{"id":205009,"date":"2025-08-19T16:18:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-senegal-sudans-bold-attack-and-senegals-calm-defiance-a-group-d-clash-with-history-at-stake\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T16:18:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T14:18:26","slug":"sudan-senegal-sudans-bold-attack-and-senegals-calm-defiance-a-group-d-clash-with-history-at-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/sudan\/sudan-senegal-sudans-bold-attack-and-senegals-calm-defiance-a-group-d-clash-with-history-at-stake\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan\/Senegal: Sudan&#8217;s Bold Attack and Senegal&#8217;s Calm Defiance &#8211; a Group D Clash With History At Stake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><em>When the lights turn on at Zanzibar&#8217;s Amani Stadium, the final Group D clash of the TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN) will pit two very different philosophies against each other.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Sudan, revived and resolute under Kwesi Appiah, come armed with a fearless attacking blueprint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">The former Ghana coach insists that his side will not retreat against defending champions Senegal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">&#8220;I don&#8217;t go into games to defend. The best way to defend is to attack. We&#8217;re playing for goals. There are 11&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508190560.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/sudan\/\">Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the lights turn on at Zanzibar&#8217;s Amani Stadium, the final Group D clash of the TotalEnergies African Nations Championship (CHAN) will pit two very different philosophies against each other. Sudan, revived and resolute under Kwesi Appiah, come armed with a fearless attacking blueprint. The former Ghana coach insists that his side will not retreat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":205010,"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":[784],"tags":[258,256,1398,7439,9553,7647,21472,5192,7099,257,10579,254,9744,1613,8105,52146],"class_list":["post-205009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-attack","tag-bold","tag-calm","tag-clash","tag-defiance","tag-group","tag-history","tag-news","tag-senegals","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stake","tag-sudan-news","tag-sudans","tag-sudansenegal"],"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\/205009","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=205009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}