{"id":532337,"date":"2026-09-30T00:11:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/?p=532337"},"modified":"2026-09-30T00:11:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T00:11:20","slug":"can-2027-qualifiers-congo-challenges-cameroon-but-settles-for-a-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/can-2027-qualifiers-congo-challenges-cameroon-but-settles-for-a-draw\/","title":{"rendered":"CAN 2027 Qualifiers: Congo Challenges Cameroon but Settles for a Draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congo held Cameroon to a 1-1 draw on Tuesday, September 29, in Brazzaville, during the second matchday of the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Devils opened the scoring in the 24th minute through Geltany Bantsiele, following a start to the match in which they posed serious problems for the Indomitable Lions.<\/p>\n<h2>Nagida causes the Cameroonian equalizer<\/h2>\n<p>Cameroon reacted after the break. Coming on at halftime, Mahamadou Nagida broke through on the left side before shooting. The ball was deflected into his own net by Congolese goalkeeper Melvin Zinga in the 53rd minute.<\/p>\n<p>The end of the match remained open, and Congo once again forced Cameroonian goalkeeper Blondy Nna Noukeu to make several saves.<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon has four points after two matchdays, following its initial victory against Libya. Congo earns its first point of the campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congo and Cameroon drew 1-1 in Brazzaville. Bantsiele opened the scoring before an own goal by Zinga, caused by Nagida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":532338,"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":[123],"personnalite":[],"class_list":["post-532337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afrique-sport","pays-cameroon"],"acf":{"type_de_publication":"actualite","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532337","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532339,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532337\/revisions\/532339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532337"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=532337"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=532337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}