{"id":6803,"date":"2024-11-12T22:30:53","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T22:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/afcon-2025-who-needs-what-to-qualify-for-finals-in-morocco\/"},"modified":"2024-11-12T22:30:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T22:30:53","slug":"afcon-2025-who-needs-what-to-qualify-for-finals-in-morocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/afcon-2025-who-needs-what-to-qualify-for-finals-in-morocco\/","title":{"rendered":"Afcon 2025: Who needs what to qualify for finals in Morocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Mozambique<\/b> and <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Mali<\/b> are both on eight points at the top of Group I, and either side will secure passage if they win their meeting in Maputo on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Guinea-Bissau<\/b> are four points behind and hoping to capitalise on any slip up, but Luis Boa-Morte\u2019s men need to return from their trip to already-eliminated Eswatini with three points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Guinea-Bissau host Mozambique in the final round of matches, when Mali entertain Eswatini.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Zimbabwe<\/b> are hot favourites to join Cameroon in qualifying from Group J and will do so if they avoid defeat at home against <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Kenya<\/b> in neutral Polokwane on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Harambee Stars must win that game to keep their own hopes alive, which would then leave them needing to better Zimbabwe\u2019s result in Cameroon when they host Namibia on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In Group K, <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Uganda<\/b> need just one point from their two fixtures, at home against <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">South Africa<\/b> and away in <b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Congo-Brazzaville<\/b>, to return to the finals for the first time since 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">South Africa require one victory and will be confident of beating winless South Sudan at home next Tuesday if they drop points in Uganda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Congo realistically need two big wins to spoil the party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Qualification in Group L is already settled, with both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c9dy2dje717o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Burkina Faso<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cnvdn66zv88o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Senegal<\/a> through with two games to spare at the expense of Burundi and Malawi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c9wrvwrx8qzo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozambique and Mali are both on eight points at the top of Group I, and either side will secure passage if they win their meeting in Maputo on Friday. Guinea-Bissau are four points behind and hoping to capitalise on any slip up, but Luis Boa-Morte\u2019s men need to return from their trip to already-eliminated Eswatini [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6805,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6803\/revisions\/6805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}