{"id":219417,"date":"2026-01-06T11:07:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T09:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/nigeria-mozambique-afcon-2025-super-eagles-breeze-into-quarter-finals-with-4-0-crushing-of-mozambique\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T11:07:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T09:07:51","slug":"nigeria-mozambique-afcon-2025-super-eagles-breeze-into-quarter-finals-with-4-0-crushing-of-mozambique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/nigeria-mozambique-afcon-2025-super-eagles-breeze-into-quarter-finals-with-4-0-crushing-of-mozambique\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Mozambique: Afcon 2025 &#8211; Super Eagles Breeze Into Quarter-finals With 4-0 Crushing of Mozambique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Nigeria&#8217;s Super Eagles breezed into the quarterfinals of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) with 4-0 demolition of Mozambique&#8217;s Mambas in the Round of 16 clash in Fes, Morocco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Two goals from Victor Osimhen and one each from Ademola Lookman and Jerome Akor Adams ensured that the Super Eagles maintained their 100 per cent form, winning all four games they have played so far in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Barely two minutes into the game against the Mambas, Osimhen fired Nigeria into the lead but that goal&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601060003.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria&#8217;s Super Eagles breezed into the quarterfinals of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) with 4-0 demolition of Mozambique&#8217;s Mambas in the Round of 16 clash in Fes, Morocco. Two goals from Victor Osimhen and one each from Ademola Lookman and Jerome Akor Adams ensured that the Super Eagles maintained their 100 per cent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":219418,"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\/00680383:8ecbbc35c3a515875cc36931a16be2b7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[9488,258,256,53333,21522,5232,4704,682,257,46835,15866,254,9095],"class_list":["post-219417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-breeze","tag-crushing","tag-eagles","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-nigeriamozambique","tag-quarterfinals","tag-south-africa-today","tag-super"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680383:8ecbbc35c3a515875cc36931a16be2b7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219417","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}