Our prediction for this Africa Cup of Nations 2024 match:
There will be fireworks when South Africa and Morocco take on each other at FNB Stadium in the Group K derby. Bafana Bafana desperately needed a win against Liberia and they managed to get one, with the team keeping their 2024 AFCON qualifying hopes alive. Barring any fresh injury worries, head coach Hugo Broos is unlikely to make changes to the team that outplayed Liberia.
The Group K leaders, on the other hand, did well to beat star-studded Brazil in a friendly in March, while sharing the spoils with both Peru and Cape Verde. Morocco are more of a team than South Africa and seeing that boss Walid Regragui can count on key players for the Group K derby, we predict that the visitors are going to pick up all three points from the match. All Sofyan Amrabat, Achraf Hakimi, and Hakim Ziyech made the cut for the away team.
Highlighted Team (Morocco):
Morocco, the Atlas Lions, are the first African team to win a group at the World Cup finals. Back in 1986 the team managed to finish the group stages above Portugal, Poland and England, but West Germany proved to be a big catch for the Moroccan national team in the last 16 of the tournament.
The Atlas Lions participated at the World Cup finals on four occasions, but winning of the 1976 African Cup of Nations is considered the team’s biggest success. Morocco were producing outstanding displays at the tournament in Ethiopia and it has to be noted that they defeated Guinea in the title game.
Morocco play their home games at Stade Adrar and Stade de Marrakech and they wear red shirts and green shorts when playing in front of home fans. A number of top-class footballers played for Morocco in the past, but Mustafa Hadji is certainly the biggest star who played for the Moroccan national team.