{"id":12428,"date":"2024-01-17T09:03:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T09:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-2023-peseiro-to-ring-changes-for-cote-divoire-clash\/"},"modified":"2024-01-17T09:03:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T09:03:21","slug":"afcon-2023-peseiro-to-ring-changes-for-cote-divoire-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-2023-peseiro-to-ring-changes-for-cote-divoire-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2023: Peseiro to ring changes for Cote d\u2019Ivoire clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Super Eagles head coach Jose Peseiro is expected to ring the changes in his starting line-up for the side\u2019s Group A clash against hosts Cote d\u2019Ivoire, DAILY POST reports.<\/p>\n<p>Southampton\u2019s Joe Aribo is expected to replace injured Alhassan Yusuf in midfield.<\/p>\n<p>Yusuf, who plays for Belgian Pro League champions Royal Antwerp, sustained a thigh injury in Nigeria\u2019s first game against Equatorial Guinea and is ruled out of the tie against the Elephants.<\/p>\n<p>Peseiro could also alter things further in midfield following the impressive form of Leicester City\u2019s Kelechi Iheanacho in training.<\/p>\n<p>Iheanacho joined the team on the eve of the game against Equatorial Guinea after recovering from a muscular injury.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old could replace Alex Iwobi against Jean Louis Gasset\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p>Winger Moses Simon also struggled against Equatorial Guinea and could also be dropped to the bench for the game against Cote d\u2019Ivoire.<\/p>\n<p>The encounter will hold at the Alassanne Ouattara Stadium, Ebimpe, Abidjan, on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>AFCON 2023: Peseiro to ring changes for Cote d\u2019Ivoire clash<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles head coach Jose Peseiro is expected to ring the changes in his starting line-up for the side\u2019s Group&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5907,15,1558,160],"tags":[210,110,180,1562,201],"class_list":["post-12428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afcon-2023","category-news","category-peseiro","category-sport","tag-210","tag-afcon","tag-news","tag-peseiro","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12428","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=12428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}