This archive report was first published on 29 June 2019.
On June 29, 2019, Morocco reached the last 16 of the Africa Cup of Nations with a 1-0 victory over Ivory Coast in Group D.
Youssef En-Nesyri scored the game's only goal in the first half after a clever pass from Nordin Amrabat.
Ivory Coast had gone close with just 38 seconds gone when Wolves' Romain Saiss cleared a header from Aston Villa's Jonathan Kodjia off the line.
As well as scoring, En-Nesyri swept a shot into the side-netting and forced Sylvain Gbohouo into a terrific save down to his left after Amrabat dummied Hakim Ziyech's low cross.
Analysis ¶
According to BBC Arabic's Riham Eldeeb, the points are all that matter, and Morocco goes into the final group game without any pressure now they have qualified for the knockout stages.
However, Ivory Coast offered nothing, and the questions for them are around the player who didn't take to the pitch, Wilfried Zaha.
