{"id":194130,"date":"2025-03-21T07:01:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T05:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/nigeria-cameroon-2026-world-cup-qualifiers-cameroon-draw-in-eswatini-as-nigeria-face-oblivion\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T07:01:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T05:01:40","slug":"nigeria-cameroon-2026-world-cup-qualifiers-cameroon-draw-in-eswatini-as-nigeria-face-oblivion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/nigeria-cameroon-2026-world-cup-qualifiers-cameroon-draw-in-eswatini-as-nigeria-face-oblivion\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Cameroon: 2026 World Cup Qualifiers &#8211; Cameroon Draw in Eswatini As Nigeria Face Oblivion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em> Cameroon opened the door for Libya, Cape Verde or Angola to take control of their 2026 World Cup qualifying group following a shock 0-0 draw in Eswatini on Wednesday night. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The Group D pacesetters, boasting seasoned campaigners such as Vincent Aboubakar and Bryan Mbuemo in the forward line, went into the game against the pool makeweights as favourites to dispatch them to a fifth consecutive defeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">But the hosts soaked up the pressure to blunt an attack that had notched up nine goals in its&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503200026.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cameroon opened the door for Libya, Cape Verde or Angola to take control of their 2026 World Cup qualifying group following a shock 0-0 draw in Eswatini on Wednesday night. The Group D pacesetters, boasting seasoned campaigners such as Vincent Aboubakar and Bryan Mbuemo in the forward line, went into the game against the pool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":194131,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,4698,377,6674,6981,21368,7127,257,4687,7316,50913,7318,254,5093],"class_list":["post-194130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cup","tag-draw","tag-eswatini","tag-face","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeriacameroon","tag-oblivion","tag-qualifiers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/194130","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}