{"id":16358,"date":"2026-01-11T02:44:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T02:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/16358\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T02:44:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T02:44:37","slug":"africa-cup-of-nations-egypt-dumps-out-holders-ivory-coast-nigeria-set-ups-semi-with-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/16358\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Cup of Nations: Egypt dumps out holders Ivory Coast, Nigeria set ups semi with Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mohamed Salah\u2019s Egypt knocked reigning champions Ivory Coast out of the Africa Cup of Nations with a 3-2 win in the quarter-finals on Saturday, while Victor Osimhen starred as Nigeria beat Algeria 2-0 to set up a clash with hosts Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE TO KEEP READING<\/p>\n<p>Daily TV listings for U.S. and global soccer.<\/p>\n<p>Inside access to USA\u2019s 2026 World Cup prep.<\/p>\n<p>Exclusive interviews with players and coaches.<\/p>\n<p>Expert analysis of top soccer headlines.<\/p>\n<p>Cancel anytime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">Already have an account? Sign in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.socceramerica.com\/my-account\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.socceramerica.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not ready to subscribe? Sign up here for our free newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-small-font-size\">Already have an account? Sign in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.socceramerica.com\/my-account\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.socceramerica.com\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mohamed Salah\u2019s Egypt knocked reigning champions Ivory Coast out of the Africa Cup of Nations with a 3-2&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[63,5902,1982,165,122,10574],"class_list":{"0":"post-16358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-african-nations-cup","10":"tag-egypt","11":"tag-morocco","12":"tag-nigeria","13":"tag-world-cup-2026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}