{"id":219918,"date":"2026-01-10T11:25:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/morocco-cameroon-diaz-and-saibari-take-morocco-past-cameroon-into-the-semis-at-cup-of-nations\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T11:25:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:25:15","slug":"morocco-cameroon-diaz-and-saibari-take-morocco-past-cameroon-into-the-semis-at-cup-of-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/morocco-cameroon-diaz-and-saibari-take-morocco-past-cameroon-into-the-semis-at-cup-of-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco\/Cameroon: Diaz and Saibari Take Morocco Past Cameroon Into the Semis At Cup of Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em> Hosts Morocco moved into the semi-finals at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations on Friday night following a 2-0 win over Cameroon at the Stade Prince Moulay Abdellah in Rabat. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/sports\/20251221-morocco-launch-2025-africa-cup-of-nations-with-victory-over-doughty-comoros\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Morocco<\/a> laboured in the early stages of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cafonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their 1-0 last-16<\/a> victory over Tanzania on 4 January but they tore into Cameroon from the outset.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Cameroon, surprising winners over South Africa in the last-16, seemed as ruffled as bedazzled by the intensity and were unable to keep the ball nor create with sufficient menace in the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601100079.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>Hosts Morocco moved into the semi-finals at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations on Friday night following a 2-0 win over Cameroon at the Stade Prince Moulay Abdellah in Rabat. Morocco laboured in the early stages of their 1-0 last-16 victory over Tanzania on 4 January but they tore into Cameroon from the outset. Cameroon, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":219919,"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\/00680435:ec3c72fae77e38334ed110510bf7e9db:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[258,256,4698,377,6674,32107,5609,19484,4301,257,53374,7128,254],"class_list":["post-219918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-cup","tag-diaz","tag-morocco","tag-moroccocameroon","tag-nations","tag-news","tag-saibari","tag-semis","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680435:ec3c72fae77e38334ed110510bf7e9db:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219918","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=219918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}