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Kenya\u2019s hopes of qualifying for the Africa Cup of Nations in 2025 received a blow after succumbing to a narrow 0-1 defeat against Cameroon in a group J qualifier played Monday in Namboole Stadium,Kampala.<\/strong><\/p>\n Kenya sought to avenge the first leg 1-4 thrashing last week and managed to contain the five time Africa Champions in the opening 45 minutes.<\/p>\n Cameroon however engageda a second gear and broke the deadlock through a sumptuous free kicjk struck by Boris Enow in the 63rd minute.<\/p>\n It was a game of rare chances as Kenya rarely threatened and came closest in the 74th minute through a free kick that failed to hit the target.<\/p>\n The defeat leaves Kenya in a precarious position in their attempt to qualify for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations since they are now ranked third with four points from four matches.<\/p>\n Cameroon maintained their leadership with 10 points while Zimbabwe who play Namibia later on Monday are placed second 5 points adrift.Namibia is bottom pointless after three rounds.<\/p>\n Kenya will seek to put its qualification back on track when the qualifiers resume in November with encounters against Namibia on November 11th and Namibia on 19th.<\/p>\n Two top teams will qualify for the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations scheduled in Morocco.<\/p>\n The post Kenya suffers defeat against Cameroon in AFCON 2025 qualifier<\/a> first appeared on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Kenya suffers defeat against Cameroon in AFCON 2025 qualifier<\/a> appeared first on KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Kenya\u2019s hopes of qualifying for the Africa Cup of Nations in 2025 received a blow after succumbing to a narrow 0-1 defeat against Cameroon in a group J qualifier played Monday in Namboole Stadium,Kampala. Kenya sought to avenge the first leg 1-4 thrashing last week and managed to contain the five time Africa Champions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}