{"id":167721,"date":"2019-11-14T10:46:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T09:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=167721"},"modified":"2019-11-14T10:46:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T09:46:55","slug":"nigeria-vs-benin-what-squirrels-coach-said-about-super-eagles-after-2-1-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=167721","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria vs Benin: What Squirrels coach said about Super Eagles after 2-1 defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Ukraine-vs-Nigeria-5-things-we-learnt-as-Super-Eagles-are-held-in-Dnipro.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Head coach of Benin Republic, Michel Dussuyer, has admitted that his side was defeated by a superior opponent following their 2-1 defeat to Nigeria in a 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, qualifier encounter on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dussuyer, Gernot Rohr\u2019s side did not create many opportunities in the first half but gained more confidence in the second half after scoring a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST had reported that the Super Eagles had to fight from a goal down, as the Squirrels opened scoring at the Godswill Akpabio International Stadium in Uyo.<\/p>\n<p>Stephane Sessegnon latched on a defensive error to make it 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Osimhen made it 1-1 from the penalty spot, shortly before half time.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Kalu grabbed the winner, with a fine solo goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe played well in the first half, defended well, Nigeria did not create many opportunities but we conceded a penalty just before the half time which gave more confidence to Nigeria in the second half,\u201d Dussuyer told reporters at his post-match press conference in Uyo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second half was very hard for us and we wasted many balls, gave it to Nigeria so many times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the end we tried to recover after conceding and we had an opportunity at the end (which hit the post) but it is logical; there\u2019s a difference between Nigeria and Benin but we have fought for as much as we can.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head coach of Benin Republic, Michel Dussuyer, has admitted that his side was defeated by a superior opponent following their 2-1 defeat to Nigeria in a 2021 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, qualifier encounter on Wednesday. According to Dussuyer, Gernot Rohr\u2019s side did not create many opportunities in the first half but gained more confidence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":151174,"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":[2658,4046],"class_list":["post-167721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-super-eagle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167721","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=167721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/151174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}