{"id":1029,"date":"2014-01-26T23:42:27","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T23:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2014-01-27T00:02:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T00:02:37","slug":"eyimba-set-to-face-kano-pillars-in-super-cup-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/eyimba-set-to-face-kano-pillars-in-super-cup-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyimba Set To Face Kano Pillars In Super Cup Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian champions, Kano Pillars will face Enyimba of Aba in this year&#8217;s Super 4 Cup final after beating \u00a0Bayelsa United 2-1 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Bello Kofarmata scored from the spot to put Pillars in front in the 11th minutes after he was hacked down by Bayelsa United goalkeeper Opubo, while\u00a0Ezekiel Mbah curled in Opubo&#8217;s rebound in the 30th minutes to doubled Pillars&#8217; lead.<\/p>\n<p>Fortune Chukwudi pulled a goal back for Bayelsa when he converted a penalty in the 58th minute after youngster Tongera was brought down in the box.<\/p>\n<p>In an earlier game, Enyimba showed superiority over Warri Wolves with a convincing 2-0 \u00a0win.<\/p>\n<p>Fomer ABS striker, Abdulrahman Bashir, who netted a hat-trick on his debut for the Aba boys against Bayelsa United on Friday, headed in the opener after connecting Mfon Udoh&#8217;s pass in the 10th minute.<\/p>\n<p>Substitute, Emeka Nwanna scored the second goal for the former African champions with just one minute to the end of the encounter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Demola Aluko<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian champions, Kano Pillars will face Enyimba of Aba in this year&#8217;s Super 4 Cup final after beating \u00a0Bayelsa United 2-1 on Sunday. Bello Kofarmata scored from the spot to put Pillars in front in the 11th minutes after he was hacked down by Bayelsa United goalkeeper Opubo, while\u00a0Ezekiel Mbah curled in Opubo&#8217;s rebound in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[84,60],"tags":[37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}