{"id":766036,"date":"2022-01-25T18:10:55","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T18:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/25\/afcon-2021-comoros-without-goalkeeper-for-cameroon-game\/"},"modified":"2022-01-25T18:10:55","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T18:10:55","slug":"afcon-2021-comoros-without-goalkeeper-for-cameroon-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/25\/afcon-2021-comoros-without-goalkeeper-for-cameroon-game\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2021: Comoros without goalkeeper for Cameroon game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Africa Cup of Nations giant-killers Comoros will play Monday\u2019s last-16 game against hosts Cameroon without a recognised goalkeeper.<\/p>\n<p>Salim Ben Boina was injured in their final Group C match, while fellow keepers Ali Ahamada and Moyadh Ousseini have tested positive for Covid-19.<\/p>\n<p>Nations Cup rules state sides must play if they have 11 fit players.<\/p>\n<p>Comoros goalkeeping coach Jean-Daniel Padovani said an outfield player would go in goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have already chosen an outfield player who will start as a goalkeeper,\u201d Padovani said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is a player who, during training, showed that he could play as a goalkeeper,\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Coelacanths, ranked 132nd in the world, have been hit by\u00a0a coronavirus outbreak affecting players and management\u00a0ahead of their meeting with the Indomitable Lions on Monday (19:00 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>Defenders Kassim Abdallah and Alexis Souahy, midfielders Nakibou Aboubakari and Yacine Bourhane and forward Mohamed M\u2019Changama are all out of the game, while coach Amir Abdou also tested positive.<\/p>\n<p>Comoros are playing at the tournament for the first time in their history and reached the knockout stages after\u00a0beating Ghana 3-2 and finishing third in Group C.<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Cup of Nations giant-killers Comoros will play Monday\u2019s last-16 game against hosts Cameroon without a recognised goalkeeper. Salim Ben Boina was injured in their final Group C match, while fellow keepers Ali Ahamada and Moyadh Ousseini have tested positive for Covid-19. Nations Cup rules state sides must play if they have 11 fit players. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":766037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[93,711,1112,281,864],"class_list":["post-766036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afcon","tag-cameroon","tag-comoros","tag-game","tag-goalkeeper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}