{"id":6864,"date":"2019-07-20T10:07:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T05:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=6864"},"modified":"2019-07-20T10:07:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T05:07:30","slug":"algeria-won-african-cup-of-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/6864","title":{"rendered":"Algeria won African Cup of Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria\u00a0have been crowned winners of the African Cup of Nations for the second time after beating Senegal 1-0 in the final on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Striker Baghdad Bounedjah stunned Senegal in the opening minutes of the game in Egypt&#8217;s capital, Cairo, with a shot which took a deflection off a defender and looped over the Senegalese goalkeeper Alfred Gomis and into the net.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The goal was timed at 79 seconds &#8211; the fastest in an African Cup final for at least 39 years &#8211; and delivered Algeria just a second African title and first since 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Algeria sat back after that and the first half turned into a scrappy, bad-tempered affair as Senegal, who have never won the title, failed to threaten their defence.<\/p>\n<p>Senegal were awarded a penalty for handball in the second half but the decision was overturned following a VAR review.<\/p>\n<p>Ismaila Sarr missed Senegal&#8217;s best chance by volleying wide from inside the area.<\/p>\n<p>Senegal, making only their second appearance in the final since 2002, dominated for large periods but struggled to make the most of their possession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria\u00a0have been crowned winners of the African Cup of Nations for the second time after beating Senegal 1-0 in the final on Friday. Striker Baghdad Bounedjah stunned Senegal in the opening minutes of the game in Egypt&#8217;s capital, Cairo, with a shot which took a deflection off a defender and looped over the Senegalese goalkeeper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,17,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-sports","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6866,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6864\/revisions\/6866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}