{"id":11536,"date":"2024-01-11T20:03:13","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T20:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-2023-sadiq-remains-doubtful-for-equatorial-guinea-clash\/"},"modified":"2024-01-11T20:03:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T20:03:13","slug":"afcon-2023-sadiq-remains-doubtful-for-equatorial-guinea-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-2023-sadiq-remains-doubtful-for-equatorial-guinea-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2023: Sadiq remains doubtful for Equatorial Guinea clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Umar Sadiq may now likely miss the Super Eagles Group A opener against Equatorial Guinea at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Sadiq has missed the team\u2019s last two training sessions and is not likely to be fit for the clash with Nzalang Nacional.<\/p>\n<p>The Real Sociedad star cut a disappointed figure as he sat out training at the Ecole Nationale de la Police, Abidjan on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>22 players took part in training session under the supervision of head coach, Jose Peseiro.<\/p>\n<p>Sadiq is expected to be available for Nigeria\u2019s second Group B game against hosts Cote d\u2019Ivoire next Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Bundesliga striker, Victor Boniface is already ruled out of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>His replacement, Terem Moffi, will join the rest of the Super Eagles squad on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>AFCON 2023: Sadiq remains doubtful for Equatorial Guinea clash<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Umar Sadiq may now likely miss the Super Eagles Group A opener against Equatorial Guinea at the 2023 Africa Cup&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5907,8752,15,3765,160],"tags":[210,110,8753,5951,180,3767,201],"class_list":["post-11536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afcon-2023","category-equatorial-guinea","category-news","category-sadiq","category-sport","tag-210","tag-afcon","tag-equatorial","tag-guinea","tag-news","tag-sadiq","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}