{"id":328501,"date":"2025-08-17T16:29:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T14:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/?p=328501"},"modified":"2025-08-17T19:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T17:32:09","slug":"morocco-qualifies-for-the-chan-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/morocco-qualifies-for-the-chan-quarter-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco qualifies for the CHAN quarter-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Moroccan national team secured a place in the quarter-finals of the African Nations Championship (CHAN) by defeating the Democratic Republic of Congo 3-1 on Sunday, during the final matchday of the group stage.<\/p>\n\n<p>The local Lions struck early in the match thanks to Oussama Lamlioui, who scored a brilliant goal in the 8th minute. But the Congolese quickly responded, equalizing just before halftime through Kitambala (43rd minute), completely reopening the game.<\/p>\n\n<p>In the second half, Morocco regained the upper hand. Rabie Hrimat restored his team\u2019s lead with a penalty in the 70th minute (1-2). Then Lamlioui, once again, scored his second goal of the evening to secure the victory for his side, assisted perfectly by Youssef Mehri (1-3).<\/p>\n\n<p>The Moroccan forward could have even completed a hat-trick late in the match, but his goal in the 85th minute was ruled out by VAR for offside.<\/p>\n\n<p>With this controlled victory, Morocco confirms its status as a serious title contender and now looks ahead to the quarter-finals with confidence.<\/p>\n\n<iframe title=\"DR Congo 1-3 Morocco Match Highlights l TotalEnergies CHAN 2024 l Matchday 5\" width=\"755\" height=\"425\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MztzavjwCVM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moroccan national team secured a place in the quarter-finals of the African Nations Championship (CHAN) by defeating the Democratic Republic of Congo 3-1 on Sunday, during the final matchday of the group stage. The local Lions struck early in the match thanks to Oussama Lamlioui, who scored a brilliant goal in the 8th minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1033],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-328501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chan-en"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328508,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328501\/revisions\/328508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}