{"id":21968,"date":"2026-01-05T08:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/afcon-hosts-morocco-through-to-the-quarterfinals\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:32:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:32:57","slug":"afcon-hosts-morocco-through-to-the-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/afcon-hosts-morocco-through-to-the-quarterfinals\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON hosts Morocco through to the quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Morocco beat first time qualifiers, Tanzania, 1-0 in Rabat, Morocco, on Sunday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The African Cup of Nations (AFCON) hosts, are through to the quarterfinals.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Real Madrid star winger, Brahim Diaz, scored the only goal of the match.<\/div>\n<div>\nMorocco progressed as unbeaten winners of Group A, while Tanzania qualified as one of the best third-placed teams.<\/p>\n<p>Tanzania were up against in more ways than one, playing against the home team in a packed Prince\u00a0Moulay\u00a0Abdellah\u00a0Stadium in Rabat was a daunting task.<\/p>\n<p>And Morocco started like a house on fire, finding the back of the net after just 15 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>But the goal was disallowed due to an offside.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlas Lions carried on with that\u00a0momentum, firing shots at goal, but Tanzania remained calm and disciplined in defence.<\/p>\n<p>Just a few minutes later,\u00a0Diaz ended the deadlock to put Morocco in the lead and into the quarterfinals.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21969,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-21968","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Morocco beat first time qualifiers, Tanzania","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25430,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21968\/revisions\/25430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=21968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}