{"id":218505,"date":"2025-12-30T10:42:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-morocco-moroccos-atlas-lions-maul-zambia-to-reach-last-16-of-afcon-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T10:42:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:42:05","slug":"zambia-morocco-moroccos-atlas-lions-maul-zambia-to-reach-last-16-of-afcon-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambia-morocco-moroccos-atlas-lions-maul-zambia-to-reach-last-16-of-afcon-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia\/Morocco: Morocco&#8217;s Atlas Lions Maul Zambia to Reach Last 16 of Afcon 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\"><em>NAIROBI, Kenya, December 29, 2025 &#8211; Morocco gave Zambia a sobering lesson in football via a 3-0 defeat in their final Group A encounter of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations on home soil on Monday night.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Olympiakos striker Ayoub El Kaabi put the Atlas Lions ahead after nine minutes, making the most of Azzedine Ounahi&#8217;s cross from the right.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Brahim Diaz then doubled the lead with a right-footed shot in the 37th minute, the Real Madrid winger notching his third of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">An acrobatic kick from&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512300084.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, December 29, 2025 &#8211; Morocco gave Zambia a sobering lesson in football via a 3-0 defeat in their final Group A encounter of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations on home soil on Monday night. Olympiakos striker Ayoub El Kaabi put the Atlas Lions ahead after nine minutes, making the most of Azzedine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":218506,"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":[825],"tags":[9488,258,256,28379,8779,19889,17446,257,5160,254,4709,881,37181],"class_list":["post-218505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-atlas","tag-lions","tag-maul","tag-moroccos","tag-news","tag-reach","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambiamorocco"],"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\/218505","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=218505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}