{"id":4870,"date":"2022-08-25T09:53:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T09:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ferwahand.rw\/?p=4870"},"modified":"2022-08-25T09:53:26","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T09:53:26","slug":"egypt-top-group-b-angola-and-tunisia-get-their-second-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ferwahand.rw\/?p=4870","title":{"rendered":"Egypt top Group B, Angola and Tunisia get their second win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Egypt are through in semi-finals as Group B winners after beating rivals Algeria 39-27 on Wednesday in on-going U-20 Men\u2019s African Handball Championship at the Bk Arena, Kigali.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Egypt national team maintained their 100% winning run in three group-stage matches after beating Algeria.<\/p>\n<p>In an entertaining game, Egypt outplayed Algeria in first half, going to the locker room with a comfortable 17-10 lead.<\/p>\n<p>However, they took their foot off the gas pedal in the second period as the Algeria narrowed the gap, but Egypt survived a late scare to widen the gap again and finish with a 12-goal advantage.<\/p>\n<p>Algeria finished second in Group B with four points, two behind Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>The other game saw Libya claim their first ever win in the tournament beating Congo 23-21 and finish third with two points.<\/p>\n<p>In Group A, Tunisia are on top with four points after beating winless Rwanda 43-26 while Angola are second after sweeping away Morocco with 32-26 win.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco, who is third in group A, will take on Tunisia this Thursday at 7 pm in the last group phase fixture.<\/p>\n<p>The top four teams from this tournament will directly qualify for the 2023 Men&#8217;s Junior World Handball Championship to be jointly hosted by Germany and Greece in next summer.<\/p>\n<p>The bottom teams in each preliminary group will move into the 7-8 placement match, with 3<sup>rd<\/sup> placed teams competing for 5-6 position on the same day as the semi-finals, on 26<sup>th<\/sup> August.<\/p>\n<p>The bronze and gold-medal matches will be played on Saturday, 27<sup>th<\/sup> August, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt are through in semi-finals as Group B winners after beating rivals Algeria 39-27 on Wednesday in on-going U-20 Men\u2019s African Handball Championship at the Bk Arena, Kigali. The Egypt national team maintained their 100% winning run in three group-stage matches after beating Algeria. In an entertaining game, Egypt outplayed Algeria in first half, going&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[104],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ferwahand.rw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ferwahand.rw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ferwahand.rw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ferwahand.rw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ferwahand.rw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4870"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ferwahand.rw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4872,"href":"http:\/\/ferwahand.rw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4870\/revisions\/4872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ferwahand.rw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ferwahand.rw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ferwahand.rw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ferwahand.rw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}