Lesotho vs Morocco - prediction, team news, lineups

Lesotho big Morocco successful Toyota Stadium successful Bloemfontein connected Tuesday successful the 2nd circular of 2027 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying Group A, with the Moroccan delegation having flown into South Africa via a refuelling halt successful Douala, Cameroon, up of the fixture.

The Crocodiles are inactive searching for their archetypal points having mislaid to Niger past Friday, portion the Atlas Lions get afloat of assurance aft a winning commencement to the campaign. 

Match preview

Morocco opened their qualifying run with a 2-0 triumph implicit Gabon successful Rabat past Friday, a effect that extended the Atlas Lions' estimation arsenic 1 of the continent's astir accordant sides heading into this caller qualifying cycle.

Manchester United defender Noussair Mazraoui broke the deadlock successful the 36th minute, portion Soufiane Rahimi scored the 2nd extremity successful the 84th infinitesimal to extremity immoderate hopes of a Gabonese comeback.

Morocco, who hosted the AFCON and were aboriginal awarded the rubric pursuing a CAF ruling, are looking to marque it to the tourney due again, with hopes of adding to their 2 titles, the archetypal of which came successful 1976.

The Atlas Lions finished the past AFCON qualifying radical run with a cleanable grounds of six wins from six matches, successful a radical that had Lesotho arsenic well, with the North Africans scoring 8 goals crossed some legs against the Crocodiles.

Morocco secured a 1-0 triumph successful the archetypal leg, earlier thrashing the Southern African broadside 7-0,  a feat they volition beryllium hoping to repetition arsenic they look to stay archetypal successful a radical that besides has Niger.

Lesotho, for their part, opened their ain run with a 2-1 decision distant astatine Niger, a effect that continued a hard caller tally for the nationalist broadside who person present mislaid consecutive games.

The Southern Africans conceded 2 goals successful the past 7 minutes of the archetypal half, with Daniel Sosah and Oumar Sako scoring for Niger, earlier Sera Motebang halved the shortage from the spot successful the 85th minute.

That decision extended a troubling series successful which the Crocodiles person won conscionable erstwhile successful their past 7 matches, drafting 3 and losing 3 others, signifier that has done small to suggest they tin occupation a Moroccan broadside of considerably higher quality.

Lesotho struggled successful the past Africa Cup of Nations qualifying campaign, finishing bottommost of their radical having scored lone doubly portion conceding 13 goals crossed the full section, with implicit fractional of those goals coming against Morocco.

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Team News

Lesotho person nary reported fittingness concerns pursuing the decision to Niger, with the aforesaid radical of players who featured successful that lucifer expected to beryllium progressive again connected Tuesday.

Motebang is expected to pb the enactment again, with the location broadside apt lining up successful a backmost five, with skipper Sekhoane Moerane betwixt the sticks.

Morocco were without skipper Achraf Hakimi and Ismael Saibari for the triumph implicit Gabon done CAF suspension but some are present disposable for enactment aft serving their bans.

However, the Atlas Lions stay without Ayoub El Kaabi, Chadi Riad, Youssef Belammari, Youssef En-Nesyri and Hamza Igamane, who are each injured.

Lesotho imaginable starting lineup:

Moerane; Falene, Makhetha, Makhele, Mokokoane, Koaeane; Mokhachane, Toloane, Fethoane, Sefali; Motebang

Morocco imaginable starting lineup:

Bounou; Mazraoui, Aguerd, Diop, Maamar; Bouaddi, El Aynaoui; Yassine, Ounahi, Ezzalzouli; Zabiri

We say: Lesotho 0-3 Morocco

We expect Morocco's prime to archer heavy erstwhile again, with Lesotho's ongoing struggles successful beforehand of extremity and a defence that ships a batch of goals, apt to beryllium exposed for a 2nd clip by the aforesaid opponent.

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