{"id":3347,"date":"2025-02-28T10:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T08:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=3347"},"modified":"2025-02-28T10:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T08:55:15","slug":"al-merrikh-falls-into-the-trap-of-a-draw-against-wajuma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=3347","title":{"rendered":"Al-Merrikh Falls into the Trap of a Draw Against Wajuma"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Juba \/ Al-Wadi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al-Merrikh Bentiu fell into the trap of a draw against their rivals, Wajuma Aweil, yesterday afternoon at Juba National Stadium in a postponed match from the 12th round of the South Sudan Premier League&#8217;s first leg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1252\" src=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/481004846_1051801303648886_6086489907359691942_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/481004846_1051801303648886_6086489907359691942_n.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/481004846_1051801303648886_6086489907359691942_n-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/481004846_1051801303648886_6086489907359691942_n-768x470.jpg 768w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/481004846_1051801303648886_6086489907359691942_n-1536x939.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Al-Merrikh took the lead through their striker, Samuel Akinbinu, in the third minute of added time, giving his team the advantage just before the end of the first half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After returning from the break, Maher Abasher equalized for Wajuma just six minutes into the second half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1680\" src=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/481282716_1051883286974021_2700532246285167343_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/481282716_1051883286974021_2700532246285167343_n.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/481282716_1051883286974021_2700532246285167343_n-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/481282716_1051883286974021_2700532246285167343_n-768x630.jpg 768w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/481282716_1051883286974021_2700532246285167343_n-1536x1260.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The match continued without either team scoring another goal, ending in a 1-1 draw. This result raised Al-Merrikh\u2019s tally to 27 points, placing them fourth in the league standings, while Wajuma now has 15 points, sitting in seventh place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1849\" src=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/480997811_1051870710308612_7034879775624064735_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/480997811_1051870710308612_7034879775624064735_n.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/480997811_1051870710308612_7034879775624064735_n-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/480997811_1051870710308612_7034879775624064735_n-768x693.jpg 768w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/480997811_1051870710308612_7034879775624064735_n-1536x1387.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Two matches are scheduled for today. The first will see Kator Juba face Young Star Torit in the afternoon at Buluk Playground, while the second match will feature Lion Hunters Yei against Salam Aweil in the afternoon at Juba National Stadium. All these matches are postponed fixtures from the 12th round of the league.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juba \/ Al-Wadi Al-Merrikh Bentiu fell into the trap of a draw against their rivals, Wajuma Aweil, yesterday afternoon at Juba National Stadium in a postponed match from the 12th&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3352,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions\/3352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}