{"id":174286,"date":"2024-06-11T12:52:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T10:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/rwanda-lesotho-rwanda-face-lesotho-in-dicey-world-cup-qualifier\/"},"modified":"2024-06-11T12:52:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T10:52:10","slug":"rwanda-lesotho-rwanda-face-lesotho-in-dicey-world-cup-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/rwanda-lesotho-rwanda-face-lesotho-in-dicey-world-cup-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda\/Lesotho: Rwanda Face Lesotho in Dicey World Cup Qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">There will be all to play for when the Crocodiles of Lesotho welcome Rwanda to Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban, South Africa, in match day four of the 2026 World Cup Group C qualifiers on Tuesday, June 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Lesotho (149th), the lowest ranked in Group C and 18 places behind Rwanda, are the surprise package after three games as they are lead the standings with 5 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">They haven&#8217;t lost a match so far in the qualifying campaign, having held Nigeria to a 1-1 draw in the opening match, and Benin (0-0)&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406110150.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>There will be all to play for when the Crocodiles of Lesotho welcome Rwanda to Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban, South Africa, in match day four of the 2026 World Cup Group C qualifiers on Tuesday, June 11. Lesotho (149th), the lowest ranked in Group C and 18 places behind Rwanda, are the surprise package [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":174287,"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":[258,256,6674,48743,7127,4717,1407,257,8496,4702,48690,254,5093],"class_list":["post-174286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cup","tag-dicey","tag-face","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-news","tag-qualifier","tag-rwanda","tag-rwandalesotho","tag-south-africa-today","tag-world"],"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\/174286","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=174286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}