{"id":1789,"date":"2021-09-28T17:57:42","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T17:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2021-09-28T19:12:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T19:12:21","slug":"lunga-scores-on-his-sundowns-debut-as-they-reach-mtn8-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/?p=1789","title":{"rendered":"Lunga Scores On His Sundowns Debut As They Reach MTN8 Final"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Zimbabwe Warriors defender Divine Lunga made the perfect first impression after scoring on his first start for Mamelodi Sundowns in a 3-0 MTN8 semi-final win against Golden Arrows on Tuesday. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 27-year-old left-back who was still to make his debut for the team since his arrival in July, scored from a header in the 29th minute to double the scores for the home side after Peter Shalulile&#8217;s opener in the 4th minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However the Zimbabwean defender was unfortunate not to finish the match as he was forced out after suffering a knock on the head in the 67th minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match ended 3-0 after Maema&#8217;s third goal in the 90+ minutes with Sundowns proceeding to the finals of the MTN8 on 4-1 aggregate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Mamelodi Sundowns are still to confirm the extent of Lunga&#8217;s injury, but it looks he will bounce back as soon as possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lunga spent the past three years at Golden Arrows, having joined them from Chicken Inn back in 2018, and managed a total of 84 appearances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He is in the Warriors squad to play Ghana in the FIFA World Cup qualifiers group matches in October. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe Warriors defender Divine Lunga made the perfect first impression after scoring on his first start for Mamelodi Sundowns in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/IMG_20210928_194832.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1798,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions\/1798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}