{"id":3562,"date":"2025-03-11T10:31:25","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T08:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=3562"},"modified":"2025-03-11T10:31:27","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T08:31:27","slug":"al-merrikh-surpasses-simba-in-konyokonyo-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=3562","title":{"rendered":"Al-Merrikh Surpasses Simba in Konyokonyo League"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Juba \/ Al-Wadi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al-Merrikh overcame their rival Simba with a 3-2 victory in the final match of the 18th round of the local First Division League in Juba, played yesterday afternoon at Buluk Playground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1226\" height=\"799\" src=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/482327383_644826885172807_2459991343895326745_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/482327383_644826885172807_2459991343895326745_n.jpg 1226w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/482327383_644826885172807_2459991343895326745_n-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/482327383_644826885172807_2459991343895326745_n-768x501.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1226px) 100vw, 1226px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The first half ended in a goalless draw between the two teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Al-Merrikh&#8217;s goals were scored by Sabet, who netted twice\u2014once in the 54th minute from a penalty kick and again in the first minute of stoppage time. Joseph added the third goal in the 74th minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1100\" height=\"782\" src=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/482324200_644826881839474_6902517926900635959_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/482324200_644826881839474_6902517926900635959_n.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/482324200_644826881839474_6902517926900635959_n-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/482324200_644826881839474_6902517926900635959_n-768x546.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1100px) 100vw, 1100px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Simba&#8217;s goals came from Senegalese professional Gomez, who scored from a penalty in the 62nd minute, and Luki, who found the net in the 71st minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first-round match between the two teams had ended with a decisive 3-0 victory for Simba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1296\" height=\"864\" src=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/483885975_644826945172801_4650484947993352823_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3566\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/483885975_644826945172801_4650484947993352823_n.jpg 1296w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/483885975_644826945172801_4650484947993352823_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/483885975_644826945172801_4650484947993352823_n-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1296px) 100vw, 1296px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With this result, Al-Merrikh raised their tally to 21 points, climbing to seventh place in the standings, while Simba remained at 19 points, occupying the eighth position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 19th round of the league will kick off the day after tomorrow, Wednesday, March 12, with a match between Citizen and Gudele, set to take place in the afternoon at Buluk Playground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juba \/ Al-Wadi Al-Merrikh overcame their rival Simba with a 3-2 victory in the final match of the 18th round of the local First Division League in Juba, played yesterday&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3562","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\/3562","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=3562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3567,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions\/3567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}