{"id":183430,"date":"2024-10-28T00:50:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T22:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-nigeria-ekong-insists-libyas-knights-will-be-tough-in-reverse-fixture-on-tuesday\/"},"modified":"2024-10-28T00:50:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T22:50:52","slug":"libya-nigeria-ekong-insists-libyas-knights-will-be-tough-in-reverse-fixture-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-nigeria-ekong-insists-libyas-knights-will-be-tough-in-reverse-fixture-on-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya\/Nigeria: Ekong Insists Libya&#8217;s Knights Will Be Tough in Reverse Fixture On Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Super Eagles Captain, William Troost-Ekong, has predicted that Libya&#8217;s Mediterranean Knights will be even tougher nut to crack when both teams clash again Tuesday night in Benina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Tuesday&#8217;s rematch will kick off by 8pm at a packed 10,000-capacity stadium and it will be played on an artificial pitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Despite dominating the North Africans last Friday at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium in Uyo, it was the personal brilliance of Lazio&#8217;s attacking midfielder, Fisayo Dele-Bashiru, for Nigeria in the 71st&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410140457.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles Captain, William Troost-Ekong, has predicted that Libya&#8217;s Mediterranean Knights will be even tougher nut to crack when both teams clash again Tuesday night in Benina. Tuesday&#8217;s rematch will kick off by 8pm at a packed 10,000-capacity stadium and it will be played on an artificial pitch. Despite dominating the North Africans last Friday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":183431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,24202,13843,8191,35104,892,24096,6649,257,10164,254,5039,7871],"class_list":["post-183430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ekong","tag-fixture","tag-insists","tag-knights","tag-libya-news","tag-libyanigeria","tag-libyas","tag-news","tag-reverse","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tough","tag-tuesday"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}