{"id":976739,"date":"2022-02-04T19:48:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T19:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/04\/egypt-suggest-delaying-afcon-final-by-a-day\/"},"modified":"2022-02-04T19:48:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T19:48:47","slug":"egypt-suggest-delaying-afcon-final-by-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/04\/egypt-suggest-delaying-afcon-final-by-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt suggest delaying Afcon final by a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"384\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/egypt-220115-liningup-bpp-1050-696x384.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Football - 2021 Africa Cup of Nations - Finals - Guinea-Bissau v Egypt - Roumde Adjia Stadium - Garoua - Cameroon\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Egypt players line up for the National anthem during the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations Afcon Finals match between Guinea-Bissau and Egypt at Roumde Adjia Stadium in Garoua, Cameroon, on 15 January 2022 \u00a9Samuel Shivambu\/BackpagePix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Egypt called on Africa Cup of Nations organisers to delay this weekend\u2019s final against Senegal to give them more time to prepare after overcoming hosts Cameroon on penalties in Thursday\u2019s semifinal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to state to all CAF authorities that Senegal have one extra day to train and therefore maybe we should play the final on Monday,\u201d suggested Egypt\u2019s assistant coach Diaa al-Sayed, who was speaking after coach Carlos Queiroz was shown a red card during the semifinal.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt won 3-1 in a shoot-out after a goalless 120 minutes in Yaounde, while Senegal overcame Burkina Faso 3-1 in normal time a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The Egyptians had already needed extra time and penalties to get the better of the Ivory Coast in the last 16 before beating Morocco 2-1 in extra time in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/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=\"LbA2SZV5imY\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gov&#039;t begs UTAG to call off strike as it is ready to negotiate- Premtobre Kasee on Adom TV (4-2-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LbA2SZV5imY?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>Egypt players line up for the National anthem during the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations Afcon Finals match between Guinea-Bissau and Egypt at Roumde Adjia Stadium in Garoua, Cameroon, on 15 January 2022 \u00a9Samuel Shivambu\/BackpagePix Egypt called on Africa Cup of Nations organisers to delay this weekend\u2019s final against Senegal to give them more time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":976740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[93,473,4246,1246,1450,4247],"class_list":["post-976739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-afcon","tag-day","tag-delaying","tag-egypt","tag-final","tag-suggest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976739","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=976739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}