{"id":167437,"date":"2019-11-13T11:57:22","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T10:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=167437"},"modified":"2019-11-13T11:57:39","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T10:57:39","slug":"nigeria-vs-benin-republic-how-we-will-play-against-nigeria-squirrels-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=167437","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria vs Benin Republic: How we will play against Nigeria – Squirrels coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Head coach of Benin Republic, Michel Dussuyer, has issued warning to the Super Eagles of Nigeria ahead of their clash in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier in Uyo on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n

Dussuyer said that the Squirrels are going to play a game with ambitions against Gernot Rohr\u2019s men, adding that they will defend their chances on the pitch.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know Nigeria is a great African and World champion, third in the last CAN. They have a large squad with players who play at the highest level,\u201d Dussuyer told Beninwebtv.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know the gaps in potential. We are here to defend our chances on the field if we are disciplined. We already have some experience of playing for the big teams. We\u2019re going to play a game with ambitions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dussuyer added: \u201cI know that in front of Nigeria, we have a lot of absentees. I will try to build the best team possible with the players at the moment. We had little time to work but I am glad we had friendlies before.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be a player who will be less experienced in the central defence. On the right too, there will be Youssouf Assogba who is a young man.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must be even more focused. It\u2019s the whole team that has to make the effort.\u201d<\/p>\n

The kick-off time for the match is 5pm.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Head coach of Benin Republic, Michel Dussuyer, has issued warning to the Super Eagles of Nigeria ahead of their clash in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier in Uyo on Wednesday evening. Dussuyer said that the Squirrels are going to play a game with ambitions against Gernot Rohr\u2019s men, adding that they will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":167438,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,2514,243],"class_list":["post-167437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-benin","tag-nigeria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167437","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=167437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/167438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}