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Manchester United’s Noussair Mazraoui was victorious with Morocco final evening as they cruised to a 5-1 win away to Gabon in qualification for the African Cup of Nations.
The World Cup semi-finalists had barely much less possession with 48% of the ball however had 15 pictures to their opponents’ 11.
Mazraoui has had a really spectacular begin to the season, adapting very effectively to the rigours of Premier League soccer since his arrival from Bayern Munich in the summertime.
His performances have been much more spectacular as he has typically needed to play out of place as a left again, often swapping roles with Diogo Dalot, as they’re the membership’s solely match senior full backs in the mean time.
On this match, Mazraoui performed all the 90 minutes and accomplished two tackles, beginning on the left again place.
Soafscore gave him a rating of 6.9 for his night’s work.
Mazraoui has already proven in his restricted United profession that he’s all the time up for the battle and he introduced that depth, profitable 4 out of his seven floor duels in the course of the match.
He additionally demonstrated his spectacular talents on the ball as he had 46 touches and accomplished 29 out of his 31 passes for a go completion share of 91%.
He additionally accomplished one key go and confirmed off his vary by discovering his meant goal in 4 of his 5 lengthy ball makes an attempt.
The 27 yr outdated additionally forayed ahead sometimes, finishing certainly one of his two dribble makes an attempt.
The Moroccan has been a cut price to this point at solely £12.8m and United followers shall be intrigued to see how he can adapt to Ruben Amorim’s 3-4-3 system which performs with wing backs quite than conventional fullbacks.
The win means The Atlas Lions have received all 5 of their qualifying matches and sit eight factors forward of Gabon, having certified comfortably a very long time in the past.
They may wrap up the qualification course of at residence to Lesotho on Monday night.
