{"id":8253,"date":"2026-01-07T00:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T00:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/8253\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T00:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T00:40:07","slug":"the-stats-dont-lie-only-giants-left-in-the-africa-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/8253\/","title":{"rendered":"The stats don\u2019t lie: only giants left in the Africa Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 Africa Cup of Nations has reached its decisive stage, and the setting could not be more impressive.<\/p>\n<p>According to Opta data, the eight teams still in contention for the quarterfinals have turned this edition into a true &#8220;heavyweight tournament.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The weight of tradition<\/p>\n<p>There is no room for underdogs at this point. Together, the eight remaining teams have won 22 titles in the competition. In addition to a trophy cabinet full of silverware, the group brings monumental experience: they have played 732 matches in the tournament&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>This shows that, to get this far, talent alone was not enough; it took the &#8220;DNA&#8221; of a champion in continental battles.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the quarterfinal matchups of this Africa Cup of Nations below:<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Mali vs Senegal<\/p>\n<p>Egypt vs Ivory Coast<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon vs Morocco<\/p>\n<p>Algeria vs Nigeria<\/p>\n<p>This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/pt-br\/noticias\/os-numeros-comprovam-so-sobraram-gigantes-na-copa-africana-42190362\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:You can read the original version in \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7 here.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">You can read the original version in \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf7 here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcf8 MOHAMED TAGELDIN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 Africa Cup of Nations has reached its decisive stage, and the setting could not be more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[63,5747,5748,5749],"class_list":{"0":"post-8253","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","10":"tag-decisive-stage","11":"tag-trophy-cabinet"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8253","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=8253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}