{"id":439192,"date":"2011-06-10T08:22:59","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T08:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/10\/ethiopia-brought-us-down-to-earth-siasia\/"},"modified":"2011-06-10T08:22:59","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T08:22:59","slug":"ethiopia-brought-us-down-to-earth-siasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/10\/ethiopia-brought-us-down-to-earth-siasia\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Brought Us Down to Earth &#8211; Siasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"29.0909090909\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/img\/static\/publishers\/minibanners\/vanguard180.jpg\" alt=\"Vanguard (Lagos)\" title=\"Visit Vanguard (Lagos)\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>10 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>Eagles&#8217; coach Samson Siasia returned from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia soberly deflected. He and his charges found themselves in a tight corner in the 2012 Nations Cup qualifiers after they escaped with a 2-2 draw against the Walya Antelopes last Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Before that game the team was bubbling with confidence of beating Ethiopia at home, but this turned out to be a mirag. And and according to Siasia the 4-1 win against Argentina in the June 1 international friendly in Abuja gave the team a false hope.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I guess we played better against Argentina because the stake was high. Our bane was going to Ethiopia with a relaxed kind of attitude which actually killed us. We have been brought down to earth and have learnt a lesson,&#8221; said the coach.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles arrived Ethiopia on match day and they went on to put a dismal display which left team at the brink of defeat, but for Joseph Yobo&#8217;s late minute header. Guinea won their match against Madagascar in the other group B game thus heaping more pressure on Siasia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t want this kind of things to happen to us anymore.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This time around we are going to Madagascar with players who are very positive minded and that could go out there and do their best for the nation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think we have learnt a bitter lesson and we just have to forge ahead and make good plans to win the remaining two matches.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know that we need to score as many goals as possible against Madagascar and Guinea to have a chance. I can also take solace in the fact that I have a side who can score goals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read More:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106100357.html\" title=\"Ethiopia Brought Us Down to Earth - Siasia\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ethiopia Brought Us Down to Earth &#8211; Siasia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 10 June 2011 Eagles&#8217; coach Samson Siasia returned from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia soberly deflected. He and his charges found themselves in a tight corner in the 2012 Nations Cup qualifiers after they escaped with a 2-2 draw against the Walya Antelopes last Sunday. Before that game the team was bubbling with confidence of beating Ethiopia at home, but this turned out to be a mirag. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":439193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-439192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ethiopia Brought Us Down to Earth - Siasia - 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\/06\/10\/ethiopia-brought-us-down-to-earth-siasia\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ethiopia Brought Us Down to Earth - Siasia - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"10 June 2011 Eagles&#039; coach Samson Siasia returned from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia soberly deflected. 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