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OFFICIAL REPORT: BRAHIM DIAZ BECOMES FIRST MOROCCAN TO SCORE IN FOUR AFCON GAMES
Brahim Diaz’s record-breaking goal sends Morocco to the AFCON quarter-finals. Can the hosts survive a showdown with Cameroon?
Brahim Diaz pushed Morocco through to the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals on Sunday, knocking out Tanzania with his goal. Now, Morocco faces Cameroon, who edged past South Africa 2-1 in their own tense last-16 match.
Diaz, Real Madrid's winger, has been on fire—he scored in every group game and kept that streak alive with a 64th-minute strike that sealed a 1-0 win in Rabat’s Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium. That makes him the first Moroccan ever to score in four straight AFCON matches. After his goal, he held up a shirt for Azzedine Ounahi, their injured midfielder, and later dedicated the win to him. Ounahi showed up at the stadium on crutches; his tournament is over, thanks to a calf injury.
Morocco really made hard work of it, missing several chances before finally getting their breakthrough. Their unbeaten run stretches to 23 games now—their last loss was actually to South Africa at this very tournament.
Achraf Hakimi, fresh from injury and named African player of the year, set up Diaz’s winner. This was his first start of the competition, and he wasted no time making an impact.
Morocco came in as the big favourites. Home crowd? Check—almost 70,000 fans packed in. World rankings? They’re 101 places above Tanzania. But Tanzania didn’t read the script. Just three minutes in, Saimon Msuva nearly stunned everyone, but he couldn’t connect with Selemani Mwalimu’s cross.
Fifteen minutes in, Ismael Saibari headed home Abdessamad Ezzalzouli’s free kick, but the flag went up for offside. The hosts kept pushing in the second half, Hakimi smashed a free kick off the bar, and finally, Diaz broke through—Hakimi set him up, and Diaz beat the keeper at the near post.
Morocco’s coach, Walid Regragui, put it bluntly: “We only started playing in the second half, but we absolutely deserved to go through.”
For Tanzania, this was their first time in the AFCON knockout stages. They battled hard but still haven’t won a game in 13 tries at the tournament. Their coach, Miguel Angel Gamondi, was proud: “The gap between Morocco and us isn’t as big as people think. We’ll come back stronger.”
Now, Morocco gears up for Cameroon, which got past South Africa thanks to goals from Junior Tchamadeu and Christian Kofane. Tchamadeu, Stoke City’s London-born full-back, tapped in the first after a deflection in the 34th minute. Right after halftime, teenage forward Kofane doubled the lead with a well-placed header.
South Africa fought back late—Evidence Makgopa scored in the 88th minute, but Cameroon held on, a bit nervy at the end.
So, five-time champions Cameroon can relax a bit heading into their showdown with Morocco, with the pressure squarely on the hosts. Their coach, David Pagou, who only just took over the team, said, “I want to enjoy this win first. The Morocco game feels far away right now. We suffered today, even though we won, and all of us need a rest.”
For South Africa, it’s a tough pill to swallow after finishing third at the last AFCON. But coach Hugo Broos is already looking ahead: “We’re not going backwards, but we need to honestly assess what happened here and focus on the World Cup.”
CELTIC SACK WILFRIED NANCY TODAY AFTER DISASTROUS 33-DAY TENURE AND SIX LOSSES
Celtic sack Wilfried Nancy after a record-short 33-day tenure. Explore the stats behind his 6 losses and the hunt for a new boss.
After Celtic's 3-1 loss to Rangers last weekend, the club fired manager Wilfried Nancy.
Nancy, 48, signed a two-and-a-half-year deal after leaving the Columbus Crew at the end of the MLS season and officially began on December 4.
After Brendan Rodgers' unexpected exit, interim manager Martin O'Neill led Celtic to seven wins in eight games. But after Nancy arrived, the results went down. He was the first Celtic manager to lose his first two games, and also lost to St. Mirren in the Premier Sports Cup final and to Dundee United.
After six losses and one month, Wilfried Nancy's short and bad time as Celtic manager is done.
Only 33 days after he left the Columbus Crew in Major League Soccer for Celtic, the club said on Monday that it has decided to end the contract of manager Wilfried Nancy right away.
Paul Tisdale is also leaving as Celtic's head of operations, and there was no news about a new manager.
The club added, We will let supporters know more as soon as we can.
Nancy lost its first four games, including a League Cup final, and six of eight overall. His last game was a 3-1 home loss to Glasgow rival Rangers on Saturday in the Old Firm derby.
Nancy's time was a bit shorter than Martin O'Neill's interim time, who had taken over after Brendan Rodgers left on Oct. 27. Nancy was hired on Dec. 3.
O'Neill, a popular figure who won three Scottish titles with Celtic in the early 2000s, later said he would have liked to stay.
Celtic plays Dundee United on Saturday, kicking off a busy stretch of eight games in 24 days.
That includes two key Europa League games against Bologna from Italy and Utrecht from the Netherlands. Celtic is currently in the 24th and final qualifying spot and wants to avoid being knocked out early.
Celtic also plays Hearts on Jan. 25 in what could be a big game in the Scottish Premiership title race.
Hearts is six points ahead of Celtic and Rangers at the top of the standings. The Edinburgh club wants to be the first team outside of the Old Firm to win the title since Alex Ferguson's Aberdeen in 1985.
HUGO BROOS UNDER FIRE AFTER SHOCKING AFCON EXIT AND WASTED 2026 MOMENTUM
South Africa crashes out of AFCON 2026. Was leaving Zwane and Rayners out a mistake? Full analysis of the 2-1 loss to Cameroon.
Hugo Broos and Bafana Bafana crashed out of the Africa Cup of Nations after a gutting 2-1 loss to Cameroon on Sunday night.
It stings. Back home, everyone expected the team to build on that bronze medal finish, especially after storming through World Cup qualification and racking up a 27-game unbeaten streak. Instead, they just never found their rhythm in Morocco. Even in their wins—2-1 over Angola, then a tight 3-2 against Zimbabwe, or the narrow 1-0 loss to Egypt, Bafana looked shaky. The self-belief and control they showed in the qualifiers just disappeared. They hesitated, second-guessed, and rarely put any team under real pressure.
Against Cameroon, who didn’t even make the World Cup, Bafana should’ve looked more assured. They had the ball, created chances, but couldn’t convert. All that effort, and still, they walked away empty-handed.
You have to wonder if Broos regrets leaving out players like Themba Zwane and Iqraam Rayners. Without Mshishi pulling strings, Bafana missed that cool head and spark in the middle—exactly the kind of guile that changes games at AFCON. The team moved the ball sideways too often, looking predictable and running out of ideas. There was no one to pick apart a packed defence, no one to slow things down or speed them up when needed.
Sure, Bafana stayed organised. They worked hard. But when the pressure was on, they just lacked imagination and couldn’t adapt.
Rayners, especially, could’ve made a real difference up front. Against Cameroon in the last sixteen, Lyle Foster worked hard but never really rattled that tough defence. Rayners has a knack for sharper movement, attacking space, pressing with intent, and just going straight for the goal. Even Makgopa’s late strike—proof that Cameroon could be hurt by a different kind of striker—came too late. Rayners would’ve brought that edge from the start.
This exit will haunt Broos because it didn’t have to end like this. Bafana came to Morocco with momentum and belief. They left without ever making their mark. AFCON doesn’t forgive missed chances, and this run will go down as a wasted shot—a lesson that discipline and structure don’t mean much without bravery and creativity.
With the World Cup coming up in June, South Africa has to be bolder. The good vibes from qualifying won’t matter if the same problems show up again on the world’s biggest stage.
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