{"id":188486,"date":"2025-09-28T22:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T22:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/188486\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T22:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T22:24:07","slug":"kotoko-beat-kwara-united-to-seal-caf-confederation-cup-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/188486\/","title":{"rendered":"Kotoko beat Kwara United to seal CAF Confederation Cup progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/SportsArchive\/Kotoko-beat-Kwara-United-to-seal-CAF-Confederation-Cup-progress-2002697?gallery=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/99897070.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kotoko have advanced to the Round of 32 in the CAF Confederations Cup preliminary round\" title=\"Kotoko have advanced to the Round of 32 in the CAF Confederations Cup preliminary round\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/> <\/a>Kotoko have advanced to the Round of 32 in the CAF Confederations Cup preliminary round<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/people\/person.php?ID=3592\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Asante Kotoko<\/a> marched into the CAF Confederation Cup Round of 32 after recording a hard-fought 1-0 victory over Kwara United in Ilorin on Sunday, September 28, 2025, sealing a 5-3 aggregate triumph.<\/p>\n<p>Following their thrilling 4-3 win in the first leg in Accra, Kotoko showed far greater defensive discipline in Nigeria, frustrating Kwara throughout a tense encounter. <\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough came in the 54th minute when Hubert Gyau calmly slotted home, silencing the home crowd and giving the Porcupine Warriors a priceless away goal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/SportsArchive\/UDS-win-historic-World-University-Games-for-first-time-2002654\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UDS win historic World University Games for first time<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite waves of late pressure from the Nigerian side, Kotoko held firm at the back to preserve their clean sheet and book their place in the next round. <\/p>\n<p>The Ghanaian giants will now face Moroccan heavyweights, Wydad Casablanca, in the second preliminary round, with the first leg scheduled between October 17\u201319, 2025, and the return fixture a week later.<\/p>\n<p>FKA\/AE<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, watch interviews with Bahubali\u2019s twin sister and promoter below<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kotoko have advanced to the Round of 32 in the CAF Confederations Cup preliminary round Asante Kotoko marched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-188486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}