{"id":10443,"date":"2013-01-26T19:02:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/we-need-a-new-strategy-mikel-confesses\/"},"modified":"2013-01-26T19:02:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T19:02:00","slug":"we-need-a-new-strategy-mikel-confesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/26\/we-need-a-new-strategy-mikel-confesses\/","title":{"rendered":"We need a new strategy, Mikel confesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"66\">\n<p>Nigeria midfielder John Obi Mikel has said that the team needs to work harder and find a way to kill matches after Friday\u2019s 1-1 draw against defending African champions Zambia in Mbombela.<\/p>\n<p>The Group C encounter was one of the most anticipated fixtures of the first round and it lived up to its billing with Nigeria earning a penalty kick in the first half after Ahmed Musa was brought down in the box by Nkausu Davies.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_205992\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone c21\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-205992\" alt=\"Mikle Obi \" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2013\/01\/bf38mikel-obi1.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"281\" \/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo: Mikle Obi<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Chelsea\u2019s Mikel stepped up to take the spot kick but saw his shot saved by Kennedy Mweene. He redeemed himself in the second half when he won a tackle and released Emmanuel Emenike to score on 57 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Mweene emerged hero for the defending champions when he converted a late penalty to make the game 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we did well, the team did really well but again we conceded [late in] in the game,\u201d said Mikel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to keep working, we have to keep believing in what we do and in the way we play.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully in the last game we will get the three points that we need to qualify for the quarter finals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About his missed penalty attempt, Mikel said: \u201cIt\u2019s one of those things in the game, penalty is not an easy task but we went ahead again and I think we should learn more how to keep a lead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just have to keep concentrating and keep doing what we\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With two points apiece, Nigeria will play Ethiopia while Zambia will play Burkina Faso in the last group game on Tuesday as they seek quarter final tickets.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Nigeria midfielder John Obi Mikel has said that the team needs to work harder and find a way to kill matches after Friday\u2019s 1-1 draw against defending African champions Zambia in Mbombela. The Group C encounter was one of the most anticipated fixtures of the first round and it lived up to its billing with Nigeria earning a penalty kick in the first half after Ahmed Musa was brought down in the box by Nkausu Davies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}