{"id":195909,"date":"2025-04-12T04:48:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T02:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-sundowns-hold-esperance-in-rades-to-set-up-blockbuster-semi-final-clash-with-al-ahly\/"},"modified":"2025-04-12T04:48:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T02:48:47","slug":"africa-sundowns-hold-esperance-in-rades-to-set-up-blockbuster-semi-final-clash-with-al-ahly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/africa-sundowns-hold-esperance-in-rades-to-set-up-blockbuster-semi-final-clash-with-al-ahly\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Sundowns Hold Esp\u00e9rance in Rades to Set Up Blockbuster Semi-Final Clash With Al Ahly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Mamelodi Sundowns will meet defending champions, Al Ahly SC in the semi-finals of the TotalEnergies CAF Champions League after holding Esp\u00e9rance Sportive de Tunis to a goalless draw in Rades on Tuesday evening to advance 1-0 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Peter Shalulile&#8217;s solitary strike in Tshwane last week proved to be the decider in the two-legged quarter-final encounter, as the 2016 champions march on in search of what has been an elusive second TotalEnergies CAF Champions League title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">As expected, the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504090119.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>Mamelodi Sundowns will meet defending champions, Al Ahly SC in the semi-finals of the TotalEnergies CAF Champions League after holding Esp\u00e9rance Sportive de Tunis to a goalless draw in Rades on Tuesday evening to advance 1-0 on aggregate. Peter Shalulile&#8217;s solitary strike in Tshwane last week proved to be the decider in the two-legged quarter-final [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":195910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,11757,16477,7647,415,14400,7204,257,26659,14272,7106,254,10390],"class_list":["post-195909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahly","tag-blockbuster","tag-clash","tag-egypt-news","tag-esperance","tag-hold","tag-news","tag-rades","tag-semifinal","tag-set","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sundowns"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/195909","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=195909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}