{"id":355439,"date":"2021-05-23T06:51:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T05:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=355439"},"modified":"2021-05-23T06:52:45","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T05:52:45","slug":"caf-champions-league-semi-final-draw-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=355439","title":{"rendered":"CAF Champions League semi-final draw confirmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The draw for this year\u2019s CAF Champions League semi-final has been confirmed.<br \/>\nKaizer Chiefs play Wydad Casablanca, with the two teams having already met in the group stages.<br \/>\nThe South African side progressed despite losing 3-0 to Simba in the quarter-final second-leg clash on Saturday. Chiefs advanced to the last four for the first time in their history, winning the tie 4-3 on aggregate.<br \/>\nWydad secured their place in the last four, after defeating Algerian club MC Alger 2-1 on aggregate in the quarter-finals.<br \/>\nWydad thumped Chiefs 4-0 in a Group C encounter at home in February 2021, but Amakhosi won the reverse fixture 1-0 in Johannesburg last month.<br \/>\nThe other semi-final tie will be between Al Ahly and Esperance, after they eliminated Mamelodi Sundowns and CR Belouzidad\u2019s respectively.<br \/>\nAl Ahly, who are the defending champions, held Sundowns to a 1-1 draw in Pretoria on Saturday and qualified with a 3-1 aggregate.<br \/>\nEsperance progressed after seeing off Algerian side CR Belouizdad 3-2 on penalties in Rades on Saturday night following a 2-2 draw on aggregate in their quarter-final tie.<br \/>\nThe two semi-final matches will be played next month.<br \/>\nThe first-leg ties are scheduled to take place on June 18\/19 and the return leg games will be played June 25\/26.<br \/>\nThe winners will advance to the final which will take place on July 17.<br \/>\n(Daily Post)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The draw for this year\u2019s CAF Champions League semi-final has been confirmed. Kaizer Chiefs play Wydad Casablanca, with the two teams having already met in the group stages. The South African side progressed despite losing 3-0 to Simba in the quarter-final second-leg clash on Saturday. Chiefs advanced to the last four for the first time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":355440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[8496,1258,243],"class_list":["post-355439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","tag-caf","tag-cameroon","tag-nigeria"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=355439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/355440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=355439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=355439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=355439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}