{"id":83972,"date":"2017-02-06T06:56:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T06:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/indomitable-lions-beat-the-pharaohs-at-afcon-final\/"},"modified":"2017-02-06T06:56:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T06:56:58","slug":"indomitable-lions-beat-the-pharaohs-at-afcon-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/indomitable-lions-beat-the-pharaohs-at-afcon-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Indomitable Lions beat the Pharaohs at AFCON final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"493\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2017\/feb\/6\/Football (1) - Copy 1.jpg\" width=\"849\" \/>GABON (SW): The Cameroon Indomitable Lions beat the Egypt Pharaohs to become African Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2017 Champions.<\/p>\n<p>Vincent Aboubakar scored a brilliant late goal to hand Cameroon a 2-1 come-from-behind victory over Egypt and their fifth African Nations Cup title in an entertaining final on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Cameroon, who had eight of their players withdraw before the tournament, came from a goal down after midfielder Mohamed Elneny had put Egypt in lead midway through the first half. Nicolas Nkoulou equalised on the hour and, as Egypt tired, Cameroon appeared to find a new gear, creating several chances before Aboubakar struck the winner in the 88th minute after chesting the ball down and flicking it over defender Ali Gabr, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>It was Cameroon&rsquo;s first title since 2002 and denied Egypt a triumphant return to the tournament they last won in 2010, while at the same time inflicting a first loss on the North African side in 25 Nations Cup matches dating back to 2004.<\/p>\n<p>The final in Libreville was rich in African Cup history, although neither team was tipped to get to the title-deciding game at the end of the three-week tournament in Gabon. Egypt is the record seven-time champion but had qualified for the first time since winning a third straight crown in 2010. With political turmoil at home, Egypt&#39;s team suffered badly and couldn&#39;t even qualify for the final tournament in 2012, 2013 and two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GABON (SW): The Cameroon Indomitable Lions beat the Egypt Pharaohs to become African Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2017 Champions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":83973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-83972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}