{"id":3176,"date":"2010-01-11T12:13:06","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T10:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2010-01-11T12:13:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T10:13:06","slug":"angola-4-4-mali-african-cup-of-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/angola-4-4-mali-african-cup-of-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola 4-4 Mali African Cup of Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3177\" title=\"Angola Mali\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Angola-Mali-280x168.jpg\" alt=\"Angola Mali\" width=\"280\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Angola-Mali-280x168.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Angola-Mali.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<h1>Angola 4-4 Mali: Sensational comback by Mali in the opening game of the African Cup of Nations<\/h1>\n<h2><strong>Mali made a sensational come back in the opening match of the 2010 African Cup of Nations match against hosts Angola from a 4-0 deficit in the 79th minute of the opening African Cup of Nations match to earn a memorable 4-4 draw with host Angola on Sunday.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Saudi Arabia-based striker Flavio put Angola in front with a 36th-minute diving header before doubling the lead in the Group A game six minutes later with another header from defender Mabina&#8217;s cross.<\/p>\n<p>Gilberto made it 3-0 with a 67th minute penalty before Manucho converted another penalty seven minutes later for what seemed an unassailable lead.<\/p>\n<p>But substitute Seydou Keita started Mali&#8217;s astonishing comeback in the 79th minute, before Frederic Kanoute made it 4-2, Keita got his second of the night in stoppage time and Mustapha Yatabare grabbed the equalizer at the end.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See match Highlights bellow<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my 42-year career as coach this is the first time something like this has happened,&#8221; Angola&#8217;s Portuguese coach Manuel Jose said. &#8220;We were supposed to win this game but we gave up at the end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Angola had started well and created several chances in the opening 10 minutes, forcing Mali goalkeeper Mahamadou Sidibe to twice deny Flavio&#8217;s close range efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mali made a sensational come back in the opening match of the 2010 African Cup of Nations match against hosts Angola from a 4-0 deficit in the 79th minute of the opening African Cup of Nations match to earn a memorable 4-4 draw with host Angola on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,135],"tags":[4156,4157,4151,4155,4152,4154,4153],"class_list":["post-3176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-football","tag-african-cup-of-nations","tag-angola-4-4-mali","tag-angola-4-4-mali-african-cup-of-nations","tag-mali-comeback","tag-mali-vs-andora","tag-mali-vs-andora-highlights","tag-mali-vs-andora-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}