{"id":131236,"date":"2019-06-29T16:52:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T15:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=131236"},"modified":"2019-06-29T16:53:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T15:53:48","slug":"nigeria-vs-madagascar-gernot-rohr-rules-out-two-super-eagles-players-due-to-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=131236","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria vs Madagascar: Gernot Rohr rules out two Super Eagles players due to injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Transfer-Nigerias-most-expensive-player-joins-new-club.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr, has ruled out Abdullahi Shehu and Jamilu Collins for their last group game at the African Cup of Nations in Egypt against Madagascar on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>This means that Ola Aina and Chidozie Awaziem will continue as fullbacks in tomorrow\u2019s game.<\/p>\n<p>However, the former Burkina Faso\u2019s coach remains optimistic that Shehu and Collins will be available for selection for the knockout rounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dCollins and Shehu are on the way to recovery, they are having special training sessions with the physical coach and physio, even this morning,\u201d Rohr told reporters on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI hope they will be available for the next game, not for this one. This one is too short, we don\u2019t want to take risks. We have enough players, 21 players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dIt is true that that they are fullbacks but Awaziem and Ola Aina did the job well, we didn\u2019t concede any goal so there is no reason to take a risk to bring them in tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shehu suffered a hamstring problem against Burundi last weekend.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr, has ruled out Abdullahi Shehu and Jamilu Collins for their last group game at the African Cup of Nations in Egypt against Madagascar on Sunday. This means that Ola Aina and Chidozie Awaziem will continue as fullbacks in tomorrow\u2019s game. However, the former Burkina Faso\u2019s coach remains optimistic that Shehu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128699,"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":[7480,12545,4426,4046],"class_list":["post-131236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-gernot-rohr","tag-jamilu-collins","tag-shehu-abdullahi","tag-super-eagle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131236","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=131236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}