{"id":517670,"date":"2026-01-15T10:11:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/517670\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:11:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:11:14","slug":"morocco-beat-nigeria-on-penalties-to-set-up-afcon-final-against-senegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/517670\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco beat Nigeria on penalties to set up Afcon final against Senegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/SportsArchive\/Morocco-beat-Nigeria-on-penalties-to-set-up-Afcon-final-against-Senegal-2017310?gallery=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/31825591.295.jpg\" alt=\"Morocco goalkeeper Yassine Bounou made two saves in the shootout\" title=\"Morocco goalkeeper Yassine Bounou made two saves in the shootout\" width=\"295\" height=\"154\" \/> <\/a>Morocco goalkeeper Yassine Bounou made two saves in the shootout<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-123\">Hosts Morocco survived a nervy night in Rabat to see off Nigeria 4-2 on penalties to reach the final of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon).<\/p>\n<p>Youssef En-Nesyri stroked the winning spot kick into the bottom corner after Yassine Bounou saved from Samuel Chukwueze and Bruno Onyemaechi.<\/p>\n<p>It means the Atlas Lions have reached their first Afcon final since 2004, as they bid to lift the trophy for the first time since 1976.<\/p>\n<p>They face Senegal in Sunday&#8217;s final (19:00 GMT) after they beat Egypt 1-0 in Wednesday&#8217;s first semi-final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Morocco goalkeeper Yassine Bounou made two saves in the shootout Hosts Morocco survived a nervy night in Rabat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":517671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-517670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115898579897062764","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}