{"id":364871,"date":"2025-12-23T03:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T03:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/364871\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T03:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T03:45:07","slug":"egypt-2-1-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/364871\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt 2 – 1 Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mohamed Salah netted an injury-time winner as Egypt fought back from a goal down to win 2-1 against Zimbabwe in their Africa Cup of Nations Group B opener.<\/p>\n

The Liverpool star started his first game in four matches and kicked off a crunch AFCON campaign <\/a>in perfect fashion when his bobbled shot beat an inspired 40-year-old Washington Arubi in added time.<\/p>\n

Salah added to Manchester City forward Omar Marmoush’s equaliser as he bids to win his first AFCON at the fifth time of trying for the record seven-time champions. He rescued his side with the 35th of Egypt’s 35 shots, compared to Zimbabwe’s eight.<\/p>\n

Zimbabwe took a shock 20th-minute lead in Agadir despite Egypt’s dominance through Prince Dube.<\/p>\n

It looked as though Egypt would continue to huff and puff, with a combination of wayward finishing and an impressive display from Arubi, who made nine stops in total.<\/p>\n

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\n Manchester City’s Omar Marmoush netted a 64th-minute equaliser<\/p>\n

However, it was Marmoush who applied the first touch of class when he hit the roof of the net after foraying into the Zimbabwe area.<\/p>\n

Pressure was already placed upon Egypt to avoid an upset after South Africa’s 2-1 win over Angola earlier in the day to kick-start Group B. The Pharaohs have now put themselves in a favourable position to qualify from the group, setting up a potentially thrilling Boxing Day match against Bafana Bafana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mohamed Salah netted an injury-time winner as Egypt fought back from a goal down to win 2-1 against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-364871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364871","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=364871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}