{"id":220048,"date":"2026-01-11T11:27:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T09:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/morocco-cameroon-hosts-morocco-beat-cameroon-to-storm-afcon-semi-finals\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T11:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T09:27:18","slug":"morocco-cameroon-hosts-morocco-beat-cameroon-to-storm-afcon-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/cameroon\/morocco-cameroon-hosts-morocco-beat-cameroon-to-storm-afcon-semi-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco\/Cameroon: Hosts Morocco Beat Cameroon to Storm Afcon Semi-Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><strong>Hosts Morocco booked their place in the semi-finals of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) with a dominant display against Cameroon in Rabat.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">A goal in each half, scored by Brahim Diaz and Ismael Saibari, was enough to see off their opponents, who rarely threatened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Diaz tucked home from close range in the 26th minute after Ayoub El Kaabi&#8217;s flick on from a corner, using his thigh to nudge the ball into the net for his fifth goal of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Saibiri&#8217;s goal also came from a set piece,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601100048.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 booked their place in the semi-finals of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) with a dominant display against Cameroon in Rabat. A goal in each half, scored by Brahim Diaz and Ismael Saibari, was enough to see off their opponents, who rarely threatened. Diaz tucked home from close range in the 26th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":220049,"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":[9488,258,256,5065,4698,377,6574,5609,19484,257,14292,254,11234],"class_list":["post-220048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cameroon","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-beat","tag-cameroon","tag-cameroon-news","tag-hosts","tag-morocco","tag-moroccocameroon","tag-news","tag-semifinals","tag-south-africa-today","tag-storm"],"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\/220048","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=220048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}