{"id":211094,"date":"2025-10-24T12:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-benin-benin-vs-nigeria-preview-super-falcons-target-early-statement-in-wafcon-qualifier\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T12:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T10:53:09","slug":"nigeria-benin-benin-vs-nigeria-preview-super-falcons-target-early-statement-in-wafcon-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-benin-benin-vs-nigeria-preview-super-falcons-target-early-statement-in-wafcon-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Benin: Benin Vs Nigeria Preview &#8211; Super Falcons Target Early Statement in Wafcon Qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">The Super Falcons of Nigeria will look to take a commanding step toward qualification for the 2026 WAFCON when they face Benin&#8217;s Amazons in the first leg of their final qualifying tie at the Stade de K\u00e9gu\u00e9 in Lom\u00e9 on Friday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">A few days after Nigeria&#8217;s men&#8217;s national football team <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/news\/headlines\/827998-nigeria-vs-benin-osimhen-hat-trick-keeps-super-eagles-world-cup-dream-alive.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">annihilated the Cheetahs of Benin Republic<\/a><\/strong> in a make-or-break 2026 World Cup qualifying match, the two West African countries are set for another crucial showdown &#8212; this time in the Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510240132.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>The Super Falcons of Nigeria will look to take a commanding step toward qualification for the 2026 WAFCON when they face Benin&#8217;s Amazons in the first leg of their final qualifying tie at the Stade de K\u00e9gu\u00e9 in Lom\u00e9 on Friday evening. A few days after Nigeria&#8217;s men&#8217;s national football team annihilated the Cheetahs of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":211095,"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":[258,256,4737,7473,18943,257,4687,393,52669,33081,8496,254,6065,9095,7594,24869],"class_list":["post-211094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-benin","tag-early","tag-falcons","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigeriabenin","tag-preview","tag-qualifier","tag-south-africa-today","tag-statement","tag-super","tag-target","tag-wafcon"],"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\/211094","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=211094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}