{"id":4476,"date":"2025-09-21T17:10:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T16:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/?p=4476"},"modified":"2025-09-21T17:10:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T16:10:42","slug":"chan-round-up-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/2025\/09\/21\/chan-round-up-17\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>CHAN Round-up 17<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (August 17<sup>th<\/sup> 2025)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Group A Matchday 5<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eric Chelle\u2019s Nigeria ended their underwhelming CHAN campaign with a much needed 2-0 victory over Congo \u2013 a result that made little difference as both Sudan and S\u00e9n\u00e9gal advanced to the quarter-finals after<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anas Yusuf scored the winner for Nigeria after 56 minutes \u2013 Sikuri Alimi provide the assist nodding it into Yusuf\u2019s path. Yusuf snaffled the chance from close range to put the Congolese on the back foot \u2013 it was the Super Eagles\u2019 first goal in the competition. As the match approached its end Charles Atipo\u2019s yellow card was upgraded to a straight red after a VAR review of his foul on Alimi. Atipo was dismissed two minutes into added time at the end of the match and a minute later Alimi doubled Nigeria\u2019s lead, heading in Sodiq Ismail\u2019s freekick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nigeria, already eliminated, finished third in Dar es Salaam on three points \u2013 Congo with two draws and a defeat ended bottom of Group D. That meant that Sudan and S\u00e9n\u00e9gal qualified irrespective of the result between as both started the day on four points. Sudan had the superior goal difference of +4 compared to +1. That meant that anything less than a win for S\u00e9n\u00e9gal would not be enough to top the group. The match at Zanzibar\u2019s Amaan Stadium ended in a 0-0 draw. Both halves ended with the Zimbabwean referee taking centre stage. He reversed his decision to award Sudan a penalty for an alleged foul by Oumar Ba at the end of the first half. Sudan had not had a single shot on target in the first half and &nbsp;S\u00e9n\u00e9gal had only done one better. The Teranga Lions finished the match with ten men Mbaye Yaya Ly was sent off after 5 minutes of added time at the end of the match \u2013 a second yellow card for a foul on Al-Merrikh\u2019s Muhamed Al Rasheed Mahmoud Shambaly (M Al Rasheed).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sudan will face Algeria in Zanzibar and S\u00e9n\u00e9gal will travel to Kampala to face Uganda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Satish Sekar \u00a9 Satish Sekar (August 17th 2025) Group A Matchday 5 Eric Chelle\u2019s Nigeria ended their underwhelming CHAN campaign with a much needed 2-0<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":[1469,20,1431,1465,166,1389,151,1440,1327,347,1324,1468,1470,292,1467,620,327,1466,337,1464,1329,325,85,1306],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476"}],"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=4476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4478,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4476\/revisions\/4478"}],"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=4476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowersmag.com\/empowersmagwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}