{"id":219199,"date":"2026-01-04T22:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-mali-10-man-mali-edge-tunisia-in-shootouts-to-reach-qfinals\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T22:31:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T20:31:00","slug":"tunisia-mali-10-man-mali-edge-tunisia-in-shootouts-to-reach-qfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-mali-10-man-mali-edge-tunisia-in-shootouts-to-reach-qfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia\/Mali: 10-Man Mali Edge Tunisia in Shootouts to Reach Q&#8217;finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\"><strong>\u00b7<em>Gueye double fires Senegal through also<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Ten-man Mali defeated Tunisia 3-2 in penalty shootouts last night to advance to the quarter finals of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Regulation and added time had deadlocked 1-1 after 120 minutes for the game to drag into penalty shootouts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">But it was the men from Bamako, playing with one man short that triumphed in the lottery game of penalties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Mali&#8217;s troubles began early. In&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601040017.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>\u00b7Gueye double fires Senegal through also Ten-man Mali defeated Tunisia 3-2 in penalty shootouts last night to advance to the quarter finals of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco. Regulation and added time had deadlocked 1-1 after 120 minutes for the game to drag into penalty shootouts. But it was the men from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":219200,"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\/00680377:a6dd8aeb89b055de786121b5eab26a2e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[20672,258,256,7126,4637,257,53318,5160,41277,254,4703,653,53317],"class_list":["post-219199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-10man","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-edge","tag-mali","tag-news","tag-qfinals","tag-reach","tag-shootouts","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news","tag-tunisiamali"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680377:a6dd8aeb89b055de786121b5eab26a2e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219199","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=219199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}