{"id":220355,"date":"2026-01-13T23:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-egypt-egypt-topple-defending-champions-ivory-coast-in-thrilling-afcon-quarter-final-to-reach-semifinal\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T23:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T21:03:18","slug":"cote-divoire-egypt-egypt-topple-defending-champions-ivory-coast-in-thrilling-afcon-quarter-final-to-reach-semifinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/cote-divoire-egypt-egypt-topple-defending-champions-ivory-coast-in-thrilling-afcon-quarter-final-to-reach-semifinal\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote d&#8217;Ivoire\/Egypt: Egypt Topple Defending Champions Ivory Coast in Thrilling Afcon Quarter-Final to Reach Semifinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Egypt have booked their place in the ongoing 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) semi-finals after a dramatic 3-2 victory over defending champions Ivory Coast in a pulsating quarter-final clash on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">The Pharaohs will now face Senegal in what promises to be another captivating encounter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">The match was a back-and-forth affair that saw Egypt take an early lead in the 4th minute through Omar Marmoush, who slotted home after an assist from Emam Ashour. The advantage was doubled in the 32nd&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601110110.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 have booked their place in the ongoing 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) semi-finals after a dramatic 3-2 victory over defending champions Ivory Coast in a pulsating quarter-final clash on Saturday night. The Pharaohs will now face Senegal in what promises to be another captivating encounter. The match was a back-and-forth affair that saw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":220356,"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":[9488,258,256,14490,6560,5958,6183,6555,5050,41268,4697,6559,1218,257,19316,5160,14272,254,26544,35489],"class_list":["post-220355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-champions","tag-coast","tag-cote","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-defending","tag-divoireegypt","tag-egypt","tag-ivory","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-quarterfinal","tag-reach","tag-semifinal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thrilling","tag-topple"],"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\/220355","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=220355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}