{"id":24128,"date":"2024-03-27T09:02:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T09:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/friendly-super-eagles-played-well-despite-defeat-to-mali-finidi\/"},"modified":"2024-03-27T09:02:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T09:02:55","slug":"friendly-super-eagles-played-well-despite-defeat-to-mali-finidi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/friendly-super-eagles-played-well-despite-defeat-to-mali-finidi\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendly: Super Eagles played well despite defeat to Mali \u2013 Finidi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Super Eagles interim head coach Finidi George has commended his players despite the defeat to Mali.<\/p>\n<p>Finidi\u2019s side lost 2-0 to Eric Chelle\u2019s side at the Grand Stade de Marrakech on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles fought hard in the game but were let down by their poor finishing.<\/p>\n<p>The gaffer refused to blame his players for the defeat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a team that keeps the ball very well but if we had our injured strikers available, we would have changed the one on the pitch immediately,\u201d Finidi said in his post-match interview.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLosing two strikers forced us to play wide and as an aggressive team, we did all we could. And you know football is all about victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLost one and won one and we were not outplayed in the two matches gives me joy as a coach of the Super Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would have loved a different result in this game but that\u2019s not the case if we look at the performance of the players, it\u2019s commendable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Friendly: Super Eagles played well despite defeat to Mali \u2013 Finidi<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles interim head coach Finidi George has commended his players despite the defeat to Mali. Finidi\u2019s side lost 2-0&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1151,9702,15,160,869],"tags":[873,1153,9704,180,201,870],"class_list":["post-24128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finidi","category-mali","category-news","category-sport","category-super-eagles","tag-eagles","tag-finidi","tag-mali","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-super"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}