{"id":24706,"date":"2011-06-04T15:06:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T19:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=24706"},"modified":"2011-06-04T15:06:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-04T19:06:01","slug":"banguras-goal-rescues-sierra-leone-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=24706","title":{"rendered":"Bangura\u2019s goal rescues Sierra Leone&#8217;s chances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Leone Stars of Sierra Leone defeated the Mena\u2019s of Niger 1-0 at Brookfield\u2019s National Stadium in Freetown on Saturday, June 4th, 2011\u00a0 keeping their hopes alive in Group G of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying series.\u00a0 <em>(Photo:\u00a0 Leone Stars taking instruction from Coach Lars Olof Mattsson)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sending home fans ecstatic, AIK Solna striker Ibrahim Tetteh Bangura broke the deadlock in the 47<sup>th<\/sup> minute with a header off a long throw from defender David Simbo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This was Tetteh\u2019s first goal for his country and his second cap at international level. \u00a0Sierra Leone dominated the entire first half but was unable to open the score sheet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_24716\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 455px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ibrahim-tetteh-bangura.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24716\" title=\"ibrahim tetteh bangura\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/ibrahim-tetteh-bangura.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"445\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Ibrahim Tetteh Bangura<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A brilliant display in front of the home fans. \u00a0 Kei Kamara, Ibrahim Bangura, and Mohamed Bangura were excellent in their partnership giving the Niger defenders the toughest task ever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sierra Leone now have 5 points from four matches, while group leaders South Africa will face a tough task ahead in the Military Stadium on Sunday evening in match that will decide this group.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Niger remains on six points and is still in second position despite being defeated in Freetown this weekend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the first victory for Swedish Olof Mattsson since taking over as the National head Coach in March 2011.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More reports on this match to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned!<\/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>The Leone Stars of Sierra Leone defeated the Mena\u2019s of Niger 1-0 at Brookfield\u2019s National Stadium in Freetown on Saturday, June 4th, 2011\u00a0 keeping their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[699,824,1],"tags":[2135,5277,1476,8667,8645],"class_list":["post-24706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-sports","category-uncategorized","tag-africa-cup-of-nations","tag-ibrahim-tetteh-bangura","tag-leone-stars","tag-mena","tag-sierra-leone-v-niger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24706","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24706\/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=24706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}