{"id":13766,"date":"2025-10-25T12:28:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T10:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-pirates-take-on-saint-eloi-lupopo-in-caf-champions-league-game\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:35","slug":"sas-pirates-take-on-saint-eloi-lupopo-in-caf-champions-league-game","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-pirates-take-on-saint-eloi-lupopo-in-caf-champions-league-game\/","title":{"rendered":"SA&#8217;s Pirates take on Saint-\u00c9loi Lupopo in CAF Champions League game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s (SA) Orlando Pirates will be looking to turn around what seems to be an impossible task when they host Saint-\u00c9loi Lupopo in the second leg of the second preliminary round of the CAF Champions League today at Orlando Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Buccaneers suffered a shock 3-nil defeat in the first leg of their second preliminary round tie in DRC last week.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Coming into this game, Abdeslam Ouaddou\u2019s men were on hot form; however, that did not stop the Congolese men from beating them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This defeat put them at risk of being eliminated before the group stages of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last season\u2019s CAF semifinalists won their mid-week game against Polokwane City 1-nil in the Betway Premiership.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The kick-off of this encounter is at 15:00 CAT.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13767,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-13766","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Orlando Pirates host Saint-\u00c9loi Lupopo in the second leg of the second preliminary round of the CAF Champions League","published_date":"2025-10-25 14:27:37","news_description":"Orlando Pirates host Saint-\u00c9loi Lupopo in the second leg of the second preliminary round of the CAF Champions League","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18735,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13766\/revisions\/18735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}