{"id":180103,"date":"2024-09-07T10:49:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-07T08:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/algeria-equatorial-guinea-algeria-secure-crucial-win-over-equatorial-guinea-tunisia-edge-madagascar\/"},"modified":"2024-09-07T10:49:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-07T08:49:59","slug":"algeria-equatorial-guinea-algeria-secure-crucial-win-over-equatorial-guinea-tunisia-edge-madagascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/algeria-equatorial-guinea-algeria-secure-crucial-win-over-equatorial-guinea-tunisia-edge-madagascar\/","title":{"rendered":"Algeria\/Equatorial Guinea: Algeria Secure Crucial Win Over Equatorial Guinea, Tunisia Edge Madagascar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">On Thursday night, Algeria began their AFCON 2025 qualifying campaign with a 2-0 win against Equatorial Guinea at the Miloud Hadefi Stadium in Oran. Houssem Aouar and Amine Gouiri were the heroes for the Desert Warriors, scoring the goals that handed their side a valuable three points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The Algerians started the game aggressively, piling pressure on Equatorial Guinea&#8217;s defense from the first whistle. The trio of Baghdad Bounedjah, Sa\u00efd Benrahma, and Riyad Mahrez created several chances, but the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409060275.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday night, Algeria began their AFCON 2025 qualifying campaign with a 2-0 win against Equatorial Guinea at the Miloud Hadefi Stadium in Oran. Houssem Aouar and Amine Gouiri were the heroes for the Desert Warriors, scoring the goals that handed their side a valuable three points. The Algerians started the game aggressively, piling pressure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":180104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,4705,41178,7774,7126,7555,4715,7973,257,7904,254,4703,653,6660],"class_list":["post-180103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-algeria","tag-algeriaequatorial","tag-crucial","tag-edge","tag-equatorial","tag-guinea","tag-madagascar","tag-news","tag-secure","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-win"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}