{"id":219538,"date":"2026-01-07T10:46:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-afcon-top-scorers-after-round-of-16\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T10:46:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T08:46:25","slug":"nigeria-afcon-top-scorers-after-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-afcon-top-scorers-after-round-of-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Afcon &#8211; Top Scorers After Round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Morocco&#8217;s Brahim D\u00edaz leads the Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON top scorers chart after the conclusion of round-of-16 matches, having netted four goals so far in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Diaz is closely followed by a cluster of high-profile attackers on three goals, including Nigeria&#8217;s Ademola Lookman and Victor Osimhen, Egypt star Mohamed Salah and Algeria captain Riyad Mahrez, highlighting the fierce competition among the continent&#8217;s top forwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\"><strong>AFCON Top Scorers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">Africa Cup of Nations leading scorers&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601070040.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morocco&#8217;s Brahim D\u00edaz leads the Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON top scorers chart after the conclusion of round-of-16 matches, having netted four goals so far in the tournament. Diaz is closely followed by a cluster of high-profile attackers on three goals, including Nigeria&#8217;s Ademola Lookman and Victor Osimhen, Egypt star Mohamed Salah and Algeria captain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":219539,"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":[249],"tags":[9488,258,256,257,4687,393,31979,254,7319],"class_list":["post-219538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-scorers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-top"],"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\/219538","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}