{"id":532331,"date":"2026-09-30T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/?p=532331"},"modified":"2026-09-30T00:01:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:01:32","slug":"can-2027-qualifiers-gabon-bounces-back-against-niger-with-effaghe-and-bouanga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/can-2027-qualifiers-gabon-bounces-back-against-niger-with-effaghe-and-bouanga\/","title":{"rendered":"CAN 2027 Qualifiers: Gabon Bounces Back Against Niger with Effaghe and Bouanga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gabon secured its first victory in the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers by defeating Niger 2-0 on Tuesday, September 29, in Franceville.<\/p>\n<p>After a goalless first half, Rody Junior Effaghe opened the scoring in the 53rd minute. Denis Bouanga then doubled the lead in the 77th minute to secure the Panthers&#8217; victory.<\/p>\n<h2>Expected reaction after the setback in Morocco<\/h2>\n<p>Gabon had to respond after their 2-0 defeat in Morocco on the first matchday. Thierry Mouyouma\u2019s men this time better controlled their game and prevented Niger from equalizing.<\/p>\n<p>With these three points, the Panthers join Niger in Group A standings, behind a Morocco team that has won its first two matches.<\/p>\n<p>Niger had started their campaign with a 2-1 victory against Lesotho before conceding in Franceville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beaten in Morocco on the first matchday, Gabon responded by defeating Niger 2-0 in Franceville thanks to Effaghe and Denis Bouanga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":532332,"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":[95],"personnalite":[],"class_list":["post-532331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afrique-sport","pays-gabon"],"acf":{"type_de_publication":"actualite","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532331","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532333,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532331\/revisions\/532333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532331"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=532331"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=532331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}