{"id":773670,"date":"2022-01-31T10:02:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T10:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/31\/senegal-cruise-over-equatorial-guinea-to-make-last-four\/"},"modified":"2022-01-31T10:02:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T10:02:59","slug":"senegal-cruise-over-equatorial-guinea-to-make-last-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/31\/senegal-cruise-over-equatorial-guinea-to-make-last-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal cruise over Equatorial Guinea to make last four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20220130_221350-630x420-1.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"20220130_221350-630x420\"\/><\/div>\n<p><strong>Senegal overcame Equatorial Guinea to set up an Africa Cup of Nations semi-final against Burkina Faso.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ex-Bristol City forward Famara Diedhiou put Senegal ahead with a first-time strike following Sadio Mane\u2019s pass.<\/p>\n<p>Equatorial Guinea were awarded a penalty before the decision was overturned, but then equalised soon after through Jannick Buyla\u2019s low shot.<\/p>\n<p>But substitute Cheikhou Kouyate volleyed Senegal ahead, with Watford\u2019s Ismaila Sarr side-footing a late third.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Senegal, who never have won the tournament, face Burkina Faso on Wednesday, before Egypt play Cameroon in the second semi-final on Thursday, with the final taking place on Sunday, 6 February.<\/p>\n<p>Equatorial Guinea, 114th in Fifa\u2019s world rankings, had been hoping to cause an upset against a Senegal side ranked 20th \u2013 the highest-placed African nation.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"QgJRcLlsl1s\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Resignation of senior doctors at West Gonja hospital sparks unrest among doctors \u2013 AdomTV (28-1-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QgJRcLlsl1s?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senegal overcame Equatorial Guinea to set up an Africa Cup of Nations semi-final against Burkina Faso. Ex-Bristol City forward Famara Diedhiou put Senegal ahead with a first-time strike following Sadio Mane\u2019s pass. Equatorial Guinea were awarded a penalty before the decision was overturned, but then equalised soon after through Jannick Buyla\u2019s low shot. But substitute [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":773671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2738,1961,925,1281],"class_list":["post-773670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cruise","tag-equatorial","tag-guinea","tag-senegal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}