{"id":219474,"date":"2026-01-06T23:09:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-nigeria-caution-in-the-air-as-eagles-battle-mozambique-for-qfinal-berth\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T23:09:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:09:12","slug":"mozambique-nigeria-caution-in-the-air-as-eagles-battle-mozambique-for-qfinal-berth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-nigeria-caution-in-the-air-as-eagles-battle-mozambique-for-qfinal-berth\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique\/Nigeria: Caution in the Air As Eagles Battle Mozambique for Q&#8217;final Berth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\"><strong>Duro Ikhazuagbe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Super Eagles ambition of reaching the quarterfinals stage of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) will gain traction this evening if they succeed in defeating Mozambique&#8217;s Mambas in the Round of 16 tie in Fes, Morocco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">This historic Moroccan city has been good to Eagles. Nigeria won all her three group stage matches here and it has become a sort of home to the Super Eagles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Today&#8217;s clash with Mozambique will be&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601060286.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>Duro Ikhazuagbe Super Eagles ambition of reaching the quarterfinals stage of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) will gain traction this evening if they succeed in defeating Mozambique&#8217;s Mambas in the Round of 16 tie in Fes, Morocco. This historic Moroccan city has been good to Eagles. Nigeria won all her three group stage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":219475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,7832,7887,15118,8279,5232,4704,682,52627,257,47731,254],"class_list":["post-219474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-air","tag-battle","tag-berth","tag-caution","tag-eagles","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-mozambiquenigeria","tag-news","tag-qfinal","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219474","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=219474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}