{"id":134345,"date":"2019-07-09T19:45:09","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T18:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=134345"},"modified":"2019-07-09T20:51:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T19:51:30","slug":"nigeria-vs-south-africa-jay-jay-okocha-speaks-on-afcon-quarter-final-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=134345","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria vs South Africa: Jay Jay Okocha speaks on AFCON quarter-final clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/1561195700_376_dailypost.ng-522-Connection-timed-out.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Former Super Eagles captain, Jay Jay Okocha, has said the team with the right mindset will emerge victorious, when Nigeria take on South Africa in the quarter-final of the Africa Cup of Nations on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria are yet to defeat South Africa in their last five outings, which ended in four draws and one defeat against Bafana Bafana.<\/p>\n<p>Okocha is however not bothered by the recent head-to-head results and thinks the game will be decided by the players\u2019 performances on match day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s always easier to sit on the outside and act as if you have the best solution. But I\u2019ve played the game at the highest level and I can tell you my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can come up with whatever tactics you want as a coach but if you don\u2019t have the tools to execute you will struggle, and if you don\u2019t have willing players that are ready to commit to the cause than you will struggle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s all about the players\u2019 mindset on the day and the team that wants it more,\u201d Okocha told Goal.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Super Eagles captain, Jay Jay Okocha, has said the team with the right mindset will emerge victorious, when Nigeria take on South Africa in the quarter-final of the Africa Cup of Nations on Wednesday. Nigeria are yet to defeat South Africa in their last five outings, which ended in four draws and one defeat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134346,"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-134345","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\/134345","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=134345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}