{"id":133872,"date":"2019-07-08T18:21:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T17:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=133872"},"modified":"2019-07-08T18:35:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T17:35:20","slug":"afcon-2019-kanu-nwankwo-identifies-what-super-eagles-must-do-to-beat-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=133872","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2019: Kanu Nwankwo identifies what Super Eagles must do to beat South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nigeria and Arsenal legend, Nwankwo Kanu has urged Gernot Rohr\u2019s Super Eagles not to make costly mistakes if they want to beat South Africa in Wednesday\u2019s 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, quarter-final fixture.<\/p>\n

Kanu called on the Super Eagles to show the right attitude if they are to beat the Bafana Bafana at the Cairo International Stadium.<\/p>\n

Nigeria head to the game after defeating Cameroon 3-2 over the weakened while South Africa defeated the hosts Egypt 1-0.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Eagles won and we are extremely happy but it was a win we had to labour for,\u201d Kanu told SportingLife.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a time in the game that they played very well and on so many occasions they became jittery and conceded goals at the time. They must have a good attitude and have the belief mentality.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must have the conviction that we can beat anybody. We cannot afford to make costly mistakes against South Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n

The kick-off time for the match is 8pm.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nigeria and Arsenal legend, Nwankwo Kanu has urged Gernot Rohr\u2019s Super Eagles not to make costly mistakes if they want to beat South Africa in Wednesday\u2019s 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, quarter-final fixture. Kanu called on the Super Eagles to show the right attitude if they are to beat the Bafana Bafana at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133579,"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-133872","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\/133872","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=133872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}