{"id":4445,"date":"2025-09-16T14:20:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T13:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/?p=4445"},"modified":"2025-09-16T14:27:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T13:27:48","slug":"chan-round-up-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/2025\/09\/16\/chan-round-up-5\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CHAN Round-up 5<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (August 6<sup>th<\/sup> 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Group A Match Day 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zambia\u2019s Chipolopolo had a losing start to their CHAN campaign, losing 0-2 to the DRC as the Democratic Republic of Congo got their campaign back on track. The DRC dominated the first half and much of the second half too, but had nothing to show for their dominance until six minutes into the second half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ibrahim Matobo Mubalu gave the Leopards the lead after he was set up by Jephte Kitambala to lash it in from the left of the area. The two-time CHAN winning Leopards doubled their lead twenty minutes later through Malanga Horso Mwaku \u2013 he was ably assisted by Oscar Kabwit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israeli tactician, Avram Grant\u2019s largely unsuccessful tenure as Zambia\u2019s tactician continued with the defeat. The Chipolopolo were largely toothless in attack. Grant took charge of Zambia\u2019s CHAN campaign late in the day and on this showing Grant has much to fix if Zambia are to justify their seeding in Group A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Benni McCarthy\u2019s Kenya had to play the majority of their tie against Angola with ten men \u2013 Marvin Omondi was sent off after 21 minutes for hauling J\u00f3 Paci\u00eancia down, by which time the scoring had been completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Angola\u2019s Palancas Negras had taken the lead after 7 minutes through Paci\u00eancia, after an assist on the right by Bernabe Muafulo Tomas, but five minutes later Austin Odhiambo equalised from the penalty spot after Joaquim Balanga\u2019s challenge on Odhiambo was changed to a penalty after a VAR check.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>VAR intervened again deep into added time at the end of the match when Kaporal finish sparked exuberant celebrations, which were cut short by VAR for offside. Kenya\u2019s goalkeeper, Bryne Omondi had pulled off some impressive saves to preserve the draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kenya top Group A, a point clear of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Morocco, although the Atlas Lions have a game in hand. Zambia is propping the group up a pint behind Angola, although Grant\u2019s charges have a game in hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (August 6th 2025) Group A Match Day 2 Zambia\u2019s Chipolopolo had a losing start to their CHAN campaign, losing 0-2<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":[259,1317,247,1316,1351,1352,166,571,1344,1345,1355,1353,1354,832,1347,1350,81,1348,620,639,326,640,606,85,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445"}],"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=4445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4446,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions\/4446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}