{"id":53427,"date":"2026-02-17T20:01:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=53427"},"modified":"2026-02-17T20:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:01:29","slug":"senegal-hands-morocco-a-bitter-defeat-in-the-2025-afcon-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=53427","title":{"rendered":"Senegal hands Morocco a bitter defeat in the 2025 AFCON final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Senegalese national team was crowned champion of the 35th edition of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations on Sunday evening, following a 1-0 victory over the host nation, Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>The match&#8217;s only goal was scored by player Pape Gueye in the 94th minute of the first period of extra time, after the match ended in a goalless draw during regular time.<\/p>\n<p>The match witnessed a major refereeing controversy involving Congolese referee Jean-Jacques Ngambo, who awarded a questionable penalty to the Moroccan team, leading to protests from the &#8220;Teranga Lions&#8221; players.<\/p>\n<p>The Senegalese players walked off the pitch on the coach&#8217;s orders before their teammate Sadio Man\u00e9 brought them back, and Senegalese goalkeeper Mendy managed to save the Moroccan penalty.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the second title for the Senegalese national team, following their 2021 victory.<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><em>Reference: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sabqpress.dz\/%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b3%d9%8a%d9%86%d8%ba%d8%a7%d9%84-%d8%aa%d9%8f%d8%b0%d9%8a%d9%82-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%ba%d8%b1%d8%a8-%d9%85%d8%b1%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%ae%d8%b3%d8%a7%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d9%81\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senegalese national team was crowned champion of the 35th edition of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations on Sunday evening, following a 1-0 victory over the host nation, Morocco. The match&#8217;s only goal was scored by player Pape Gueye in the 94th minute of the first period of extra time, after the match ended &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}