{"id":219695,"date":"2026-01-08T11:21:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/morocco-cameroon-diaz-fires-afcon-2025-hosts-morocco-to-face-cameroon-in-qfinals\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T11:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T09:21:06","slug":"morocco-cameroon-diaz-fires-afcon-2025-hosts-morocco-to-face-cameroon-in-qfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/morocco-cameroon-diaz-fires-afcon-2025-hosts-morocco-to-face-cameroon-in-qfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco\/Cameroon: Diaz Fires Afcon 2025 Hosts Morocco to Face Cameroon in Q&#8217;finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Returning captain Achraf Hakimi set up Brahim Diaz&#8217;s winner as host nation Morocco reached the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) quarter-finals by seeing off a stubborn Tanzania side in Rabat on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Morocco&#8217;s Atlas Lions are to play Cameroon in the quarterfinals on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Starting his first match for more than two months following an ankle injury, Paris St-Germain right-back Hakimi fed Diaz to fire past Hussein Masalanga at the goalkeeper&#8217;s near post midway through the second half,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601050109.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>Returning captain Achraf Hakimi set up Brahim Diaz&#8217;s winner as host nation Morocco reached the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) quarter-finals by seeing off a stubborn Tanzania side in Rabat on Sunday evening. Morocco&#8217;s Atlas Lions are to play Cameroon in the quarterfinals on Friday. Starting his first match for more than two months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":219696,"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":[376],"tags":[9488,258,256,4698,377,32107,7127,8745,6574,5609,19484,257,53318,254],"class_list":["post-219695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-diaz","tag-face","tag-fires","tag-hosts","tag-morocco","tag-moroccocameroon","tag-news","tag-qfinals","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/219695","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=219695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}