{"id":41068,"date":"2017-02-21T09:08:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T07:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=41068"},"modified":"2017-02-21T09:08:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T07:08:03","slug":"bidvest-wits-meet-al-ahly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/02\/21\/bidvest-wits-meet-al-ahly\/","title":{"rendered":"Bidvest Wits meet Al Ahly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s Bidvest Wits set up a first round meeting with Egyptian giants Al Ahly as the Caf Champions League preliminary round saw eight ties completed on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Wits defeated Reunion opponents Saint Louisienne 3-1 in Johannesburg thanks to goals from Daine Klate, Sifiso Myeni and Cuthbert Malajila.<\/p>\n<p>This saw Wits win 4-3 on aggregate and secure a showdown with Ahly in the next round, set for March 10 to 12 and 17 to 19.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Zambia\u2019s Zanaco avoided an early exit by winning 1-0 away to Rwanda\u2019s APR to win their tie 1-0 on aggregate, while Botswana\u2019s Township Rollers are out of the competition despite a 3-2 victory over CNaPS of Madagascar \u2013 their tie ended 4-4 on aggregate, but the Islanders edged through on away goals.<\/p>\n<p>There was no such trouble for Sudanese giants Al Merrikh, Tanzania\u2019s Young Africans and Cameroon\u2019s Coton Sport, with the trio securing comfortable aggregate victories over Sony Ela Nguema, Ngaya Club and Atlabara, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeriens AS Fan claimed an impressive 3-1 home win over Ivorians AS Tanda, but the latter progressed 4-3 on aggregate, while Moroccan giants FUS Rabat romped to a 3-0 win over FC Johansen of Sierra Leone to advance 4-1 on aggregate.<\/p>\n<p>The preliminary round will wrap up with a further 15 second leg matches on Sunday afternoon and evening\u2014<strong>Backpage Text website<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s Bidvest Wits set up a first round meeting with Egyptian giants Al Ahly as the Caf Champions League preliminary round saw eight ties completed on Saturday. Wits defeated Reunion opponents Saint Louisienne 3-1 in Johannesburg thanks to goals from Daine Klate, Sifiso Myeni and Cuthbert Malajila. This saw Wits win 4-3 on aggregate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41068","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=41068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41072,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41068\/revisions\/41072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}