{"id":66517,"date":"2018-06-08T10:54:14","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T08:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=66517"},"modified":"2018-06-08T10:54:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T08:54:15","slug":"rivals-meet-in-cosafa-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/06\/08\/rivals-meet-in-cosafa-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Rivals meet in Cosafa final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cosafa Cup habitual winners and holders, Zimbabwe, meet their eternal rivals, Zambia, in the final tomorrow after seeing off stubborn Lesotho and Madagascar, respectively, in semi-final matches played at New Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane City, South Africa, on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>As was the case in the quarter-final win over Namibia, Zimbabwe needed the heroics of towering goalkeeper George Chigova, who saved two post-match penalties to finally break the resistance of the Crocodiles with a 3-1 win following a goalless 90 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Playing earlier at the same venue, Lazarus Kambole\u2019s close range finish after quick-silver one-twos was all Zambia needed to breach Madagascar\u2019s otherwise water-tight defence.<\/p>\n<p>Madagascar meet Lesotho in a third-place play-off today.<\/p>\n<p>In a post-match interview, Zambia interim Coach, Beston Chimbeshi, said: \u201cOf course, finishing was not good. We wanted to finish the game in the first-half but we wasted many chances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In another match scheduled for today, hosts South Africa\u2019s Bafana Bafana date Botswana in the Plate final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cosafa Cup habitual winners and holders, Zimbabwe, meet their eternal rivals, Zambia, in the final tomorrow after seeing off stubborn Lesotho and Madagascar, respectively, in semi-final matches played at New Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane City, South Africa, on Wednesday evening. As was the case in the quarter-final win over Namibia, Zimbabwe needed the heroics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":66521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66517","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\/66517","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=66517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66522,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66517\/revisions\/66522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}