{"id":36601,"date":"2024-11-20T03:53:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T00:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=36601"},"modified":"2024-11-20T03:53:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T00:53:54","slug":"afcon-qualifiers-botswana-draws-with-egypt-and-joins-them-in-the-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/20\/afcon-qualifiers-botswana-draws-with-egypt-and-joins-them-in-the-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON Qualifiers: Botswana Draws with Egypt and Joins Them in the Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Egypt drew 1-1 with visiting Botswana on Tuesday, allowing Botswana to qualify for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations finals. This result sent Mauritania&#8217;s hopes crashing, as the draw meant that Egypt&#8217;s team, coached by Hossam Hassan, could not prevent Botswana from advancing.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">With this result, Egypt remained at the top of Group C with 14 points, followed by Botswana with 8 points. Mauritania, with 7 points, failed to qualify despite defeating Cape Verde 1-0. Mauritania needed Egypt to defeat Botswana to progress to second place based on head-to-head results.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Botswana took the lead in the 8th minute due to a defensive mistake by Egypt\u2019s Mohamed Rabia, who mishandled the ball. It reached Omotla Kibafo, who passed it to his teammate Kabelo Sekaning. Sekaning&#8217;s initial shot was poor, but Kibafo followed up and scored into the net, despite Egyptian players\u2019 protests for a handball.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Egypt applied pressure and equalized in the 15th minute with a powerful shot from Mahmoud Hassan (Trezeguet) from outside the box, sending the ball into the net past Botswana&#8217;s goalkeeper.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt drew 1-1 with visiting Botswana on Tuesday, allowing Botswana to qualify for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations finals. This result sent Mauritania&#8217;s hopes crashing, as the draw meant that Egypt&#8217;s team, coached by Hossam Hassan, could not prevent Botswana from advancing. With this result, Egypt remained at the top of Group C with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36602,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36601\/revisions\/36602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}