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Egypt earned a confidence-boosting win over Africa Cup of Nations rival Nigeria just days before the tournament begins.<\/p>\n
In a lively warm-up friendly in Cairo on Tuesday night, Egypt took a deserved lead through Mahmoud Saber just before the half-hour mark.<\/p>\n
The ZED striker was set up by the impressive Zizo, who was a constant menace to Nigeria throughout, tapping in at the back post.<\/p>\n
Nigeria showed little cohesion in attack, though their intent was clear. They were almost gifted an equaliser when…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Egypt earned a confidence-boosting win over Africa Cup of Nations rival Nigeria just days before the tournament begins. In a lively warm-up friendly in Cairo on Tuesday night, Egypt took a deserved lead through Mahmoud Saber just before the half-hour mark. The ZED striker was set up by the impressive Zizo, who was a constant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":217085,"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":[338],"tags":[258,256,6531,5232,4697,415,7596,257,6732,29223,254,9095],"class_list":["post-217084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-defeat","tag-eagles","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-friendly","tag-news","tag-north","tag-preafcon","tag-south-africa-today","tag-super"],"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\/217084","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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