{"id":17524,"date":"2013-01-24T12:28:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-24T10:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/bafana-score-at-last\/"},"modified":"2013-01-24T12:28:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T10:28:00","slug":"bafana-score-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/bafana-score-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Bafana score at last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bafana Bafana got their Africa Cup of Nations campaign on track with a better performance to secure victory against Angola in Group A on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Centre-back Siyabonga Sangweni volleyed in at the far post to score South Africa\u2019s first goal of Afcon 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts, who drew 0-0 with Cape Verde in their opener, dominated against Angola yet lacked a cutting edge.<\/p>\n<p>But South Africa got a second goal when Lehlohonolo Majoro slotted past the keeper from a tight angle.<\/p>\n<p>Majoro started on the bench, one of five changes to the team line-up following South Africa\u2019s disappointing display on Saturday, and had been on the pitch for only two minutes when he scored.<\/p>\n<p>But, while the tournament hosts started with more urgency and drive, their problems in front of goal were again apparent.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Bongani Khumalo failed to get his head to a cross when he looked certain to score and Tokelo Rantie twice shot off target when well placed.<\/p>\n<p>Striker Katlego Mphela most dangerous moment was snuffed out by keeper Lama, who tipped the ball away from the striker\u2019s feet.<\/p>\n<p>Angola, meanwhile, were starved of the ball and looked horribly short of quality.<\/p>\n<p>Just as Gordon Igesund started to look agitated on the touchlines, South Africa finally made the breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>Centre-back Sangweni showed the forwards how to finish as he volleyed in smartly at the far post after Angola defender Lunguinha\u2019s header had looped into his path. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/football\/21037963\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bafana Bafana got their Africa Cup of Nations campaign on track with a better performance to secure victory against Angola in Group A on Wednesday. Centre-back Siyabonga Sangweni volleyed in at the far post to score South Africa\u2019s first goal of Afcon 2013. The hosts, who drew 0-0 with Cape Verde in their opener, dominated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-17524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}