{"id":202166,"date":"2025-07-11T02:59:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T00:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/africa-wafcon-ghana-eyes-redemption-against-mali-after-south-africa-setback\/"},"modified":"2025-07-11T02:59:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T00:59:56","slug":"africa-wafcon-ghana-eyes-redemption-against-mali-after-south-africa-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/africa-wafcon-ghana-eyes-redemption-against-mali-after-south-africa-setback\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: WAFCON &#8211; Ghana Eyes Redemption Against Mali After South Africa Setback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">While the scoreboard reflected South Africa&#8217;s clinical edge, it didn&#8217;t fully capture the competitiveness of the encounter<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GhanaWNT\">Ghana&#8217;s Black Queens<\/a><\/strong> will head into their second Group C fixture at WAFCON 2024 with mounting pressure, following a 2-0 defeat to reigning champions South Africa in their tournament opener.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Despite a spirited performance and several missed chances, the result leaves Kim Lars Bj\u00f6rkegren&#8217;s side in urgent need of a response as they prepare for a crucial West African derby against&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507100637.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the scoreboard reflected South Africa&#8217;s clinical edge, it didn&#8217;t fully capture the competitiveness of the encounter Ghana&#8217;s Black Queens will head into their second Group C fixture at WAFCON 2024 with mounting pressure, following a 2-0 defeat to reigning champions South Africa in their tournament opener. Despite a spirited performance and several missed chances, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":202167,"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":[4507],"tags":[258,256,4342,4508,4509,4637,257,7680,8247,5069,254,24869],"class_list":["post-202166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-eyes","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-mali","tag-news","tag-redemption","tag-setback","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wafcon"],"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\/202166","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=202166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}