{"id":217832,"date":"2025-12-23T14:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/nigeria-afcon-2025-salahs-late-score-secures-egypt-victory-over-zimbabwe\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T14:56:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T12:56:13","slug":"nigeria-afcon-2025-salahs-late-score-secures-egypt-victory-over-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/nigeria-afcon-2025-salahs-late-score-secures-egypt-victory-over-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Afcon 2025 &#8211; Salah&#8217;s Late Score Secures Egypt Victory Over Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Egypt snatched a dramatic 2-1 victory against Zimbabwe in their opening 2025 Africa Cup of Nations fixture at the Adrar Stadium on Monday, coming from behind to secure all three points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Zimbabwe, dubbed the Warriors, went into the half-time interval with a surprise lead after Prince Dube netted in the 20th minute.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">However, Hossam Hassan&#8217;s side tallied in the second half. Omar Marmoush restored parity in the 63rd minute before Mohamed Salah struck the decisive blow in stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512230232.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>Egypt snatched a dramatic 2-1 victory against Zimbabwe in their opening 2025 Africa Cup of Nations fixture at the Adrar Stadium on Monday, coming from behind to secure all three points. Zimbabwe, dubbed the Warriors, went into the half-time interval with a surprise lead after Prince Dube netted in the 20th minute. However, Hossam Hassan&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":217833,"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":[338],"tags":[9488,258,256,4697,415,8262,257,4687,41275,12468,10429,254,10099,4686],"class_list":["post-217832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-late","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-salahs","tag-score","tag-secures","tag-south-africa-today","tag-victory","tag-zimbabwe"],"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\/217832","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=217832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}