{"id":222061,"date":"2026-01-27T23:52:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-nigeria-caf-champions-league-finidi-admits-rivers-united-needed-more-than-a-draw-in-zambia\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T23:52:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T21:52:02","slug":"zambia-nigeria-caf-champions-league-finidi-admits-rivers-united-needed-more-than-a-draw-in-zambia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-nigeria-caf-champions-league-finidi-admits-rivers-united-needed-more-than-a-draw-in-zambia\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia\/Nigeria: CAF Champions League &#8211; Finidi Admits Rivers United Needed More Than a Draw in Zambia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">For Rivers United, the Ndola draw may not have ignited their Champions League campaign, but it has kept it alive<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Rivers United head coach Finidi George adopted a reflective but resolute tone after his side were held to a goalless draw by Zambia&#8217;s Power Dynamos in their CAF Champions League Group A Matchday 3 encounter in Ndola.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The stalemate at the Levy Mwanawasa Stadium extended Rivers United&#8217;s wait for a first win in the group, yet it also secured a valuable away point in a tightly balanced&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601270727.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>For Rivers United, the Ndola draw may not have ignited their Champions League campaign, but it has kept it alive Rivers United head coach Finidi George adopted a reflective but resolute tone after his side were held to a goalless draw by Zambia&#8217;s Power Dynamos in their CAF Champions League Group A Matchday 3 encounter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":222062,"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":[7988,258,256,3742,14490,6981,53507,7027,6424,257,7865,254,7866,4709,881,14577],"class_list":["post-222061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-admits","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-caf","tag-champions","tag-draw","tag-finidi","tag-league","tag-needed","tag-news","tag-rivers","tag-south-africa-today","tag-united","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambianigeria"],"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\/222061","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=222061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}