{"id":423,"date":"2012-05-14T17:59:53","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T17:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=423"},"modified":"2012-05-14T18:01:25","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T18:01:25","slug":"heartland-and-warri-wolves-tamed-in-leopards-den","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"HEARTLAND AND WARRI WOLVES TAMED IN LEOPARDS DEN."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was indeed a horrible weekend for the Two Nigeria Club sides in the Confederation Cup, Heartland football club of Owerri and Warri Wolves football club of Warri. Both teams on Sunday 13<sup>th<\/sup> of May, 2012 bowed out ironically to teams both bearing the name Leopards, AC Leopards of Congo Brazaville and Black Leopards of South Africa due to superior away goal rule.<\/p>\n<p>In South \u2013 Africa, Warri Wolves who had a supervisor 3 \u2013 1 lead from the first led in Warri failed to score at away against a team placed bottom of South Africa premier league as they were beaten 2 \u2013 0. Though the game ended (3 \u2013 3) on aggregate, but the Black Leopards pulled through on superior away goal rule.<\/p>\n<p>Heartland had their own mountain to climb facing the AFC Leopards inCongo. Heartland needed a late goal to secure 3 \u2013 2 win in the first leg, and were already on thin ice heading intoBrazzaville.<\/p>\n<p>Reports reaching <em>Imo Trumpeta <\/em>indicates that the Naze Millionaires were ambushed 2 \u2013 1as they crashed out of the competition. It is also reported that the Leopards were awarded a dubious penalty late into the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> half of the game after Heartland had equalized the home teams first half goal.<\/p>\n<p>It must be recalled here that AC Leopards also edged out last years champions Cs Sfaxian of Tunisiain the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> round before meeting Heartland.<\/p>\n<p>The two Leopards will now wait to know their next opponents from the champions league (Losers of the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> round of the CAF champions league) to play before qualifying for the CAF confederation group stage.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Sunshine Stars of Akure were left to provide a little cheering for Nigeria, by beating Mali\u2019s Djoliba FC 1 \u2013 0 in Ado \u2013 Ekiti to advance to the group stages of the CAF Champions League after being held 1 \u2013 1 at Bamako two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was indeed a horrible weekend for the Two Nigeria Club sides in the Confederation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=13\" rel=\"category\">Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}