{"id":220085,"date":"2026-01-11T23:00:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T21:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-osimhen-shuts-critics-with-man-of-the-match-display-in-afcon-quarter-final\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T23:00:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T21:00:29","slug":"nigeria-osimhen-shuts-critics-with-man-of-the-match-display-in-afcon-quarter-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-osimhen-shuts-critics-with-man-of-the-match-display-in-afcon-quarter-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Osimhen Shuts Critics With Man of the Match Display in Afcon Quarter-Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Osimhen&#8217;s night summed up his influence on this Super Eagles team &#8212; goals, assists, work rate and leadership<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Victor Osimhen once again showed why he remains the heartbeat of Nigeria&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NGSuperEagles\">Super Eagles<\/a><\/strong> after being voted TotalEnergies Man of the Match in the 2-0 victory over Algeria that sent Nigeria into the semi-finals of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The Galatasaray striker delivered a complete centre-forward performance in Marrakesh, scoring the opening goal and providing the assist for Akor&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601110131.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>Osimhen&#8217;s night summed up his influence on this Super Eagles team &#8212; goals, assists, work rate and leadership Victor Osimhen once again showed why he remains the heartbeat of Nigeria&#8217;s Super Eagles after being voted TotalEnergies Man of the Match in the 2-0 victory over Algeria that sent Nigeria into the semi-finals of the 2025 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":220086,"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":[9488,258,256,8951,9893,6867,8778,257,4687,393,35859,19316,5223,254],"class_list":["post-220085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-critics","tag-display","tag-man","tag-match","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-osimhen","tag-quarterfinal","tag-shuts","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\/220085","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=220085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}