Morocco vs Chile Prediction & Betting Tips (23 September)

Morocco wishes to chain a 5th match without defeat in all competitions. After a good start to the CAN qualifying campaign against South Africa and Liberia with 2-1 and 0-2 victories in June, the Atlas Lions were held back last month in a friendly by the Qatar 2-2, host country of the World Cup in which they will take part, before returning to victory against Jamaica 0-3. The North African selection is playing its first match this Friday under the orders of its new coach Walid Regraoui. He was named to succeed Vahid Halilhodzic, who took Morocco to the quarter-finals of CAN 2021 and qualified them for the World Cup. Chile is going through a particularly trying period.

Not qualified for the 2018 World Cup, he again failed in qualifying for the next edition at the end of the year in Qatar. This disillusion cost his place to Martin Lasarte, replaced on the bench of Roja by Eduardo Berizzo whose beginnings were not good. Chile were successively defeated by Tunisia 0-2 and Ghana 0-0/3-1 TAB in June at the Kirin Cup, just after being beaten by South Korea 2-0 in a friendly. The last 5 meetings of the selection have resulted in 4 defeats and a draw.

On the Moroccan side, Regraoui recalled the banished Belhanda (Adana Demirspor, 58 caps) and Ziyech (Chelsea, 17 goals in 40 caps). Cold with Vahid Halihodzic, the two players had not been called up for selection for very long months. The other executives are also convened. Among them, goalkeeper Bounou (FC Sevilla, 43 caps), captain Saïss (Besiktas, 63 caps), the unstoppable Hakimi (PSG, 51 caps), striker En-Nesyri (FC Sevilla, 14 goals in 48 caps) or even the experienced Amrabat (Fiorentina, 36 sel). Seriously injured, the executive defenders Aguerd (West Ham) and Masina (Udinese) were not called up, unlike other Ligue 1 residents: Dari (Brest, 2 caps), Harit (OM, 14 caps), Aboukhlal (Toulouse, 10 sels) and the Angevins Boufal (part of the selection, 29 sels) and Ounahi (7 sels). Offensive Vargas (Atlético Mineiro, 106 sel), the history of the selection is summoned for the 2 friendly matches to come.

Among them are Medel (Bologna, 148 caps), Mena (Racing, 70 caps), Aranguiz (Leverkusen, 96 caps), Vidal (Flamengo, 32 goals in 133 caps) and the essential Alexis Sanchez (48 goals in 148 caps). ), author of a good start to the season with OM. The latter will be hoped for in legs in order to stop Chile's scarcity of 5 matches without scoring. Monegasque defender Maripan (48 caps) is also in the game.