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The group stage matches ended on Friday and the names of the 16 teams qualified for the knockout stages of the World Cup are now known. With Morocco and Senegal, Africa will have two representatives in the round of 16 of this World Cup. During the 2018 World Cup in Russia, none of the five qualified African teams (Nigeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and Senegal) had passed the first round. Morocco even finished at the top of a very strong group F, with the vice-world champions Croatia and the Belgians, as he had done in 1986 before Portugal and England. The last African team to manage to take the top spot in a group was Nigeria in 1998. opening against the Netherlands (2-0). The Terenga Lions then beat Qatar (3-1), then Ecuador (2-1), to offer themselves a tantalizing round of 16 against England on Sunday.
