{"id":2395,"date":"2021-02-18T05:24:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T05:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spicefmhoima.com\/?p=2395"},"modified":"2022-01-19T12:05:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:05:24","slug":"cameroon-defeats-uganda-hippos-1-0-in-u-20-afcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2021\/02\/18\/cameroon-defeats-uganda-hippos-1-0-in-u-20-afcon\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon Defeats Uganda Hippos 1-0 in U-20 Afcon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By\u00a0 Leilah Bbaale<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cameroon on Wednesday defeated the Uganda Hippos in the African Cup of Nations under 20 championship at the Stade Olympique in Mauritania.<\/p>\n<p>In a game that was largely dominated by the Cameroonians in the first half, Uganda had few chances.<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon looked so energetic and composed creating trouble for the Hippos with Sunday Junior looking sharp in front of Uganda\u2019s goal. He eventually scored Cameroon\u2019s a goal in the 31st minute with a diving header from a corner kick.<\/p>\n<p>However, Uganda tried threatening a few minutes to the closure of half time with chances from Richard Basangwa and Derrick Kakooza. However they failed to convert any chance leading to half time Cameroon win.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half, Uganda tried looking for an equalizer through Samuel Ssenyonjo in the 68th minute as left-back Aziz Kayondo tried crossing the ball\u00a0however, they failed to hit the target.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams continued sharing possession with no big threat created by either side and hence keeping the final result in favour of Cameroon.<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon\u2019s win guarantees them a place in the quarter final stage. However, Uganda will have to beat the hosts Mauritania to secure second position in group A.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0 Leilah Bbaale Cameroon on Wednesday defeated the Uganda Hippos in the African Cup of Nations under 20 championship at the Stade Olympique in Mauritania. In a game that was largely dominated by the Cameroonians in the first half, Uganda had few chances. Cameroon looked so energetic and composed creating trouble for the Hippos with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3515,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions\/3515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}