{"id":182355,"date":"2024-10-12T00:27:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T22:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/rwanda-cote-divoire-afcon-2025-qualifiers-rwanda-hoping-to-upset-benin-in-abidjan\/"},"modified":"2024-10-12T00:27:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T22:27:38","slug":"rwanda-cote-divoire-afcon-2025-qualifiers-rwanda-hoping-to-upset-benin-in-abidjan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/rwanda-cote-divoire-afcon-2025-qualifiers-rwanda-hoping-to-upset-benin-in-abidjan\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda\/Cote d&#8217;Ivoire: Afcon 2025 Qualifiers &#8211; Rwanda Hoping to Upset Benin in Abidjan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\"><strong>Group D<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">Benin vs Rwanda, at Stade Felix Houphouet-Boigny<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\"><strong>Kickoff:<\/strong> 6pm CAT<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Rwanda will be aiming to break their winless jinx against Benin when the two sides square off at Stade Felix Houphouet-Boigny in Friday&#8217;s Group D match day three of the 2025 AFCON qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Amavubi are chasing their first win of the campaign having drawn 1-1 with Libya in Tripoli before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/article\/19990\/sports\/football\/afcon-2025-qualifiers-improved-rwanda-hold-super-eagles-in-kigali\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">holding Nigeria to a barren draw draw with Nigeria at Amahoro Stadium<\/a> in Kigali.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Benin, meanwhile, started on the wrong foot when they&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410110285.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group D Benin vs Rwanda, at Stade Felix Houphouet-Boigny Kickoff: 6pm CAT Rwanda will be aiming to break their winless jinx against Benin when the two sides square off at Stade Felix Houphouet-Boigny in Friday&#8217;s Group D match day three of the 2025 AFCON qualifiers. Amavubi are chasing their first win of the campaign having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":182356,"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":[1087],"tags":[2554,9488,258,256,4737,6183,6555,5959,17834,1218,257,7318,4702,27258,254,9673],"class_list":["post-182355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-abidjan","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-benin","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-divoire","tag-hoping","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-qualifiers","tag-rwanda","tag-rwandacote","tag-south-africa-today","tag-upset"],"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\/182355","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}