{"id":1466,"date":"2021-09-04T15:42:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T15:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier"},"modified":"2021-09-04T15:59:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T15:59:29","slug":"nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria beats Liberia 2-0 in World Cup qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\">Liberia<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Nigeria&#8217;s national football team Super Eagles beat on Friday the Lone Star of Liberia 2-0 in Lagos, Nigeria&#8217;s economic hub in a 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifier.<\/p>\n<p>This win made Nigeria top the Group C after the second match of the qualifier, as the first match in the group involving Central Africa Republic and Cape Verde on Wednesday ended in a 1-1 score draw in Douala, Cameroon. The goals came from England-based forward Kelechi Iheanacho in the 22nd and 44th minutes respectively at the Lagos Teslim Balogun Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles had to defend well to withstand a barrage of attacks from the Liberians in the first 10 minutes. Nigeria&#8217;s Ola Ainathe attempted a shot from range in the 10th minute, but it went off off target. In the 22nd minute, Iheancho scored for the home side following an assist from midfielder Alex Iwobi.<\/p>\n<p>Iheanacho then scored his second of the game on the stroke of half time with Iwobi once again providing the assist. The Super Eagles are expected to fly out of Nigeria to the island of Mindelo to take on the Blue Sharks of Cape Verde in their next game on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Liberia. Nigeria&#8217;s national football team Super Eagles beat on Friday the Lone Star of Liberia 2-0 in Lagos, Nigeria&#8217;s economic hub in a 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifier. This win made Nigeria top the Group C after the second match of the qualifier, as the first match in the group involving Central Africa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":1465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17,16],"tags":[233,237,704,234,705],"class_list":["post-1466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-liberia","tag-beats","tag-liberia","tag-qualifier"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria beats Liberia 2-0 in World Cup qualifier - Liberia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nigeria&#039;s national football team Super Eagles beat on Friday the Lone Star of Liberia 2-0 in Lagos, Nigeria&#039;s economic h ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigeria beats Liberia 2-0 in World Cup qualifier\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nigeria&#039;s national football team Super Eagles beat on Friday the Lone Star of Liberia 2-0 in Lagos, Nigeria&#039;s economic h ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Liberia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-04T15:42:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-09-04T15:59:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/liberia\/sites\/37\/2021\/09\/img-613397c517db7.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"650\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"436\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Nigeria beats Liberia 2-0 in World Cup qualifier\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-04T15:42:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-09-04T15:59:29+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier\"},\"wordCount\":207,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/liberia\/sites\/37\/2021\/09\/img-613397c517db7.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Liberia\",\"beats\",\"Liberia\",\"qualifier\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier\",\"name\":\"Nigeria beats Liberia 2-0 in World Cup qualifier - Liberia\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/liberia\/sites\/37\/2021\/09\/img-613397c517db7.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-04T15:42:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-09-04T15:59:29+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Nigeria's national football team Super Eagles beat on Friday the Lone Star of Liberia 2-0 in Lagos, Nigeria's economic h ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/liberia\/sites\/37\/2021\/09\/img-613397c517db7.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/liberia\/sites\/37\/2021\/09\/img-613397c517db7.jpg\",\"width\":650,\"height\":436,\"caption\":\"Nigeria beats Liberia 2-0 in World Cup qualifier\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Nigeria beats Liberia 2-0 in World Cup qualifier\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/\",\"name\":\"Liberia\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Nigeria beats Liberia 2-0 in World Cup qualifier - Liberia","description":"Nigeria's national football team Super Eagles beat on Friday the Lone Star of Liberia 2-0 in Lagos, Nigeria's economic h ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Nigeria beats Liberia 2-0 in World Cup qualifier","og_description":"Nigeria's national football team Super Eagles beat on Friday the Lone Star of Liberia 2-0 in Lagos, Nigeria's economic h ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier","og_site_name":"Liberia","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2021-09-04T15:42:56+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-09-04T15:59:29+00:00","og_image":[{"width":650,"height":436,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/liberia\/sites\/37\/2021\/09\/img-613397c517db7.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Nigeria beats Liberia 2-0 in World Cup qualifier","datePublished":"2021-09-04T15:42:56+00:00","dateModified":"2021-09-04T15:59:29+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier"},"wordCount":207,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/liberia\/sites\/37\/2021\/09\/img-613397c517db7.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Liberia","beats","Liberia","qualifier"],"articleSection":["all news","homepage-english","sport","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier","name":"Nigeria beats Liberia 2-0 in World Cup qualifier - Liberia","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/liberia\/sites\/37\/2021\/09\/img-613397c517db7.jpg","datePublished":"2021-09-04T15:42:56+00:00","dateModified":"2021-09-04T15:59:29+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Nigeria's national football team Super Eagles beat on Friday the Lone Star of Liberia 2-0 in Lagos, Nigeria's economic h ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/liberia\/sites\/37\/2021\/09\/img-613397c517db7.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/liberia\/sites\/37\/2021\/09\/img-613397c517db7.jpg","width":650,"height":436,"caption":"Nigeria beats Liberia 2-0 in World Cup qualifier"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/nigeria-beats-liberia-2-0-in-world-cup-qualifier#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Nigeria beats Liberia 2-0 in World Cup qualifier"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/","name":"Liberia","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}