{"id":3919,"date":"2024-02-03T06:47:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T06:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=3919"},"modified":"2024-02-03T06:52:56","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T06:52:56","slug":"nigeria-beats-angola-by-lockmans-only-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/?p=3919","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria beats Angola by Lockman&#8217;s only goal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>3 February 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lockman scored the only goal in the first half as Nigeria beat Angola to reach the Africa Cup of Nations semi-finals. The former England U-21 international scored the only winning goal from Moss Simon&#8217;s pass 4 minutes before the end of the first half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nigeria scored a second goal in the 75th minute with a header from Victor Osamahan but was denied by VAR. Nigeria will face the winner of the quarter-final between Cape Verde and South Africa in the semi-finals tonight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"284\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/0-98.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3920\" style=\"width:817px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/0-98.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/0-98-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/0-98-18x10.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/lookman-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3921\" style=\"width:818px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/lookman-2.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/lookman-2-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/lookman-2-18x10.jpg 18w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 February 2024 Lockman scored the only goal in the first half as Nigeria beat Angola to reach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3922,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3919\/revisions\/3922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtnewstoday.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}