{"id":135003,"date":"2019-07-12T09:03:14","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T08:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=135003"},"modified":"2019-07-12T09:03:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T08:03:58","slug":"nigeria-vs-south-africa-liverpool-legend-sends-message-to-samuel-chukwueze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=135003","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria vs South Africa: Liverpool legend sends message to Samuel Chukwueze"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Liverpool legend, Don Hutchison, has heaped praises on Super Eagles winger, Samuel Chukwueze following his outstanding display in Nigeria\u2019s 2-1 win over South Africa at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, quarter-final on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Samuel Chukwueze, who won the Man of the Match award of the encounter, gave Gernot Rohr\u2019s men a 1-0 lead before the break thanks to an assist from Alex Iwobi.<\/p>\n

However, South Africa levelled in the second half, courtesy of a Video Assistant Referee (VAR) decision.<\/p>\n

With the match looking to head into extra time, William Troost-Ekong forced the ball over the line in the final minute of play at the Cairo International Stadium.<\/p>\n

Reacting to Chukwueze\u2019s performance against the Bafana Bafana, Hutchiso stated that the Villarreal youngster is destined for the top, adding that he has told a lot of scouts and coaches about the 20-year-old.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a player mate. English clubs won\u2019t have the balls to go for him (Chukwueze). I\u2019ve told loads of scouts\/coaches Etc about him! Going right to the top,\u201d Hutchinson wrote on Twitter.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Liverpool legend, Don Hutchison, has heaped praises on Super Eagles winger, Samuel Chukwueze following his outstanding display in Nigeria\u2019s 2-1 win over South Africa at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, quarter-final on Wednesday. Samuel Chukwueze, who won the Man of the Match award of the encounter, gave Gernot Rohr\u2019s men a 1-0 lead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":134701,"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-135003","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\/135003","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=135003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/134701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}