{"id":14724,"date":"2010-10-10T15:52:32","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T19:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=14724"},"modified":"2010-10-10T15:52:32","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T19:52:32","slug":"egypt-dazed-by-modest-niger-as-sierra-leone-fail-to-capitalise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=14724","title":{"rendered":"Egypt dazed by modest Niger -as Sierra Leone fail to capitalise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>African Champions Egypt cut-down to a disbelief 1-0 defeat to unfancied Niger side in the <\/strong><strong>ongoing<\/strong><strong> 2012 Afcon qualifiers on Sunday. <\/strong><em>(Photo:\u00a0 Bafana stretching )<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>In the Same Group G Sierra Leone hosted the 2010 World Cup host in Freetown but failed to capitalise on what they started in Cairo. They were held by Bafana 0-0 in Freetown the same day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The win leaves Niger second in the table with three points, while South Africa still top the group with four points.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The defeat left the African Champions bottom of the group with only a point and from two matches, now a crunch clash is set in their next encounter in South   Africa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Menas grabbed all three points France-based striker Ouwa Moussa Maazou accounted for the only goal in the 46th minute after taking advantage of a defensive slip-up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Maazou profited from makeshift left-back Mohamed Abdul-Shafi&#8217;s blunder to hand Niger the historic win.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Pharaohs, who are ranked ninth in the world, failed to threaten Niger, who are ranked 154 in the world by Fifa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Pharaohs will travel to Johannesburg to face South Africa in their next game in March 25-27 2011 while Niger hosts Sierra Leone the same weekend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Leone Stars Line-up!<\/strong> Christian Caulker, Ibrahim Kargbo, David Simbo, Umaru Bangura, Sheriff Suma, Samuel Barlay, Rodney Strasser, Mustapha Hadji Bangura, Gabriella Woobay, Alfred Sankoh, Mohamed Bangura.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stay tuned for match report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African Champions Egypt cut-down to a disbelief 1-0 defeat to unfancied Niger side in the ongoing 2012 Afcon qualifiers on Sunday. (Photo:\u00a0 Bafana stretching ) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824,1],"tags":[5328,1476,2792],"class_list":["post-14724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-afcon","tag-leone-stars","tag-sierra-leone-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}