{"id":234709,"date":"2025-08-19T21:18:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T21:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abianewscentral.com.ng\/chan-2024-home-eagles-overcome-congo-in-last-group-game\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T21:18:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T21:18:35","slug":"chan-2024-home-eagles-overcome-congo-in-last-group-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/chan-2024-home-eagles-overcome-congo-in-last-group-game\/","title":{"rendered":"CHAN 2024: Home Eagles overcome Congo in last group game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHAN 2024: Home Eagles overcome Congo in last group game<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<p>The home-based Super Eagles rounded off their campaign at the 2024 African Nations Championship with a 2-0 victory over Congo.<\/p>\n<p>The first half failed to produce a goal despite both teams creating scoring chances.<\/p>\n<p>Anas Yusuf, who was top scorer in the Nigeria Premier Football League, NPFL, scored the opener four minutes before the hour mark.<\/p>\n<p>It was Nigeria\u2019s first goal of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Congo were reduced to 10 men in the 90th minute after Charles Konde was sent off for a rash tackle.<\/p>\n<p>Sikiru Alimi doubled the advantage in stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles had already been eliminated before the match, having lost their opening two games against Senegal and Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>Eric Chelle\u2019s side finished third in Group D with three points from three games.<\/p>\n<p>Congo were also eliminated from the CHAN 2024 finals following the defeat.<\/p>\n<p>In the other group game, Senegal and Sudan played out a 0-0 draw.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v9.0&amp;appId=420332301344305\" nonce=\"sm97MhBO\" type=\"pmdelayedscript\" data-cfasync=\"false\" data-no-optimize=\"1\" data-no-defer=\"1\" data-no-minify=\"1\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>CHAN 2024, Congo, Home Eagles,<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/2025\/08\/19\/chan-2024-home-eagles-overcome-congo-in-last-group-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHAN 2024: Home Eagles overcome Congo in last group game The home-based Super Eagles rounded off their campaign at the 2024 African Nations Championship with a 2-0 victory over Congo. The first half failed to produce a goal despite both teams creating scoring chances. Anas Yusuf, who was top scorer in the Nigeria Premier Football [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[1583,1584,1585],"class_list":["post-234709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-chan-2024","tag-congo","tag-home-eagles"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}