{"id":217960,"date":"2025-12-24T14:45:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-nigeria-afcon-2025-day-3-roundup-tunisia-fly-higher-than-super-eagles-as-senegal-seal-biggest-win\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T14:45:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T12:45:40","slug":"tunisia-nigeria-afcon-2025-day-3-roundup-tunisia-fly-higher-than-super-eagles-as-senegal-seal-biggest-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-nigeria-afcon-2025-day-3-roundup-tunisia-fly-higher-than-super-eagles-as-senegal-seal-biggest-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia\/Nigeria: Afcon 2025 Day 3 Roundup &#8211; Tunisia Fly Higher Than Super Eagles As Senegal Seal Biggest Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">While Nigeria were made to dig deep against Tanzania, Tunisia delivered one of the most controlled performances of the tournament&#8217;s opening days<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Tunisia sit top of Group C after Matchday One of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cafonline.com\/caf-africa-cup-of-nations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AFCON<\/a><\/strong>) Morocco 2025, edging ahead of Nigeria on goal difference following an assured 3-1 win over Uganda on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Both teams opened their campaigns with victories, but while Nigeria were made to dig deep against Tanzania, Tunisia delivered one of the most&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512240196.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Nigeria were made to dig deep against Tanzania, Tunisia delivered one of the most controlled performances of the tournament&#8217;s opening days Tunisia sit top of Group C after Matchday One of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) Morocco 2025, edging ahead of Nigeria on goal difference following an assured 3-1 win over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":217961,"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":[642],"tags":[9488,258,256,8645,7165,5232,10686,8056,257,49804,5120,3969,254,9095,4703,653,29469,6660],"class_list":["post-217960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-biggest","tag-day","tag-eagles","tag-fly","tag-higher","tag-news","tag-roundup","tag-seal","tag-senegal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-super","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisianigeria","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\/217960","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=217960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}