{"id":133728,"date":"2019-07-08T09:35:19","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T08:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=133728"},"modified":"2019-07-08T10:25:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T09:25:20","slug":"nigeria-vs-south-africa-rohr-worried-over-difficult-quarter-final-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=133728","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria vs South Africa: Rohr worried over ‘difficult’ quarter-final clash"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Head coach of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr has admitted that their Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final clash against South Africa will be \u201cvery, very difficult\u201d.<\/p>\n

Bafana Bafana stunned hosts Egypt 1-0 at the Cairo International Stadium on Saturday, to set up a last-eight tie against Nigeria, who eliminated defending champions, Cameroon, earlier in the day.<\/p>\n

Both teams are very familiar with each other, having both qualified for the 2019 AFCON from Group E of the qualifiers.<\/p>\n

Nigeria failed to secure a win over South Africa over two legs in the qualifying series.<\/p>\n

Bafana Bafana stunned the Super Eagles 2-0 in Uyo, before playing a 1-1 draw in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw them play tonight, they played so well against Egypt so it will be very, very difficult.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey beat us also in Uyo, so we know that is not easy, we know them very well, we played a good draw in Johannesburg for the qualification, we even deserved to win because of the two goals of Musa that were cancelled even though they were not offside.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why we have to work hard to prepare well for this very tough game against South Africa,\u201d Rohr told reporters at their Helnan Palestine base.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Head coach of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr has admitted that their Africa Cup of Nations quarter-final clash against South Africa will be \u201cvery, very difficult\u201d. Bafana Bafana stunned hosts Egypt 1-0 at the Cairo International Stadium on Saturday, to set up a last-eight tie against Nigeria, who eliminated defending champions, Cameroon, earlier in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":132146,"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-133728","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\/133728","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=133728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/132146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}