{"id":24096,"date":"2024-03-27T06:02:36","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T06:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/friendly-super-eagles-unlucky-in-defeat-to-mali-omeruo\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T06:02:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T06:02:36","slug":"friendly-super-eagles-unlucky-in-defeat-to-mali-omeruo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/friendly-super-eagles-unlucky-in-defeat-to-mali-omeruo\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendly: Super Eagles unlucky in defeat to Mali \u2013 Omeruo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Kenneth Omeruo has expressed disappointment following the Super Eagles defeat to Mali, DAILY POST reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles fell to a 2-0 defeat against their fellow West Africans at the Grand Stade de Marrakech on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Mali sealed the win through goals in each half from El Bilal Toure and Kamorou Dounmbia.<\/p>\n<p>It was the Eagles first win over Nigeria in 49 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we played a better second half, it wasn\u2019t a bad game, we just didn\u2019t take our chances and they scored two goals. Overall, I think we played a good game,\u201d Omeruo told NFF TV.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it was a good outing for us, fantastic spirit. The players that were here gave their best. We just couldn\u2019t score in the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles will now shift their attention to June 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against South Africa and Benin Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Friendly: Super Eagles unlucky in defeat to Mali \u2013 Omeruo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth Omeruo has expressed disappointment following the Super Eagles defeat to Mali, DAILY POST reports. The Super Eagles fell to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9702,15,3764,160,869],"tags":[873,9704,180,3766,201,870],"class_list":["post-24096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mali","category-news","category-omeruo","category-sport","category-super-eagles","tag-eagles","tag-mali","tag-news","tag-omeruo","tag-sport","tag-super"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24096","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=24096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}