{"id":6249,"date":"2023-12-10T15:02:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T15:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/super-eagles-among-afcon-2023-favourites-peseiro\/"},"modified":"2023-12-10T15:02:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T15:02:27","slug":"super-eagles-among-afcon-2023-favourites-peseiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/super-eagles-among-afcon-2023-favourites-peseiro\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Eagles among AFCON 2023 favourites \u2013 Peseiro"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Super Eagles head coach Jose Peseiro has weighed in on his team\u2019s chances at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>The three-time champions will be gunning for a fourth title when hostilities start in Cote d\u2019Ivoire in January.<\/p>\n<p>Peseiro reckoned the Super Eagles are among the favourites to win the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The Portuguese stated that his side must be at their best to emerge tops in the competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGetting through the group stage is the minimum objective. We are in a group with Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Ivory Coast, the host nation,\u201d the 63-year-old told Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not possible to make a mistake. And then we are not the only ones among the favourites: Tunisia, Morocco, Senegal, Cameroon, Ivory Coast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I signed, the minimum goal was to qualify. Now we have to raise the bar, and to do that I need my best players.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles will open their campaign at the 2023 AFCON finals against Equatorial Guinea at the Alhassan Quattara Stadium, Ebimpe, on January 14.<\/p>\n<p>Their second game is against hosts Cote d\u2019Ivoire at the same ground four days later.<\/p>\n<p>Peseiro\u2019s charges will round up their campaign against Guinea-Bissau on January 22.<\/p>\n<p>Super Eagles among AFCON 2023 favourites \u2013 Peseiro<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles head coach Jose Peseiro has weighed in on his team\u2019s chances at the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5103,15,1558,160,869],"tags":[110,873,180,1562,201,870],"class_list":["post-6249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afcon","category-news","category-peseiro","category-sport","category-super-eagles","tag-afcon","tag-eagles","tag-news","tag-peseiro","tag-sport","tag-super"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249","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=6249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}