{"id":59213,"date":"2024-11-16T15:05:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-16T15:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-2025q-why-osho-was-replaced-against-benin-republic-eguavoen\/"},"modified":"2024-11-16T15:05:03","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T15:05:03","slug":"afcon-2025q-why-osho-was-replaced-against-benin-republic-eguavoen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/afcon-2025q-why-osho-was-replaced-against-benin-republic-eguavoen\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2025Q: Why Osho was replaced against Benin Republic \u2014 Eguavoen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Super Eagles caretaker coach, Augustine Eguavoen has explained his decision to replace Gabriel Osho after the first half against Benin Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Osho made his debut for the Super Eagles in the keenly contested encounter.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old paired captain William Troost-Ekong and Calvin Bassey at the heart of the defence.<\/p>\n<p>The Super Eagles trailed 1-0 after the break and Eguavoen substituted the Auxerre defender at the start of the second half.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOsho is a very good player, who I have been following, I even told him even before he came that in the absence of Semi Ajayi, he will start against Benin,\u201d Eguavoen told Eagle7fm Sports Radio<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe trained only once and then played.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was substituted not because he was not playing well but because I reverted to a back four so as to get something from the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>AFCON 2025Q: Why Osho was replaced against Benin Republic \u2014 Eguavoen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Eagles caretaker coach, Augustine Eguavoen has explained his decision to replace Gabriel Osho after the first half against Benin&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24413,6764,8074,15,4737,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afcon-2025q","category-benin-republic","category-eguavoen","category-news","category-osho","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59213","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=59213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}