- 1 Morocco vs Niger: six players injured, and a 5-0 the last time Niger came to Morocco
- 2 Morocco: no goals conceded in the group, and an infirmary that keeps filling up
- 3 Niger: Sako’s goals, a 2-0 in Gabon and a squad built on the domestic league
- 4 Free Football Prediction: Morocco vs Niger
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Morocco vs Niger: six players injured, and a 5-0 the last time Niger came to Morocco 
Ismaël Saibari, Azzedine Ounahi, Ayoub El Kaabi, Chadi Riad and Soufiane Rahimi are all injured, and Neil El Aynaoui left Morocco’s camp this week with an ankle problem. Mohamed Ouahbi still has Achraf Hakimi, Noussair Mazraoui and Brahim Díaz for Friday’s qualifier against Niger.
Morocco host Niger on Friday 13 November at the Complexe Sportif Mohammed V in Casablanca, kick-off 20:00 local time, 19:00 UK time, on matchday three of Group A. Omar Abdulkadir Artan of Somalia is the referee.
The return leg is in Rabat on Tuesday 17 November, with Niger the designated home side because they have no CAF-approved stadium. Both games, in other words, are in Morocco.
Morocco have six points from two games, four goals scored and none conceded. Gabon and Niger have three each, Gabon ahead on goal difference, and Lesotho have none, with the top two going to the 2027 finals in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
Half of Morocco’s group goals came from players who are now out: Rahimi against Gabon and Ounahi against Lesotho. The two sides met twice in qualifying for the 2026 World Cup, Morocco winning 2-1 in March 2025 and 5-0 at home in September 2025, when Niger finished with ten men.
Niger have won one of their last nine matches, and Nabil Neghiz has been their coach only since September. They have no home ground to fall back on either, with the second leg also on Moroccan soil.
Morocco: no goals conceded in the group, and an infirmary that keeps filling up 
Morocco beat Gabon 2-0 in Rabat on 25 September, Mazraoui scoring on 36 minutes and Rahimi on 84. In Bloemfontein four days later, Díaz scored his 15th international goal just before half-time and Ounahi added a second on 82 for another 2-0.
The October friendly with Mali finished 1-1 in Tangier in front of more than 65,000. Abde Ezzalzouli scored a 35th-minute penalty and Gaoussou Diarra equalised on 77, and the result dropped Morocco to sixth in the FIFA ranking.
Saibari had surgery on a ruptured ankle syndesmosis and is out for months. Ounahi had an operation on a hamstring tendon after getting hurt on 18 October and faces two and a half to three months out, El Kaabi has a fractured tibia and Riad a ruptured cruciate ligament.
Youssef En-Nesyri is back in the squad, and Ayoub Oufkir of AZ Alkmaar, 20, has his first call-up. Samir El Mourabet of Strasbourg replaces El Aynaoui in midfield, while Hamza Igamane is still short of match rhythm after a knee injury.
Since the 2-0 World Cup quarter-final defeat to France in July, Morocco have won both of their competitive matches without conceding. Ouahbi has been in charge since March 2026, when his first game was a draw with Ecuador.
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Niger: Sako’s goals, a 2-0 in Gabon and a squad built on the domestic league 
Daniel Sosah and Oumar Sako scored before half-time against Lesotho in September, and Niger held on for a 2-1 win after Sera Motebang’s 85th-minute penalty. Sako, of FC Rostov, had three of Niger’s four goals going into the October window.
Four days later they lost 2-0 in Gabon, Denis Bouanga scoring the decisive goal on 77 minutes. That defeat left Niger third on goal difference.
Nabil Neghiz, an Algerian who had a one-match spell in charge of Algeria in 2016, replaced Zaki Badou in September. His third game was a friendly in Tizi Ouzou on 6 October, where Niger led 1-0 at half-time and lost 2-1.
The results before that were thin. Niger had won one of their previous eight matches, a run that included defeats to Mauritania and Togo and draws with Benin and Libya.
Neghiz has picked nine players based in Niger. Rahim Alhassane of Bologna is the only one at a club in Europe’s big five leagues, and Ali Mohamed of Maccabi Haifa and goalkeeper Kassali of Simba SC are among the others who started in Gabon or are expected to start here. The squad arrived in Casablanca on 8 November.
Probable lineup Morocco: Not announced at time of publication
Probable lineup Niger: Not announced at time of publication
Free Football Prediction: Morocco vs Niger
Our prediction: Morocco to win by two goals or more (handicap -1.5)
We’re backing Morocco on the -1.5 handicap, a win by two clear goals. A straight home win is priced far below our 1.45 floor, so the margin is where we want to be.
The injuries take two of Morocco’s four group scorers and a starting midfielder out of the side. Hakimi, Mazraoui, Díaz and En-Nesyri are all available, though, and Morocco haven’t conceded in the group. They also beat Niger 5-0 on their last visit to Morocco in September 2025.
Niger lost 2-0 in Gabon in September and have won once in nine matches before this window. We expect 3-0 to Morocco in Casablanca.
Both of Morocco’s group wins came by exactly two goals, the minimum this pick needs. Niger have conceded in all three of their matches since September, 2-1 against Lesotho, 2-0 in Gabon and 2-1 in Tizi Ouzou.
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