00:01Morocco kick us off and the ball is going to go straight out of play it is the third qualifying
00:07match in group a for both Morocco and Niger Morocco the defending champions now breaks for
00:14Morocco chance here Brian Diaz first goal after just four minutes it is Zabiri after Brian Diaz's
00:25perfect ball into the box Mohamed Yassir Zabiri scores his first goal of this qualifying campaign
00:35disgust on the face of the Niger goalkeeper who's been breached so so early
00:59it's a first senior goal for Zabiri
01:0621 year old who plays for Rassing Santander
01:13with exactly the start he would have wanted to this game
01:24here comes the free kick headed away needed to
01:34two
01:35Uwadi
01:38Alhanous
01:43Hakimi again chopped down Hakimi three fouls already on the Moroccan captain
02:02Masraoui clattered into there the bad foul by Kamara
02:20I was just saying that he's had his injury problems this year
02:24Nusaya Masraoui
02:28oh that is a nasty one studs on the thigh and I tell you what have there been VAR that
02:41Hakimi goes again and he's a specialist when it comes to those long-range finishes
02:47Ashraf Hakimi does it again he continues to dazzle he continues to find some spectacular goals
02:57a player whose talent has no limits
03:07Morocco with a two to nothing lead against Niger
03:17and Hakimi made it look so easy
03:23Aiyubu Adi into Ashraf Hakimi looks up picks his spot and fires
03:36Tanja should he be letting in a shot from there
03:46full stretch the goalkeeper
03:55but
03:57Rady wins it back Zabiri and it's three
04:04the referee
04:04as Al-Zouli
04:06the referee's ruled it out
04:14referee believes as Al-Zouli has
04:18pushed
04:20his opponent there
04:24how much credence is there
04:27hand in the back yes and then maybe it comes off his arm
04:33well just certainly maybe get a little bit fortunate
04:39so perhaps they did have chances gabon perhaps niger might have a chance here they have
04:45first goal that morocco have conceded in this qualifying campaign
04:53the referee is happy to let this one stand
04:58and the player who's ran away in celebration here is abdurrahman
05:15i don't think there can any be any claim of a foul on the goalkeepers just beaten
05:22yesin bunu to the ball absolutely he has
05:31that's a great leap bunu's not in control of it he's just brave there abdurrahman
05:43and look at that and we've seen hakemi do what he's done already
05:48in this first half you wouldn't put it past him to find the top corner from here either
05:55it's hakimi and he is put it in it's not the top corner it's the bottom corner
06:02but it's magical no less from ashraf hakimi
06:13an expert set piece taker
06:17and having survived a penalty scare
06:22now morocco are back with a two goal lead before halftime
06:39it dips it swerves it's not able to keep it out tanja
06:45it's not able to keep it out tanja
06:45it's not able to keep it out tanja
06:57half-time talk and in fact we have reached half-time
07:0145 minutes of excellent football from morocco
07:06niger given a lifeline by abdurrahman
07:09they could have gone in level had the captain yusuf converted the penalty he didn't
07:16and then hakimi with another piece of individual brilliance
07:27so second half gets on the way here at the muhammad sank
07:32niger showed in the first half that they are capable of troubling
07:39this moroccan scything had a penalty saved
07:43chance here for niger
07:50chance wasted by butari
07:57found a way through there butari
08:26good chance
08:40he did he stay on the side he did tanja
08:45might have got a hand to it it's hakimi
08:49that's right we had taken flight he's going to play it in didn't
09:09but he brought down once again
09:11the yellow can't shown
09:23it's just clipped his heels
09:25as he turns
09:35that's better play and surely now in a city
09:39this time he's not going to be denied
09:46an easy goal
09:49for yusuf a nesiri
09:55the al-itihad forward
09:59once again on target for
10:03morocco
10:05now his 26th goal
10:13it's a beautiful pass to pick out ashraf hakimi who is never going to
10:17get the service wrong from there
10:35a straight forward goal
10:37a striker's goal
10:40and a 26th strike
10:44for yusuf a nesiri
10:47niger's high line is costing him
10:50at the end of this game
10:51it's certainly costing them
10:54because he does have his goal ufkir
11:00the az alkmaar man
11:06in it goes
11:13smiles all around
11:16in the moroccan camp
11:20and a first senior goal for morocco for ufkir
11:29it has been an evening of first here
11:40player who had represented the netherlands at under 19s under 21 level now representing
11:48the country of his origin morocco
11:59the caps are wonderful
12:06wonderful evening for morocco
12:14morocco get the job done against niger in this third round of qualifying matches for the 2027 africa cup of
12:21nations
12:23the result may never have been in doubt particularly on home soil
12:27but niger made morocco work hard for it particularly in the first half
12:32the quality and talent of ash
12:38ufkir
12:39so
12:41so
12:42so
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