{"id":202093,"date":"2025-07-10T14:09:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T12:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/africa-match-facts-nigeria-seek-back-to-back-wins-against-botswana-in-group-b\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T14:09:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T12:09:49","slug":"africa-match-facts-nigeria-seek-back-to-back-wins-against-botswana-in-group-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/africa-match-facts-nigeria-seek-back-to-back-wins-against-botswana-in-group-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Match Facts &#8211; Nigeria Seek Back-to-Back Wins Against Botswana in Group B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\"><em>Nigeria and Botswana will meet for the second time at the TotalEnergies CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) when they clash in their second Group B match at the Larbi Zaouli Stadium in Casablanca on Thursday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Their previous WAFCON encounter was also in the second group match of the 2022 edition. Nigeria won 2-0 thanks to goals from Ifeoma Onumonu (21&#8242;) and Christy Ucheibe (48&#8242;).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">In that 2022 fixture, Nigeria came into the match having lost their opener to South Africa, while Botswana had&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507090533.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria and Botswana will meet for the second time at the TotalEnergies CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) when they clash in their second Group B match at the Larbi Zaouli Stadium in Casablanca on Thursday. Their previous WAFCON encounter was also in the second group match of the 2022 edition. Nigeria won 2-0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":202094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670836:498e4b565dba080e1a52d08ec6d17c66:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,28644,4718,2462,15730,5192,8778,257,4687,7745,254,6552],"class_list":["post-202093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-backtoback","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-facts","tag-group","tag-match","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-seek","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wins"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670836:498e4b565dba080e1a52d08ec6d17c66:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202093","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=202093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}