{"id":9823,"date":"2018-06-16T21:20:58","date_gmt":"2018-06-16T21:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=9823"},"modified":"2018-06-16T21:20:58","modified_gmt":"2018-06-16T21:20:58","slug":"9823","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=9823","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria disappoints in match against Croatia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two very painfully cheap goals &#8211; one own goal by Etebo who deflected a flying header from Mandzukic; and a wrestling hold on\u00a0Mandzukic by Ekong gave the Croatians a penalty that was neatly tucked in by Modric.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9824\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9824\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9824\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/635203409_976389836-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9824\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ekong wrestling hold that brought Mandkuvic down for a penalty kick.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nNow Croatia top Group D table with three points followed by Iceland and Argentina with a point each, and Nigeria trailing the pack with zero and two goals deficit.<br \/>\nSo far, the three African countries that have featured have lost their matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two very painfully cheap goals &#8211; one own goal by Etebo who deflected a flying header from Mandzukic; and a wrestling hold on\u00a0Mandzukic by Ekong gave the Croatians a penalty that was neatly tucked in by Modric. Now Croatia top Group D table with three points followed by Iceland and Argentina with a point each, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5778],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}