{"id":17924,"date":"2013-02-10T01:15:06","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T23:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/mali-wipes-wet-pitch-with-ghana-for-third\/"},"modified":"2013-02-10T01:15:06","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T23:15:06","slug":"mali-wipes-wet-pitch-with-ghana-for-third","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/mali-wipes-wet-pitch-with-ghana-for-third\/","title":{"rendered":"Mali wipes wet pitch with Ghana for third"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mali finished third in the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations for the second time in a row after beating Ghana in an entertaining third place play-off.<\/p>\n<p>Mahamadou Samassa put the Eagles ahead with a powerful header, before captain Seydou Keita doubled their lead, stabbing home from close range.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana midfielder Kwadwo Asamoah pulled one back with his shot from distance beating keeper Soumbeyla Diakite.<\/p>\n<p>Substitute Sigamary Diarra sealed Mali\u2019s victory in injury time.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s Mubarak Wakaso spurned the chance to top the goal-scoring charts, blazing a penalty high over the bar, in a rain-sodden Port Elizabeth.<\/p>\n<p>The two sides were meeting in this fixture for the second year in a row and for the fourth time in the last two tournaments \u2013 having also met at the group stages at both. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/0\/football\/21387641\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mali finished third in the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations for the second time in a row after beating Ghana in an entertaining third place play-off. Mahamadou Samassa put the Eagles ahead with a powerful header, before captain Seydou Keita doubled their lead, stabbing home from close range. Ghana midfielder Kwadwo Asamoah pulled one back [&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-17924","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\/17924","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=17924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}