Who will be crowned WAFCON champion? Morocco vs Cameroon; Algeria vs Malawi - Semi-final preview

So let's talk about that Morocco versus Cameroon match.

Um, first of all, for Morocco, they've, of course, finalists last time around, last year, and finalists, uh, the time before that.

They lost to South Africa and they lost to Nigeria, the two powerhouses of women's football in African, on the African continent.

Now, Morocco's looking at this.

They're playing against a Cameroonian team which on, like, on paper, they were not even supposed to be here.

They didn't qualify to this tournament.

Algeria knocked them out of qualifying, and then they were sort of, uh, added to the, to the tournament as CAF decided to expand it.

So because of that, because of how young a lot of Cameroonian players are and how experienced a lot of Moroccan players are, you'd have to think-- Oh, not to mention they're playing at home in front of, you know, uh, at least 20,000 strong.

You have to feel like Morocco are the big favorites here.

Now, there's a few things.

First of all, I don't really think that Morocco were too troubled in any of the matches they've played.

Yes, they were played tight by Algeria and played tight by South Africa, but in both of those matches, they were always sort of on the, they always had the upper hand.

Uh, against Algeria created very little against Morocco.

And South Africa, um, they only had like, they only came alive in the final 20 minutes, and even then it did seem kind of controlled, uh, by the Atlas Lionesses.

So I still haven't seen them when they're trailing, and I think that's gonna be interesting, and I think that could happen in this match against Cameroon.

That's the first thing.

Um, but sorry, the point I was making before is that Morocco, there has to be a lot of pressure even on Jorge Vilda, um, and, and the Moroccan Federation.

Like, they've hosted this tournament three times in a row specifically to get to this point, to finally win this tournament, and now they have no more excuses.

But yeah, um, unfortunately for them, some of their best and most experienced players might be injured.

Uh, Ghizlane Chebbak picked up an injury, uh, and was subbed off early against South Africa.

I'm not 100% sure about her fitness.

I- it's very difficult finding team news when it comes to the WAFCON, unfortunately.

We usually have to wait for the press conferences, which haven't come out yet.

So Ghizlane Chebbak, if she's not playing, that could be, um, that could be a pretty big development.

There's also even news that Sanam Soudi, I, I believe she picked up extra yellows.