{"id":9883,"date":"2018-06-19T17:24:43","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T17:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=9883"},"modified":"2018-06-19T17:24:43","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T17:24:43","slug":"senegal-breaks-jinx-does-africa-proud-with-first-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=9883","title":{"rendered":"Senegal breaks jinx, does Africa proud with first win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senegal has done Africal proud with a 2 &#8211; 1 victory over much-favoured Poland. Of the five African teams in the competition, the West Afric\u00e0n nation were leading two goals to nil until the last eight minutes (including four minutes extra-time) when Poland pulled one back.<br \/>\nTunisia, Nigeria, Egypt, and Morocco all lost their opening matches, leaving Senegal to save the day for Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text\">After 16 years in the cooler, Senegal returned to the World Cup with a player from the 2002 team, Cisse, as Coach, went ahead in the 37th minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text\">Niang, returning to the field after \u00a0being treated, beat Goalkeeper Szczesny to double the lead 24 minutes later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-article-body__text\">But Grzegorz Krychowia headed in a free kick in the 86th minute to get a goal for Poland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senegal has done Africal proud with a 2 &#8211; 1 victory over much-favoured Poland. Of the five African teams in the competition, the West Afric\u00e0n nation were leading two goals to nil until the last eight minutes (including four minutes extra-time) when Poland pulled one back. Tunisia, Nigeria, Egypt, and Morocco all lost their opening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5778],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}