{"id":155787,"date":"2026-01-20T09:37:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=155787"},"modified":"2026-01-20T09:37:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T09:37:37","slug":"afcon-2025-morocco-vs-senegal-final-nigeria-out-on-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/?p=155787","title":{"rendered":"AFCON 2025: Morocco vs Senegal FINAL | Nigeria OUT on penalties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4fqrtxo-jO4?rel=0&#038;cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Morocco and Nigeria needed a penalty shootout to decide the winner in their AFCON 2025 semifinal matchup. Youssef El-Nesyri scored the winning penalty, and Yassine Bounou saved two penalty attempts for Morocco. In the other semifinal, Sadio Mane scored a late winner for Senegal against Egypt in a battle against Mane&#8217;s former Liverpool teammate, Mohammed Salah. Mimi Fawaz is live from the stadium for all the post-match reaction from both AFCON 2025 semifinals! <\/p>\n<p>00:00 &#8211; Senegal vs. Morocco AFCON Final<br \/>\n00:27 &#8211; Scenes at full time for Morocco<br \/>\n01:17 &#8211; Disappointment for Nigeria, what went wrong?<br \/>\n02:23 &#8211; Incredible few years for Morocco, what would an AFCON trophy do for them?<br \/>\n03:45 &#8211; Senegal 17 games unbeaten, can they win it all?<br \/>\n05:20 &#8211; Mo Salah still without a trophy for Egypt<br \/>\n06:28 &#8211; Both matches lived up to expectations<\/p>\n<p>Stream UCL on Paramount+ &#8211; http:\/\/bit.ly\/UCLonParamount<br \/>\nWatch UCL Extended Highlights &#8211; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLkwBiY2Dq-oYX&#8211;AqrRszzMR4_C8YwiBn<br \/>\nWatch UCL Today with Thierry Henry, Kate Scott, Micah Richards and Jamie Carragher &#8211; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLkwBiY2Dq-oYdin8WdtaOExGhaRZI_dJ8<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our other CBS Sports Golazo channels!<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@CBSSportsGolazoEurope<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@golazoamerica<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@wgolazo<\/p>\n<p>Home of UEFA Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Champions League, UEFA Europa and Conference Leagues, NWSL, Serie A and Serie A Women, EFL Championship, EFL League One, EFL League Two and Carabao Cup, Concacaf Men&#8217;s World Cup Qualifiers and W Champions Cup, US Open Cup, USL, Liga MX, SPFL and more.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4fqrtxo-jO4\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morocco and Nigeria needed a penalty shootout to decide the winner in their AFCON 2025 semifinal matchup. Youssef El-Nesyri scored the winning penalty, and Yassine Bounou saved two penalty attempts&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":155788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soccer-world-wide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/155788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=155787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playinsoccer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=155787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}