{"id":202532,"date":"2025-07-16T02:24:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T00:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/nigeria-zambia-wafcon-super-falcons-set-up-quarter-final-clash-with-zambia\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T02:24:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T00:24:21","slug":"nigeria-zambia-wafcon-super-falcons-set-up-quarter-final-clash-with-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/nigeria-zambia-wafcon-super-falcons-set-up-quarter-final-clash-with-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Zambia: Wafcon &#8211; Super Falcons Set Up Quarter-Final Clash With Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Algeria&#8217;s Lady Fennecs successfully stifled the Super Falcons to earn a scoreless draw in their final group B match of the 13th Women Africa Cup of Nations on Sunday and earn a spot in the tournament&#8217;s quarter-finals for the first time ever.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Head Coach Justine Madugu made eight changes to the squad that started against Botswana in Thursday&#8217;s 1-0 defeat of Botswana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The intention was clear, which was to rest a lot of key players ahead of Friday&#8217;s potentially-explosive quarter-final encounter&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507150412.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria&#8217;s Lady Fennecs successfully stifled the Super Falcons to earn a scoreless draw in their final group B match of the 13th Women Africa Cup of Nations on Sunday and earn a spot in the tournament&#8217;s quarter-finals for the first time ever. Head Coach Justine Madugu made eight changes to the squad that started against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":202533,"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":[825],"tags":[258,256,7647,18943,257,14037,19316,7106,254,9095,24869,4709,881],"class_list":["post-202532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-clash","tag-falcons","tag-news","tag-nigeriazambia","tag-quarterfinal","tag-set","tag-south-africa-today","tag-super","tag-wafcon","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"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\/202532","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=202532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}