{"id":220534,"date":"2026-01-15T10:58:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/senegal-egypt-afcon-2025-sadio-mane-leads-senegal-to-the-final\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:58:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T08:58:49","slug":"senegal-egypt-afcon-2025-sadio-mane-leads-senegal-to-the-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/senegal-egypt-afcon-2025-sadio-mane-leads-senegal-to-the-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal\/Egypt: Afcon 2025 &#8211; Sadio Man\u00e9 Leads Senegal to the Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Dakar \u2014 Led by a stunning goal from Sadio Man\u00e9, Senegal secured their fourth appearance in the Africa Cup of Nations final. The Lions defeated Egypt 1-0 on January 14th at the Grand Stade de Tanger, in the semi-final of the 2025 AFCON in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">From the outset, the two teams cancelled each other out in a tight and hard-fought match. Senegal, slightly more enterprising than their opponents, gradually tried to take control of the game. However, against a well-organized and resolutely defensive&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601150014.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>Dakar \u2014 Led by a stunning goal from Sadio Man\u00e9, Senegal secured their fourth appearance in the Africa Cup of Nations final. The Lions defeated Egypt 1-0 on January 14th at the Grand Stade de Tanger, in the semi-final of the 2025 AFCON in Morocco. From the outset, the two teams cancelled each other out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":220535,"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\/00680466:c1053b97627334d92f36fe2c7f3d9602:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[9488,258,256,415,6038,9429,25845,257,32183,3969,41373,254],"class_list":["post-220534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt-news","tag-final","tag-leads","tag-mane","tag-news","tag-sadio","tag-senegal","tag-senegalegypt","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680466:c1053b97627334d92f36fe2c7f3d9602:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220534","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=220534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}