{"id":422937,"date":"2026-01-19T09:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/422937\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T09:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:06:07","slug":"it-was-hitchcockian-morocco-and-senegal-react-to-afcon-final-and-walk-off-chaos-video-africa-cup-of-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/422937\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It was Hitchcockian&#8217;: Morocco and Senegal react to Afcon final and walk-off chaos \u2013 video | Africa Cup of Nations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Morocco head coach, Walid Regragui, has said the Afcon final was &#8216;Hitchcockian&#8217; after Senegal\u2019s players walked off the pitch in protest to his side being awarded a penalty by the video assistant referee in stoppage time. Pape Gueye, who scored the winner, spoke of his \u201cpride\u201d in victory. \u201cWhat we felt was injustice. There had been a foul for us and the referee chose not to look at the VAR,\u201d he said, trying to explain the walk-off. \u201cWe were frustrated, but Sadio [Man\u00e9] told us to come back on the pitch to remobilise us. We all saw what happened at the end. We took the decision to come back on the pitch to give everything \u2013 which we did.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Morocco head coach, Walid Regragui, has said the Afcon final was &#8216;Hitchcockian&#8217; after Senegal\u2019s players walked off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-422937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}