{"id":45744,"date":"2025-12-24T01:17:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T01:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=45744"},"modified":"2025-12-24T01:17:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T01:17:52","slug":"hassan-admits-tough-test-in-egypts-afcon-opener-against-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2025\/12\/24\/hassan-admits-tough-test-in-egypts-afcon-opener-against-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Hassan admits tough test in Egypt&#8217;s AFCON opener against Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-139225\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t<!-- .entry-header -->&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n\t<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" width=\"392\" height=\"264\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766539071_543_Hassan-admits-tough-test-in-Egypts-AFCON-opener-against-Zimbabwe.jpeg?resize=392%2C264&#038;ssl=1\" class=\"object-contain h-46 w-full rounded-lg  md:rounded-none md:rounded-lg wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soccer24.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hassam-Hassan-Egypt-coach.jpeg?w=1638&amp;ssl=1 1638w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soccer24.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hassam-Hassan-Egypt-coach.jpeg?resize=300%2C202&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soccer24.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hassam-Hassan-Egypt-coach.jpeg?resize=1024%2C690&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soccer24.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hassam-Hassan-Egypt-coach.jpeg?resize=768%2C518&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soccer24.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hassam-Hassan-Egypt-coach.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1035&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soccer24.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hassam-Hassan-Egypt-coach.jpeg?resize=392%2C264&amp;ssl=1 392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.soccer24.co.zw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Hassam-Hassan-Egypt-coach.jpeg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\"\/>&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content custom-text-styles\">\n<div class=\"soccer24-advanced-banner soccer24-banner-type-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1766539071_56_Hassan-admits-tough-test-in-Egypts-AFCON-opener-against-Zimbabwe.jpeg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Banner2image\" class=\"soccer24-banner-image\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Head coach of the Egypt national team, Hossam Hassan, has admitted that the AFCON Group B game against Zimbabwe on Monday night was difficult.<\/p>\n<p>The Pharaohs secured a hard-fought victory, with Omar Marmoush and Mohamed Salah finding the target in the second half as they came from a goal behind following Prince Dube\u2019s first-half opener.<\/p>\n<p>Salah\u2019s goal came in stoppage time after a prolonged period of frustration and missed chances, despite Egypt dominating play.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the match, Hassan said: \u201cWe missed more than one scoring opportunity and luck was not on our side \u2013 that is football. We were the better team throughout the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOpening games are always difficult. The most important thing is winning these matches and securing the three points, and our performance in the upcoming matches will improve for the better. From now on, we are preparing for the South Africa match. I thank all the players for their efforts in the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The result stretched Egypt\u2019s dominance over Zimbabwe and placed them level on points with South Africa, who beat Angola 2\u20131 in another Group B match played on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><h3 class=\"jp-relatedposts-headline\"><em>Related Posts<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content -->&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t<!-- \n\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\">\n\t\t<span class=\"cat-links\">Posted in Local<\/span><span class=\"tags-links\">Tagged afcon, Egypt, zimbabwe<\/span>\t<\/footer>\n\n -->&#13;\n<\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Hassan #admits #tough #test #Egypts #AFCON #opener #Zimbabwe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Head coach of the Egypt national team, Hossam Hassan, has admitted that the AFCON Group B&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2146,942,3603,5155,2661,2289,2354,113],"class_list":["post-45744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-example-3","tag-admits","tag-afcon","tag-egypts","tag-hassan","tag-opener","tag-test","tag-tough","tag-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45745,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45744\/revisions\/45745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}