{"id":45424,"date":"2024-08-26T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T08:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=45424"},"modified":"2024-08-26T08:54:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T08:54:00","slug":"remo-stars-eliminated-from-caf-champions-league-by-as-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/08\/26\/remo-stars-eliminated-from-caf-champions-league-by-as-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Remo Stars Eliminated from CAF Champions League by AS FAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remo Stars have been knocked out of the CAF Champions League following a 2-0 defeat to Morocco&#8217;s AS FAR in the second leg of the preliminary round, resulting in a 3-2 aggregate loss.<\/p>\n<p>Despite sustained pressure from Remo Stars throughout the first half, the score remained 0-0 at the break. AS FAR broke the deadlock in the 53rd minute through a goal by Joel Beya. The Moroccan side then sealed their victory with a controversial penalty awarded 12 minutes from full time after Remo Stars&#8217; Ifeanyi Anaemena was penalized for pulling an opponent inside the box. El Amine Zouhzouh calmly converted the spot-kick, ending Remo Stars&#8217; Champions League hopes.<\/p>\n<p>With Remo Stars&#8217; exit, only two Nigerian clubs remain in continental competitions this year: Enugu Rangers in the Champions League and Enyimba in the Confederation Cup. El Kanemi Warriors were also recently eliminated by Dadje of Benin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remo Stars have been knocked out of the CAF Champions League following a 2-0 defeat to Morocco&#8217;s AS FAR in the second leg of the preliminary round, resulting in a 3-2 aggregate loss. Despite sustained pressure from Remo Stars throughout the first half, the score remained 0-0 at the break. AS FAR broke the deadlock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":45425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[1402],"class_list":["post-45424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-remo-stars"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45424","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=45424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45438,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45424\/revisions\/45438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}