{"id":645,"date":"2022-06-17T12:06:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T12:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=645"},"modified":"2022-06-17T12:06:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T12:06:49","slug":"warriors-head-home-with-a-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=645","title":{"rendered":"Warriors Head Home With a Win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>19 January 2022<br>Jeremiah Harrison<br>Sports Writer<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zimbabwe senior men&#8217;s football team, the &#8216;Warriors&#8217; finally got it right in their last match of 2021 AFCON after beating Guinea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The match ended 2-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the victory the Warriors remain at the bottom of the group Bvtable with 3 points and are headed home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zimbabwe was already out of contention after losing its first two matches to Senegal by a solitary goal and then to Malawi by 2-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Senegal tops group B with 5 points from 3 outings followed by Guinea and Malawi with 4 points each.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mapeza&#8217;s wishes were fulfilled, as he wished at least salvage something from the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 26th minute of the game, Warriors skipper Knowledge Musona connecting with a fine header gave Zimbabwe the lead from a cross by Azam FC player Never Tigere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two minutes before half time Kuda Mahachi the former Highlanders player scored with a long range shot from outside the box making it 2-0 before the half time whistle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/chat.whatsapp.com\/HLTr91OAOOZ3jHdEI7418Z\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Guinea then denied Zimbabwe a clean sheet as Naby Keita, the Guinea skipper who plys his trade in Liverpool, England pulled one back with a fantastic shot scoring from outside the box beating the Warriors goalkeeper in the 49th minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mapeza made a few changes in Warriors team during the match, in the 74th minute he introduced highly rated Lyon star Tino Kadewere for Jordan Zemura.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Azam FC &#8216;savior&#8217; Prince Dube was introduced in the 75th for Admiral Muskwe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zimbabwe had last won an AFCON match back in 2006 and for the past three campaigns of the same tournament they did not win any match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In another group B match played Senegal versus Malawi ended in a 0-0 draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This March, 2023 AFCON Qaulifiers begins, there are high hopes from the fans around Zimbabwe, that this victory is a stepping stone for the Warriors for better results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zim GBC News<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Classified Ads<br>For:<br>Bookeping services, Accounting services<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>ZIMRA TAX clearance<br>-ZIMRA Audits<br>Payroll services,<br>Human resources,<br>Labour issues<br>Contact GBC Accounting on +263 718 879 398_<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>19 January 2022Jeremiah HarrisonSports Writer Zimbabwe senior men&#8217;s football team, the &#8216;Warriors&#8217; finally got it right in their last match of 2021 AFCON after beating Guinea. The match ended 2-1.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}