{"id":203212,"date":"2025-07-25T03:29:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T01:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-morocco-morocco-edge-ghana-on-penalties-to-reach-wafcon-final-against-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T03:29:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T01:29:21","slug":"ghana-morocco-morocco-edge-ghana-on-penalties-to-reach-wafcon-final-against-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-morocco-morocco-edge-ghana-on-penalties-to-reach-wafcon-final-against-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana\/Morocco: Morocco Edge Ghana On Penalties to Reach WAFCON Final Against Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Morocco have booked a place in the final of the 2024 Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations after defeating Ghana 4-2 on penalties in a tense semi-final at Rabat&#8217;s Olympic Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The match ended 1-1 after extra time, but the Atlas Lionesses kept their nerve in the shootout, with goalkeeper Khadija Er-Rmichi saving the decisive spot kick from 18-year-old Comfort Yeboah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Ghana had taken the lead in the 26th minute through Stella Nyamekye following a strong first-half performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">But Morocco rallied after&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507240645.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morocco have booked a place in the final of the 2024 Women&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations after defeating Ghana 4-2 on penalties in a tense semi-final at Rabat&#8217;s Olympic Stadium. The match ended 1-1 after extra time, but the Atlas Lionesses kept their nerve in the shootout, with goalkeeper Khadija Er-Rmichi saving the decisive spot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7126,6038,4508,4509,28378,5609,257,4687,18165,5160,254,24869],"class_list":["post-203212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-edge","tag-final","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghanamorocco","tag-morocco","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-penalties","tag-reach","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wafcon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/203212","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}