{"id":4430,"date":"2025-09-14T12:44:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T11:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/?p=4430"},"modified":"2025-09-14T12:49:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T11:49:26","slug":"chan-round-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/2025\/09\/14\/chan-round-up-2\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CHAN Round-up 2<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (August 4<sup>th<\/sup> 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Group C<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morocco lead Kenya on goal difference in Group A after the first round of matches \u2013 Avram Grant\u2019s Zambia has yet to play its first match in Nairobi \u2013 the Democratic Republic of Congo lead Angola on goal difference. Meanwhile Tanzania head Group B with Madagascar and Mauritania trailing the Taifa Stars by two points. Burkina Faso and the Central African Republic, who have yet to play, have yet to win a point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Group C opened in Kampala\u2019s Nelson Mandela Stadium. Guinea beat Niger 1-0 in the opening fixture of the group. They had a second half goal initially disallowed for offside before VAR overturned the decision, allowing Mohamed Bangoura close-range strike, which sealed the win two minutes into the second half. Guinea topped Group C briefly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Co-hosts Uganda faced Majid Boughera\u2019s Algeria in the second match in Kampala. Algeria won 3-0 to top Group C. South Africa had yet to start their campaign. Ayoub Ghezala silenced the partisan crowd after 36 minutes wit the opening goal, a header into the ground \u2013 the defending was woeful. Abderrahmane Meziane doubled their lead after 76 minutes with a left-footed shot from inside the area \u2013 the defending was statuesque \u2013 and Sofiane Bayazid made it 3-0 three minutes later. The Ugandan defending on all three goals left much to be desired. The co-hosts sit firmly rooted at the bottom of Group C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (August 4th 2025) Group C Morocco lead Kenya on goal difference in Group A after the first round of matches<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[1322,20,1321,166,434,146,1324,1320,1319,340,1323,254,1318,325,85],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430"}],"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=4430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4431,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430\/revisions\/4431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}