{"id":364675,"date":"2025-12-23T01:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T01:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/364675\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T01:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T01:24:08","slug":"mohamed-salah-scores-last-minute-winner-in-egypts-afcon-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/364675\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohamed Salah scores last-minute winner in Egypt&#8217;s AFCON opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published 3 hours ago <\/p>\n<p>By Chris Shaw<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nm5e1u\">Mohamed Salah scored a last-minute winner as Egypt began their 2025 Africa Cup of Nations campaign with a 2-1 result over Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>The Liverpool forward captained his country in Agadir on matchday one of Group B on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt had fallen behind to a finish from Prince Dube for Zimbabwe midway through the first half.<\/p>\n<p>But Omar Marmoush brought the Pharaohs level with an emphatic effort on 64 minutes and Salah then sealed their comeback right at the end.<\/p>\n<p>Bringing the ball under control inside the area, he dispatched a clinical low strike to secure victory.<\/p>\n<p>Salah and Egypt are back in action at the tournament on Friday (December 26) when they face South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Published 3 hours ago <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published 3 hours ago By Chris Shaw Mohamed Salah scored a last-minute winner as Egypt began their 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364676,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[1720,1721,1708,1716,1710,1722,1724,1723,1711,1715,1714,1709,1719,1712,1717,403,99,1713,1718],"class_list":["post-364675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-alisson","tag-firmino","tag-homepage","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-the-reds","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}