{"id":21986,"date":"2024-09-02T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=21986"},"modified":"2024-09-02T23:09:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T23:09:02","slug":"gdf-secures-crucial-victory-in-kfc-elite-league-title-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/gdf-secures-crucial-victory-in-kfc-elite-league-title-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"GDF Secures Crucial Victory in KFC Elite League Title Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>By Travis Seymour<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) football team returned to the KFC Elite League with a solid 4-2 victory over Western Tigers, marking a successful resumption of their title defense. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reigning champions bounced back from their first-round exit in the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Club Shield, showing dominance in their home league.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Western Tigers took an early lead in the 10th minute, courtesy of Michael Oie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, GDF quickly responded with an equalizer from Abumchi Benjamin in the 14th minute, bringing the score to 1-1. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kelsey Benjamin then gave GDF the lead in the 52nd minute, only for Oie to level the game again for the Tigers in the 59th minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In injury time, GDF\u2019s Ian Dooker netted twice, in the 90+1 and 90+6 minutes, securing the team\u2019s second place on the points table. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The win marked GDF\u2019s 14th victory in 15 games, alongside one draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elsewhere, Police FC remained in third place with a narrow 1-0 win over Fruta Conquerors FC. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neron Barrow\u2019s 16th-minute goal proved decisive, as Police held on to claim their 12th win after 16 matches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Slingerz FC remains at the top of the table with 13 wins and 3 draws, while Santos and Western Tigers round out the top five.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The KFC Elite League will conclude on August 24, with the top team set to receive a grand prize of $2 million, while second and third place will walk away with $1.2 million and $800,000, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Travis Seymour The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) football team returned to the KFC Elite League with a solid 4-2 victory over Western Tigers, marking a successful resumption of their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21990,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21986\/revisions\/21990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}