{"id":132297,"date":"2019-07-03T09:11:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T08:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=132297"},"modified":"2019-07-03T09:18:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-03T08:18:03","slug":"mikel-obi-to-miss-rest-of-afcon-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=132297","title":{"rendered":"Mikel Obi to miss rest of AFCON 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Nigeria-vs-Guinea-Mikel-dropped-as-Rohr-releases-\u2018killer-starting-XI-against-Syli-Stars.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Super Eagles captain, John Obi Mikel, could miss the remainder of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, Goal reports.<\/p>\n<p>The 32-year-old strained his knee during Nigeria defeat 2-0 loss to Madagascar last weekend and was replaced by Alex Iwobi in the 59th minute.<\/p>\n<p>After several checks by the medical staff, Mikel Obi was ruled out of their Round of 16 clash against Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>Now, there are fears that the midfielder could miss the rest of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Should the fears be confirmed, Gernot Rohr could be left with just Iwobi to fill the creative role in Nigeria\u2019s midfield.<\/p>\n<p>Although the problem is not thought to be severe, Rohr will not risk exacerbating the injury.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles captain, John Obi Mikel, could miss the remainder of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, Goal reports. The 32-year-old strained his knee during Nigeria defeat 2-0 loss to Madagascar last weekend and was replaced by Alex Iwobi in the 59th minute. After several checks by the medical staff, Mikel Obi was ruled out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130356,"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":[],"class_list":["post-132297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132297","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=132297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}