{"id":16459,"date":"2024-02-10T14:03:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T14:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-nigeria-favourite-to-win-trophy-for-two-reasons-ex-ivory-coast-coach-gasset\/"},"modified":"2024-02-10T14:03:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T14:03:40","slug":"afcon-nigeria-favourite-to-win-trophy-for-two-reasons-ex-ivory-coast-coach-gasset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-nigeria-favourite-to-win-trophy-for-two-reasons-ex-ivory-coast-coach-gasset\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON: Nigeria favourite to win trophy for two reasons \u2013 Ex-Ivory Coast coach, Gasset"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former Ivory Coast coach Jean-Louis Gasset has given two reasons why Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles are favourite to win the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations ahead of the host nation.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles will tackle Ivory Coast in Sunday\u2019s AFCON final at the Alassane Ouattara Stadium, Abidjan.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Peseiro\u2019s men had beaten Ivory Coast 1-0 during the group stages.<\/p>\n<p>However, Gasset who was dismissed by the Ivorian Football Federation (FIF) following the Elephants\u2019 4-0 defeat against Equatorial Guinea in their final Group A game, believes Nigeria are favourite against his former team because they have Victor Osimhen and also are higher ranked in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to L\u2019Equipe via Ouest France, Gasset said: \u201cIvory Coast are not favorites because Nigeria are higher ranked in Africa and have Osimhen, the best African Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy departure brought peace. I am proud of the Elephants, happy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AFCON: Nigeria favourite to win trophy for two reasons \u2013 Ex-Ivory Coast coach, Gasset<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ivory Coast coach Jean-Louis Gasset has given two reasons why Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles are favourite to win the 2023&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103,10463,8918,15,160],"tags":[110,8919,9385,8920,180,201],"class_list":["post-16459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afcon","category-gasset","category-ivory-coast","category-news","category-sport","tag-afcon","tag-coast","tag-gasset","tag-ivory","tag-news","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16459","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=16459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}