{"id":348942,"date":"2011-03-30T04:09:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T04:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/30\/nigeria-siasias-formation-challenges-yobo\/"},"modified":"2011-03-30T04:09:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T04:09:52","slug":"nigeria-siasias-formation-challenges-yobo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/30\/nigeria-siasias-formation-challenges-yobo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Siasia&#8217;s Formation Challenges Yobo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"47.251349730054\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/><!-- close google_banner_mid div ---><\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/64b3dae5vanguard180.jpg\" alt=\"Vanguard (Lagos)\" title=\"Visit Vanguard (Lagos)\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- begin story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p>John Egbokhan<\/p>\n<p>29 March 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Abuja \u2014 Super Eagles captain, Joseph Yobo has admitted that he was being challenged by Coach Samson Siasia&#8217;s defensive formation, that has seen him playing with two different central defenders in the two matches so far played under Siasia.<\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_inset_a div ---><\/p>\n<p>Yobo was paired with Efe Ambrose in central defence during the weekend&#8217;s 2012 African Cup of Nations qualifier against Ethiopia at the Abuja National stadium and for most part of the first half, both players struggled to jell, allowing the East African side to rattle them to the point that Ambrose was let off kindly by centre rereree Jedidi Slim of Tunisia for fouling an opponent in the 18 yard box.<\/p>\n<p>Ambrose appeared to be the weaker link in the central defence, a point which to some extent affected Yobo&#8217;s first half performance and when queried on his take on the experimentation by his coach, Yobo said that time was of the essence to the success of the whole idea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We take it one game at a time. Winning is the most important thing right now and thank God that we won. It is the first competitive game for the coach and some players so it was bound to be challenging for some of us.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The formation of two midfielders, four defenders and four forwards, is a work in progress. It is difficult coping with different defenders but whoever the coach chooses is his choice and one just has to work with the person and for the good of the team.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have to give the coach credit that we did not concede a goal and he is doing a good job&#8221;, added Yobo, who is on loan from Everton at Fenerbahce of Turkey.<\/p>\n<p><!-- end story layout piece here --><\/p>\n<p><!-- close google_banner_subbody div ---><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><b>More News on allAfrica.com<\/b><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the original post:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201103300162.html\" title=\"Nigeria: Siasia's Formation Challenges Yobo\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nigeria: Siasia&#8217;s Formation Challenges Yobo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> John Egbokhan 29 March 2011 Abuja \u2014 Super Eagles captain, Joseph Yobo has admitted that he was being challenged by Coach Samson Siasia&#8217;s defensive formation, that has seen him playing with two different central defenders in the two matches so far played under Siasia. Yobo was paired with Efe Ambrose in central defence during the weekend&#8217;s 2012 African Cup of Nations qualifier against Ethiopia at the Abuja National stadium and for most part of the first half, both players struggled to jell, allowing the East African side to rattle them to the point that Ambrose was let off kindly by centre rereree Jedidi Slim of Tunisia for fouling an opponent in the 18 yard box. Ambrose appeared to be the weaker link in the central defence, a point which to some extent affected Yobo&#8217;s first half performance and when queried on his take on the experimentation by his coach, Yobo said that time was of the essence to the success of the whole idea. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-348942","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigeria: Siasia&#039;s Formation Challenges Yobo - Ghanamma.com<\/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.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/30\/nigeria-siasias-formation-challenges-yobo\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Nigeria: Siasia&#039;s Formation Challenges Yobo - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"John Egbokhan 29 March 2011 Abuja \u2014 Super Eagles captain, Joseph Yobo has admitted that he was being challenged by Coach Samson Siasia&#039;s defensive formation, that has seen him playing with two different central defenders in the two matches so far played under Siasia. 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