{"id":48956,"date":"2026-10-24T15:29:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T13:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=48956"},"modified":"2026-10-25T07:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T05:10:47","slug":"african-champions-league-holders-knocked-out-in-second-round","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/african-champions-league-holders-knocked-out-in-second-round\/","title":{"rendered":"African Champions League holders knocked out in second round"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Holders Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa were bundled out of \u200bthe African Champions League in the \u200csecond preliminary round on Friday, beaten on the away goals rule by Wiliete from \u200bAngola.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The second leg at Loftus Versfeld \u200bin Pretoria finished 1-1 five days \u2060after the two sides had played \u200bout a goalless draw in Lubango \u200bin the first leg last Sunday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sundowns went ahead after 11 minutes through Tashreeq Matthews but \u200bAngola international Mabululu equalised four minutes \u200binto the second half.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Wiliete then produced a stout \u200crearguard \u2060action to reach the group phase for the first time.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The lineup for the next round, where 16 teams will \u200bbe divided \u200binto four \u2060groups, will be decided on Sunday when the last of \u200bthe preliminary round matches are \u200bplayed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Sundowns \u2060qualified for the group phase in the previous 11 editions of the Champions \u2060League \u200band their defeat ranks \u200bamong the competition&#8217;s biggest shocks.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":48563,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-48956","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Sundowns went ahead after 11 minutes through Tashreeq Matthews.","published_date":"","news_description":"Sundowns went ahead after 11 minutes through Tashreeq Matthews","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48956","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48958,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/48956\/revisions\/48958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=48956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}