{"id":203059,"date":"2025-07-23T02:39:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/nigeria-zambia-rampant-nigeria-smash-five-past-zambia-to-reach-wafcon-semis\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T02:39:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:39:51","slug":"nigeria-zambia-rampant-nigeria-smash-five-past-zambia-to-reach-wafcon-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/nigeria-zambia-rampant-nigeria-smash-five-past-zambia-to-reach-wafcon-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Zambia: Rampant Nigeria Smash Five Past Zambia to Reach Wafcon Semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><em>Nigeria delivered a dominant performance to demolish Zambia 5-0 and secure a place in the semi-finals of the 2025 TotalEnergies CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in Casablanca on Friday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The Super Falcons, unbeaten and unbreached in the tournament so far, maintained their defensive record while producing their most clinical attacking display yet, dismantling the Copper Queens with ruthless efficiency at Stade Larbi Zaouli.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Nigeria&#8217;s intent was clear from the first whistle, and they needed&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507220140.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>Nigeria delivered a dominant performance to demolish Zambia 5-0 and secure a place in the semi-finals of the 2025 TotalEnergies CAF Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (WAFCON) in Casablanca on Friday. The Super Falcons, unbeaten and unbreached in the tournament so far, maintained their defensive record while producing their most clinical attacking display yet, dismantling [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":203060,"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":[258,256,257,4687,14037,12766,5160,7128,16108,254,24869,4709,881],"class_list":["post-203059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeriazambia","tag-rampant","tag-reach","tag-semis","tag-smash","tag-south-africa-today","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\/203059","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=203059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}