{"id":1967,"date":"2026-01-04T04:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T04:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/1967\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T04:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T04:47:11","slug":"morocco-to-play-tanzania-in-afcon-round-of-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/1967\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco to Play Tanzania in AFCON Round of 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morocco will play against Tanzania in the round of 16 of the 2025 AFCON.<\/p>\n<p>Tanzania finished the group stages as third in Group C with only two points, unexpectedly sealing its ticket to the next round of the continental <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moroccoworldnews.com\/2025\/12\/273381\/afcon-2025-fuels-optimism-in-morocco-survey-shows\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tournament<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The East African nation drew its last group game today. They mustered a hard-fought 1-1 result against pre-tournament favorites Tunisia, who finished second with four points.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco\u2019s national team secured its spot in the round of 16 after dominating Monday\u2019s third and final game of the group stage with a 3-0 triumph over Zambia.<\/p>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.moroccoworldnews.com\/2025\/12\/273349\/regragui-morocco-must-work-harder-despite-zambia-win\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Atlas Lions<\/a>\u2019 performance brought Moroccans\u2019 aspirations to life after an unsatisfying second Group A match against Mali, which finished with a 1-1 draw.<\/p>\n<p>Head coach Walid Regragui acknowledged that the national team must stay strong and consistent throughout the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cafonline.com\/caf-africa-cup-of-nations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">competition<\/a> despite its strong start in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot win the trophy alone,\u201d Regragui said, urging Moroccans to continue backing the Atlas Lions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should not think the job is done. We still have work to do,\u201d Regragui said.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco knows their Sunday opponent very well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The two teams played a World Cup qualifier in March, with the Atlas Lions winning 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>They also won a few other games against Tanzania, including a 3-0 victory in January of last year.<\/p>\n<p>Morocco\u2019s Round of 16 game will take place in Rabat\u2019s Prince Moulay Abdellah stadium on Sunday at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Morocco will play against Tanzania in the round of 16 of the 2025 AFCON. Tanzania finished the group&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[527,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-1967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tanzania","8":"tag-afcon-2025","9":"tag-tanzania"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}