Super Eagles draw 1-1 to Equatorial Guinea -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"AFCON: Super Eagles draw 1-1 to Equatorial Guinea Nigeria vs Equatorial Guinea line-ups Nigeria: Nwabali, Aina, Ekong, Ajayi, Zaidu, Onyeka, Yusuf, Iwobi, Lookman, Moses, Osimhen Equatorial Guinea: Owono, Akapo, Orozco, Coco, Ndong, Ganet, Bikoro, Buyka, Machin, Slavado, Nsue. 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