{"id":219726,"date":"2026-01-08T23:14:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/nigeria-mozambique-nigeria-4-0-mozambique-player-ratings-as-super-eagles-maul-mambas-in-morocco\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T23:14:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T21:14:02","slug":"nigeria-mozambique-nigeria-4-0-mozambique-player-ratings-as-super-eagles-maul-mambas-in-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/nigeria-mozambique-nigeria-4-0-mozambique-player-ratings-as-super-eagles-maul-mambas-in-morocco\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Mozambique: Nigeria 4-0 Mozambique &#8211; Player Ratings As Super Eagles Maul Mambas in Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\"><em>On paper, Nigeria went into the tie as overwhelming favourites. On the pitch in F\u00e8s, they played like a team intent on removing all doubt<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The Super Eagles of Nigeria sent a thunderous message to the rest of Africa on Monday night, strolling into the quarterfinals of the <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cafonline.com\/afcon2025\/\" rel=\"noopener\">2025 Africa Cup of Nations<\/a><\/strong> with a devastating 4-0 demolition of Mozambique in the Round of 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">On paper, Nigeria went into the tie as overwhelming favourites. On the pitch in F\u00e8s, they played like a team intent on removing all&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601060153.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>On paper, Nigeria went into the tie as overwhelming favourites. On the pitch in F\u00e8s, they played like a team intent on removing all doubt The Super Eagles of Nigeria sent a thunderous message to the rest of Africa on Monday night, strolling into the quarterfinals of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":219727,"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":[258,256,5232,11898,19889,5609,4704,682,257,4687,46835,7460,24585,254,9095],"class_list":["post-219726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-eagles","tag-mambas","tag-maul","tag-morocco","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeriamozambique","tag-player","tag-ratings","tag-south-africa-today","tag-super"],"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\/219726","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=219726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}