{"id":14689,"date":"2023-08-02T16:15:34","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T16:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=14689"},"modified":"2023-08-02T16:15:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T16:15:34","slug":"womens-wcup-south-africa-knock-out-italy-to-reach-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=14689","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s W\u2019Cup: South Africa Knock Out Italy To Reach Round Of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">South Africa\u2019s Banyana Banyana, on Wednesday, beat Italy 3-2 to qualify for the Round of 16 of the 2023 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">South Africa\u2019s Chrestinah Kgatlana\u2019s scored a 93rd-minute winner in stoppage time to seal a second-round qualification. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This is a historical feat for the South Africans as it is their first time ever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Although South Africa led 2-1 with Magaia strike in the 67th minute, Italy levelled the scores after a crucial header from Arianna Caruso.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Italy needed at least a draw to qualify for the knockout round but Kgatlana\u2019s late strike was the difference. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Africans finished on four points, behind group leaders Sweden. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">They join the Super Falcons of Nigeria in the next round of the tournament<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">South Africa\u2019s Bayana Bayana will play the Netherlands in the last 16 on Sunday, while Nigeria will face England on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s Banyana Banyana, on Wednesday, beat Italy 3-2 to qualify for the Round of 16 of the 2023 FIFA Women\u2019s World Cup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1916,345,7379],"class_list":["post-14689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-italy","tag-south-africa","tag-womens-wcup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14689"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14692,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14689\/revisions\/14692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}