{"id":56420,"date":"2024-10-30T13:04:32","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T13:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wafu-u-20-championship-zubairu-optimistic-flying-eagles-will-beat-ghana\/"},"modified":"2024-10-30T13:04:32","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T13:04:32","slug":"wafu-u-20-championship-zubairu-optimistic-flying-eagles-will-beat-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wafu-u-20-championship-zubairu-optimistic-flying-eagles-will-beat-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"WAFU U-20 Championship: Zubairu optimistic Flying Eagles will beat Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Flying Eagles head coach, Aliyu Zubairu is optimistic his side will beat Ghana\u2019s Black Satellites in the final of the WAFU B U-20 Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The defending champions will look to successfully defend their title when they take on the Ghanaians at the Stade Kegue, Lome on on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The encounter will kick-off at 8pm Nigeria time.<\/p>\n<p>Zubairu said his side will exploit the weakness of their opponent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhana are a good team, but they\u2019re not fast. They don\u2019t play with high intensity,\u201d Zubairu said in his pre-match press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re also aware of the rivalry with Ghana at any level.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have grown in this tournament, we have improved with each match.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria and Ghana have already qualified for the Africa U-20 Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>WAFU U-20 Championship: Zubairu optimistic Flying Eagles will beat Ghana<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flying Eagles head coach, Aliyu Zubairu is optimistic his side will beat Ghana\u2019s Black Satellites in the final of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11702,5077,15,160,25178,4455],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flying-eagles","category-ghana","category-news","category-sport","category-wafu-u-20-championship","category-zubairu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56420","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=56420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}