Morocco are unchanged from the semi-final win over Nigeria. Senegal make three changes: Lamine Camara, Antoine Mendy and Mamadou Sarr come in for Krepin Diatta and the suspended pair of Kalidou Koulibaly and Habib Diarra.

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Morocco are unchanged from the semi-final win over Nigeria. Senegal make three changes: Lamine Camara, Antoine Mendy and Mamadou Sarr come in for Krepin Diatta and the suspended pair of Kalidou Koulibaly and Habib Diarra.

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Senegal (4-3-3) E Mendy; A Mendy, M Sarr, Niakhate, Diouf; L Camara, I Gueye, P Gueye; I Ndiaye, Jackson, Mane.

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Subs: Diaw, Y Diouf, M Camara, Ciss, Dia, Diallo, Jakobs, Mbaye, C Ndiaye, Niang, Sabaly, I Sarr, P Sarr, Seck.

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Morocco (4-1-4-1) Bono; Hakimi, Aguerd, Masina, Mazraoui; El Aynaoui; Diaz, El Khannouss, Saibari, Ezzalzouli; El Kaabi.

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Subs: Munir, Al Harrar, Akhomach, Ait Boudlal, Amrabat, Belammari, Chibi, El Yamiq, Igamane, Rahimi, Saiss, Salah-Eddine, Talbi, Targhalline.

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Referee Jean Jacques Ngambo Ndala (DR Congo).

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You’ve got a nerve, turning up here expecting a goalfest. Major finals don’t work like that; Afcon finals certainly don’t. The last 10 have produced only 10 goals – and that includes four periods of extra-time. The stakes are too high to worry about entertainment.

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Tonight, in Rabat, either Morocco or Senegal will become champions of Africa for only the second time. That’s where the similarities end. Morocco are desperate to win for two reasons: they are the hosts, and it’s 50 years since they last won the competition. Tonight’s match is only their second final in that time, an unfathomably poor record for such a revered football nation.

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Senegal hope to make a different kind of history. This is their third Afcon final in the last four, and they lost on penalties to the eventual winners Ivory Coast in the other one. Victory tonight would create a legacy as one of African football’s greatest teams.

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One way or another, history will be made. May the best team win, and to hell with the entertainment.

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Kick off 7pm GMT, 8pm in Rabat.

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Evento principal

El camino de Marruecos hacia la final

  • Grupo A Comoras 2-0, Malí 1-1, Zambia 3-0

  • 16 recientemente Tanzanía 1-0

  • Cuartos de final Camerún 2-0

  • Semifinal Nigeria 0-0 (4-2 penaltis)

El único gol que encajó Marruecos fue un penalti del maliense Lassine Sinayoko

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