{"id":219676,"date":"2026-01-08T10:39:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/nigeria-tunisia-afcon-2025-nigerias-player-ratings-in-five-goal-thriller-against-tunisia\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T10:39:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:39:51","slug":"nigeria-tunisia-afcon-2025-nigerias-player-ratings-in-five-goal-thriller-against-tunisia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/nigeria-tunisia-afcon-2025-nigerias-player-ratings-in-five-goal-thriller-against-tunisia\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Tunisia: Afcon 2025 &#8211; Nigeria&#8217;s Player Ratings in Five-Goal Thriller Against Tunisia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>Coming into the contest, Nigeria were buoyed by a narrow opening-day win over Tanzania, while Tunisia arrived full of confidence after dispatching Uganda<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The Super Eagles of Nigeria underlined their title credentials at the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cafonline.com\/caf-africa-cup-of-nations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 Africa Cup of Nations<\/a><\/strong> with a dramatic 3-2 victory over the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia at the Complexe Sportif de F\u00e8s, sealing back-to-back wins in Group C and tightening their grip on qualification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Coming into the contest, Nigeria were buoyed by a narrow opening-day win&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512280082.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>Coming into the contest, Nigeria were buoyed by a narrow opening-day win over Tanzania, while Tunisia arrived full of confidence after dispatching Uganda The Super Eagles of Nigeria underlined their title credentials at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations with a dramatic 3-2 victory over the Carthage Eagles of Tunisia at the Complexe Sportif de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":219677,"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":[642],"tags":[9488,258,256,45842,257,5761,19577,7460,24585,254,14053,4703,653],"class_list":["post-219676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fivegoal","tag-news","tag-nigerias","tag-nigeriatunisia","tag-player","tag-ratings","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thriller","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news"],"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\/219676","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=219676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}