{"id":16227,"date":"2024-02-09T09:02:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T09:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-2023-they-want-revenge-omeruo-predicts-nigeria-vs-ivory-coast-final\/"},"modified":"2024-02-09T09:02:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T09:02:30","slug":"afcon-2023-they-want-revenge-omeruo-predicts-nigeria-vs-ivory-coast-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-2023-they-want-revenge-omeruo-predicts-nigeria-vs-ivory-coast-final\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2023: They want revenge \u2013 Omeruo predicts Nigeria vs Ivory Coast final"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Super Eagles defender Kenneth Omeruo has said Sunday\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations final against Ivory Coast will be a difficult game.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria will take on the hosts at the Alassane Ouattara Stadium, Ebimpe, Abidjan.<\/p>\n<p>The game will be a repeat of the group stage fixture between both countries which the Eagles won 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>Omeruo believes the final will be difficult, but feels they will do their best to come out with a win.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all know how important this game is for our country, for them too (Cote d\u2019Ivoire) it is very important.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe beat them in the group stage and they will definitely want a revenge this time around.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe crowd will be hostile and will be solidly behind them, but we have the experience to deal with that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be tough out there, but we will do our best to come out victorious,\u201d Omeruo told reporters at training on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>AFCON 2023: They want revenge \u2013 Omeruo predicts Nigeria vs Ivory Coast final<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles defender Kenneth Omeruo has said Sunday\u2019s Africa Cup of Nations final against Ivory Coast will be a difficult&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5907,15,9148,3764,160],"tags":[210,110,8919,8920,180,18,3766,201],"class_list":["post-16227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afcon-2023","category-news","category-nigeria-vs-ivory-coast","category-omeruo","category-sport","tag-210","tag-afcon","tag-coast","tag-ivory","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-omeruo","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16227","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=16227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}