{"id":334122,"date":"2025-12-27T00:34:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/?p=334122"},"modified":"2025-12-27T01:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T00:01:11","slug":"afcon-2025-mali-leaves-with-regrets-saintfiet-discusses-refereeing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/afcon-2025-mali-leaves-with-regrets-saintfiet-discusses-refereeing\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2025: Mali leaves with regrets, Saintfiet discusses refereeing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mali put up a resilient performance in Rabat, equalizing from a penalty and holding on until the end despite Morocco&#8217;s pressure and significant added time. In a tightly contested Group A, this point holds evident strategic value for the Eagles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After the match, Tom Saintfiet mainly focused on the contentious situations. According to comments reported by the press, the Malian coach stated: &#8220;If the referee had awarded the second penalty, we would have won this match,&#8221; before adding that he remained &#8220;proud&#8221; of his team.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On the field, Mali relied on a disciplined block, maximum efficiency (one shot on target, one goal), and a decisive goalkeeper in critical moments. This reinforces the idea that, in this CAN, control is not always enough: one must also finish the match when the opportunity arises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mali put up a resilient performance in Rabat, equalizing from a penalty and holding on until the end despite Morocco&#8217;s pressure and significant added time. In a tightly contested Group A, this point holds evident strategic value for the Eagles.&nbsp; After the match, Tom Saintfiet mainly focused on the contentious situations. According to comments reported<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-334122","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\/334122","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=334122"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334167,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334122\/revisions\/334167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}