{"id":922,"date":"2026-01-03T18:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/922\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T18:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T18:26:10","slug":"south-africa-advance-to-round-of-16-after-thrilling-victory-over-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/922\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa advance to Round of 16 after thrilling victory over Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Appollis settles five-goal thriller with Zimbabwe<br \/>\nZimbabwe 2-3\u00a0South Africa (Maswanhise 19&#8242;, Modiba 23&#8242; OG: Moremi 7&#8242;, Foster 50&#8242;, Appollis 82&#8217;pen)<\/p>\n<p>South Africa led twice, with Tshepang Moremi and Lyle Foster both on target, but were pegged back on each occasion by goals from Tawanda Maswanshise and an Aubrey Modiba own goal.<\/p>\n<p>As the match appeared to be heading for a draw, Zimbabwe midfielder Marvelous Nakamba was penalised for a handball on the goal line following a VAR review. Appollis stepped up to convert, scoring his second goal of the tournament. Bafana Bafana will now face the runners-up from Group F in the Round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>Man of the match: Oswin Appollis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Appollis settles five-goal thriller with Zimbabwe Zimbabwe 2-3\u00a0South Africa (Maswanhise 19&#8242;, Modiba 23&#8242; OG: Moremi 7&#8242;, Foster 50&#8242;,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[106],"class_list":{"0":"post-922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-zimbabwe","8":"tag-zimbabwe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","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=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}