{"id":202323,"date":"2025-07-13T08:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T06:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-nigeria-nigeria-cruise-to-3-0-win-over-tunisia-at-wafcon\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T08:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T06:35:10","slug":"tunisia-nigeria-nigeria-cruise-to-3-0-win-over-tunisia-at-wafcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-nigeria-nigeria-cruise-to-3-0-win-over-tunisia-at-wafcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia\/Nigeria: Nigeria Cruise to 3-0 Win Over Tunisia At Wafcon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>Record nine-time champions Nigeria opened their Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) Group B campaign with a comfortable 3-0 victory over Tunisia in Casablanca on Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Goals from Asisat Oshoala, Rinsola Babajide, and Chinwendu Ihezuo sealed the win against the North Africans and ended a run of two opening-match defeats at the finals, having been beaten by South Africa in both 2018 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Tunisia failed to score for the fifth WAFCON game in a row and created little to trouble Super Falcons&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507080382.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Record nine-time champions Nigeria opened their Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) Group B campaign with a comfortable 3-0 victory over Tunisia in Casablanca on Sunday. Goals from Asisat Oshoala, Rinsola Babajide, and Chinwendu Ihezuo sealed the win against the North Africans and ended a run of two opening-match defeats at the finals, having been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":202324,"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":[642],"tags":[258,256,10674,257,4687,254,4703,653,29469,24869,6660],"class_list":["post-202323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cruise","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisianigeria","tag-wafcon","tag-win"],"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\/202323","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=202323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}