{"id":219277,"date":"2026-01-05T10:31:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T08:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-nigeria-nightmare-ending-admits-nigeria-boss-chelle-after-fez-thriller-against-tunisia\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T10:31:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T08:31:43","slug":"tunisia-nigeria-nightmare-ending-admits-nigeria-boss-chelle-after-fez-thriller-against-tunisia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-nigeria-nightmare-ending-admits-nigeria-boss-chelle-after-fez-thriller-against-tunisia\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia\/Nigeria: Nightmare Ending, Admits Nigeria Boss Chelle After Fez Thriller Against Tunisia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em> Nigeria coach Eric Chelle admitted on Sunday the last 15 minutes of his side&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations game against Tunisia was the stuff of nightmares. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Super Eagles &#8211; as they are nicknamed &#8211; had soared into a 3-0 lead at the Stade de Fes with goals from Victor Osimhen, Wilfred Ndidi and Ademola Lookman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">But slack marking at a free-kick allowed Montassar Talbi to head in Tunisia&#8217;s response after 74 minutes and Ali Abdi thrashed home a penalty on 87 minutes to set up a grandstand finish in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512280083.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>Nigeria coach Eric Chelle admitted on Sunday the last 15 minutes of his side&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations game against Tunisia was the stuff of nightmares. The Super Eagles &#8211; as they are nicknamed &#8211; had soared into a 3-0 lead at the Stade de Fes with goals from Victor Osimhen, Wilfred Ndidi and Ademola [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":219278,"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":[7988,258,256,6962,50394,53320,257,4687,19714,254,14053,4703,653,29469],"class_list":["post-219277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-admits","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boss","tag-chelle","tag-fez","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nightmare","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thriller","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisianigeria"],"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\/219277","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=219277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}