{"id":174222,"date":"2024-06-10T12:50:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T10:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/zimbabwe-lesotho-zimbabwe-wont-take-lesotho-lightly-in-world-cup-qualifier\/"},"modified":"2024-06-10T12:50:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T10:50:06","slug":"zimbabwe-lesotho-zimbabwe-wont-take-lesotho-lightly-in-world-cup-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/zimbabwe-lesotho-zimbabwe-wont-take-lesotho-lightly-in-world-cup-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe\/Lesotho: Zimbabwe Won&#8217;t Take Lesotho Lightly in World Cup Qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Zimbabwe will be wary of the threat posed by Lesotho as the two COSAFA members clash in their World Cup qualifier at the Orlando Stadium in Johannesburg on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Lesotho have already caused a major upset in the group with their draw away against favourites Nigeria at the start of the qualifying campaign in November, sending out a strong warning signal to the other five countries in Group C.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The Basotho and Zimbabwe both kicked off their campaign in November with successive draws and will now be&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406100372.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe will be wary of the threat posed by Lesotho as the two COSAFA members clash in their World Cup qualifier at the Orlando Stadium in Johannesburg on Friday. Lesotho have already caused a major upset in the group with their draw away against favourites Nigeria at the start of the qualifying campaign in November, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":174223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,6674,4717,1407,25999,257,8496,254,7462,5093,4686,11685],"class_list":["post-174222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cup","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-lightly","tag-news","tag-qualifier","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wont","tag-world","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwelesotho"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}