{"id":272326,"date":"2019-07-07T10:11:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T08:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=272326"},"modified":"2019-07-07T10:11:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T08:11:30","slug":"underdogs-bafana-bafana-will-wage-war-against-pharaohs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=272326","title":{"rendered":"Underdogs Bafana Bafana will wage war against Pharaohs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"js_3\" class=\"_5pbx userContent _3576\" data-testid=\"post_message\" data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\">\n\r\n<div class=\"mom_images_grid mom_images_3_cols\">\r\n<ul class=\"galleryslider\"><li class=\"first\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/66063451_2331776176889329_4783725078112108544_n.jpg\" data-title=\"\" title=\"66063451_2331776176889329_4783725078112108544_n\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"66063451_2331776176889329_4783725078112108544_n\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/66063451_2331776176889329_4783725078112108544_n.jpg\"><\/a><\/li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/66295205_2331776036889343_4782529908972716032_n.jpg\" data-title=\"\" title=\"66295205_2331776036889343_4782529908972716032_n\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"66295205_2331776036889343_4782529908972716032_n\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/66295205_2331776036889343_4782529908972716032_n.jpg\"><\/a><\/li><li class=\"last\"><a href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/66398038_2331776273555986_1931676689725652992_n.jpg\" data-title=\"\" title=\"66398038_2331776273555986_1931676689725652992_n\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"66398038_2331776273555986_1931676689725652992_n\" src=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/66398038_2331776273555986_1931676689725652992_n.jpg\"><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\n<p>Sports Reporter<br \/>\nTHE hosts of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations will be back in action against South Africa in the second day of the round-of-16 stage of the tournament.<br \/>\nEgypt\u2019s campaign up until now in the tournament was without blemish. Winning all three games in the group stage the Pharaohs did not concede a single goal and was the first team to qualify for the round-of-16 stage.<br \/>\nThe South Africans are one of the four teams who were selected from the best third positions in the groups. Bafana Bafana\u2019s only goal in the tournament so far was against Namibia in the second round of the group stage.<br \/>\nThe second game of the round-of-16 will be between Nigeria and Cameroon<br \/>\nThe stakes will be high for defending AFCON champions Cameroon that has failed to get much needed goals in the run up to the current knock-out round. Nigeria must also make a strong statement after their shock defeat against AFCON debutants, Madagascar.<br \/>\nThe Super Eagles\u2019 defeat against Madagascar was alleged to be the result of protest action stemming from unpaid bonuses. The Cameroonian side had the same troubles going into the tournament.<br \/>\nThe West African derby between Nigeria and Cameroon will kick off at 18:00 while the match between the Pharaohs and Bafana Bafana will start at 21:00 tonight.<\/p>\n<!-- MetaSlider 271797 not found -->\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports Reporter THE hosts of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations will be back in action against South Africa in the second day of the round-of-16 stage of the tournament. Egypt\u2019s campaign up until now in the tournament was without blemish. Winning all three games in the group stage the Pharaohs did not concede a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":272329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Underdogs Bafana Bafana will wage war against Pharaohs - Informant\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"THE hosts of the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations will be back in action against South Africa in the second day of the round-of-16 stage of the tournament.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/informante.web.na\/?p=272326\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Underdogs Bafana Bafana will wage war against Pharaohs - 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