{"id":3899,"date":"2019-02-04T17:18:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T17:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=3899"},"modified":"2019-02-04T17:18:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T17:18:19","slug":"u-20-afcon-we-will-make-things-difficult-for-the-flying-eagles-south-african-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/u-20-afcon-we-will-make-things-difficult-for-the-flying-eagles-south-african-coach","title":{"rendered":"U-20 AFCON: We will make things difficult for the Flying Eagles \u2013South African coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>South Africa national U-20 head coach Thabo Senong has stated that they are currently analyzing Nigeria\u2019s Flying Eagles to know their weaknesses ahead of their crucial U-20 Africa Cup of Nations fixture on Tuesday February 5 at the Seyni Kouche stadium in Niger Republic.<\/h2>\n<div class=\"td-g-rec td-g-rec-id-content_inline td_uid_6_5c5855df4fbb5_rand td_block_template_1 \">\n<p>South Africa will need a favorable result against the Flying Eagles to maintain their hopes of making it to the semi final stage of the competition and also book one of the available tickets for the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup to be staged in Poland from May 25 to June 16, 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria tops group A after defeating Burundi 2 \u2013 0 on Saturday while host Niger played out a 1 \u2013 1 draw against South Africa\u2019s Amajita. Yahaya Nafizi and Maxwell Effiom were the goal scorers for the Aigogun led team.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria is one win away from booking the world Cup ticket but Senong has stated that they will do their best to make it difficult for the Flying Eagles as they also seek a World Cup ticket and a loss will ultimately set them back. He stated that the team\u2019s tactical staff is analyzing the team. \u201cWe will look at Nigeria and analyze how they play. We still have good players in our squad who are yet to feature in upcoming matches and I believe the team will be ready when we face Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria has won the Competition seven times since its inception in 1971 and last won the trophy in 2015 beating host Senegal by a lone goal.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_bottom  td_uid_8_5c5855df51af3_rand td_block_template_1\">\n<div class=\"td-all-devices\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa national U-20 head coach Thabo Senong has stated that they are currently analyzing Nigeria\u2019s Flying Eagles to know their weaknesses ahead of their crucial U-20 Africa Cup of Nations fixture on Tuesday February 5 at the Seyni Kouche stadium in Niger Republic. South Africa will need a favorable result against the Flying Eagles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":3239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[116,122],"class_list":["post-3899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-football","tag-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>U-20 AFCON: We will make things difficult for the Flying Eagles \u2013South African coach - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/u-20-afcon-we-will-make-things-difficult-for-the-flying-eagles-south-african-coach\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"U-20 AFCON: We will make things difficult for the Flying Eagles \u2013South African coach\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"South Africa national U-20 head coach Thabo Senong has stated that they are currently analyzing Nigeria\u2019s Flying Eagles to know their weaknesses ahead of their crucial U-20 Africa Cup of Nations fixture on Tuesday February 5 at the Seyni Kouche stadium in Niger Republic. 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