{"id":4461,"date":"2025-09-17T21:02:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/?p=4461"},"modified":"2025-09-17T21:03:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T20:03:24","slug":"chan-round-up-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/2025\/09\/17\/chan-round-up-10\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CHAN Round-up 10<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (August 12<sup>th<\/sup> 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Group D Matchday 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defending champions S\u00e9n\u00e9gal were held 1-1 by Congo who surprised the Teranga Lions by taking the lead through Dechan Moussavou after 19 minutes from close range at the near post after an attack down the left wing \u2013 the cross by Charles Atipo invited Moussavou to give the Congolese the lead and he needed no second invitation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joseph Layousse Samb salvaged a point with 8 minutes of normal time remaining \u2013 a similar goal but the assist came from the right wing. Ousseynou Seck provide the pass for Samb to score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shock of the tournament so far came in the other Group D fixture as former Black Stars coach, Kwesi Appiah, took Jollof Derby bragging rights of sorts as his Sudan team thrashed Eric Chelle\u2019s Nigeria 4-0. After Abdel Raouf Yagoub\u2019s effort rebounded off the woodwork Leonard Ngenge headed into his own goal after 25 minutes to give Sudan the lead. Nigeria, needing a win, had already had a goal by Anthony Ijoma disallowed for offside after a VAR check.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sudan doubled their lead after the luckless Ngenge was penalised for handball. Walleldin Khedr\u2019s penalty sent the goalkeeper the wrong way as half time beckoned. Yagoub completed the thrashing with a second half brace. Ten minutes into the second half an attack down the left by Musa Hussein gave Yagoub the chance to make it safe even after he slipped. He recovered to make space and shoot to the opposite corner to make it 3-0. Yagoub pounced for the fourth and best goal after a defensive header set him up to volley it in off the underside of the bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chelle\u2019s substitutions had little impact \u2013 Nigeria was out of the CHAN after just two matches with one to play. S\u00e9n\u00e9gal is second on goal difference to Sudan \u2013 both on 4 points and Congo is third with 2 points. Nigeria has no points with nothing but pride to play for in a tournament the Super Eagles has never won.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (August 12th 2025) Group D Matchday 2 Defending champions S\u00e9n\u00e9gal were held 1-1 by Congo who surprised the Teranga Lions<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":[1393,1395,166,1389,151,1388,1327,347,1390,1392,1394,1397,292,1391,1396,327,337,85,1398],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4461"}],"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=4461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4462,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4461\/revisions\/4462"}],"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=4461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}