{"id":334204,"date":"2025-12-27T14:29:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T13:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/?p=334204"},"modified":"2025-12-27T14:34:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T13:34:53","slug":"afcon-2025-yves-bissouma-a-draw-accepted-already-looking-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/afcon-2025-yves-bissouma-a-draw-accepted-already-looking-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2025: Yves Bissouma: a draw accepted, already looking ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Held to a draw by Morocco (1-1), Mali achieved its goal: to withstand the pressure, survive the opponents&#8217; strong moments, and leave Rabat with a point that keeps the Eagles in the race. Once again, the scenario was dictated by the events of the game and two penalties, in a match where the margin was decided by details.<\/p>\n<p>In a reaction broadcast after the match, Yves Bissouma summarized the mood in the locker room: taking the point, without triumphalism, and immediately projecting towards the next challenge. The Malian midfielder notably suggested that the team &#8220;has taken the point&#8221; and that there was &#8220;nothing to celebrate,&#8221; a sign of intact ambition despite the performance.<\/p>\n<p>This discourse aligns with the content of the match: Mali showed mastery in effort, but also clarity on what remains to be done. The draw against Morocco does not represent an achievement; it serves as a foundation for work to seek the decisive victory in the next encounter and avoid any last-minute calculations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Held to a draw by Morocco (1-1), Mali achieved its goal: to withstand the pressure, survive the opponents&#8217; strong moments, and leave Rabat with a point that keeps the Eagles in the race. Once again, the scenario was dictated by the events of the game and two penalties, in a match where the margin was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-334204","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\/334204","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=334204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334209,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334204\/revisions\/334209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mountakhab.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}