{"id":168554,"date":"2019-11-17T14:48:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T13:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=168554"},"modified":"2019-11-17T14:48:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T13:48:34","slug":"lesotho-vs-nigeria-rohr-reveals-why-super-eagles-are-not-best-team-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=168554","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho vs Nigeria: Rohr reveals why Super Eagles are not best team in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AFCON-2019-Rohr-names-goalkeeper-that-will-start-against-Guinea-gives-reason.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Super Eagles head coach, Gernot Rohr has disclosed that his side is not the best team in Africa because it still has a lot of work to do.<\/p>\n<p>He also warned his players to stay humble when they tackle Lesotho in today\u2019s 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier at the Setsoto Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Rohr\u2019s men head to the game following a 2-1 victory over Benin Republic in their last encounter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI am calm because they played well in the second half against Benin, but you never know in the next match (against Lesotho), they must stay humble,\u201d Rohr told reporters in his pre-match press conference ahead of Nigeria\u2019s clash with Lesotho.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dLike I told them after the Brazil game, don\u2019t believe you are the best team in Africa because you held Brazil to a draw, there\u2019s still a lot of work to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dI am not excited, I\u2019ll be excited if we win the AFCON for example.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The kick-off time for the match is 5pm.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles head coach, Gernot Rohr has disclosed that his side is not the best team in Africa because it still has a lot of work to do. He also warned his players to stay humble when they tackle Lesotho in today\u2019s 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier at the Setsoto Stadium. Rohr\u2019s men [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130107,"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":[2658,7480,4046],"class_list":["post-168554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-gernot-rohr","tag-super-eagle"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168554","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=168554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}