{"id":2275,"date":"2025-12-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2025-12-27T03:21:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T03:21:52","slug":"afcon-roundup-mohamed-salah-strikes-again-as-10-man-egypt-hold-off-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tona.today\/?p=2275","title":{"rendered":"Afcon roundup: Mohamed Salah strikes again as 10-man Egypt hold off South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mohamed Salah scored a first-half penalty as 10-man\u00a0Egypt\u00a0defeated\u00a0South Africa<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>1-0 in their\u00a0Africa Cup of Nations\u00a0Group B clash in Agadir to become the first team into the knockout stages of the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Egypt have six points from their opening two games and cannot finish outside of the top two in the group. South Africa have three points from their two games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Rema - Calm Down (Official Music Video)\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CQLsdm1ZYAw?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<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Salah won the penalty when he was clipped in the face by South Africa defender Khuliso Mudau as they tussled for the ball, and stepped up to easily convert for his second goal of the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Egypt lost right-back Mohamed Hany to a red card for an ugly stamp at the end of the first half and faced wave after wave of South African attacks in the second period, as the latter were denied a penalty of their own for handball following a lengthy video assistant referee check.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lassine Sinayoko\u2019s second-half penalty rescued a 1-1 draw for\u00a0Mali\u00a0to stop the hosts\u00a0Morocco\u00a0from booking their spot in the last 16 in Rabat. Morocco hit the front thanks to Brahim D\u00edaz\u2019s spot-kick deep into added time in the first half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>D\u00edaz earned the penalty with a fine bit of individual work before Nathan Gassama handled in the area but Mali got their own penalty after a video assistant referee check after 64 minutes when Sinayoko was upended and he made no mistake. Morocco sit top of Group A on four points, with Mali and Zambia both on two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Angola and Zimbabwe each earned their first point at the tournament following a 1-1 draw but the result leaves both facing early elimination. 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