{"id":219153,"date":"2026-01-04T10:29:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/nigeria-tunisia-afcon-2025-six-key-takeaways-from-nigerias-narrow-win-against-tunisia\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T10:29:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T08:29:54","slug":"nigeria-tunisia-afcon-2025-six-key-takeaways-from-nigerias-narrow-win-against-tunisia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/nigeria-tunisia-afcon-2025-six-key-takeaways-from-nigerias-narrow-win-against-tunisia\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Tunisia: Afcon 2025 &#8211; Six Key Takeaways From Nigeria&#8217;s Narrow Win Against Tunisia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em>Chelle&#8217;s greatest challenge is balance. Nigeria&#8217;s ceiling is high, arguably higher than most teams in Morocco.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Nigeria and Tunisia delivered one of the defining spectacles of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cafonline.com\/caf-africa-cup-of-nations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 Africa Cup of Nations<\/a><\/strong> on Saturday night in F\u00e8s, as the Super Eagles edged a pulsating 3-2 contest to book an early place in the knockout rounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"60\">In a match that swung violently between control and chaos, goals from Victor Osimhen, Wilfred Ndidi and Ademola Lookman sealed a second straight Group C victory for Nigeria&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512280084.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>Chelle&#8217;s greatest challenge is balance. Nigeria&#8217;s ceiling is high, arguably higher than most teams in Morocco. Nigeria and Tunisia delivered one of the defining spectacles of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations on Saturday night in F\u00e8s, as the Super Eagles edged a pulsating 3-2 contest to book an early place in the knockout rounds. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":219154,"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\/00680357:38ce21c02a8bd096e5a86e5bd2b11377:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[9488,258,256,7274,16485,257,5761,19577,254,25182,4703,653,6660],"class_list":["post-219153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-narrow","tag-news","tag-nigerias","tag-nigeriatunisia","tag-south-africa-today","tag-takeaways","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-win"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680357:38ce21c02a8bd096e5a86e5bd2b11377:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219153","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=219153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}