{"id":135266,"date":"2019-07-12T22:38:05","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T21:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=135266"},"modified":"2019-07-12T22:47:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T21:47:05","slug":"nigeria-vs-algeria-rohr-reveals-afcon-game-that-was-a-joker-for-super-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=135266","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria vs Algeria: Rohr reveals AFCON game that was &#8220;a joker&#8221; for Super Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/2019-AFCON-Rohr-speaks-on-VAR-decision-against-Super-Eagles.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Head coach of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr, has said that their 2-0 loss to Madagascar, was their \u201cjoker\u201d at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria lost 2-0 to the Barea at Alexandria Stadium, in their last Group B encounter almost two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Rohr\u2019s men have since put the defeat behind them and will face Algeria in the semi-finals on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe loss to Madagascar was our joker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could lose it because we had already qualified for the next round.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to allow others in the team to play as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can forget about the defeat to Madagascar now because we are through to the semi-final. Even the defeat helped us to be more humble and sometimes it is good also,\u201d Rohr told the media.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head coach of the Super Eagles, Gernot Rohr, has said that their 2-0 loss to Madagascar, was their \u201cjoker\u201d at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations. Nigeria lost 2-0 to the Barea at Alexandria Stadium, in their last Group B encounter almost two weeks ago. Rohr\u2019s men have since put the defeat behind them and [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-135266","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\/135266","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=135266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135266\/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=135266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}