{"id":219690,"date":"2026-01-08T11:12:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-nigeria-afcon-2025-five-defining-takeaways-from-nigerias-4-0-demolition-of-mozambique\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T11:12:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:12:51","slug":"mozambique-nigeria-afcon-2025-five-defining-takeaways-from-nigerias-4-0-demolition-of-mozambique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-nigeria-afcon-2025-five-defining-takeaways-from-nigerias-4-0-demolition-of-mozambique\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique\/Nigeria: Afcon 2025 &#8211; Five Defining Takeaways From Nigeria&#8217;s 4-0 Demolition of Mozambique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\"><em>Against a Mozambique side coached by Chiquinho Conde, the Super Eagles blended intensity, power, and clarity of purpose to overwhelm their opponents from the first whistle<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">The Super Eagles of Nigeria made a loud statement of intent at the business end of the <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cafonline.com\/afcon2025\/\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 Africa Cup of Nations<\/a><\/strong>, brushing aside Mozambique with a commanding 4-0 victory in their Round of 16 clash at the Complexe Sportif de F\u00e8s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">This was not a night for overcomplication. Under Eric Chelle, Nigeria adopted a direct, aggressive,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601060154.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>Against a Mozambique side coached by Chiquinho Conde, the Super Eagles blended intensity, power, and clarity of purpose to overwhelm their opponents from the first whistle The Super Eagles of Nigeria made a loud statement of intent at the business end of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, brushing aside Mozambique with a commanding 4-0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":219691,"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":[9488,258,256,14192,17068,4704,682,52627,257,5761,254,25182],"class_list":["post-219690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-defining","tag-demolition","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-mozambiquenigeria","tag-news","tag-nigerias","tag-south-africa-today","tag-takeaways"],"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\/219690","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=219690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}