{"id":205098,"date":"2025-08-20T22:14:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T20:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-congo-brazzaville-nigerias-late-surge-chelle-finds-consolation-in-eagles-response-ngatsono-seeks-lessons-for-congo\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T22:14:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T20:14:17","slug":"nigeria-congo-brazzaville-nigerias-late-surge-chelle-finds-consolation-in-eagles-response-ngatsono-seeks-lessons-for-congo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-congo-brazzaville-nigerias-late-surge-chelle-finds-consolation-in-eagles-response-ngatsono-seeks-lessons-for-congo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Congo-Brazzaville: Nigeria&#8217;s Late Surge &#8211; Chelle Finds Consolation in Eagles&#8217; Response, Ngatsono Seeks Lessons for Congo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><em>Nigeria may have bowed out of the TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN) 2024, but coach Eric Chelle insists their parting act against Congo was a reminder of the Eagles&#8217; quality.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">His side&#8217;s 2-0 win at the Benjamin Mkapa Stadium in Dar es Salaam not only denied Congo progression but also offered Chelle a bittersweet sense of what might have been.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">&#8220;We showed our technical ability in the last part of the match, but we lost several balls before that,&#8221; Chelle reflected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">&#8220;In any case, we&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508200715.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria may have bowed out of the TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN) 2024, but coach Eric Chelle insists their parting act against Congo was a reminder of the Eagles&#8217; quality. His side&#8217;s 2-0 win at the Benjamin Mkapa Stadium in Dar es Salaam not only denied Congo progression but also offered Chelle a bittersweet sense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":205099,"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":[249],"tags":[258,256,50394,4554,27018,5232,13869,8262,8208,257,52159,393,5761,52158,6985,8111,254,10716],"class_list":["post-205098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chelle","tag-congo","tag-consolation","tag-eagles","tag-finds","tag-late","tag-lessons","tag-news","tag-ngatsono","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-nigeriacongobrazzaville","tag-response","tag-seeks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-surge"],"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\/205098","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}