{"id":189124,"date":"2025-01-21T01:30:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-20T23:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/mozambique-egypt-ben-youssef-hat-trick-powers-al-masry-to-quarter-finals\/"},"modified":"2025-01-21T01:30:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T23:30:43","slug":"mozambique-egypt-ben-youssef-hat-trick-powers-al-masry-to-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/mozambique-egypt-ben-youssef-hat-trick-powers-al-masry-to-quarter-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique\/Egypt: Ben Youssef Hat-Trick Powers Al-Masry to Quarter-Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\"><em>A masterclass performance from Fakhreddine Ben Youssef secured Egyptian side Al-Masry&#8217;s place in the TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup quarter-finals with a commanding 3-1 victory over Black Bulls of Maputo on Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">The striker&#8217;s clinical hat-trick proved decisive as Al-Masry finished second in Group D with nine points, leaving their Mozambican opponents rooted to the bottom of the standings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Ben Youssef opened the scoring in the 22nd minute before doubling his tally just before half-time,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501200132.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A masterclass performance from Fakhreddine Ben Youssef secured Egyptian side Al-Masry&#8217;s place in the TotalEnergies CAF Confederation Cup quarter-finals with a commanding 3-1 victory over Black Bulls of Maputo on Sunday. The striker&#8217;s clinical hat-trick proved decisive as Al-Masry finished second in Group D with nine points, leaving their Mozambican opponents rooted to the bottom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":189125,"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":[338],"tags":[258,256,20190,16064,415,24092,50432,257,12139,15866,254,16107],"class_list":["post-189124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-almasry","tag-ben","tag-egypt-news","tag-hattrick","tag-mozambiqueegypt","tag-news","tag-powers","tag-quarterfinals","tag-south-africa-today","tag-youssef"],"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\/189124","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=189124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}