{"id":3970,"date":"2024-01-21T19:01:10","date_gmt":"2024-01-21T19:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/?p=3970"},"modified":"2024-01-21T19:07:13","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T19:07:13","slug":"lions-roar-and-honours-even-in-repeat-of-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/2024\/01\/21\/lions-roar-and-honours-even-in-repeat-of-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Lions Roar and Honours Even in Repeat of Classic<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (January 17<sup>th<\/sup> 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Outclassed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recently appointed Algerian, Adel Amrouche, saw his Tanzanian Taifa Stars dismantled 3-0 by Africa\u2019s highest ranked team, Morocco\u2019s Atlas Lions. Walid Regragui, Africa\u2019s Coach of the Year, enjoyed a fantastic goal from Azzedine Ounahi and a dominant performance by Hakim Ziyech. Although he failed to impress at Chelsea, there\u2019s no doubting Ziyech\u2019s quality. The Atlas Lions\u2019 skipper, Romain Sa\u00efss profited from Ziyech\u2019s free-kick to open the scoring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morocco\u2019s task was made easier by Novatus Miroshi\u2019s challenge on Ounahi earning the left-back a second yellow card. Despite pleas to review the decision from Tanzanian players, the decision was not changed, and adding insult to a sense of injustice, Amrouche saw Ounahi exact further punishment with his wonder-goal seven minutes later. Sevilla\u2019s Youssef En-Nesyri completed the scoring to round off a comfortable win for Morocco. Amrouche was left seething.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Historic Rematch<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Zambia cancelled each other out with a 1-1 draw. The Chipolopolo, then known as the KK11, after former Republican President, the late Kenneth Kaunda, and the Leopards had contested the unique AFCON final of 1974 \u2013 the only edition to require a replay of the final after the first match ended 2-2. Zaire, as the DRC was then known won the replay 2-0. The late great Pierre Ndaye Mulamba scored all four of his country\u2019s goals to set a still standing record of nine goals in a single edition of AFCON.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zambia took the lead through Kings Kangwa\u2019s lob of an advancing Lionel Mpasi. Zambia\u2019s AFCON-winning coach of 2012, Herv\u00e9 Renard, was watching in San Pedro\u2019s Stade Laurent Pokou. But the lead didn\u2019t last. Brentford\u2019s Yoane Wissa levelled after C\u00e9dric Bakambu\u2019s pass left him the easy task of scoring a tap-in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The goals ceased within half an hour, but the much maligned VAR intervened to correct an error, which would have had serious implications. Zambia\u2019s Tande Mwepu was penalised for handling Arthur Masuaku\u2019s cross, but VAR showed that it had hit his chest. The decision to award a penalty was overturned \u2013 the right result. The DRC and Zambia shared the points. Morocco head Group F with Tanzania propping up the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (January 17th 2024) Outclassed The recently appointed Algerian, Adel Amrouche, saw his Tanzanian Taifa Stars dismantled 3-0 by Africa\u2019s highest<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[644,650,643,651,642,649,81,648,167,647,572,646,423,639,326,640,645,85,641,652,303,204,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3974,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3970\/revisions\/3974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}