{"id":207085,"date":"2026-01-29T16:25:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=207085"},"modified":"2026-01-29T16:25:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:25:02","slug":"how-defensive-errors-cost-zimbabwe-their-afcon-dream-against-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=207085","title":{"rendered":"How Defensive Errors Cost Zimbabwe Their AFCON Dream Against South Africa\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe vs South Africa: A Tale Of A Stunning Goal And Costly Defensive Errors A night of heroic effort in Marrakesh was undone by critical defensive mistakes, as Zimbabwe crashed out of the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations following a 3-2 defeat to rivals South Africa on December 29&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/iharare.com\/how-defensive-errors-cost-zimbabwe-their-afcon-dream-against-south-africa\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwe vs South Africa: A Tale Of A Stunning Goal And Costly Defensive Errors A<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/207085-how-defensive-errors-cost-zimbabwe-their-afcon-dream-against-south-africa.webp",1280,721,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/207085-how-defensive-errors-cost-zimbabwe-their-afcon-dream-against-south-africa-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/207085-how-defensive-errors-cost-zimbabwe-their-afcon-dream-against-south-africa-300x169.webp",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/207085-how-defensive-errors-cost-zimbabwe-their-afcon-dream-against-south-africa-768x433.webp",640,361,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/207085-how-defensive-errors-cost-zimbabwe-their-afcon-dream-against-south-africa-1024x577.webp",640,361,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/207085-how-defensive-errors-cost-zimbabwe-their-afcon-dream-against-south-africa.webp",1280,721,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/207085-how-defensive-errors-cost-zimbabwe-their-afcon-dream-against-south-africa.webp",1280,721,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/207085-how-defensive-errors-cost-zimbabwe-their-afcon-dream-against-south-africa-1024x577.webp",1024,577,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/207085-how-defensive-errors-cost-zimbabwe-their-afcon-dream-against-south-africa-825x575.webp",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/207085-how-defensive-errors-cost-zimbabwe-their-afcon-dream-against-south-africa-590x410.webp",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/207086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}