{"id":4356,"date":"2026-01-05T06:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/4356\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T06:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:24:09","slug":"tanzania-morocco-diaz-strikes-as-morocco-send-tanzania-packing-out-of-afcon-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/4356\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanzania\/Morocco: Diaz Strikes As Morocco Send Tanzania Packing Out of Afcon 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Nairobi \u2014 Morocco laboured to a 1-0 win over Tanzania in a last 16 tie of the Africa Cup of Nations in Rabat on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Brahim Diaz put the Atlas Lions ahead in the 64th minute with a low finish that sneaked past Hussein Masaranga&#8217;s near post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The goal broke Taifa Stars&#8217; resistance that had seen them hold the hosts to a barren draw at halftime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The East Africans had a glorious chance to take the lead in the 56th minute but Fei Toto blazed over the bar from close range after Yassine Bounou had parried away Mohammed Hussein&#8217;s crackling shot from distance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The miss proved catastrophic for Tanzania as eight minutes later, Diaz struck with his fourth goal of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Real Madrid winger received a pass from Achraf Hakimi at the edge of the box and with a drop of the shoulder, shifted the ball onto his right foot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Right when it seemed as if he was about to cross into the box, Diaz instead caught Masaranga offguard, squeezing his shot past a constricted space on the keeper&#8217;s left hand side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nairobi \u2014 Morocco laboured to a 1-0 win over Tanzania in a last 16 tie of the Africa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[63,83,265,321,262,165,96,322,261,323,310,264,152,263,266],"class_list":{"0":"post-4356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tanzania","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-current-events","11":"tag-east-africa","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-morocco","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-north-africa","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-soccer","18":"tag-sport","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-tanzania","21":"tag-trade","22":"tag-travel"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356","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=4356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}