{"id":16451,"date":"2024-02-10T13:02:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T13:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nigeria-vs-ivory-coast-ill-take-another-penalty-super-eagles-wing-back-ola-aina\/"},"modified":"2024-02-10T13:02:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T13:02:51","slug":"nigeria-vs-ivory-coast-ill-take-another-penalty-super-eagles-wing-back-ola-aina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/nigeria-vs-ivory-coast-ill-take-another-penalty-super-eagles-wing-back-ola-aina\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria vs Ivory Coast: I\u2019ll take another penalty \u2013 Super Eagles wing-back, Ola Aina"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Super Eagles wing-back Ola Aina has said he would take another penalty for Nigeria if the opportunity comes again amid the ongoing 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Aina said this ahead of Nigeria\u2019s AFCON final with Ivory Coast on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the Nottingham Forest star missed his spot-kick during Nigeria\u2019s AFCON semi-final win over South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The former Chelsea star has been an important player in Jose Peseiro\u2019s side at the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with Oluwashina Olekeji of Planet Sports Football Africa, Aina said,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFootball is a roller coaster. I could put my money on it, I could put my house on it, I could put everything on it that I would\u2019ve scored my penalty [against South Africa].<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNormally I back myself because I am very good at them. Someone had to miss unfortunately and it was me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe boys and Nwabali saved me and saved all of us and I am just grateful for that. You look forward and if it comes to it again [against Ivory Coast] I will be taking another one, but that is just me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria vs Ivory Coast: I\u2019ll take another penalty \u2013 Super Eagles wing-back, Ola Aina<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles wing-back Ola Aina has said he would take another penalty for Nigeria if the opportunity comes again amid&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,9148,9263,160,869],"tags":[6934,8919,873,8920,180,18,5922,201,870],"class_list":["post-16451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nigeria-vs-ivory-coast","category-ola-aina","category-sport","category-super-eagles","tag-aina","tag-coast","tag-eagles","tag-ivory","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-ola","tag-sport","tag-super"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16451","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=16451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}