{"id":53341,"date":"2023-09-24T13:42:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T13:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/gitegos-late-strike-completes-marines-comeback-against-apr-fc"},"modified":"2023-09-24T14:06:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T14:06:44","slug":"gitegos-late-strike-completes-marines-comeback-against-apr-fc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/gitegos-late-strike-completes-marines-comeback-against-apr-fc","title":{"rendered":"Gitego\u2019s late strike completes Marines comeback against APR FC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Edmund Okai Gyimah<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Marines FC came from behind twice to pick a point against APR FC after both sides played out a pulsating 2-2 Primus National League draw at Umuganda Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>An 89th minute goal from striker Arthur Gitego completed the comeback for the Rubavu-based side who upset the league champions in a thrilling match day 4 encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Nigerian forward Victor Mbaoma who had netted a hat trick against Marines in preseason fired the visitors ahead with a cool finish in the 12th minute. Marines pushed so hard for an equalizer but APR remained strong in defense, going into half time leading the scores.<\/p>\n<p><b>ALSO READ<\/b>: Gitego confident Marines can avoid relegation<\/p>\n<p>Marines finally canceled the army side\u2019s lead in the 62nd minute through Olivier Usabimana.<\/p>\n<p>But the celebrations did not take long as APR bang in regained the lead just seven minutes later through Innocent Nshuti to get back on track.<\/p>\n<p>They were not able to break the Marines defense afterwards as the home team remained cautious and resolute at the back by defending gallantly.<\/p>\n<p>With APR heading to victory, striker Arthur Gitego popped up with a fantastic finish in the 89th minute to make it 2-2 as he broke the heart of the defending League Champions.<\/p>\n<p>There was not much action in injury time as both teams held on to the 2-2 draw.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\">Rwanda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edmund Okai Gyimah Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. Marines FC came from behind twice to pick a point against APR FC after both sides played out a pulsating 2-2 Primus National League draw at Umuganda Stadium on Saturday. An 89th minute goal from striker Arthur Gitego completed the comeback for the Rubavu-based side who upset the league [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":53340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18],"tags":[760,763,758],"class_list":["post-53341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-rwanda","tag-rwanda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gitego\u2019s late strike completes Marines comeback against APR FC - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Marines FC came from behind twice to pick a point against APR FC after both sides played out a pulsating 2-2 Primus Nati ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/gitegos-late-strike-completes-marines-comeback-against-apr-fc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gitego\u2019s late strike completes Marines comeback against APR FC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Marines FC came from behind twice to pick a point against APR FC after both sides played out a pulsating 2-2 Primus Nati ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/gitegos-late-strike-completes-marines-comeback-against-apr-fc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rwanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-09-24T13:42:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-09-24T14:06:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2023\/09\/sm_1695551663.337555.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"593\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/gitegos-late-strike-completes-marines-comeback-against-apr-fc#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/gitegos-late-strike-completes-marines-comeback-against-apr-fc\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Gitego\u2019s late strike completes Marines comeback against APR FC\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-09-24T13:42:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-09-24T14:06:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/gitegos-late-strike-completes-marines-comeback-against-apr-fc\"},\"wordCount\":249,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/gitegos-late-strike-completes-marines-comeback-against-apr-fc#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2023\/09\/sm_1695551663.337555.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Rwanda\",\"Rwanda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/gitegos-late-strike-completes-marines-comeback-against-apr-fc#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/gitegos-late-strike-completes-marines-comeback-against-apr-fc\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/gitegos-late-strike-completes-marines-comeback-against-apr-fc\",\"name\":\"Gitego\u2019s late strike completes Marines comeback against APR FC - 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