{"id":59523,"date":"2024-11-18T15:04:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T15:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-2025q-eguavoen-starts-okoye-iheanacho-boniface-vs-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2024-11-18T15:04:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T15:04:47","slug":"afcon-2025q-eguavoen-starts-okoye-iheanacho-boniface-vs-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-2025q-eguavoen-starts-okoye-iheanacho-boniface-vs-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2025Q: Eguavoen starts Okoye, Iheanacho, Boniface vs Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Super Eagles caretaker coach, Augustine Eguavoen, has released his starting X1 for tonight\u2019s 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matchday six encounter against the Amavubi of Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Udinese shot stopper, Maduka Okoye, will take the place of the bereaved Stanley Nwabali in goal.<\/p>\n<p>Bright Osayi-Samuel will also take the place of injured Ola Aina at right-back, while Boavista\u2019s Bruno Onyemaechi keeps his position at left-back.<\/p>\n<p>Captain William Troost-Ekong will partner Gabriel Osho at the heart of the defence.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Onyeka, Alhassan Yusuf and Fisayo Dele-Bashiru will operate in the three-man midfield.<\/p>\n<p>Bayer Leverkusen striker, Victor Boniface will lead the attack, and will be supported by Moses Simon and Kelechi Iheanacho.<\/p>\n<p>The encounter, slated for the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium, Uyo, will start at 5:00 pm Nigeria time.<\/p>\n<p>AFCON 2025Q: Eguavoen starts Okoye, Iheanacho, Boniface vs Rwanda<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles caretaker coach, Augustine Eguavoen, has released his starting X1 for tonight\u2019s 2025 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matchday&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24413,26087,8074,6570,15,7933,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afcon-2025q","category-boniface-vs-rwanda","category-eguavoen","category-iheanacho","category-news","category-okoye","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59523","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=59523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}