Congratulations to Noussair Mazraoui, who helped Morocco into the semi-finals of the Africa Cup of Nations on Friday evening.
The Atlas Lions eased to a 2-0 win over a Cameroon side featuring his Manchester United team-mate Bryan Mbeumo in Rabat.
Both Reds played the full 90 minutes, as the hosts largely controlled the quarter-final tie at the Prince Moulay Abdellah Stadium.
Former Manchester City midfielder Brahim Diaz tucked home his fifth goal of the tournament after 26 minutes, using his thigh to nudge home Ayoub El Kaabi’s flick-on.
Walid Regragui’s side, who are bidding to win the tournament for the first time since 1976, then doubled their lead with a quarter of an hour to play.
Ismael Saibari, the PSV Eindhoven winger, fired home a low drive after finding space at the back post following Abde Ezzalzouli’s teasing free-kick.
The 2022 World Cup semi-finalists are favourites to triumph on home soil and will return to Rabat on Wednesday to take on the winners of Saturday’s first quarter-final, between Algeria and Nigeria.
Senegal have also booked their place in the final four, as Everton’s Iliman Ndiaye settled their last-eight clash with Mali earlier on Friday.
They are set to play either Ivory Coast or Egypt in the other semi-final, with that tie concluding the quarter-final stage tomorrow.
Good luck to Amad, who has been one of the tournament’s standout players so far, scoring three goals for the Elephants and claiming a trio of Player of the Match prizes.
Mbeumo will return to Manchester in due course, although Darren Fletcher has ruled him out of Sunday's Emirates FA Cup meeting with Brighton.
“I think it's too close a turnaround,”
he said, in his pre-match press conference.
“So we'll have the same players available for the game, as we had against Burnley, so no new additions.”