{"id":34406,"date":"2024-06-11T08:22:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T08:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=34406"},"modified":"2024-06-11T08:22:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T08:22:22","slug":"2026-wcq-ayew-bags-hat-trick-as-ghana-edge-car-in-seven-goal-thriller-to-go-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/06\/11\/2026-wcq-ayew-bags-hat-trick-as-ghana-edge-car-in-seven-goal-thriller-to-go-top\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 WCQ: Ayew Bags Hat-trick As Ghana Edge CAR In Seven-Goal Thriller To Go Top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana Black Stars edged Central Africa Republic (CAR) 4-3 in Group I, matchday four of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers in Kumasi on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Jordan Ayew was the standout performer foe the Black Stars as he bagged a hat-trick. CAR\u2019s Louis Mafouta also netted a hat-trick.<\/p>\n<p>It is now back-to-back wins for the Black Stars and also their third in four games place.<\/p>\n<p>Otto Addo side go top on nine points but could drop if either Madagascar or Comoros win by a big margin on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ayew opened the scoring for the Black Stars from the penalty spot on six minutes.<\/p>\n<p>But a brace from Louis Mafouta on 11 and 41 minutes put CAR 2-1 ahead before half time.<\/p>\n<p>In the 60th minute Ayew grabbed his second of the game to make it 2-2 while Abdul Fatawu added the third on 62 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Ayew completed his hat-trick to make it 4-2 but Mafouta scored his third to bring the score to 4-3 on 90 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana Black Stars edged Central Africa Republic (CAR) 4-3 in Group I, matchday four of the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers in Kumasi on Monday. Jordan Ayew was the standout performer foe the Black Stars as he bagged a hat-trick. CAR\u2019s Louis Mafouta also netted a hat-trick. It is now back-to-back wins for the Black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":34407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[376],"class_list":["post-34406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-2026-wcq"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34408,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34406\/revisions\/34408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}