{"id":7937,"date":"2013-01-23T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T08:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/afcon-eagles-blast-ahmed-musa-uche\/"},"modified":"2013-01-23T08:47:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T08:47:00","slug":"afcon-eagles-blast-ahmed-musa-uche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/23\/afcon-eagles-blast-ahmed-musa-uche\/","title":{"rendered":"Afcon: Eagles blast Ahmed Musa, Uche"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"57\">\n<p>Ahmed Musa and Ikechukwu Uche were rapped by their teammates after Nigeria threw away their lead at the death against Burkna Faso on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe players gave both Musa and Uche their piece of mind immediately after the match,\u201d a top official informed MTNFootball.com<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey blamed them for the draw because they said they should have tried to play for time rather than go for goal with seconds only left on the clock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best thing for the players to have done in stoppage time with Burkina Faso enjoying the momentum was to try to run down the clock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Uche, Eagles leading scorer in the qualifying tournament for the 2013 Nations Cup with three goals, had two good chances to bury the Stallions but his finishing was not clinical.<\/p>\n<p>Some top officials have also blamed the draw with Burkina Faso to inexperience. Only six players from the final 23-man squad have played at the AFCON before this competition.<\/p>\n<p>They are skipper Joseph Yobo, goalkeepers Vincent Enyeama and Austin Ejide, Elderson Echiejile, Mikel Obi and Ikechukwu Uche.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Ahmed Musa and Ikechukwu Uche were rapped by their teammates after Nigeria threw away their lead at the death against Burkna Faso on Monday. &#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-7937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937","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=7937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}