{"id":15601,"date":"2024-02-05T17:02:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T17:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-2023-its-going-to-be-difficult-south-africas-mashego-on-facing-nigeria-osimhen\/"},"modified":"2024-02-05T17:02:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T17:02:30","slug":"afcon-2023-its-going-to-be-difficult-south-africas-mashego-on-facing-nigeria-osimhen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-2023-its-going-to-be-difficult-south-africas-mashego-on-facing-nigeria-osimhen\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2023: \u2018It\u2019s going to be difficult\u2019\u2014South Africa\u2019s Mashego on facing Nigeria, Osimhen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>South Africa star Terrence Mashego has warned that the Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, semifinal clash between Bafana Bafana and Nigeria will be a difficult one.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa beat Cape Verde 2-1 on penalties to book a place in the semi-finals, and Nigeria overcame Angola.<\/p>\n<p>Mashego is one of the 11 Mamelodi Sundowns players in the Bafana Bafana squad.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about the semifinal clash against Nigeria, the player acknowledged that the three-time African champions are not the easiest opponents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a difficult game. You know, Nigeria, they have a good squad, but also on our side, we have a good squad, so it\u2019s going to be a very good game,\u201d he told reporters in the mixed zone.<\/p>\n<p>On Victor Osimhen, he said: \u201cWe also have a good defence; now we\u2019ve gone three games without conceding, so we have a very good defence; we are ready for any battle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want to pressurise ourselves; we just have to take one game at a time, and maybe we might find ourselves in the final.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AFCON 2023: \u2018It\u2019s going to be difficult\u2019\u2014South Africa\u2019s Mashego on facing Nigeria, Osimhen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa star Terrence Mashego has warned that the Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, semifinal clash between Bafana Bafana and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15602,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5907,10185,15,901,1557,6767,160],"tags":[210,110,140,10186,180,18,1560,1734,201],"class_list":["post-15601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afcon-2023","category-mashego","category-news","category-nigeria","category-osimhen","category-south-africa","category-sport","tag-210","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-mashego","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-osimhen","tag-south","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15601","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=15601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}