{"id":244837,"date":"2026-01-14T20:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/244837\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T20:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T20:44:08","slug":"mane-scores-late-winner-for-senegal-against-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/244837\/","title":{"rendered":"Mane scores late winner for Senegal against Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sadio Mane thrashed home a dramatic winner 12 minutes from full-time to send Senegal into the Africa Cup of Nations final after they edged Egypt 1-0 in a tense last-four encounter.<\/p>\n<p>It was as much as Senegal deserved after they dominated the match, with Egypt not having any shots at goal or even forcing a corner before they conceded.<\/p>\n<p>Senegal found it tough, however, to break down a resolute Egypt defence and it was only a fortuitous deflection that set up Mane&#8217;s chance.<\/p>\n<p>But his shot from the edge of the area was worthy of winning any match and sent Senegal through to take on either hosts Morocco or Nigeria in Sunday\u2019s final.<\/p>\n<p>More to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sadio Mane thrashed home a dramatic winner 12 minutes from full-time to send Senegal into the Africa Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-244837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}