{"id":220083,"date":"2026-01-11T22:59:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T20:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-egypt-egypt-dethrone-cote-divoire-to-reach-semis-af-africa-cup-of-nations\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T22:59:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T20:59:25","slug":"cote-divoire-egypt-egypt-dethrone-cote-divoire-to-reach-semis-af-africa-cup-of-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-egypt-egypt-dethrone-cote-divoire-to-reach-semis-af-africa-cup-of-nations\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire\/Egypt: Egypt Dethrone Cote d&#8217;Ivoire to Reach Semis Af Africa Cup of Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\"><em> Egypt skipper Mohamed Salah scored his fourth goal at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations on Saturday night as his side eliminated the defending champions Cote d&#8217;Ivoire 3-2 in Agadir. <\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Egypt took the lead in the fourth minute at the Stade Adrar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">Cote d&#8217;Ivoire captain Franck Kessi\u00e9 lost the ball in midfield after a poor touch and Odilon Kossounou fell over instead of cutting out Emam Ashour&#8217;s pass for Omar Marmoush who exploited the blunders to slot home past the Ivorian goalkeeper Yahia Fofana.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Ramy&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601110117.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt skipper Mohamed Salah scored his fourth goal at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations on Saturday night as his side eliminated the defending champions Cote d&#8217;Ivoire 3-2 in Agadir. Egypt took the lead in the fourth minute at the Stade Adrar. Cote d&#8217;Ivoire captain Franck Kessi\u00e9 lost the ball in midfield after a poor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":220084,"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\/00680438:a335e2458282c842ecdc1d43b4329d0e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[258,256,5958,6183,6555,6674,5959,29210,41268,4697,1218,4301,257,5160,7128,254],"class_list":["post-220083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-cup","tag-divoire","tag-dethrone","tag-divoireegypt","tag-egypt","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-nations","tag-news","tag-reach","tag-semis","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680438:a335e2458282c842ecdc1d43b4329d0e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220083","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=220083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}