{"id":135872,"date":"2019-07-15T08:07:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T07:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=135872"},"modified":"2019-07-15T08:07:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T07:07:33","slug":"nigeria-vs-algeria-joseph-yobo-reveals-why-super-eagles-lost-2-1-to-desert-foxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=135872","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria vs Algeria: Joseph Yobo reveals why Super Eagles lost 2-1 to Desert Foxes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former Super Eagles captain, Joseph Yobo, has blamed Gernot Rohr\u2019s men following their 2-1 defeat to Algeria at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, semi-final on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Algeria took the lead in the first half, thanks a William Troost-Ekong own goal.<\/p>\n

The Super Eagles levelled in the second half, after a Video Assistant Referee (VAR) decision, with Odion Ighalo stroking home the penalty.<\/p>\n

With the match heading into extra time, Riyad Mahrez stepped up and spanked a free-kick past Daniel Akpeyi, to send his side into the final.<\/p>\n

But Yobo blamed the Super Eagles for not getting the right organization during the match and allowing the Desert Foxes to have more possession of the ball.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn general, we have to give Algeria the credit. They were more possessive of the ball,\u201d Yobo told SuperSport.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the Super Eagles, the organization was not right. The back four needed to come closer and push the Algeria team to the side where they are uncomfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nigeria face Tunisia in the third-place playoff on Wednesday, July 17.<\/p>\n

Algeria will take on Senegal in the final on Friday, July 19.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Super Eagles captain, Joseph Yobo, has blamed Gernot Rohr\u2019s men following their 2-1 defeat to Algeria at the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, semi-final on Sunday. Algeria took the lead in the first half, thanks a William Troost-Ekong own goal. The Super Eagles levelled in the second half, after a Video Assistant Referee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":135383,"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":[7480,11508],"class_list":["post-135872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-gernot-rohr","tag-joseph-yobo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135872","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=135872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/135383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}