{"id":6479,"date":"2022-06-11T12:55:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T12:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/leone-stars-departs-nigeria-ahead-of-clash-with-guinea-bissau"},"modified":"2022-06-11T12:59:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T12:59:04","slug":"leone-stars-departs-nigeria-ahead-of-clash-with-guinea-bissau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/leone-stars-departs-nigeria-ahead-of-clash-with-guinea-bissau","title":{"rendered":"Leone Stars Departs Nigeria Ahead of Clash With Guinea Bissau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>Sierra Leone mens national team departs Abuja this morning ahead of their match day two AFCON 2023 qualifiers against Guinea Bissau on the 13th June 2022 at the Lansana Conte stadium in Guinea.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"aswift_1_expand\"><\/a>Leone Stars suffered a 2-1 loss to the super eagles of Nigeria yesterday in Abuja, and they are looking forward to bounce back from that narrow defeats.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Guinea Bissau is proving to be tough opponent as they currently lead Group A with 5 goals and 3 points.<\/p>\n<p>Leone Stars must defeat Guinea Bissau if they want to keep their hopes of qualifying to AFCON 2023 in Ivory Coast<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\">Sierra-Leone<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Sierra-Leone. Sierra Leone mens national team departs Abuja this morning ahead of their match day two AFCON 2023 qualifiers against Guinea Bissau on the 13th June 2022 at the Lansana Conte stadium in Guinea. Leone Stars suffered a 2-1 loss to the super eagles of Nigeria yesterday in Abuja, and they are looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":6478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,17],"tags":[291,293,292],"class_list":["post-6479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-sierra-leone","tag-sierra-leone"],"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>Leone Stars Departs Nigeria Ahead of Clash With Guinea Bissau - Sierra Leone<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sierra Leone mens national team departs Abuja this morning ahead of their match day two AFCON 2023 qualifiers against Gu ...\" \/>\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\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/leone-stars-departs-nigeria-ahead-of-clash-with-guinea-bissau\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Leone Stars Departs Nigeria Ahead of Clash With Guinea Bissau\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sierra Leone mens national team departs Abuja this morning ahead of their match day two AFCON 2023 qualifiers against Gu ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/leone-stars-departs-nigeria-ahead-of-clash-with-guinea-bissau\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sierra Leone\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-06-11T12:55:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-11T12:59:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/sites\/16\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_4-62a49184ac16c.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"999\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"499\" \/>\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\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/leone-stars-departs-nigeria-ahead-of-clash-with-guinea-bissau#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/leone-stars-departs-nigeria-ahead-of-clash-with-guinea-bissau\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Leone Stars Departs Nigeria Ahead of Clash With Guinea Bissau\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-11T12:55:57+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-11T12:59:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/leone-stars-departs-nigeria-ahead-of-clash-with-guinea-bissau\"},\"wordCount\":119,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/leone-stars-departs-nigeria-ahead-of-clash-with-guinea-bissau#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/sites\/16\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_4-62a49184ac16c.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Sierra-Leone\",\"Sierra-Leone\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/leone-stars-departs-nigeria-ahead-of-clash-with-guinea-bissau#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/leone-stars-departs-nigeria-ahead-of-clash-with-guinea-bissau\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/sierra-leone\/all-news\/leone-stars-departs-nigeria-ahead-of-clash-with-guinea-bissau\",\"name\":\"Leone Stars Departs Nigeria Ahead of Clash With Guinea Bissau - 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