{"id":1607,"date":"2023-11-18T12:46:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-18T12:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/confederation-cup-hosts-struggle-in-last-eight-first-legs\/"},"modified":"2023-11-18T12:46:13","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T12:46:13","slug":"confederation-cup-hosts-struggle-in-last-eight-first-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/confederation-cup-hosts-struggle-in-last-eight-first-legs\/","title":{"rendered":"Confederation Cup: Hosts struggle in last eight first legs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1\">\n<figure class=\"gs-u-mt0 gs-u-mb-alt+ story-body__media story-body__media--figure qa-story-body-media story-body__media--lead\" data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$image-0\"><span class=\"gs-u-display-block story-body__media\" data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$image-0.0\"><span class=\"gs-u-display-block gs-o-responsive-image\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$image-0.0.0\"><\/span><\/span><figcaption class=\"gel-brevier gs-u-ph+ gs-u-pv-alt story-body__media__caption story-body__media__caption--image\" data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$image-0.1\">The Confederation Cup is Africa&#8217;s second-tier club competition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p role=\"introduction\" class=\"qa-introduction gel-pica-bold\" data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1\"><span data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-1.0\">None of the four hosts of the Confederation Cup quarter-final first legs managed to earn victories on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2\">\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0\"><span data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-2.0.0\">Zambia&#8217;s Zanaco lost 3-0 to Egypt&#8217;s Pyramids in Lusaka while Morocco&#8217;s Hassania Agadir thrashed host Al Nasr 5-0, in a match played in Egypt due to the security problems in Libya.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3\"><span data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.0\">Nigeria&#8217;s Enyimba were held to a 1-1 draw by visiting Horoya of Guinea and there was a 2-2 stalemate in Egypt  between Al Masry and Morocco&#8217;s Renaissance Berkane.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4\"><span data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.0\">The four second leg ties are set for 8 March. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5\"><span data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.0\">Karim el Berkaoui scored his second hat-trick this season with Senegalese Malick Cisse adding the other two goals in <\/span><strong data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.$bold-1\">Hassania Agadir&#8217;s<\/strong><span data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.2\"> thrashing of <\/span><strong data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.$bold-3\">Al Nasr<\/strong><span data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.4\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6\"><span data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6.0\">El Berkaoui needed only nine minutes to score his previous hat-trick, at home to San Pedro of the Ivory Coast in a group match.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7\"><span data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-7.0\">His treble against Nasr took 47 minutes with the first and second goals coming in the first half before the forward netted again 11 minutes after half-time. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8\"><span data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8.0\">Mouhcine Iajour opened and closed the scoring for last year&#8217;s Confederation Cup runners-up <\/span><strong data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8.$bold-1\">Renaissance Berkane<\/strong><span data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8.2\"> in their draw away to <\/span><strong data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8.$bold-3\">Al Masry<\/strong><span data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8.4\"> in Suez.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9\"><span data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9.0\">Muftah Taktak had levelled in the first minute of the second half for Masry, who then took the lead when Zouhair Laaroubi conceded an own-goal just past the hour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10\"><span data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10.0\">But with Renaissance staring at a fourth away defeat in the competition, experienced African campaigner Iajour came to the rescue with a goal eight minutes from time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-11\"><span data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-11.0\">Expensively assembled <\/span><strong data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-11.$bold-1\">Pyramids<\/strong><span data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-11.2\"> of Egypt made it 11 wins in 13 continental club matches this season by overwhelming previously unbeaten <\/span><strong data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-11.$bold-3\">Zanaco.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-12\"><span data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-12.0\">Zanaco faced Pyramids with confidence born from a six win-four draw Confederation Cup record this season, but conceded twice within 24 minutes and never recovered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-13\"><span data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-13.0\">Ali Gabr and Mohamed Farouk, with his sixth Confederation Cup goal, were the first-half scorers and Abdallah Said completed the rout by converting a penalty. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-14\"><strong data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-14.$bold-0\">Enyimba,<\/strong><span data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-14.1\"> the only former African champions among the title contenders, failed to defend an early lead and had to settle for a 1-1 home draw with <\/span><strong data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-14.$bold-2\">Horoya.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-15\"><span data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-15.0\">Austin Oladapo had given the Nigerians a first-half lead against the Guineans, who have been trophy-less in Africa since winning the 1978 Cup Winners Cup.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-16\"><span data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-16.0\">But Enyimba&#8217;s hopes of becoming the first Nigerian club to lift the trophy suffered a major blow when Boniface Haba levelled for Horoya 19 minutes from time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-17\"><span data-reactid=\".2ff5vx94crc.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-17.0\">The second legs of the quarter-finals are set for 8 March with with Pyramids poised to progress to face Horoya while Berkane and Agadir appear set to clash in an all-Moroccan affair.  <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/51704359?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Confederation Cup is Africa&#8217;s second-tier club competition None of the four hosts of the Confederation Cup quarter-final first legs managed to earn victories on Sunday. Zambia&#8217;s Zanaco lost 3-0 to Egypt&#8217;s Pyramids in Lusaka while Morocco&#8217;s Hassania Agadir thrashed host Al Nasr 5-0, in a match played in Egypt due to the security problems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-african","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1609,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1607\/revisions\/1609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}