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Salah scored and also provided an assist as the North Africans secured their first ever World Cup win<\/p>\n
Egypt produced a spirited second-half performance to defeat New Zealand 3-1 in a crucial Group G match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup<\/a><\/strong>, boosting their chances of reaching the knockout stage.<\/p>\n The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the match was played at BC Place Stadium, Vancouver, Canada, on Monday.<\/p>\n The encounter began at a high tempo, with both teams aware of the importance of securing maximum…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Salah scored and also provided an assist as the North Africans secured their first ever World Cup win Egypt produced a spirited second-half performance to defeat New Zealand 3-1 in a crucial Group G match of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, boosting their chances of reaching the knockout stage. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":237487,"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\/00681757:6bcb8d6b317267740ec33aee58da746f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,6674,4697,415,13203,9429,257,13702,254,6660,5093,12872],"class_list":["post-237486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cup","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-historic","tag-leads","tag-news","tag-salah","tag-south-africa-today","tag-win","tag-world","tag-zealand"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681757:6bcb8d6b317267740ec33aee58da746f:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237486","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=237486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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