{"id":194651,"date":"2025-03-27T04:13:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T02:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/sudan-egypt-egypt-maintain-group-a-control-sudan-drop-points-in-group-b\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T04:13:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T02:13:21","slug":"sudan-egypt-egypt-maintain-group-a-control-sudan-drop-points-in-group-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/sudan-egypt-egypt-maintain-group-a-control-sudan-drop-points-in-group-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan\/Egypt: Egypt Maintain Group a Control, Sudan Drop Points in Group B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Match Day 6 of the FIFA World Cup qualifiers produced some dramatic outcomes across the continent, with the race for a place at the global showpiece gradually taking shape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Egypt maintained their Group A lead on Tuesday evening when they edged a well-prepared Sierra Leone to extend their group lead to five points ahead of Burina Faso who are on 11 points.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Egypt defeat Sierra Leone to remain undefeated in their 2026 World Cup CAF Qualifiers \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddec \ud83d\udc4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4tqokrvTJo\">pic.twitter.com\/4tqokrvTJo<\/a>&#8212; OneFootball&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503260261.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Match Day 6 of the FIFA World Cup qualifiers produced some dramatic outcomes across the continent, with the race for a place at the global showpiece gradually taking shape. Egypt maintained their Group A lead on Tuesday evening when they edged a well-prepared Sierra Leone to extend their group lead to five points ahead of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":194652,"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\/00271841:ab2b5f545ef87a4e171eae0a970f77e7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,6877,7431,4697,415,5192,7505,257,7508,254,4708,16174],"class_list":["post-194651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-control","tag-drop","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-group","tag-maintain","tag-news","tag-points","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sudan","tag-sudanegypt"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00271841:ab2b5f545ef87a4e171eae0a970f77e7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194651","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}