{"id":2369,"date":"2026-01-04T09:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/2369\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T09:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:11:08","slug":"morocco-vs-tanzania-match-preview-head-to-head-team-news-line-ups-prediction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/2369\/","title":{"rendered":"Morocco vs Tanzania: Match preview, head-to-head, team news, line-ups, prediction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morocco face Tanzania in the <a href=\"https:\/\/footballtoday.com\/2025\/12\/31\/2025-afcon-round-of-16-full-fixtures-for-ivory-coast-cameroon-senegal-nigeria-morocco-egypt\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) round of 16;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) round of 16<\/a> at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The hosts finished top of Group A with seven points, while Tanzania were one of the best third-placed teams to advance.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Match preview<\/p>\n<p>Morocco beat <a href=\"https:\/\/footballtoday.com\/2025\/12\/21\/morocco-2-0-comoros-diaz-scores-but-el-kaabis-overhead-kick-steals-the-show\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Comoros 2-0;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Comoros 2-0<\/a> in their opening match, before being held to a <a href=\"https:\/\/footballtoday.com\/2025\/12\/26\/morocco-1-1-mali-sinayokos-strike-cancels-out-the-diaz-goal-as-hosts-held-by-eagles\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:1-1 draw by Mali;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">1-1 draw by Mali<\/a>. They put any lingering doubts about them to rest with a <a href=\"https:\/\/footballtoday.com\/2025\/12\/29\/hakimi-makes-first-afcon-2025-appearance-as-el-kaabis-overhead-kick-seals-moroccos-3-0-win-over-zambia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:convincing 3-0 victory over Zambia;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">convincing 3-0 victory over Zambia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Walid Regragui\u2019s side rank first for accurate passes and total shots, and second for ball possession per game.<\/p>\n<p>Tanzania <a href=\"https:\/\/footballtoday.com\/2025\/12\/23\/nigeria-kick-off-afcon-campaign-with-2-1-win-against-tanzania\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:lost 2-1 to Nigeria;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">lost 2-1 to Nigeria<\/a> in their first game, before drawing with Uganda and Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>Their defensive resilience was evident against Tunisia, and they will now hope to build on that performance in this clash.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Team news<\/p>\n<p>Romain Saiss and Hamza Igamane are the only injury concerns for Morocco. Tanzania have a clean bill of health.<\/p>\n<p>Head-to-head<\/p>\n<p>Both teams have met only once at AFCON, but have faced each other eight times overall, with Morocco winning seven and Tanzania triumphing once.<\/p>\n<p>Predicted line-ups<\/p>\n<p>Morocco (4-3-3): Yassine Bounou, Noussair Mazraoui, Adam Masina, Nayef Aguerd, Anass Salah-Eddine, Sofyan Amrabat, Azzedine Ounahi, Neil El Aynaoui, Brahim Diaz, Yakub El Kaabi, Ismael Saibari.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Tanzania (4-2-3-1): Hussein Masalanga, Mohamed Hussein, Ibrahim Hamad, Bakari Mwamnyeto, Dickson Job, Novatus Miroshi, Alphonce Msanga, Simon Msuva, Feisal Salum, Haji Mnoga, Mbwana Samatta.<\/p>\n<p>Prediction<\/p>\n<p>We expect Morocco to triumph 3-0.<\/p>\n<p>Stats from transfermarkt.com &amp; sofascore.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Morocco face Tanzania in the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) round of 16 at the Prince Moulay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[2269,411,2268,165,2267,169,2270,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-2369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tanzania","8":"tag-adam-masina","9":"tag-afcon","10":"tag-azzedine-ounahi","11":"tag-morocco","12":"tag-nayef-aguerd","13":"tag-noussair-mazraoui","14":"tag-sofyan-amrabat","15":"tag-tanzania"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369","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=2369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}