{"id":57248,"date":"2022-01-11T18:44:17","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T17:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie"},"modified":"2022-01-11T19:27:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T18:27:39","slug":"nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria vs Egypt: Eguavoen names Super Eagles\u2019 starting XI for AFCON tie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Interim manager of Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles, Augustine Eguavoen, has named his side\u2019s starting XI to tackle Egypt in today\u2019s 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, tie in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>Eguavoen opted to start Simon, Chukwueze and Awoniyi in Nigeria\u2019s attack line against Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria are in Group D alongside Egypt, Sudan and Guinea-Bissau.<\/p>\n<p>Below is Nigeria\u2019s starting XI against Egypt:<\/p>\n<p>Okoye, Aina, Omeruo, Ekong, Zaidu, Ndidi, Aribo, Iheanacho, Simon, Chukwueze and Awoniyi.<\/p>\n<p>Substitutes: Akpeyi, Uzoho, Ebuehi, Iwobi, Nwakali, Ejuke, Umar, Onyekuru, Musa, Onyeka, Ndah and Ajayi.<\/p>\n<p>The kick-off time for the match is 5 pm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Interim manager of Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles, Augustine Eguavoen, has named his side\u2019s starting XI to tackle Egypt in today\u2019s 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, tie in Cameroon. Eguavoen opted to start Simon, Chukwueze and Awoniyi in Nigeria\u2019s attack line against Egypt. Nigeria are in Group D alongside Egypt, Sudan and Guinea-Bissau. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":57247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28,18,26],"tags":[468,1570,2140,1578,6270,254,6363,453],"class_list":["post-57248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","category-twitter","tag-afcon","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-breaking","tag-eguavoen","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-vs-egypt","tag-super-eagles"],"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 vs Egypt: Eguavoen names Super Eagles\u2019 starting XI for AFCON tie - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Interim manager of Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles, Augustine Eguavoen, has named his side\u2019s starting XI to tackle Egypt in today ...\" \/>\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\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigeria vs Egypt: Eguavoen names Super Eagles\u2019 starting XI for AFCON tie\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Interim manager of Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles, Augustine Eguavoen, has named his side\u2019s starting XI to tackle Egypt in today ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-01-11T17:44:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-01-11T18:27:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/img-61ddcbd24391b.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"960\" \/>\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\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Nigeria vs Egypt: Eguavoen names Super Eagles\u2019 starting XI for AFCON tie\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-11T17:44:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-01-11T18:27:39+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie\"},\"wordCount\":121,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/img-61ddcbd24391b.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"AFCON\",\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"breaking\",\"Eguavoen\",\"Nigeria\",\"Nigeria vs Egypt\",\"super eagles\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"Sport\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie\",\"name\":\"Nigeria vs Egypt: Eguavoen names Super Eagles\u2019 starting XI for AFCON tie - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/img-61ddcbd24391b.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-11T17:44:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-01-11T18:27:39+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Interim manager of Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles, Augustine Eguavoen, has named his side\u2019s starting XI to tackle Egypt in today ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/img-61ddcbd24391b.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/img-61ddcbd24391b.jpg\",\"width\":1920,\"height\":960,\"caption\":\"Nigeria vs Egypt: Eguavoen names Super Eagles\u2019 starting XI for AFCON tie\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Nigeria vs Egypt: Eguavoen names Super Eagles\u2019 starting XI for AFCON tie\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?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\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Nigeria vs Egypt: Eguavoen names Super Eagles\u2019 starting XI for AFCON tie - Nigeria","description":"Interim manager of Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles, Augustine Eguavoen, has named his side\u2019s starting XI to tackle Egypt in today ...","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\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Nigeria vs Egypt: Eguavoen names Super Eagles\u2019 starting XI for AFCON tie","og_description":"Interim manager of Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles, Augustine Eguavoen, has named his side\u2019s starting XI to tackle Egypt in today ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2022-01-11T17:44:17+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-01-11T18:27:39+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1920,"height":960,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/img-61ddcbd24391b.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\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Nigeria vs Egypt: Eguavoen names Super Eagles\u2019 starting XI for AFCON tie","datePublished":"2022-01-11T17:44:17+00:00","dateModified":"2022-01-11T18:27:39+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie"},"wordCount":121,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/img-61ddcbd24391b.jpg","keywords":["AFCON","Africa Press","Africa Press-Nigeria","breaking","Eguavoen","Nigeria","Nigeria vs Egypt","super eagles"],"articleSection":["all news","homepage-english","Sport","twitter"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie","name":"Nigeria vs Egypt: Eguavoen names Super Eagles\u2019 starting XI for AFCON tie - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/img-61ddcbd24391b.jpg","datePublished":"2022-01-11T17:44:17+00:00","dateModified":"2022-01-11T18:27:39+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Interim manager of Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles, Augustine Eguavoen, has named his side\u2019s starting XI to tackle Egypt in today ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/img-61ddcbd24391b.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/01\/img-61ddcbd24391b.jpg","width":1920,"height":960,"caption":"Nigeria vs Egypt: Eguavoen names Super Eagles\u2019 starting XI for AFCON tie"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sport\/nigeria-vs-egypt-eguavoen-names-super-eagles-starting-xi-for-afcon-tie#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Nigeria vs Egypt: Eguavoen names Super Eagles\u2019 starting XI for AFCON tie"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?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\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}