{"id":218353,"date":"2025-12-28T14:55:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T12:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/nigeria-tunisia-afcon-2025-osimhen-lookman-score-as-nigeria-beat-tunisia-in-five-goal-thriller\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T14:55:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T12:55:01","slug":"nigeria-tunisia-afcon-2025-osimhen-lookman-score-as-nigeria-beat-tunisia-in-five-goal-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/nigeria-tunisia-afcon-2025-osimhen-lookman-score-as-nigeria-beat-tunisia-in-five-goal-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Tunisia: Afcon 2025 &#8211; Osimhen, Lookman Score As Nigeria Beat Tunisia in Five-Goal Thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em>Victor Osimhen opened the scoring just before half-time to end his goal drought at the tournament.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Nigeria&#8217;s Super Eagles have qualified for the knockout phase of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations after a dramatic 3-2 victory over Tunisia at the Fez Stadium in Morocco on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The Super Eagles looked in full control for long spells and raced into a three-goal lead, but a late Tunisian surge ensured a tense finish before Nigeria held on to secure a second straight win of the group stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\"...<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512280090.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>Victor Osimhen opened the scoring just before half-time to end his goal drought at the tournament. Nigeria&#8217;s Super Eagles have qualified for the knockout phase of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations after a dramatic 3-2 victory over Tunisia at the Fez Stadium in Morocco on Saturday night. The Super Eagles looked in full control [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":218354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680307:71c943e991109ce03119fea52ff262e9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[9488,258,256,5065,45842,47728,257,4687,19577,35859,12468,254,14053,4703,653],"class_list":["post-218353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beat","tag-fivegoal","tag-lookman","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeriatunisia","tag-osimhen","tag-score","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thriller","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680307:71c943e991109ce03119fea52ff262e9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218353","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=218353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}