{"id":212440,"date":"2026-03-02T23:54:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=212440"},"modified":"2026-03-02T23:54:52","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T23:54:52","slug":"afcon-2025-nigeria-beat-egypt-on-penalties-to-finish-third","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=212440","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2025: Nigeria beat Egypt on penalties to finish third"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AFRICAN EXAMINER) \u2013 Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles defeated Egypt 4\u20132 on penalties on Saturday to win the third-place match at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Casablanca. The game ended 0\u20130 after 90 minutes and was decided by a penalty shootout. Goalkeeper Stanley Nwabali was the hero for Nigeria&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanexaminer.com\/afcon-2025-nigeria-beat-egypt-on-penalties-to-finish-third\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AFRICAN EXAMINER) \u2013 Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles defeated Egypt 4\u20132 on penalties on Saturday to win<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212441,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212440-afcon-2025-nigeria-beat-egypt-on-penalties-to-finish-third.jpg",294,171,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212440-afcon-2025-nigeria-beat-egypt-on-penalties-to-finish-third-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212440-afcon-2025-nigeria-beat-egypt-on-penalties-to-finish-third.jpg",294,171,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212440-afcon-2025-nigeria-beat-egypt-on-penalties-to-finish-third.jpg",294,171,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212440-afcon-2025-nigeria-beat-egypt-on-penalties-to-finish-third.jpg",294,171,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212440-afcon-2025-nigeria-beat-egypt-on-penalties-to-finish-third.jpg",294,171,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212440-afcon-2025-nigeria-beat-egypt-on-penalties-to-finish-third.jpg",294,171,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212440-afcon-2025-nigeria-beat-egypt-on-penalties-to-finish-third.jpg",294,171,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212440-afcon-2025-nigeria-beat-egypt-on-penalties-to-finish-third.jpg",294,171,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/212440-afcon-2025-nigeria-beat-egypt-on-penalties-to-finish-third.jpg",294,171,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=212440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/212441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}