{"id":134765,"date":"2019-07-11T13:11:48","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T12:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=134765"},"modified":"2019-07-11T13:12:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T12:12:51","slug":"2019-afcon-rohr-speaks-on-var-decision-against-super-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=134765","title":{"rendered":"2019 AFCON: Rohr speaks on VAR decision against Super Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Super Eagles head coach, Gernot Rohr has blamed the Video Assistant Referee, VAR, system, after his team\u2019s win 2-1 over South Africa at the Africa Cup of Nations on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Rohr pointed out that the time taken to confirm South Africa\u2019s goal unsettled his team.<\/p>\n

The VAR system was introduced at the quarterfinal stage of the tournament and is being used in the competition for the first time.<\/p>\n

VAR made its first significant intervention in the match when it overruled a lineman\u2019s decision to disallow Bongani Zungu\u2019s goal for offside.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor five minutes we had to wait, goal or no goal, and that was hard for my team,\u201d the German told reporters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe second goal did not go in for us and then you have seen this free kick, and this VAR decision \u2013 you never know what can happen with VAR on a free kick.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow we are mentally strong and we were able to come back,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The German coach recalled when Nigeria were beaten 2-0 by South Africa in Uyo in a qualifier for the tournament two years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had a young team but this team continued to work and this result perhaps helped us to beat in the next game Cameroon, who were African champions, 4-0 in the same stadium (in a World Cup qualifier), so we could learn from this match,\u201d he added.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Super Eagles head coach, Gernot Rohr has blamed the Video Assistant Referee, VAR, system, after his team\u2019s win 2-1 over South Africa at the Africa Cup of Nations on Wednesday. Rohr pointed out that the time taken to confirm South Africa\u2019s goal unsettled his team. The VAR system was introduced at the quarterfinal stage of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134766,"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-134765","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\/134765","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=134765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}