{"id":56046,"date":"2026-03-15T16:45:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T15:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=56046"},"modified":"2026-03-15T16:45:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T15:45:06","slug":"usm-alger-falls-in-lubumbashi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=56046","title":{"rendered":"USM Alger falls in Lubumbashi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USM Alger suffered a 2-1 defeat against the Congolese side Maniema Union in the first leg of the CAF Confederation Cup quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Soustara&#8221; side started the match well, but the hosts managed to open the scoring in the 41st minute through a penalty kick, which concluded the first half.<\/p>\n<p>In the second half, USM Alger managed to equalize in the 53rd minute through player Khaldi, who converted a penalty into a goal.<\/p>\n<p>However, the parity did not last long, as the hosts scored their second goal in the 65th minute, ending the match with a loss for USM Alger.<\/p>\n<p>The return leg will be held at the July 5 Stadium next Sunday, March 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USM Alger suffered a 2-1 defeat against the Congolese side Maniema Union in the first leg of the CAF Confederation Cup quarter-finals. The &#8220;Soustara&#8221; side started the match well, but the hosts managed to open the scoring in the 41st minute through a penalty kick, which concluded the first half. In the second half, USM &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}