{"id":211501,"date":"2025-10-27T20:20:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/nigeria-mozambique-rivers-utd-scale-mozambiques-black-bulls-to-reach-group-stage\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T20:20:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T18:20:49","slug":"nigeria-mozambique-rivers-utd-scale-mozambiques-black-bulls-to-reach-group-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/nigeria-mozambique-rivers-utd-scale-mozambiques-black-bulls-to-reach-group-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\/Mozambique: Rivers Utd Scale Mozambique&#8217;s Black Bulls to Reach Group Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\"><strong>\u00b7<em>Remo Stars face daunting task of upturning 5-1 defeat against<\/em> <em>Sundowns<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Rivers United made history yesterday becoming the first Nigerian club side in nine years to make it to the money-spinning Group Stage of the CAF Champions&#8217; League after defeating Mozambique&#8217;s Black Bulls 3-1 in Uyo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">With a slim 1-0 defeat of the Pride of Rivers People in the first leg in Maputo last week, the Nigerian representatives knew that they need to do something extraordinary to upturn the defeat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510270695.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00b7Remo Stars face daunting task of upturning 5-1 defeat against Sundowns Rivers United made history yesterday becoming the first Nigerian club side in nine years to make it to the money-spinning Group Stage of the CAF Champions&#8217; League after defeating Mozambique&#8217;s Black Bulls 3-1 in Uyo. With a slim 1-0 defeat of the Pride of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":211502,"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":[654],"tags":[258,256,8561,46161,5192,682,10439,257,46835,5160,7865,10440,254,4281,19578],"class_list":["post-211501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-black","tag-bulls","tag-group","tag-mozambique-news","tag-mozambiques","tag-news","tag-nigeriamozambique","tag-reach","tag-rivers","tag-scale","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stage","tag-utd"],"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\/211501","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=211501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}