{"id":30847,"date":"2020-12-03T21:23:54","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T19:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=30847"},"modified":"2020-12-03T21:23:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T19:23:54","slug":"cosafa-u20-championship-zimbabwe-south-africa-in-4-goal-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/cosafa-u20-championship-zimbabwe-south-africa-in-4-goal-thriller","title":{"rendered":"COSAFA U20 Championship: Zimbabwe, South Africa In 4-goal Thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Zimbabwe\u2019s Young Warriors began their COSAFA U20 Championship with a 2-2 draw against Amajita of South Africa on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe drew first blood through Panashe Mutimbanyoka who opened the scoring after just eight minutes into the first stanza.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa were unable to find a reply in the opening 45 minutes, but they were back on level terms shortly after the halftime break through SuperSport United attacker Oswin Appollis\u2019 finish.<\/p>\n<p>It was Zimbabwe who got the next goal eight minutes later courtesy of a strike from Lexington Mujokoro.<\/p>\n<p>Amajita, however, got an equaliser in second-half stoppage time, with Mohlala Makola getting the important goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe\u2019s Young Warriors began their COSAFA U20 Championship with a 2-2 draw against Amajita of South Africa on Thursday afternoon. Zimbabwe drew first blood through Panashe Mutimbanyoka who opened the scoring after just eight minutes into the first stanza. South Africa were unable to find a reply in the opening 45 minutes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":30846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,16,15],"tags":[1493,572,1850,1554,644,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-30847","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-sport","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-cosafa","13":"tag-cosafa-u20-championship","14":"tag-the-young-warriors","15":"tag-young-warriors","16":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>COSAFA U20 Championship: Zimbabwe, South Africa In 4-goal Thriller - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/cosafa-u20-championship-zimbabwe-south-africa-in-4-goal-thriller\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"COSAFA U20 Championship: Zimbabwe, South Africa In 4-goal Thriller\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. 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