{"id":294784,"date":"2022-05-16T06:32:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T05:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=294784"},"modified":"2022-05-16T06:32:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T05:32:18","slug":"wafu-b-flying-eagles-young-elephants-to-lock-horns-in-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/?p=294784","title":{"rendered":"WAFU B: Flying Eagles, Young Elephants To Lock Horns In Semi-Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria Men U-20 team, The Flying Eagles will take on the Les Petits \u00c9l\u00e9phants (Young Elephant) of Cote D\u2019Ivoire in the Semi-finals of the ongoing U20 WAFU B tournament.<br \/>\nNigeria beat Ghana 2-0 last weekend in the opening Group B fixtures before playing a 2-2 draw against Burkina Faso on Wednesday to reach the last four of the competition.<br \/>\nThe last group game was decided on Saturday between Ghana and Burkinafaso and it was the Burkinababes who emerged victorious following their 2-1 triumph over the Black Satellites.<br \/>\nIn group A, Benin defeated ivory Coast by a lone on Friday to finish on top of the group with 7 points while the Ivorian has 6 points.<br \/>\nThe result means that Ivorian who finished in the second position will face Nigeria for a place in the final and African Cup of Nations slot while Benin will tackle Burkinafaso.<br \/>\nThe two finalists will represent the zone in the 2023 U20 African Cup of Nations in Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria Men U-20 team, The Flying Eagles will take on the Les Petits \u00c9l\u00e9phants (Young Elephant) of Cote D\u2019Ivoire in the Semi-finals of the ongoing U20 WAFU B tournament. Nigeria beat Ghana 2-0 last weekend in the opening Group B fixtures before playing a 2-2 draw against Burkina Faso on Wednesday to reach the last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294791,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294784\/revisions\/294791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetidenewsonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}