{"id":14688,"date":"2024-01-31T09:02:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T09:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-super-eagles-in-cote-divoire-for-serious-business-ex-chelsea-star-omeruo-warns-angola\/"},"modified":"2024-01-31T09:02:37","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T09:02:37","slug":"afcon-super-eagles-in-cote-divoire-for-serious-business-ex-chelsea-star-omeruo-warns-angola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-super-eagles-in-cote-divoire-for-serious-business-ex-chelsea-star-omeruo-warns-angola\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON: Super Eagles in Cote d\u2019Ivoire for serious business \u2013 Ex-Chelsea star, Omeruo warns Angola"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Chelsea defender Kenneth Omeruo has warned Angola that the Super Eagles are in Cote d\u2019Ivoire for serious business amid the ongoing 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON.<\/p>\n<p>Omeruo, who currently plays his club football at Kasimpasa, said Jose Peseiro\u2019s side will do the talking on the pitch when they face Angola in the quarter-final tie on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria head to the game after beating Cameroon 2-0 in the round of 16, while Angola won 3-0 against Namibia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not need to go into back-and-forth chatter with any team. The Super Eagles are in Cote d\u2019Ivoire for serious business. We have not played Angola for a long time but I remember we played them in 2012 in a friendly and it ended in a draw. I have also read of how previous encounters between the two countries have been quite close,\u201d Omeruo said after one of the team\u2019s training sessions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no possibility of Friday\u2019s match ending in a draw; a winner must emerge. So much talk has been going on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur collective resolve is to do the talking on the pitch. The Nigerian Spirit trumps all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AFCON: Super Eagles in Cote d\u2019Ivoire for serious business \u2013 Ex-Chelsea star, Omeruo warns Angola<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Chelsea defender Kenneth Omeruo has warned Angola that the Super Eagles are in Cote d\u2019Ivoire for serious business amid&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103,9706,606,6520,15,3764,160,869],"tags":[110,9707,609,6526,6523,873,180,3766,201,870],"class_list":["post-14688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afcon","category-angola","category-chelsea","category-cote-divoire","category-news","category-omeruo","category-sport","category-super-eagles","tag-afcon","tag-angola","tag-chelsea","tag-cote","tag-divoire","tag-eagles","tag-news","tag-omeruo","tag-sport","tag-super"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14688","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=14688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}