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The Africa Cup of Nations reached its knockout rounds when South Africa met Cameroon in the Round of 16 at the Al Barid Stadium in Rabat on Sunday 4 January 2026 at 21:00 local time. As one of the eight round-of-16 fixtures on the schedule, this was a straight knockout: the winner carried on into the quarter-finals while the loser went home, the kind of margin that gives every touch its weight. Two nations with real continental pedigree faced off under the lights in Morocco, in an 18,000-seat ground whose intimate scale keeps the crowd close to the action. Played as an evening game, the encounter marked the point in the tournament where the group phase gives way to sudden-death football and the field begins to narrow toward the title.
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