{"id":19343,"date":"2025-09-04T09:14:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/world-cup-2026-qualifying-gabon-boost-hopes-with-4-0-win-over-seychelles\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T09:14:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T09:14:46","slug":"world-cup-2026-qualifying-gabon-boost-hopes-with-4-0-win-over-seychelles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/world-cup-2026-qualifying-gabon-boost-hopes-with-4-0-win-over-seychelles\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2026 qualifying: Gabon boost hopes with 4-0 win over Seychelles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Gabon boosted their hopes of a first appearance at the Fifa World Cup by moving top of their qualifying group for the 2026 finals with a 4-0 away win over Seychelles.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Denis Bouanga scored a first-half hat-trick as the Panthers ran riot in neutral St Pierre, Mauritius.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The LA FC forward needed less than four minutes to open the scoring after being left unmarked seven yards out to convert Teddy Averlant&#8217;s cross from the right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The West Africans doubled their lead in the 34th minute when Bouanga swept home a cutback, and Bouanga completed his treble seven minutes before the break by firing in a volley from 10 yards out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The tempo of the game dropped in the second half but Yannis M&#8217;Bemba got Gabon&#8217;s fourth goal when his header squeezed over the line in the 89th minute.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/live\/crkzyj36gmzt?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabon boosted their hopes of a first appearance at the Fifa World Cup by moving top of their qualifying group for the 2026 finals with a 4-0 away win over Seychelles. Denis Bouanga scored a first-half hat-trick as the Panthers ran riot in neutral St Pierre, Mauritius. The LA FC forward needed less than four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19343","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=19343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19345,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19343\/revisions\/19345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}