{"id":218744,"date":"2026-01-01T11:05:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-mozambique-afcon-2025-super-eagles-to-face-mozambiques-mambas-in-round-of-16\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T11:05:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:05:31","slug":"cameroon-mozambique-afcon-2025-super-eagles-to-face-mozambiques-mambas-in-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/cameroon-mozambique-afcon-2025-super-eagles-to-face-mozambiques-mambas-in-round-of-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon\/Mozambique: Afcon 2025 &#8211; Super Eagles to Face Mozambique&#8217;s Mambas in Round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Mozambique lost their opening game to Cup holders Cote d&#8217;Ivoire, but then dug their feet into the ground to triumph over Gabon, before losing 1-2 to Cameroon&#8217;s Indomitable Lions on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Nigeria will clash with Mozambique for only the sixth time at senior level, as both teams go for each other&#8217;s jugular in one of the Round of 16 games of the ongoing 35th <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cafonline.com\/caf-africa-cup-of-nations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Africa Cup of Nations<\/a><\/strong> finals in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The 35,000-capacity Complexe Sportif de F\u00e8s, which has been home to three-time African&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601010010.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Cameroon\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/cameroon\/\">Cameroon<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozambique lost their opening game to Cup holders Cote d&#8217;Ivoire, but then dug their feet into the ground to triumph over Gabon, before losing 1-2 to Cameroon&#8217;s Indomitable Lions on Wednesday evening. Nigeria will clash with Mozambique for only the sixth time at senior level, as both teams go for each other&#8217;s jugular in one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":218745,"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\/00680357:38ce21c02a8bd096e5a86e5bd2b11377:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[9488,258,256,377,36184,5232,7127,11898,10439,257,254,9095],"class_list":["post-218744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cameroonmozambique","tag-eagles","tag-face","tag-mambas","tag-mozambiques","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-super"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680357:38ce21c02a8bd096e5a86e5bd2b11377:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218744","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=218744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}