{"id":8709,"date":"2013-06-26T14:09:44","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T14:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/under-20-world-cup-mali-fail-to-break-down-greece\/"},"modified":"2013-06-26T14:09:55","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T14:09:55","slug":"under-20-world-cup-mali-fail-to-break-down-greece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/under-20-world-cup-mali-fail-to-break-down-greece\/","title":{"rendered":"Under-20 World Cup: Mali fail to break down Greece"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Mali were held to their second draw at the Under-20 World Cup as their Group D match against Greece ended goalless.}}<\/p>\n<p>The West Africans can still reach the knockout stages, but must beat Mexico on Friday to be in with a chance.<\/p>\n<p>Adama Niane, who scored in Mali&#8217;s previous game, had the best chance of the first half but his attempt to lob Stefanos Kapino fell just wide.<\/p>\n<p>Greece should have scored after the break but Andreas Bouchalakis hit the bar with a shot from four yards out.<\/p>\n<p>Although Mali remain unbeaten in the competition they will be concerned by their wastefulness in front of goal which has limited their impact.<\/p>\n<p>They managed plenty of shots against Greece but most were taken from outside the box and rarely forced the goalkeeper into action.<\/p>\n<p>Niane was the main culprit, and Mali will hope that their missed chances do not prove costly once the points are tallied up on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Greece and Paraguay will meet in a top-of-the-table clash on Friday, knowing a draw may be enough to see them both through to the next round.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3057 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_68386585_mali_greece.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Mali were held to their second draw at the Under-20 World Cup as their Group D match against Greece ended goalless.}} The West Africans can still reach the knockout stages, but must beat Mexico on Friday to be in with a chance. Adama Niane, who scored in Mali&#8217;s previous game, had the best chance of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-8709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8709"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=8709"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=8709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}