{"id":4662,"date":"2026-01-05T09:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/4662\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T09:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:24:07","slug":"morocco-edge-past-tanzania-to-reach-afcon-quarter-finals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/4662\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco edge past Tanzania to reach AFCON quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hosts Morocco secured a narrow 1-0 victory over Tanzania to advance to the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals, with Cameroon also progressing after a late win.<\/p>\n<p>BRAHIM Diaz fired hosts Morocco into the last eight of the Africa Cup of Nations with a 1-0 win over Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>The Real Madrid winger struck in the 64th minute, lashing home at the near post from an acute angle after being set up by Achraf Hakimi.<\/p>\n<p>Hakimi later hit the crossbar in a far from convincing display by the 2022 World Cup semi-finalists.<\/p>\n<p>The 1976 champions are now one step closer to a second African title.<\/p>\n<p>Tanzania managed just one shot on target, with Mohamed Hussein denied by Morocco keeper Yassine Bounou.<\/p>\n<p>In another late game, Cameroon beat South Africa 2-1 in Rabat to also move into the last eight.<\/p>\n<p>Junior Tchamadeu and Christian Kofane scored in each half to send Cameroon through to the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hosts Morocco secured a narrow 1-0 victory over Tanzania to advance to the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[411,143,165,2896,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-4662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tanzania","8":"tag-afcon","9":"tag-cameroon","10":"tag-morocco","11":"tag-quarter-finals","12":"tag-tanzania"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662","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=4662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}