{"id":151357,"date":"2019-09-11T15:48:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T14:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=151357"},"modified":"2019-09-11T15:56:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-11T14:56:32","slug":"ukraine-vs-nigeria-shevchenko-reacts-to-2-2-draw-with-super-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=151357","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine vs Nigeria: Shevchenko reacts to 2-2 draw with Super Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Ukraine-vs-Nigeria-Shevchenko-reveals-why-his-team-chose-Super-Eagles-for-friendly-match.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Ukraine head coach, Andriy Shevchenko, has admitted that the Super Eagles were a tougher opponent than Lithuania, after a 2-2 draw in an international friendly on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Shevchenko\u2019s men have never lost to an Africam team in the last seven years, but that run was almost ended, before Oleksandr Zinchenko and Roman Yaremchuk cancelled Nigeria\u2019s goals in the closing minutes of the match.<\/p>\n<p>Gernot Rohr\u2019s men had taken a two-goal lead in the first half and missed several chances to extend their lead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is very difficult to find the ideal at all. The team is moving in the right direction. It is impossible to compare today\u2019s match with the previous one against Lithuania.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a completely different team made up of players who play in different championships. But today\u2019s game was very important, we received a lot of valuable information,\u201d Shevchenko told reporters after the game.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine head coach, Andriy Shevchenko, has admitted that the Super Eagles were a tougher opponent than Lithuania, after a 2-2 draw in an international friendly on Tuesday. Shevchenko\u2019s men have never lost to an Africam team in the last seven years, but that run was almost ended, before Oleksandr Zinchenko and Roman Yaremchuk cancelled Nigeria\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150641,"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":[243,13205],"class_list":["post-151357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nigeria","tag-ukraine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151357","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=151357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/150641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}