{"id":245618,"date":"2026-09-26T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T04:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-uganda-paul-put-urges-uganda-cranes-to-improve-set-piece-defending-ahead-of-libya-clash\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T06:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T04:00:21","slug":"libya-uganda-paul-put-urges-uganda-cranes-to-improve-set-piece-defending-ahead-of-libya-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/libya-uganda-paul-put-urges-uganda-cranes-to-improve-set-piece-defending-ahead-of-libya-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya\/Uganda: Paul Put Urges Uganda Cranes to Improve Set-Piece Defending Ahead of Libya Clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Uganda Cranes head coach Paul Put has challenged his players to improve their defending from set pieces as they turn their attention to Tuesday&#8217;s 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier against Libya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Put was pleased with Uganda&#8217;s organisation, discipline and character in Thursday&#8217;s 1-1 draw against Tunisia in Rad\u00e8s, but expressed disappointment with the manner in which the Cranes conceded the opening goal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Tunisia took the lead in the 12th minute when Arous was left unmarked from a corner&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609250589.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda Cranes head coach Paul Put has challenged his players to improve their defending from set pieces as they turn their attention to Tuesday&#8217;s 2027 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier against Libya. Put was pleased with Uganda&#8217;s organisation, discipline and character in Thursday&#8217;s 1-1 draw against Tunisia in Rad\u00e8s, but expressed disappointment with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":245619,"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":[891],"tags":[258,256,7019,7647,11165,5050,6449,4711,892,55521,257,10695,7786,22085,254,4707,6810],"class_list":["post-245618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-clash","tag-cranes","tag-defending","tag-improve","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-libyauganda","tag-news","tag-paul","tag-put","tag-setpiece","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uganda","tag-urges"],"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\/245618","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=245618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}