{"id":250571,"date":"2026-11-15T23:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T21:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-equatorial-guinea-zimbabwe-held-to-goalless-draw-by-equatorial-guinea-as-power-outage-interupts-match\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T23:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T21:30:17","slug":"zimbabwe-equatorial-guinea-zimbabwe-held-to-goalless-draw-by-equatorial-guinea-as-power-outage-interupts-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-equatorial-guinea-zimbabwe-held-to-goalless-draw-by-equatorial-guinea-as-power-outage-interupts-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe\/Equatorial Guinea: Zimbabwe Held to Goalless Draw By Equatorial Guinea As Power Outage Interupts Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Zimbabwe was held to a goalless draw by Equatorial Guinea in their Group E Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier played in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The Warriors struggled to find the breakthrough against their opponents in an encounter they created very few clear cut chances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Zimbabwe&#8217;s golden opportunity came in the 32nd minute when Chirewa broke through the Equatorial Guinea defence before unleashing a shot from inside the box, but his effort sailed over the crossbar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">After going into the break deadlocked at&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611130056.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe was held to a goalless draw by Equatorial Guinea in their Group E Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifier played in Cameroon. The Warriors struggled to find the breakthrough against their opponents in an encounter they created very few clear cut chances. Zimbabwe&#8217;s golden opportunity came in the 32nd minute when Chirewa broke through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,6981,7555,20126,4715,7297,55856,8778,257,21058,7047,254,4686,421,55855],"class_list":["post-250571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-draw","tag-equatorial","tag-goalless","tag-guinea","tag-held","tag-interupts","tag-match","tag-news","tag-outage","tag-power","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabweequatorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250571","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=250571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}