{"id":76199,"date":"2019-07-14T20:14:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-14T20:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/?p=76199"},"modified":"2019-07-14T20:14:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T20:14:06","slug":"senegal-stops-tunisia-to-book-a-place-in-afcon-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/sport\/senegal-stops-tunisia-to-book-a-place-in-afcon-finals\/2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal stops Tunisia to book a place in AfCON finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Senegal ended Tunisia&#8217;s hopes of<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>winning a second<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>African Cup of Nations title as they hosted the cup in 2004 and won it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Individually, Tunisia and Senegal <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>wasted <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>a number of chances -including a penalty for both teams<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Getting to the hundredth minute of the game, Senegal had a free kick resulting in an own goal from the Tunisia&#8217;s player, Dylan bronn as the shot deflected into his own net.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Senegal are through to the finals as they meet the winner from the second semi-final match, Nigeria against Algeria.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Through the game, Tunisia were honored with a penalty at the seventy-two minute, Ferjani Sassi, the man for Tunisia sent the penalty towards the bottom left corner, but the Senegal\u2019s goal keeper pulls off a wonder save to deny him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Ten minutes afterwards, Senegal also were honored with a penalty and Henri Saivet from Senegal did not take advantage of the chance to score from the penalty spot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">It was a very strong game. With the two sides very good. Senegal never left their guard off and now they are through to the final of the African cup of Nations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">The Africa Cup of Nations final takes place at Cairo International Stadium on Friday, July 19, at 7:00pm GMT.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Monitored by Edward Neizer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senegal ended Tunisia&#8217;s hopes of\u00a0 winning a second\u00a0 African Cup of Nations title as they hosted the cup in 2004 and won it. Individually, Tunisia and Senegal \u00a0 wasted \u00a0 a number of chances -including a penalty for both teams Getting to the hundredth minute of the game, Senegal had a free kick resulting in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,17],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}