{"id":26478,"date":"2016-06-20T10:52:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T08:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=26478"},"modified":"2016-06-20T10:52:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T08:52:23","slug":"bafana-punish-flames-punisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/06\/20\/bafana-punish-flames-punisher\/","title":{"rendered":"Bafana punish Flames\u2019 punisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s Bafana Bafana unconsciously did the Flames a big favour by expelling Lesotho from the 2016 Cosafa Castle Cup on Saturday at Sam Nujoma Stadium in Namibia.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa won 4-2 on post-match penalties in the quarterfinal against the Crocodiles, who dismissed Malawi from Group B of the regional football showpiece on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Flames finished on six points from three games, three behind Lesotho.<\/p>\n<p>What was remarkable for South Africa\u2019s win was that they survived a late send-off of scorer Gift Motupa to hang on for the penalty lotteries won through Kaizer Chiefs goalkeeper Reyaad Petersen\u2019s two brilliant stops.<\/p>\n<p>Jane Thabo-Ntso, whose 83rd minute goal hurt the Flames on Thursday night, had put Lesotho ahead in regulation time, only for Motupa to level matters with a header in the late stages of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Bafana Banafa meet either Zambia or Swaziland on Wednesday. The Chipolopolo and Swaziland clashed yesterday in another quarterfinal.<\/p>\n<p>In other games, Botswana defeated hosts and defending champions Namibia 5-4 also through post-match penalties in Windhoek on Saturday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s Bafana Bafana unconsciously did the Flames a big favour by expelling Lesotho from the 2016 Cosafa Castle Cup on Saturday at Sam Nujoma Stadium in Namibia. South Africa won 4-2 on post-match penalties in the quarterfinal against the Crocodiles, who dismissed Malawi from Group B of the regional football showpiece on Thursday. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26483,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26478\/revisions\/26483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}