{"id":3694,"date":"2026-01-04T21:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T21:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/3694\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T21:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T21:54:08","slug":"cameroon-narrowly-wins-over-south-africa-advances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/3694\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameroon narrowly wins over South Africa, advances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gt-block\">The Cameroon national team has also secured the quarterfinals of the Africa Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon narrowly defeated South Africa 2-1 to secure a place in the next round.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa initially scored through Lyle Foster, but the goal was disallowed for offside.<\/p>\n<p>It was Junior Tchamadeu who opened the scoring with a goal from close range after a quick move (34&#8242;).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Mahamadou Nagida sealed the victory after a fantastic header from Kofana (47&#8242;).<\/p>\n<p>All South Africa did was score a consolation goal through Evidence Makgopa (88&#8242;).<\/p>\n<p class=\"gt-block\">Cameroon will face the competition&#8217;s favorite, Morocco, in the next phase.Telegraph\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cameroon national team has also secured the quarterfinals of the Africa Cup of Nations. Cameroon narrowly defeated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[63,146,3089,131],"class_list":{"0":"post-3694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-africa-cup-of-nations","10":"tag-cameroon-national-team","11":"tag-south-africa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694","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=3694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}