{"id":218083,"date":"2025-12-25T22:27:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T20:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/africa-afcon-matchday-2-round-up-salahs-last-gasp-goal-lifts-egypt-south-africa-edge-angola-daka-strike-denies-mali\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T22:27:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T20:27:50","slug":"africa-afcon-matchday-2-round-up-salahs-last-gasp-goal-lifts-egypt-south-africa-edge-angola-daka-strike-denies-mali","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/africa-afcon-matchday-2-round-up-salahs-last-gasp-goal-lifts-egypt-south-africa-edge-angola-daka-strike-denies-mali\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Afcon Matchday 2 Round-Up &#8211; Salah&#8217;s Last-Gasp Goal Lifts Egypt, South Africa Edge Angola, Daka Strike Denies Mali"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Mohamed Salah scores a dramatic late winner as Egypt beats Zimbabwe<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Bafana Bafana begin campaign with hard fought win<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Patson Daka scores late for Zambia to hold Mali<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\"><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cafonline.com\/afcon2025\/match-centre?competition=190&amp;season=2025&amp;match=2506776\" rel=\"noopener\">Egypt 2-1 Zimbabwe <\/a>Scorers: Marmoush 63rd, M. Salah 90th \/ P. Dube 20thMohamed Salah&#8217;s stoppage-time strike rescued Egypt from the brink of frustration as they fought back to secure a 2-1 victory over Zimbabwe in Group B of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The seven-time champions appeared to be heading&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512250091.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohamed Salah scores a dramatic late winner as Egypt beats Zimbabwe Bafana Bafana begin campaign with hard fought win Patson Daka scores late for Zambia to hold Mali Egypt 2-1 Zimbabwe Scorers: Marmoush 63rd, M. Salah 90th \/ P. Dube 20thMohamed Salah&#8217;s stoppage-time strike rescued Egypt from the brink of frustration as they fought back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":218084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680288:ac7b27e898f2964d6ce6be7b789613e4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[9488,258,256,3941,4263,15019,7651,7126,4697,8551,21238,7840,4637,53209,257,49804,41275,5069,254,2080],"class_list":["post-218083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-daka","tag-denies","tag-edge","tag-egypt","tag-goal","tag-lastgasp","tag-lifts","tag-mali","tag-matchday","tag-news","tag-roundup","tag-salahs","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-strike"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680288:ac7b27e898f2964d6ce6be7b789613e4:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218083","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=218083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}