{"id":134265,"date":"2019-07-09T15:39:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T14:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=134265"},"modified":"2019-07-09T15:40:12","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T14:40:12","slug":"nigeria-vs-south-africa-rohr-explains-why-onyekuru-osimhen-havent-played-at-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=134265","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria vs South Africa: Rohr explains why Onyekuru, Osimhen haven&#8217;t played at AFCON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Super-Eagles-star-terminates-contract-with-club.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Head coach of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr has explained why Henry Onyekuru and Victor Osimhen have not featured at all at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Rohr, in a Q&amp;A on Twitter with the team\u2019s former media officer, Colin Udoh, said both forwards were young and inexperienced.<\/p>\n<p>The German, however, advised Onyekuru to be in the battle to start ahead of Simon Moses and Samuel Chukwueze, while Osimhen has to improve on his physicality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnyekuru and Osimhen are young and they are here to learn. Musa and Ighalo are experienced so they are the ones to start<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Onyekuru, he has to first fight with Simon and Chukwueze for a position and then maybe for the central position. For Osimhen, he has to be stronger. In training, any touch he falls down. So I tell him to be strong,\u201d Rohr said.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria take on South Africa on Wednesday for a place in the semi-final.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head coach of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr has explained why Henry Onyekuru and Victor Osimhen have not featured at all at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations. Rohr, in a Q&amp;A on Twitter with the team\u2019s former media officer, Colin Udoh, said both forwards were young and inexperienced. The German, however, advised Onyekuru to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131282,"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":[7480,4046],"class_list":["post-134265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-gernot-rohr","tag-super-eagle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134265","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=134265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}