{"id":1927,"date":"2021-10-06T05:02:31","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T05:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2021-10-06T05:09:29","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T05:09:29","slug":"mighty-warriors-fall-on-goal-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/?p=1927","title":{"rendered":"Mighty Warriors Fall On Goal Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Zimbabwe&#8217;s Senior Woman national football team where dealt a big blow after booted out of the 2021 COSAFA Woman&#8217;s Championship on a goal difference.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mighty Warriors who hammered Botswana 3-0 in their last group match finished second in Group B with six points from three games and were hoping to advance to the semifinals as best placed runners up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it was Malawi who emerged as best runners-up on goal difference after finishing second in Group A with six points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malawi scored a total of six goals in Group A and conceded only four goals to have a +2 goal-difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zimbabwe had five goals and conceded four goals in Group B to have a +1 goal difference and Uganda who finished second in Group C were also knocked out after managing only four points from three games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Malawi will battle it out with the hosts Banyana Banyana once again in the semifinals to be played on Thursday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zambia and Tanzania will also meet in another semifinal encounter earlier on the same day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Mighty Warriors will now shift their focus to the upcoming Africa cup of nations qualifiers scheduled for later on this month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe&#8217;s Senior Woman national football team where dealt a big blow after booted out of the 2021 COSAFA Woman&#8217;s Championship<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1930,"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":[10,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/FB_IMG_1633449272875.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927"}],"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=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1932,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions\/1932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/soca263updates.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}