{"id":11626,"date":"2026-11-07T07:01:57","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T07:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/07\/u-23-eagles-beat-third-division-side-grassrunners-3-1-in-final-warm-up-game-ahead-of-dr-congo-tie\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T07:01:57","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T07:01:57","slug":"u-23-eagles-beat-third-division-side-grassrunners-3-1-in-final-warm-up-game-ahead-of-dr-congo-tie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/07\/u-23-eagles-beat-third-division-side-grassrunners-3-1-in-final-warm-up-game-ahead-of-dr-congo-tie\/","title":{"rendered":"U-23 Eagles Beat Third Division Side Grassrunners 3-1 In Final Warm-up Game Ahead Of DR Congo Tie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria U23 Eagles, defeated Ikenne-based club Grassrunners 3-1 in their final warm-up game at the Remo Stars Stadium in Ikenne on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The warm-up game is part of preparation for the 2027 U-23 AFCON qualifier with Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo).<\/p>\n<p>After a 0-0 draw with Remo Stars in their first warm up fixture, the U-23 Eagles overcame  the third division side thanks to goals from Abdulmuiz Adeleke, Habila Simeon, and Eventus Itowo <\/p>\n<p>Assistant coach Deniran Ortega took charge of the game while Eric Chelle was in the stands to monitor proceedings. <\/p>\n<p>The starting XI from the previous game remained relatively the same, except for the introduction of Wonah Williams for Chimobi Igwilo and Salihu Batunba for Eventus Itowo.<\/p>\n<p>The U-23 Eagles will continue their preparation for the U-23 AFCON qualifiers against DR Congo, with the first leg scheduled for next Friday in Lubumbashi.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria U23 Eagles, defeated Ikenne-based club Grassrunners 3-1 in their final warm-up game at the Remo Stars Stadium in Ikenne on Friday. The warm-up game is part of preparation for&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}