{"id":780788,"date":"2024-01-23T20:41:36","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T20:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/?p=780788"},"modified":"2024-01-23T20:41:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T20:41:39","slug":"afcon-2023-cameroon-qualifies-for-the-8th-after-an-improbable-scenario","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/afcon-2023\/afcon-2023-cameroon-qualifies-for-the-8th-after-an-improbable-scenario","title":{"rendered":"Afcon 2023: Cameroon qualifies for the 8th after an improbable scenario"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>Having its destiny in hand, Rigobert Song&#8217;s Cameroon managed to win 3-2 against Gambia on Tuesday in their last group match. This victory qualifies Cameroon for the round of 16.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cameroon went through all the emotions during this Afcon 2023. Held in check against Guinea when it entered the line, Rigobert Song&#8217;s team then lost against Senegal. The Indomitable Lions needed a victory against Gambia to qualify for the round of 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 OFFICIEL : LE \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddf2 CAMEROUN SE QUALIFIE EN 1\/8 DE FINALE DE LA CAN 2024 ! \ud83c\udf0d\ud83c\udfc6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oJPjRHd91s\">pic.twitter.com\/oJPjRHd91s<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \ud83c\udfc6 Actu Foot Afrique (@ActuFootAfrique) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ActuFootAfrique\/status\/1749870068740108579?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 23, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Facing the Scorpions this Tuesday, the Indomitable Lions, who scared themselves, ended up winning 3-2 thanks in particular to Karl Toko Ekambi and Christopher Wooh on two assists from Georges Kevin Nkoudou without forgetting a CSC from Gomez. With this strong success, Cameroon totals 4 points and qualifies for the round of 16 of Afcon 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having its destiny in hand, Rigobert Song&#8217;s Cameroon managed to win 3-2 against Gambia on Tuesday in their last group match. This victory qualifies Cameroon for the round of 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":780790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[142,84],"class_list":["post-780788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afcon-2023","tag-afcon-2023","tag-cameroon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2024\/01\/Downloader.la-65b0244cee567.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pfmZoa-3h7m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780791,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780788\/revisions\/780791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.afriquesports.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}