{"id":219053,"date":"2026-01-03T22:29:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/africa-afcon-2025-group-stage-goals-flow-as-heavyweights-deliver-and-new-names-emerge\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T22:29:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:29:16","slug":"africa-afcon-2025-group-stage-goals-flow-as-heavyweights-deliver-and-new-names-emerge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/africa-afcon-2025-group-stage-goals-flow-as-heavyweights-deliver-and-new-names-emerge\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Afcon 2025 Group Stage &#8211; Goals Flow As Heavyweights Deliver and New Names Emerge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>The group stage of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025 has underlined why the tournament remains one of world football&#8217;s most unpredictable and compelling spectacles.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Across 24 matches in six groups, 87 goals were scored, a figure that reflects both attacking ambition and the depth of quality on display as Africa&#8217;s leading nations and rising contenders battled for knockout-stage places.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Established stars once again shouldered responsibility, while emerging talents seized their&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601030137.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The group stage of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025 has underlined why the tournament remains one of world football&#8217;s most unpredictable and compelling spectacles. Across 24 matches in six groups, 87 goals were scored, a figure that reflects both attacking ambition and the depth of quality on display as Africa&#8217;s leading [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":219054,"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":[642],"tags":[9488,258,256,6126,9988,10632,6628,5192,21316,8650,257,254,4281,653],"class_list":["post-219053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deliver","tag-emerge","tag-flow","tag-goals","tag-group","tag-heavyweights","tag-names","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stage","tag-tunisia-news"],"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\/219053","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=219053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}