{"id":14031,"date":"2018-06-02T21:00:24","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T21:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/?p=14031"},"modified":"2020-04-15T02:03:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T02:03:24","slug":"england-beat-super-eagles-in-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/england-beat-super-eagles-in-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"England Beat Super Eagles 2 : 1, In a Friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Goals from Chelsea&#8217;s Gary Cahill and Tottenham hit man Harry Kane saw England to victory against Nigeria in a World Cup warm-up match Saturday evening.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cahill headed the hosts into a seventh-minute lead from Kieran Trippier&#8217;s corner.<\/p>\n<p>Raheem Sterling \u2013 who was booked for diving in the second half \u2013 had a sight of glory soon after the opener, but he miscued when one-on-one.<\/p>\n<p>England doubled their lead before the interval when captain Harry Kane&#8217;s low drive squirmed underneath Francis Uzoho.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria halved the deficit two minutes into the second half courtesy of Alex Iwobi&#8217;s cool finish after Odion Ighalo had struck the upright.<\/p>\n<p>But Gernot Rohr&#8217;s men could not force their way through again and England improved their record at Wembley to just one defeat in the last 21 matches.<\/p>\n<p>Sourced From: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytrust.com.ng\/england-down-super-eagles-in-friendly-253650.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Daily Trust<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/thank-you.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goals from Chelsea&#8217;s Gary Cahill and Tottenham hit man Harry Kane saw England to victory against Nigeria in a World Cup warm-up match Saturday evening. Cahill headed the hosts into a seventh-minute lead from Kieran Trippier&#8217;s corner. Raheem Sterling \u2013 who was booked for diving in the second half \u2013 had a sight of glory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11567,9508,11463],"tags":[11590,11593,11537,11546,11589,11471,11592,11465,11591],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}