{"id":221975,"date":"2026-01-26T23:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tanzania-tunisia-simba-left-with-mountain-to-climb-after-esperance-defeat\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T23:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T21:24:06","slug":"tanzania-tunisia-simba-left-with-mountain-to-climb-after-esperance-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tanzania-tunisia-simba-left-with-mountain-to-climb-after-esperance-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania\/Tunisia: Simba Left With Mountain to Climb After Esperance Defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Dar es Salaam \u2014 SIMBA SC&#8217;s hopes of reaching the CAF Champions League quarter-finals are hanging by a thread after a 1-0 defeat to Tunisia&#8217;s Esperance on Saturday, leaves the Tanzanian giants at the bottom of Group D with no points after three matches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">While Esperance strengthened their grip on the top spot with five points, Simba face a daunting reality as the group stage reaches its midway point. With three losses from three games, having scored only once and conceded four, the &#8216;Msimbazi Reds&#8217;&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601260283.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dar es Salaam \u2014 SIMBA SC&#8217;s hopes of reaching the CAF Champions League quarter-finals are hanging by a thread after a 1-0 defeat to Tunisia&#8217;s Esperance on Saturday, leaves the Tanzanian giants at the bottom of Group D with no points after three matches. While Esperance strengthened their grip on the top spot with five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":221976,"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":[642],"tags":[258,256,22931,6531,14400,7781,18643,257,19549,254,36272,653],"class_list":["post-221975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-climb","tag-defeat","tag-esperance","tag-left","tag-mountain","tag-news","tag-simba","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tanzaniatunisia","tag-tunisia-news"],"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\/221975","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=221975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}