{"id":15292,"date":"2024-02-03T19:02:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T19:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-2023-why-i-shouted-at-iwobi-during-1-0-win-over-angola-nwabali\/"},"modified":"2024-02-03T19:02:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T19:02:30","slug":"afcon-2023-why-i-shouted-at-iwobi-during-1-0-win-over-angola-nwabali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-2023-why-i-shouted-at-iwobi-during-1-0-win-over-angola-nwabali\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2023: Why I shouted at Iwobi during 1-0 win over Angola \u2014 Nwabali"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Super Eagles goalkeeper in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, in Cote d\u2019Ivoire, Stanley Nwabali, has disclosed why he shouted at teammate Alex Iwobi during their quarterfinal clash with Angola on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria beat Palancas Negras 1-0 to advance to the semifinals of the competition, thanks to Ademola Lookman\u2019s first-half strike.<\/p>\n<p>The camera captured a moment in the 59th minute when Nwabali was shouting at Fulham midfielder Iwobi.<\/p>\n<p>That was seconds after the Angolans came very close to equalising through substitute Zini.<\/p>\n<p>The former Arsenal star was guilty of some sloppy play in midfield, which led to the Angola counter-attack.<\/p>\n<p>Nwabali told reporters in the mixed zone: \u201cIt\u2019s a team game, so everyone needs to switch on; it doesn\u2019t matter, so maybe it was our strategy at that moment. I don\u2019t feel like anything happened, so it\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can see we\u2019ve kept four clean sheets and conceded one goal; the guys are good. Our understanding is getting better as the game goes on. We keep understanding each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AFCON 2023: Why I shouted at Iwobi during 1-0 win over Angola \u2014 Nwabali<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles goalkeeper in the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, in Cote d\u2019Ivoire, Stanley Nwabali, has disclosed why he&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5907,9706,15,8908,160],"tags":[210,110,9707,180,8909,201],"class_list":["post-15292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afcon-2023","category-angola","category-news","category-nwabali","category-sport","tag-210","tag-afcon","tag-angola","tag-news","tag-nwabali","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15292","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=15292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}