{"id":532328,"date":"2026-09-30T00:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/?p=532328"},"modified":"2026-09-30T00:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:01:17","slug":"can-2027-qualifiers-rodolfo-aloko-carries-benin-with-a-brace-against-mauritania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/can-2027-qualifiers-rodolfo-aloko-carries-benin-with-a-brace-against-mauritania\/","title":{"rendered":"CAN 2027 Qualifiers: Rodolfo Aloko Carries Benin with a Brace Against Mauritania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benin secured its first victory in the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers by defeating Mauritania 2-1 on Tuesday, September 29, in Abidjan.<\/p>\n<p>Rodolfo Aloko was the key architect of the Cheetahs&#8217; success. The Beninese midfielder opened the scoring in the 31st minute with a pass from Charbel Gomez Azongnitode, before doubling the lead in the 46th minute on a service from Yamirou Ouorou.<\/p>\n<h2>Benin Resists Mauritanian Comeback<\/h2>\n<p>Mauritania reduced the gap in the 80th minute through Aboubakary Koita, but Gernot Rohr\u2019s men maintained their lead until the final whistle.<\/p>\n<p>This success allows Benin to confirm the valuable point earned in Burkina Faso during the first matchday, which ended in a 1-1 draw.<\/p>\n<p>With four points, the Cheetahs join Burkina Faso at the top of Group F. Mauritania, victorious over the Central African Republic in their first match, remain at three points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benin defeated Mauritania 2-1 in Abidjan thanks to a brace from Rodolfo Aloko and joined Burkina Faso at the top of Group F.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":532329,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"_benews_format":"","_benews_media_url":"","_benews_urgent_until":0,"_benews_essentials":"","_benews_format_auto":"","_benews_nl_alert":false,"_benews_premium":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"pays":[119],"personnalite":[],"class_list":["post-532328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afrique-sport","pays-benin"],"acf":{"type_de_publication":"actualite","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532330,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532328\/revisions\/532330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532328"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=532328"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=532328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}