{"id":240657,"date":"2026-08-08T19:19:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/nigeria-egypt-wafcon-2026-six-key-takeaways-as-super-falcons-crush-egypt-to-reach-quarter-finals\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T19:19:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T17:19:59","slug":"nigeria-egypt-wafcon-2026-six-key-takeaways-as-super-falcons-crush-egypt-to-reach-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/nigeria-egypt-wafcon-2026-six-key-takeaways-as-super-falcons-crush-egypt-to-reach-quarter-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Egypt: Wafcon 2026 &#8211; Six Key Takeaways As Super Falcons Crush Egypt to Reach Quarter-Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Beyond the convincing scoreline, the contest produced several narratives that could shape Nigeria&#8217;s title bid as the tournament heads into the knockout rounds<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The Super Falcons sent another emphatic statement to the rest of Africa with a ruthless 6-2 demolition of Egypt to seal a place in the quarter-finals of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.olympics.com\/en\/news\/2026-womens-africa-cup-of-nations-schedule-results-standings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations<\/a><\/strong> (WAFCON).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">It was another reminder of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/news\/top-news\/900975-wafcon-2026-super-falcons-thrash-egypt-6-2-to-reach-quarter-finals.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nigeria&#8217;s frightening attacking depth<\/a><\/strong>, as six moments of brilliance overwhelmed the North Africans in a match&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608060146.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond the convincing scoreline, the contest produced several narratives that could shape Nigeria&#8217;s title bid as the tournament heads into the knockout rounds The Super Falcons sent another emphatic statement to the rest of Africa with a ruthless 6-2 demolition of Egypt to seal a place in the quarter-finals of the 2026 Women&#8217;s Africa Cup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,10329,4697,415,18943,7274,257,12244,15866,5160,254,9095,25182,24869],"class_list":["post-240657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crush","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-falcons","tag-key","tag-news","tag-nigeriaegypt","tag-quarterfinals","tag-reach","tag-south-africa-today","tag-super","tag-takeaways","tag-wafcon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240657","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=240657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}