{"id":230562,"date":"2026-04-17T14:39:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/ghana-tunisia-sundowns-calm-ahead-of-decisive-showdown-with-es-tunis-tomorrow\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T14:39:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T12:39:02","slug":"ghana-tunisia-sundowns-calm-ahead-of-decisive-showdown-with-es-tunis-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/ghana-tunisia-sundowns-calm-ahead-of-decisive-showdown-with-es-tunis-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana\/Tunisia: Sundowns Calm Ahead of Decisive Showdown With Es Tunis Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Mamelodi Sundowns stand on the brink of yet another TotalEnergies CAF Champions League final as they prepare to host Esp\u00e9rance Sportive de Tunis in the decisive second leg of their semi-final clash tomorrow in Pretoria.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Holding a slender advantage from the first leg in Tunis, the former champions, who narrowly came short last season return to Pretoria, knowing that a disciplined and composed performance at home could secure their place in the continental showpiece final for the second successive&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604170247.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>Mamelodi Sundowns stand on the brink of yet another TotalEnergies CAF Champions League final as they prepare to host Esp\u00e9rance Sportive de Tunis in the decisive second leg of their semi-final clash tomorrow in Pretoria. Holding a slender advantage from the first leg in Tunis, the former champions, who narrowly came short last season return [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":230563,"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":[258,256,7019,9553,15571,29263,257,11502,254,10390,8839,643,653],"class_list":["post-230562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-calm","tag-decisive","tag-ghanatunisia","tag-news","tag-showdown","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tomorrow","tag-tunis","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\/230562","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=230562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}