{"id":333846,"date":"2025-12-23T08:36:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/?p=333846"},"modified":"2025-12-23T08:50:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T07:50:51","slug":"afcon-2025-south-africa-2-1-angola-bafana-bafana-turn-the-tide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/afcon-2025-south-africa-2-1-angola-bafana-bafana-turn-the-tide\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2025: South Africa 2-1 Angola: Bafana Bafana turn the tide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the first match of Group B held on December 22 at the Grand Stadium of Marrakech, South Africa secured a valuable victory against Angola (2-1). Trailing after the opening goal from the Palancas Negras, the South Africans responded with determination thanks to Oswin Appollis and a stunning curled strike from Lyle Foster late in the match.<\/p>\n<p>This solid collective performance shows that the Bafana Bafana, who finished third in the last edition, are ready to play the role of party spoilers. Angola, despite a good fighting spirit, will regret this setback which already places them under pressure for the upcoming matches.<\/p>\n<p>With these three points, South Africa temporarily takes the lead in the group alongside Egypt, confirming its status as a dark horse in this promising CAN 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first match of Group B held on December 22 at the Grand Stadium of Marrakech, South Africa secured a valuable victory against Angola (2-1). Trailing after the opening goal from the Palancas Negras, the South Africans responded with determination thanks to Oswin Appollis and a stunning curled strike from Lyle Foster late in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-333846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afcon-en"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333846","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=333846"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333869,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333846\/revisions\/333869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}