{"id":209465,"date":"2025-10-10T19:46:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-nigeria-lesotho-vs-nigeria-live-updates-super-eagles-chase-vital-win-in-polokwane\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T19:46:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:46:49","slug":"lesotho-nigeria-lesotho-vs-nigeria-live-updates-super-eagles-chase-vital-win-in-polokwane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-nigeria-lesotho-vs-nigeria-live-updates-super-eagles-chase-vital-win-in-polokwane\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho\/Nigeria: Lesotho Vs Nigeria (Live Updates) &#8211; Super Eagles Chase Vital Win in Polokwane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">With World Cup hopes hanging by a thread, Nigeria go all out for three points against Lesotho&#8217;s Crocodiles in Polokwane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Nigeria&#8217;s 2026 <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/fifaworldcup\/?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener\">FIFA<\/a><\/strong> World Cup qualification hopes face a defining test this evening as the Super Eagles take on the Crocodiles of Lesotho at the New Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane, South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Lesotho held Nigeria to a 1-1 draw in the reverse fixture at the Godswill Akpabio Stadium, Uyo, on 16 November 2023, and will be looking to cause another upset in Polokwane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510100590.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With World Cup hopes hanging by a thread, Nigeria go all out for three points against Lesotho&#8217;s Crocodiles in Polokwane. Nigeria&#8217;s 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification hopes face a defining test this evening as the Super Eagles take on the Crocodiles of Lesotho at the New Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane, South Africa. Lesotho held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":209466,"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":[1406],"tags":[258,256,7842,5232,4717,1407,25974,9191,257,4687,52509,254,9095,12445,6609,6660],"class_list":["post-209465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chase","tag-eagles","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lesothonigeria","tag-live","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-polokwane","tag-south-africa-today","tag-super","tag-updates","tag-vital","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\/209465","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=209465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}