{"id":24134,"date":"2026-01-15T03:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T03:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/24134\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T03:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T03:09:09","slug":"morocco-beats-nigeria-on-penalties-to-reach-africa-cup-of-nations-final-vs-senegal-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/24134\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco beats Nigeria on penalties to reach Africa Cup of Nations final vs. Senegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">RABAT, Morocco &#8212; Youssef El-Nesyri scored the winning penalty and Yassine \u201cBono\u201d Bounou saved two as Morocco booked its place in the Africa Cup of Nations final with a 4-2 win on penalties over Nigeria on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Nigeria goalkeeper Stanley Nwabali saved one but was bettered by Bono in the shootout after the teams drew 0-0 with extra time in front of 65,458 mostly Morocco fans in Rabat\u2019s Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The host nation set up a title match in the same stadium Sunday with 2021 champion Senegal, which <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/senegal-egypt-africa-cup-afcon-8fea5eef728086c23e57fe79fc7773a3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">defeated Egypt 1-0 the other semifinal earlier<\/a> in Tangier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Morocco is bidding for its first title since its only success in 1976.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">AP at the Africa Cup: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/africa-cup-of-nations\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/africa-cup-of-nations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RABAT, Morocco &#8212; Youssef El-Nesyri scored the winning penalty and Yassine \u201cBono\u201d Bounou saved two as Morocco booked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14746,63,146,645,323,264],"class_list":{"0":"post-24134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa","8":"tag-14746","9":"tag-africa","10":"tag-africa-cup-of-nations","11":"tag-article","12":"tag-soccer","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24134","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=24134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}