The Stade Prince Moulay Abdellah Olympique Annexe in Rabat will host Tanzania and Tunisia as both abandon hunt a acute Accumulation C achievement that would defended a abode in the knockout stages of the TotalEnergies CAF Africa Cup of Nations Morocco 2025. Kick-off is at 17h00 bounded time (16h00 GMT).
This will be the aboriginal affair amid Tanzania and Tunisia at the AFCON finals.
Their alone antecedent encounters came during condoning for the 2021 AFCON. Tunisia won the aboriginal affair 1-0 in Radès on 13 November 2020, with Youssef Msakni scoring the absolute goal.
The acknowledgment fixture, played in Dar es Salaam on 17 November 2020, concluded in a 1-1 draw. Saïf-Eddine Khaoui gave Tunisia an aboriginal beforehand in the 11th minute afore Feisal Salum equalised for Tanzania in the 48th minute.
Tunisia went on to authorize for the 2021 AFCON, while Tanzania bootless to progress.
PAST MEETINGS
OVERALL Tanzania: P2 W0 D1 L1 GF1 GA2 GD-1 Tunisia: P2 W1 D1 L0 GF2 GA1 GD 1
Tanzania – Key Statistics
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Drew their best contempo bout 1-1 adjoin Uganda afterwards aperture the clash with a 2-1 defeat to Nigeria.
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Tanzania are yet to almanac a win at the AFCON, above 11 matches (D4 L7).
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Failure to win would see Tanzania become the fourth nation, afterwards Mozambique (16), Benin (15) and Guinea-Bissau (12), to abort to win any of their aboriginal 12 AFCON matches.
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Have absent alone one of their aftermost four AFCON matches (D3), their aperture bold adjoin Nigeria.
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Have denticulate in both matches at the accepted edition; advanced alone accomplished this in their aboriginal two matches at the 1980 tournament.
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Have alone already advanced denticulate in all three accumulation matches, additionally in 1980.
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Their almanac in final accumulation matches reads: P3 W0 D2 L1.
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Have abhorred defeat in their final accumulation bout on two occasions: a 1-1 draw with Côte d’Ivoire in 1980 and a 0-0 draw with DR Congo at the 2023 edition.
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Their alone defeat in a final accumulation bout came in 2019, a 3-0 accident to Algeria.
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This will be Tanzania’s fourth bout adjoin North African action at AFCON; they absent all three antecedent meetings, adjoin Egypt (2-1) in 1986, Algeria (3-0) in 2019 and Morocco in 2023.
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The draw adjoin Uganda saw Tanzania abstain defeat in their additional accumulation bout for a additional alternating finals, accepting additionally fatigued 1-1 with Zambia in 2023.
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Have conceded in both matches at the accepted tournament; they conceded in all three matches at the 1980 and 2019 editions, with their alone AFCON apple-pie area advancing in a 0-0 draw adjoin DR Congo on matchday three in 2023.
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Simon Msuva denticulate in the draw with Uganda, demography his account to three AFCON goals above three altered clash editions.
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Msuva is the aboriginal Tanzanian amateur to account at three abstracted AFCON tournaments.
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All three of Msuva’s AFCON goals accept put Tanzania advanced in matches, yet they accept bootless to win any of them (D2 L1).
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He advanced opened the scoring in a 3-2 defeat to Kenya in 2019, a 1-1 draw with Zambia in 2021, and afresh adjoin Uganda at the accepted edition.
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Msuva is now Tanzania’s best arch scorer at AFCON, overtaking Thuwein Waziri.
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Should Msuva account again, he would become alone the additional Tanzanian amateur to account added than already at a distinct AFCON copy and the additional to account in alternating AFCON matches, afterwards Waziri in 1980.
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Msuva’s adapted amends adjoin Uganda was Tanzania’s first-ever ambition from the amends atom at AFCON.
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Progression to the knockout date would mark Tanzania’s aboriginal beforehand above the accumulation stage, accepting bootless to do so in 1980, 2019 and 2023.
Tunisia – Key Statistics
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Opened the clash with a 3-1 achievement over Uganda afore accident 3-2 to Nigeria in their additional match.
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Lost an AFCON bout afterwards scoring at atomic two goals for the aboriginal time back their 3-2 quarter-final defeat to Cameroon in 2008.
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Prior to the accident adjoin Nigeria, Tunisia were best in nine AFCON matches back scoring at atomic two goals (W8 D1).
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Had won eight afterwards matches in which they denticulate at atomic alert afore the defeat to Nigeria.
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Lost their additional accumulation bout afterwards acceptable their opener for the aboriginal time back 2013.
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Have bootless to win their final accumulation bout at anniversary of the aftermost three AFCON tournaments, cartoon 0-0 with Mauritania in 2019, accident 1-0 to Gambia, and cartoon 0-0 with South Africa in 2023.
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Their aftermost achievement in a final accumulation bout came in 2017, a 4-2 win over Zimbabwe.
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Have denticulate at atomic two goals in anniversary of their aboriginal two matches for the aboriginal time back 2012, back they opened with 2-1 wins over Morocco and Niger afore accident their final accumulation bout 1-0 to Gabon.
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Progression would see Tunisia ability the knockout stages for the 15th time.
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They aftermost bootless to beforehand above the accumulation date afterwards acceptable their aperture bout in 2013, back a 1-0 win over Algeria was followed by a 3-0 accident to Côte d’Ivoire and a 1-1 draw with Togo.
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Tunisia exited at the accumulation date at the 2023 edition; the aftermost time they suffered afterwards group-stage eliminations was in 1982 and 1994.
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Across their antecedent bristles AFCON participations, they accept exited at the accumulation date alone once, in 2023.
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The aboriginal ambition conceded adjoin Nigeria was the 100th Tunisia accept accustomed at AFCON.
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Tunisia are one of alone two nations, alongside Côte d’Ivoire, to accept conceded 100 or added goals at AFCON.
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Hazem Mastouri, scorer of Tunisia’s aboriginal ambition adjoin Nigeria, netted his beginning AFCON goal.
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Hannibal Mejbri has recorded an abetment in both of Tunisia’s matches, acceptable the aboriginal Tunisian amateur back at atomic 2010 to abetment in anniversary of the aperture two amateur of an AFCON tournament.
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Mejbri has created six affairs above the two matches, the best by any Tunisian amateur at the 2025 AFCON.
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Ali Abdi denticulate Tunisia’s additional ambition adjoin Nigeria, his aboriginal at the accepted AFCON and his aboriginal in the antagonism overall.
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Abdi has recorded three ambition involvements in bristles AFCON matches, scoring already and accouterment two assists.
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Tunisia denticulate with both of their shots on ambition adjoin Nigeria.
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Across their two matches, they accept registered eight shots on ambition and denticulate bristles goals.
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Heading into this match, Tunisia accept a attempt about-face amount of 26%, the accomplished of any aggregation at the tournament.