{"id":9745,"date":"2017-11-24T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T07:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/?p=9745"},"modified":"2018-05-21T12:51:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T12:51:18","slug":"argentina-were-physically-overpowered-by-nigeria-di-maria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/argentina-were-physically-overpowered-by-nigeria-di-maria\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentina Were Physically Overpowered By Nigeria &#8211; Di Maria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\nArgentine forward Angel di Maria made a bold confession about the Super Eagles their 4-2 loss in the Pre-World cup friendly in Russia on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina blew a two-goal advantage having gotten the lead from Ever Banega\u2019s free-kick in the 28th minute and Sergio Aguero in the 36th minute. But the highly spirited Super Eagles fought back to overpower the South Americans in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;What a match. We started well, successfully held the first half. But the goal of the Nigerians before the break was a turning point,&#8221; Angel Di Mar\u00eda said at a press conference attended by Sports Express.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;We were physically overpowered by a very strong opponent. And we calmed down a bit, and we paid for it. It&#8217;s good that this is not the World Cup yet.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;We will slowly play, correct the mistakes. Italy? She received a serious blow. Extra proof that any team can win from the so-called heavyweights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former Real Madrid and Manchester attacker was replaced in the 76th minute, it could be due to the physical nature of the Super Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>Sourced From: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.soccernet.com.ng\/2017\/11\/argentina-were-physically-overpowered.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SoccerNet NG: Football News and Articles<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/thank-you.gif\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentine forward Angel di Maria made a bold confession about the Super Eagles their 4-2 loss in the Pre-World cup friendly in Russia on Tuesday. Argentina blew a two-goal advantage having gotten the lead from Ever Banega\u2019s free-kick in the 28th minute and Sergio Aguero in the 36th minute. But the highly spirited Super Eagles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9492,11463],"tags":[11478,11477,11476,11465,11473,11472],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}