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Nigeria defeated Tunisia 3-2 on Saturday at the African Cup of Nations.<\/em><\/p>\n Super Eagles coach Eric Chelle has praised his team’s intensity and control, after Nigeria edged Tunisia 3-2 to reach the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2025 Round of 16.<\/p>\n Nigeria raced into a 3-0 lead and dominated for long spells, but were forced to dig deep as Tunisia mounted a late comeback in a tense Fez encounter.<\/p>\n Chelle’s side showed composure under pressure, holding firm after goals from Montassar Talbi and Ali Abdi…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nigeria defeated Tunisia 3-2 on Saturday at the African Cup of Nations. Super Eagles coach Eric Chelle has praised his team’s intensity and control, after Nigeria edged Tunisia 3-2 to reach the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2025 Round of 16. Nigeria raced into a 3-0 lead and dominated for long spells, but were forced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":218411,"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":[9488,258,256,50394,9641,47728,257,4687,254,53261,4703,653],"class_list":["post-218410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chelle","tag-defeated","tag-lookman","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strategised","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\/218410","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=218410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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