{"id":217802,"date":"2025-12-23T10:30:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-egypt-late-salah-strike-sinks-warriors\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T10:30:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:30:50","slug":"zimbabwe-egypt-late-salah-strike-sinks-warriors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-egypt-late-salah-strike-sinks-warriors\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe\/Egypt: Late Salah Strike Sinks Warriors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Zimbabwe&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) campaign got off to a heartbreaking start as they suffered a 2-1 defeat to Egypt in their opening Group B match in Morocco undone by a stoppage-time winner from Mohamed Salah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The Warriors looked on course for a famous result after Prince Dube gave them an early lead but goals from Oumar Marmoush and Salah turned the game on its head to hand the Pharaohs all three points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The Warriors struck first in the 20th minute when Dube finished confidently after a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512230012.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe&#8217;s Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) campaign got off to a heartbreaking start as they suffered a 2-1 defeat to Egypt in their opening Group B match in Morocco undone by a stoppage-time winner from Mohamed Salah. The Warriors looked on course for a famous result after Prince Dube gave them an early lead but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,8262,257,13702,7203,254,2080,10304,421,8896],"class_list":["post-217802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-late","tag-news","tag-salah","tag-sinks","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strike","tag-warriors","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabweegypt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217802","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}