{"id":134496,"date":"2019-07-10T10:18:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T09:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=134496"},"modified":"2019-07-10T10:39:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T09:39:59","slug":"nigeria-vs-south-africa-what-samuel-chukwueze-said-about-afcon-2019-quarter-final-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=134496","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria vs South Africa: What Samuel Chukwueze said about AFCON 2019 quarter-final match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Nigeria-vs-South-Africa-What-Samuel-Chukwueze-said-about-AFCON-2019-quarter-final-match.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Super Eagles winger, Samuel Chukwueze has said that Gernot Rohr\u2019s men are battle ready to tackle South Africa in tonight\u2019s 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, quarter-final clash.<\/p>\n<p>Chukwueze pointed out that the Super Eagles will try harder to beat the Bafana Bafana at the Cairo International Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria head to the game after defeating AFCON holders Cameroon 3-2, while South Africa dumped the host nation, Egypt out of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a battle which we know we are up to the task,\u201d Chukwueze told SportingLife.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe might have lost to Madagascar but it was a wakeup call for us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe tried our best against Cameroon and it is our resolve to even try harder against South Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The kick-off time for the match is 8pm.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles winger, Samuel Chukwueze has said that Gernot Rohr\u2019s men are battle ready to tackle South Africa in tonight\u2019s 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, quarter-final clash. Chukwueze pointed out that the Super Eagles will try harder to beat the Bafana Bafana at the Cairo International Stadium. Nigeria head to the game after defeating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134497,"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":[12705],"class_list":["post-134496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-samuel-chukwueze"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134496","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=134496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}