{"id":220474,"date":"2026-01-14T22:57:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-senegal-afcon-2025-salah-mane-renew-familiar-battle-as-egypt-meet-senegal\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T22:57:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:57:57","slug":"egypt-senegal-afcon-2025-salah-mane-renew-familiar-battle-as-egypt-meet-senegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-senegal-afcon-2025-salah-mane-renew-familiar-battle-as-egypt-meet-senegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt\/Senegal: Afcon 2025 &#8211; Salah, Man\u00e9 Renew Familiar Battle As Egypt Meet Senegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Man\u00e9 has created 14 chances at the tournament, the joint-highest, while Salah has created 12, highlighting their continued influence<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">A familiar heavyweight rivalry will be renewed on Wednesday when Senegal take on Egypt in the semi-finals of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.premiumtimesng.com\/news\/headlines\/849347-afcon-2025-five-men-who-might-decide-nigeria-vs-morocco-semi-final-battle.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AFCON<\/a><\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The encounter, scheduled for 6 p.m. (Nigerian time) at the Grande Stade de Tangier, will be the sixth AFCON meeting between the two sides and their second semi-final clash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" \/a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601140212.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man\u00e9 has created 14 chances at the tournament, the joint-highest, while Salah has created 12, highlighting their continued influence A familiar heavyweight rivalry will be renewed on Wednesday when Senegal take on Egypt in the semi-finals of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). The encounter, scheduled for 6 p.m. (Nigerian time) at the Grande [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":220475,"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":[338],"tags":[9488,258,256,7887,4697,415,41352,11788,25845,6508,257,12643,13702,3969,254],"class_list":["post-220474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-battle","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-egyptsenegal","tag-familiar","tag-mane","tag-meet","tag-news","tag-renew","tag-salah","tag-senegal","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\/220474","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}