{"id":127435,"date":"2019-06-17T17:41:18","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T16:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=127435"},"modified":"2019-06-17T17:41:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T16:41:46","slug":"rohr-sends-message-to-super-eagles-after-1-0-defeat-to-senegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=127435","title":{"rendered":"Rohr sends message to Super Eagles after 1-0 defeat to Senegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/AFCON-2019-Rohr-reveals-players-he-wont-invite-for-tournament.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Head coach of Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr, has advised his players to adopt a different style of play at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Rohr issued the warning following Super Eagles\u2019 1-0 defeat to Senegal in their final warm-up match before AFCON kicks off this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Idrissa Gueye scored the only goal of the game in the first half to hand the Teranga Lions all three points against Rohr\u2019s men.<\/p>\n<p>Rohr played what might be his preferred starting XI at the tournament, but that were unable to salvage anything from the encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on his team\u2019s performance against Senegal, Rohr told German sports magazine, Kicker: \u201dThe AFCON is operated on with long balls and then pressing, it\u2019s a different style of play, there are more surprise effects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dIt\u2019s nice to play football in the evening in a wonderful country like Egypt, it\u2019s only South Africa, where it can get cold in June.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI think everything is possible in this group, anyone can beat anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria will tackle Burundi in their first Group B opener on 22 June.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head coach of Nigeria\u2019s Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr, has advised his players to adopt a different style of play at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, in Egypt. Rohr issued the warning following Super Eagles\u2019 1-0 defeat to Senegal in their final warm-up match before AFCON kicks off this weekend. Idrissa Gueye scored the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[7480,4046],"class_list":["post-127435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-gernot-rohr","tag-super-eagle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/106792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}