{"id":17752,"date":"2026-11-14T16:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T16:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/afcon-2027q-lookman-ruled-out-of-tanzania-rematch-with-injury\/"},"modified":"2026-11-14T16:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T16:18:07","slug":"afcon-2027q-lookman-ruled-out-of-tanzania-rematch-with-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/14\/afcon-2027q-lookman-ruled-out-of-tanzania-rematch-with-injury\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2027Q: Lookman Ruled Out Of Tanzania Rematch With Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ademola Lookman has been ruled out of the Super Eagles\u2019 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matchday four clash against Tanzania due to a knee injury.<\/p>\n<p>The Atl\u00e9tico Madrid winger sustained the injury during Nigeria\u2019s matchday three encounter against the Taifa Stars at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium in Uyo on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Lookman was forced off late in the first half and was replaced by Moses Simon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.completesports.com\/afcon-2027q-chelle-reacts-to-tanzania-win-gives-lookman-injury-update-hails-arokodare\/\">AFCON 2027Q: Chelle Reacts To Tanzania Win; Gives Lookman Injury Update, Hails Arokodare<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A scan subsequently revealed that the 29-year-old suffered a sprain to a knee ligament, ruling him out of Tuesday\u2019s return fixture against Tanzania in Zanzibar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScan has revealed Ademola Lookman suffered a sprain in his knee ligament during yesterday\u2019s match. This rules him out of Nigeria\u2019s next AFCON qualifier versus Tanzania in Zanzibar on Tuesday,\u201d Super Eagles media officer Promise Efoghe confirmed in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Lookman is now expected to return to his club for further assessment and treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Super Eagles are scheduled to depart for Zanzibar on Sunday ahead of Tuesday\u2019s crucial encounter against the Taifa Stars.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>By Adeboye Amosu <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Complete Sports<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ademola Lookman has been ruled out of the Super Eagles\u2019 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying matchday four clash against Tanzania due to a knee injury. The Atl\u00e9tico Madrid winger&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17752","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\/17752","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=17752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}