{"id":62357,"date":"2018-11-17T23:41:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T22:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=62357"},"modified":"2018-11-17T23:42:37","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T22:42:37","slug":"south-africa-vs-nigeria-rohr-reveals-why-super-eagles-played-1-1-with-bafana-bafana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=62357","title":{"rendered":"South Africa vs Nigeria: Rohr reveals why Super Eagles played 1-1 with Bafana Bafana"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Super Eagles technical adviser, Gernot Rohr has explained why his side played a 1-1 draw with South Africa in Saturday\u2019s 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, qualifying fixture at the BFN Stadium in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

An own goal from South Africa defender, Buhle Mkhwanazi, and a strike from striker, Lebo Mothiba ensured both sides got a point.<\/p>\n

Rohr said his side drew with South Africa because they did not want to take a risk against the hosts.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe started the first half very well but the second half was not too good,\u201d Rohr told Super Sports after the game.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe tried to score more goals in the second half but we did not want to take any risk because we knew a draw will qualify to 2019 African Cup of Nations in Cameroon.\u201d<\/p>\n

The draw against the Bafana Bafana means Nigeria have qualified for next year\u2019s African Cup of Nations in Cameroon.<\/p>\n

Nigeria will now tackle Seychelles in their last fixture of the qualifying series.<\/p>\n

Nigeria top the group with 10 points, while South Africa are second place with 9 points.<\/p>\n

Libya are third place with 7 points, while Seychelles have a point.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Super Eagles technical adviser, Gernot Rohr has explained why his side played a 1-1 draw with South Africa in Saturday\u2019s 2019 Africa Cup of Nations, AFCON, qualifying fixture at the BFN Stadium in Johannesburg. An own goal from South Africa defender, Buhle Mkhwanazi, and a strike from striker, Lebo Mothiba ensured both sides got a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62358,"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":[7893,7426],"class_list":["post-62357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-afcon2019","tag-nigeria-vs-south-africa"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62357","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=62357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}