{"id":528923,"date":"2025-05-12T18:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/benews.fr\/en\/?p=528816"},"modified":"2025-05-12T18:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:40:07","slug":"2025-u-20-afcon-nigeria-vs-senegal-ghana-vs-egypt-headline-quarter-final-matchups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/2025-u-20-afcon-nigeria-vs-senegal-ghana-vs-egypt-headline-quarter-final-matchups\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 U-20 AFCON: Nigeria vs Senegal, Ghana vs Egypt headline quarter-final matchups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Following the final group-stage matches played on Friday evening, the full lineup for the <strong>quarter-finals<\/strong> of the <strong>2025 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations<\/strong> is now confirmed\u2014and it promises some thrilling encounters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>eight teams<\/strong> advancing to the knockout stage are:<br><strong>Egypt, South Africa, Nigeria, Senegal, Morocco, Ghana, Sierra Leone<\/strong>, and <strong>DR Congo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As tournament hosts, <strong>Egypt<\/strong> will face a red-hot <strong>Ghana<\/strong> side that impressed during the group phase. <strong>Defending champions Senegal<\/strong> have been drawn against <strong>Nigeria<\/strong>, setting up a high-profile clash between two of the continent\u2019s most successful youth sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other quarter-final fixtures include <strong>Morocco vs Sierra Leone<\/strong> and <strong>South Africa vs DR Congo<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Quarter-final fixtures (All times GMT):<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>12:00<\/strong> \u2013 Nigeria \ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddec vs Senegal \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf3<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>15:00<\/strong> \u2013 Morocco \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\udde6 vs Sierra Leone \ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddf1<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>15:00<\/strong> \u2013 Ghana \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udded vs Egypt \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddec<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>18:00<\/strong> \u2013 South Africa \ud83c\uddff\ud83c\udde6 vs DR Congo \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde9<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The knockout stage kicks off this <strong>Monday<\/strong>, with <strong>Nigeria vs Senegal<\/strong> setting the tone for what promises to be a gripping round of football.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the final group-stage matches played on Friday evening, the full lineup for the quarter-finals of the 2025 U-20 Africa Cup of Nations is now confirmed\u2014and it promises some thrilling encounters. The eight teams advancing to the knockout stage are:Egypt, South Africa, Nigeria, Senegal, Morocco, Ghana, Sierra Leone, and DR Congo. As tournament hosts, Egypt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":527488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"editor_notices":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"pays":[101,144,145],"personnalite":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-528923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afrique-sport","8":"pays-morocco-maghreb","9":"pays-nigeria-west-africa","10":"pays-senegal-west-africa"},"acf":{"type_de_publication":"opinion","nom_de_linstitution":"","description_de_linstitution":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528923"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=528923"},{"taxonomy":"personnalite","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benews.ci\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnalite?post=528923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}