{"id":6170,"date":"2025-12-01T13:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=6170"},"modified":"2025-12-01T14:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T12:17:14","slug":"in-the-presence-of-the-governor-bentiu-city-draws-with-lion-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=6170","title":{"rendered":"In the Presence of the Governor\u2026 Bentiu City Draws with Lion Hunters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Juba: Al-Wadi<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bentiu City settled for a 2\u20132 draw against their rivals Lion Hunters Yei in the opening match of Round 10 of the South Sudan Premier League (second edition), yesterday afternoon at Juba National Stadium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/592726758_122143952588932637_472542730809856401_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/592726758_122143952588932637_472542730809856401_n.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/592726758_122143952588932637_472542730809856401_n-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/592726758_122143952588932637_472542730809856401_n-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/592726758_122143952588932637_472542730809856401_n-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The match was honored by the presence of the Governor of Unity State, Riek Bim Top, who attended from the VIP stand, along with the Minister of Housing and Public Utilities of Central Equatoria State, David Morbi the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports of Unity State, Gieng Kuany the First Vice President of the South Sudan Football Federation, Makur Majok; and the president of Bentiu City Club, Yohannes Musa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1613\" src=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/593584669_122143943726932637_7177559839366639688_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/593584669_122143943726932637_7177559839366639688_n.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/593584669_122143943726932637_7177559839366639688_n-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/593584669_122143943726932637_7177559839366639688_n-768x605.jpg 768w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/593584669_122143943726932637_7177559839366639688_n-1536x1210.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>From the kickoff\u2014and specifically after only six minutes\u2014Bentiu City opened the scoring through their player Dungus Gatiek. Akera Diamonda then added the second goal for Bentiu City in the 15th minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 18th minute, Lion Hunters reduced the gap with a goal scored by Malish Michael, which ended the first half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" src=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/589602915_122143952678932637_8949644780520597150_n-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/589602915_122143952678932637_8949644780520597150_n-1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/589602915_122143952678932637_8949644780520597150_n-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/589602915_122143952678932637_8949644780520597150_n-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/589602915_122143952678932637_8949644780520597150_n-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In the second half, specifically in the 70th minute, Isaac Derrick scored the equalizer for Lion Hunters by netting his team\u2019s second goal. The match ended in a positive 2\u20132 draw. With this result, Bentiu City raised their tally to 8 points, temporarily moving into 10th place, while Lion Hunters earned their first point in the league so far, remaining at the bottom of the standings. Both Bentiu City and Lion Hunters had lost their matches in the previous round (Round 9) to Algazala Wau and Atlabara Juba, with scores of 3\u20132 and 3\u20131 respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1912\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/591588449_122143972856932637_5623556320808957868_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/591588449_122143972856932637_5623556320808957868_n.jpg 1912w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/591588449_122143972856932637_5623556320808957868_n-280x300.jpg 280w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/591588449_122143972856932637_5623556320808957868_n-768x823.jpg 768w, https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/591588449_122143972856932637_5623556320808957868_n-1434x1536.jpg 1434w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1912px) 100vw, 1912px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Round 10 of the Premier League continues today with two matches. The first, at 1 p.m., features Holy Family Rumbek\u2014fourth place with 19 points and currently experiencing administrative and technical challenges\u2014against Al-Malakia Juba, who sit fifth with 17 points. In the second match, Al-Merrikh Bentiu\u2014buoyed by their victory over Al-Hilal Wau in the previous round and holding 22 points\u2014will face the struggling Wajuma Aweil, who sit ninth with 10 points after losing to Koryom Bor last round. This match will take place at 3:30 p.m. at Juba National Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juba: Al-Wadi Bentiu City settled for a 2\u20132 draw against their rivals Lion Hunters Yei in the opening match of Round 10 of the South Sudan Premier League (second edition),&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6170","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\/6170","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=6170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6178,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170\/revisions\/6178"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}