{"id":13074,"date":"2024-01-21T11:01:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T11:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-2023-im-not-under-pressure-to-shine-for-super-eagles\/"},"modified":"2024-01-21T11:01:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T11:01:46","slug":"afcon-2023-im-not-under-pressure-to-shine-for-super-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-2023-im-not-under-pressure-to-shine-for-super-eagles\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2023: I\u2019m not under pressure to shine for Super Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Napoli hitman, Victor Osimhen insists he is not under pressure to make a mark at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Osimhen has scored one goal in two appearances for Nigeria in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old has fluffed several clear-cut chances as well.<\/p>\n<p>Many have attributed that to the pressure of his status as Africa\u2019s current best player.<\/p>\n<p>The striker has, however, debunked the claim stating that he is more focused on helping the Super Eagles achieve success in Cote d\u2019Ivoire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not under pressure,\u201d Osimhen told reporters in Abidjan.<br \/>\n\u201cI have won the title (African Player of the Year), but it\u2019s now in the past.<br \/>\n\u201cWhat is most important for me now is to do well with the team, make sure the team do well and win the AFCON.<br \/>\n\u201cI don\u2019t care about my individual performance. I could be on the bench and the other players get the job done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles will take on Guinea-Bissau in their last group game at the Felix Houphouet Boigny Stadium, Abidjan on Monday.<br \/>\nKick-off is 7pm Nigerian time.<\/p>\n<p>AFCON 2023: I\u2019m not under pressure to shine for Super Eagles<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Napoli hitman, Victor Osimhen insists he is not under pressure to make a mark at the 2023 Africa Cup of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13075,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5907,15,1557,160,869],"tags":[210,110,873,180,1560,201,870],"class_list":["post-13074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afcon-2023","category-news","category-osimhen","category-sport","category-super-eagles","tag-210","tag-afcon","tag-eagles","tag-news","tag-osimhen","tag-sport","tag-super"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13074","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=13074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}