{"id":194188,"date":"2025-03-21T19:26:54","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T17:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/africa-mozambique-edge-uganda-to-take-group-g-lead-in-world-cup-qualifiers\/"},"modified":"2025-03-21T19:26:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T17:26:54","slug":"africa-mozambique-edge-uganda-to-take-group-g-lead-in-world-cup-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/africa-mozambique-edge-uganda-to-take-group-g-lead-in-world-cup-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Mozambique Edge Uganda to Take Group G Lead in World Cup Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>Mozambique moved to the top of Group G in the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers with a commanding 3-1 victory over Uganda at the Cairo Stadium on Thursday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">A dominant first-half display saw the Mambas secure all three points as Pepo netted twice before turning provider for Stanley Ratifo&#8217;s late goal just before half-time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Uganda&#8217;s Muhammad Shaban had briefly restored parity early on, but the Cranes were left with an uphill battle after Denis Omedi&#8217;s red card before the break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The result moves&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503210039.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozambique moved to the top of Group G in the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers with a commanding 3-1 victory over Uganda at the Cairo Stadium on Thursday. A dominant first-half display saw the Mambas secure all three points as Pepo netted twice before turning provider for Stanley Ratifo&#8217;s late goal just before half-time. Uganda&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":194189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650722:de3915817ab9c7e43f6b60fa1cc6fe00:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,6674,7126,5192,7358,4704,682,257,7318,254,4707,5093],"class_list":["post-194188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cup","tag-edge","tag-group","tag-lead","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-qualifiers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uganda","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00650722:de3915817ab9c7e43f6b60fa1cc6fe00:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194188","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=194188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}