{"id":194605,"date":"2025-03-26T22:31:53","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/nigeria-lesotho-wc-2026-qualifiers-five-things-that-cost-amavubi-vs-nigeria-lesotho\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T22:31:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T20:31:53","slug":"nigeria-lesotho-wc-2026-qualifiers-five-things-that-cost-amavubi-vs-nigeria-lesotho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/nigeria-lesotho-wc-2026-qualifiers-five-things-that-cost-amavubi-vs-nigeria-lesotho\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Lesotho: WC 2026 Qualifiers &#8211; Five Things That Cost Amavubi Vs Nigeria, Lesotho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Rwanda failed to reap big from their recent Group C matches of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers as Tuesday&#8217;s 1-1 draw against Lesotho summed up an unimpressive performance that they endured before their home supporters in Kigali.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The result came three days after Amavubi had lost 2-0 to the Super Eagles of Nigeria at the same venue on March 21.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">The two rounds of matches saw Rwanda drop to second place with 8 points, losing the top spot to current Group C leaders South Africa who won both games against&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503260538.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda failed to reap big from their recent Group C matches of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers as Tuesday&#8217;s 1-1 draw against Lesotho summed up an unimpressive performance that they endured before their home supporters in Kigali. The result came three days after Amavubi had lost 2-0 to the Super Eagles of Nigeria at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":194606,"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":[1406],"tags":[258,256,17292,6629,4717,1407,257,4687,29443,7318,254],"class_list":["post-194605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amavubi","tag-cost","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerialesotho","tag-qualifiers","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/194605","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}