{"id":11272,"date":"2026-01-01T09:47:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/late-salah-goal-secures-egypt-2-1-victory-over-zimbabwe-in-afcon-opener\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T09:47:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:47:04","slug":"late-salah-goal-secures-egypt-2-1-victory-over-zimbabwe-in-afcon-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/late-salah-goal-secures-egypt-2-1-victory-over-zimbabwe-in-afcon-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Late Salah Goal Secures Egypt 2\u20131 Victory Over Zimbabwe in AFCON Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"single-post\">\n<p>Egypt opened their Africa Cup of Nations 2025 campaign with a hard-fought 2\u20131 victory over Zimbabwe on Monday night, edging past stubborn opposition despite dominating possession, chances, and territory throughout the match at Le Grand Stade Agadir in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>The Pharaohs controlled the rhythm of the game from the opening whistle, ending the game with nearly 80 percent of possession, but defensive lapses and missed opportunities ensured the contest remained tense until the very end. Zimbabwe struck first against the run of play in the 20th minute when Prince Dube capitalised on a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/egyptianstreets.com\/2025\/12\/23\/late-salah-goal-secures-egypt-2-1-victory-over-zimbabwe-in-afcon-opener\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt opened their Africa Cup of Nations 2025 campaign with a hard-fought 2\u20131 victory&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}