{"id":206603,"date":"2025-09-09T10:48:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/ghana-libya-libya-and-ghana-claim-crucial-wins-in-fifa-world-cup-2026-qualifiers\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T10:48:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:48:28","slug":"ghana-libya-libya-and-ghana-claim-crucial-wins-in-fifa-world-cup-2026-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/ghana-libya-libya-and-ghana-claim-crucial-wins-in-fifa-world-cup-2026-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana\/Libya: Libya and Ghana Claim Crucial Wins in FIFA World Cup 2026 Qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Libya and Ghana both secured important victories in their respective FIFA World Cup 2026\u2122\ufe0f qualifying campaigns on Monday evening, with results that could prove pivotal in the race for group supremacy and a place at the 2026 global showpiece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">In Benghazi, Libya produced a dominant first-half display to see off Eswatini 2-0 to move further up Group D. The Mediterranean Knights struck early when Mohamed A. S. Eisa opened the scoring in the eighth minute. The hosts doubled their advantage just 11&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509090099.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libya and Ghana both secured important victories in their respective FIFA World Cup 2026\u2122\ufe0f qualifying campaigns on Monday evening, with results that could prove pivotal in the race for group supremacy and a place at the 2026 global showpiece. In Benghazi, Libya produced a dominant first-half display to see off Eswatini 2-0 to move further [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":206604,"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":[891],"tags":[258,256,8667,7774,6674,9109,4508,52298,4711,892,257,7318,254,6552,5093],"class_list":["post-206603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-claim","tag-crucial","tag-cup","tag-fifa","tag-ghana","tag-ghanalibya","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-news","tag-qualifiers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wins","tag-world"],"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\/206603","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=206603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}