{"id":10162,"date":"2016-03-29T14:22:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T18:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=10162"},"modified":"2016-03-29T14:22:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T18:22:05","slug":"ethiopia-algeria-draw-3-3-in-thrilling-2017-african-nations-cup-qualifier-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/10162","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia, Algeria Draw 3-3 in Thrilling 2017 African Nations Cup Qualifier Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ethiofans.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-9537 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ethiofans-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"ethiofans\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ethiofans-300x171.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ethiofans-220x125.jpg 220w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/ethiofans.jpg 639w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Ethiopia and Algeria drew <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/35918933\">3-3<\/a> on Tuesday in a dramatic 2017 African Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifying match.<\/p>\n<p>Host Ethiopia started the game with fervor; their attacks on the Algerian defense in the first four minutes of the game earned them three corner kicks.<\/p>\n<p>The Walias of Ethiopia netted a goal 28<sup>th<\/sup> minutes into the first half.<\/p>\n<p>Although Ethiopia took the lead three times with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethiosports.com\/2016\/03\/29\/afcon-2017-ethiopia-3-algeria-3\/\">Getaneh Kebede<\/a> scoring twice, Algeria managed to equalize.<\/p>\n<p>Islam Slimani and Aissa Mandi equalized for Algeria before Ethiopia regained the lead with a goal from Dawit Fekadu. \u00a0The celebrations ended abruptly with five minutes remaining after Algeria equalized again \u2013 this time from a penalty kick by Faouzi Ghoulam.<\/p>\n<p>A victory for the Desert Foxes of Algeria would have made them the first team to qualify for the 2017 AFCON games in Gabon.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Lesotho earned their first point in the other group match with a surprise win over Seychelles. Lesotho won the game by a lone goal from Tumelo Khulang.<\/p>\n<p>The victory avenges Lesotho\u2019s 2-0 loss to Seychelles in the first leg of the tie.<\/p>\n<p>Algeria tops Group J with 10 points after winning all three matches including a 7-1 victory over Ethiopia on Friday. Ethiopia has 5 points, Seychelles has 4 and Lesotho has 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia and Algeria drew 3-3 on Tuesday in a dramatic 2017 African Cup of Nations (AFCON) qualifying match. Host Ethiopia started the game with fervor; their attacks on the Algerian defense in the first four minutes of the game earned<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/10162\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[44,46,1],"tags":[4718,4967,4615,43],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10162"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10163,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10162\/revisions\/10163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}