{"id":17290,"date":"2026-02-16T07:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T07:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/?p=17290"},"modified":"2026-02-16T07:48:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T07:48:28","slug":"ziyech-leads-wydad-to-caf-confederation-cup-last-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/ziyech-leads-wydad-to-caf-confederation-cup-last-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"Ziyech leads Wydad to CAF Confederation Cup last eight"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong>By AFP<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Wydad Casablanca of Morocco and Maniema Union from the Democratic Republic of Congo both won at home on Sunday to complete the CAF Confederation Cup quarter-finals line-up.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Captained by former Chelsea winger Hakim Ziyech, Wydad dominated Tanzanian visitors AZAM, but did not clinch victory until Walid Nassi scored in added time.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The deadlock had been broken midway through the second half when Pascal Msindo conceded an own-goal attempting to clear a cross.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Maniema reached the quarter-finals for the first time after outplaying Nairobi United 3-0 in Lubumbashi to finish Group B runners-up, three points behind Wydad.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u00a0All the Maniema goals came in the first half. Beni Namboka bagged a brace, then Jaency Mboma Kinda netted.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u00a0Nairobi midfielder Enock Machaga was shown a red card 12 minutes into the second half. It was another blow for the Kenyans, who lost all six matches and scored just once.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Chabab Belouizdad of Algeria edged AS Otoho of Congo Brazzaville 2-1 in a match to decide the winners of Group C.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u00a0Abdennour Belhocini scored his fifth goal of the African campaign and Farid El Melali added a second before the break in Algiers. Malian Bandiougou Diallo halved the deficit.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u00a0Belouizdad finished six points above Otoho, who want to emulate compatriots AC Leopards, shock 2012 winners of the African equivalent of the UEFA Europa League.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u00a0Confederation Cup semi-finalists last season, Stellenbosch of South Africa came third after a 0-0 draw with Singida Black Stars of Tanzania in Cape Town.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u00a0After scoring only once in five Group A matches, Djoliba of Mali finally clicked to trounce San Pedro of the Ivory Coast 4-0 in Bamako, where Fode Toure bagged a brace.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>\u00a0USM Alger of Algeria and Olympique Safi of Morocco qualified from Group A, and Egyptian contenders Zamalek and Al Masry from Group D.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By AFP Wydad Casablanca of Morocco and Maniema Union from the Democratic Republic of Congo both won at home on Sunday to complete the CAF Confederation Cup quarter-finals line-up.\u00a0 Captained by former Chelsea winger Hakim Ziyech, Wydad dominated Tanzanian visitors AZAM, but did not clinch victory until Walid Nassi scored in added time. The deadlock&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17290"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17305,"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17290\/revisions\/17305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auba.africa\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}