{"id":4434,"date":"2025-09-16T12:28:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/?p=4434"},"modified":"2025-09-16T12:32:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T11:32:51","slug":"chan-round-up-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/2025\/09\/16\/chan-round-up-3\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CHAN Round-up 3<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (August 5<sup>th<\/sup> 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Group D Match Day 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final round of group opening matches in Zanzibar\u2019s Amani\u2019s Stadium saw Kwesi Appiah\u2019s Sudan hold Congo to a 1-1 draw and S\u00e9n\u00e9gal beat Eric Chelle\u2019s Nigeria 1-0 to top Group D. Before Musa Ali Hussein put Sudan ahead after 28 minutes thanks to a counter-attack down the right flank \u2013 a lead they held on to until less than five minutes from full time, Salaheldin Adil failed to direct his header goalward from a corner \u2013 he easily outjumped his defender but his header was poorly directed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sudan\u2019s goal had a touch of good fortune. Ahmed Yousif Morzan broke down the right flank. His shot was parried into the path of Hussein who netted the rebound. Congo equalised through Carly Ekongo Landou after 86 minutes after a team-mate\u2019s attempted turn to make space for the shot broke kindly to Landou who made no mistake with his shot to share the points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile the Teranga Lions beat the Super Eagles courtesy of a fortunate Christian Gomis\u2019 goal after 75 minutes \u2013 Nigerian keeper, Lawal Mustapha made a terrible error that gifted the winner to Gomis. He rushed out of the area and failed to get the ball, allowing an easy pass to Gomis with the keeper stranded in no-man\u2019s-land. It leaves the Super Eagles rooted to the bottom of Group D in a competition that they have never won, while the defending CHAN champions had a winning start to their defence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (August 5th 2025) Group D Match Day 1 The final round of group opening matches in Zanzibar\u2019s Amani\u2019s Stadium saw<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":[1328,1325,166,1331,151,1327,347,1332,1326,292,1330,327,337,1329],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434"}],"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=4434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4435,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4434\/revisions\/4435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}