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For a team that arrived in Morocco chasing redemption after missing out on the 2026 World Cup, the defeat was both sobering and revealing.<\/p>\n
The chase for a fourth Africa Cup of Nations title will stretch beyond 2026 for the Super Eagles of Nigeria, after their agonising semi-final defeat<\/a> to hosts Atlas Lions of Morocco in Rabat on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n At the Stade Prince Moulay Abdallah, Morocco controlled the rhythm, monopolised possession, and created the clearer openings. Nigeria, by contrast,…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> For a team that arrived in Morocco chasing redemption after missing out on the 2026 World Cup, the defeat was both sobering and revealing. The chase for a fourth Africa Cup of Nations title will stretch beyond 2026 for the Super Eagles of Nigeria, after their agonising semi-final defeat to hosts Atlas Lions of Morocco […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":220540,"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":[249],"tags":[9488,258,256,21998,9183,5609,257,393,5761,39967,6055,254,25182],"class_list":["post-220539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-afcon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-heartbreak","tag-loss","tag-morocco","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-nigeriamorocco","tag-rabat","tag-south-africa-today","tag-takeaways"],"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\/220539","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=220539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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