{"id":210576,"date":"2025-10-20T19:57:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/namibia-zambia-zesco-win-seven-goal-caf-cup-qualifying-thriller-in-zambia\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T19:57:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T17:57:03","slug":"namibia-zambia-zesco-win-seven-goal-caf-cup-qualifying-thriller-in-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/namibia-zambia-zesco-win-seven-goal-caf-cup-qualifying-thriller-in-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia\/Zambia: Zesco Win Seven-Goal CAF Cup Qualifying Thriller in Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>Zesco United of Zambia edged Jwaneng Galaxy of Botswana 4-3 on Saturday in a CAF Confederation Cup second round, first leg qualifying thriller.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Zambian hosts trailed twice in a first half which ended 2-2 before taking a two-goal lead that was halved when Galaxy netted with one minute of regular time remaining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">After a breathless affair in Ndola, the southern Africa showdown hangs in the balance with a place in the 16-club group stage up for grabs when they meet again next Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510200528.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zesco United of Zambia edged Jwaneng Galaxy of Botswana 4-3 on Saturday in a CAF Confederation Cup second round, first leg qualifying thriller. The Zambian hosts trailed twice in a first half which ended 2-2 before taking a two-goal lead that was halved when Galaxy netted with one minute of regular time remaining. After a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":210577,"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":[825],"tags":[258,256,3742,6674,21646,257,9834,45070,254,14053,6660,4709,881,9132],"class_list":["post-210576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-caf","tag-cup","tag-namibiazambia","tag-news","tag-qualifying","tag-sevengoal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thriller","tag-win","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zesco"],"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\/210576","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}