{"id":635,"date":"2018-02-15T09:12:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-15T09:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/2018\/02\/15\/morocco-thrash-nigeria-to-clinch-chan-title\/"},"modified":"2018-02-15T09:12:36","modified_gmt":"2018-02-15T09:12:36","slug":"morocco-thrash-nigeria-to-clinch-chan-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/morocco-thrash-nigeria-to-clinch-chan-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco Thrash Nigeria To Clinch CHAN Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"set-image-border\" style=\"float: none;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"setborder\" src=\"http:\/\/telquel.ma\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Imagechan-680x365_c.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"CHAN 2018: le Maroc champion d'Afrique\" width=\"473\" height=\"312\" style=\"margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none; position: relative;\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"icon-link\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \">Tournament hosts Morocco hammered 10-man Nigeria 4-0 in a one-sided final on Sunday evening.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p \/><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \"> <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \" \/>Zakaria Hadraf scored on the stroke of half-time to put Morocco in front. In the third minute after the break, the Super Eagles\u2019 task in reversing that lead got even more difficult when Peter Moses was sent off.   <!--more-->  <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \">Walid El Karti then doubled Morocco\u2019s lead in the 61st minute before a second Hadraf goal three minutes later all but sealed the tournament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \">Even then, the hosts weren\u2019t finished. Ayoub El Kaabi well and truly put the cherry on top with a goal in the 74th minute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \">On Saturday evening, Sudan clinched third place with a dramatic penalty shootout victory over Libya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \">Walaa Eldin Musa Yagoub put Sudan ahead in the eighth minute with a goal that looked destined to clinch bronze until late on. However, Libya equalised through Salem Ablo in the 84th minute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \">Akram El Hadi ultimately proved to be the hero, saving penalties from Elmehdi Elhouni and Ablo in the shootout and giving his side the last laugh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.soccerladuma.co.za\/news\/articles\/international\/categories\/african-football\/2018-chan-wrap-3\/287867\" title=\"www.soccerladuma.co.za\">SOCCERLADUMA.CO.ZA<\/a><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Tournament hosts Morocco hammered 10-man Nigeria 4-0 in a one-sided final&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amagep.co.za\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}