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<\/p>\nThe German disclosed that the strengths of his team are humility and fighting spirit, adding that even against South Africa it won\u2019t be easy.<\/p>\n
He pointed out that Bafana Bafana secured a spot in the last eight after beating a strong Egyptian squad.<\/p>\n
\u201dWe saw the Egypt vs South Africa game, we know South Africa very well because they were in our group for the qualifiers,\u201d Rohr told reporters at Tuesday\u2019s press conference.<\/p>\n
\u201dWhen you beat Egypt in this circumstances with one of the best players in Africa, you will be full of confidence and they deserve to win, they were the better team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nigeria will also be full of confidence following their recent 3-2 win against Cameroon but Rohr has insisted that the players are not getting carried away as they remain humble.<\/p>\n
\u201dWe had a good game against Cameroon, we also have confidence so we should expect a match of high quality.<\/p>\n
\u201dThe strengths of our team are humility and fighting spirit, and even against South Africa it won\u2019t be easy.<\/p>\n
\u201dBut we also have confidence because we scored three goals against a team who did not concede a goal in the group stage and who had a very good goalkeeper.<\/p>\n
\u201dWe are confident also but for me South Africa is the favorite,\u201d Rohr added.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Super Eagles head coach, Gernot Rohr, has reiterated that his team are the underdogs heading into the game against South Africa on Wednesday. The German disclosed that the strengths of his team are humility and fighting spirit, adding that even against South Africa it won\u2019t be easy. He pointed out that Bafana Bafana secured a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134236,"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],"class_list":["post-134235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-gernot-rohr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134235","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=134235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}