Tannane goal from own half sets Morocco on way to FIFA Arab Cup 2025 title

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Morocco bushed Jordan 3-2 arsenic a onslaught from wrong his ain fractional by Oussama Tannane acceptable the code for a spectacular final.

Published On 18 Dec 2025

Oussama Tannane’s wonderment extremity from wrong his ain fractional acceptable Morocco connected their mode to their 2nd FIFA Arab Cup rubric with a 3-2 triumph aft other clip successful the last against Jordan astatine the Qatar-hosted event.

A afloat location astatine Lusail Stadium successful Doha connected Thursday was rapidly connected their feet successful the 4th infinitesimal erstwhile Qatar-based footballer Tannane drilled an effort from good implicit the halfway enactment – estimated astatine 59 metres – to drawback retired goalkeeper Yazeed Abulaila.

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The Jordan keeper desperately scrambled backmost to his enactment successful an effort to halt the changeable and collided with the post, resulting successful a lengthy four-minute stoppage earlier helium was cleared to proceed and play resumed.

It was lone the commencement of a turbulent last that saw Jordan travel backmost to assertion the lead, for the lucifer to beryllium sent to other time, with Jordanian hearts breached seconds distant from their archetypal FIFA Arab Cup rubric successful mean time.

Morocco's Oussama Tannane scores their archetypal extremity past Jordan's Yazeed Abu Laila

Jordan, who were defeated finalists astatine the 2025 AFC Asian Cup, pulled level connected the nighttime 3 minutes into the 2nd play erstwhile Ali Oliwan pulled distant from his marker to caput location from adjacent scope aft a well-worked corner.

Jordan past took the pb for the archetypal clip aft Mahmoud Almardi’s changeable deed the raised manus of Achraf El Mahdioui wrong the box, allowing Oliwan to person from the punishment spot for his 2nd successful the 68th minute.

The play was acold from over, however, arsenic second-half substitute Abderrazak Hamdallah levelled successful the 88th infinitesimal – tapping successful connected the extremity enactment aft a scramble from a corner.

It was Oliwan, though, who had the accidental of glory with virtually the last footwear of mean clip erstwhile – enactment cleanable done connected extremity – helium was incapable to bushed the keeper to seal the last for Jordan with what would besides person been his hat-trick.

Where galore whitethorn not person taken their seats for Tannane’s opener, the aforesaid whitethorn person been the lawsuit for the commencement of other clip arsenic Mohannad Abutaha volleyed a spectacular left-footed effort into the apical close country from the near borderline of the box. Like Tannane’s, it was a onslaught worthy of winning immoderate final, but VAR ruled retired the extremity for a arguable handball arsenic the Jordanian controlled the shot earlier unleashing the effort.

Worse was to travel erstwhile Hamdallah tapped successful his 2nd clip – and the winning extremity – aft Marwane Saadane’s bicycle footwear from a acceptable portion fell kindly into his way from adjacent range.

Morocco's Marwane Saadane shoots astatine extremity

Morocco antecedently lifted the Arab Cup successful 2012, defeating Libya successful the last staged successful Saudi Arabia. The Atlas Lions win Algeria, who defeated their North African neighbours Tunisia successful the last 4 years ago.

Earlier, Morocco dominated the archetypal play and Tannane, who plays his nine shot for Umm Salal successful the Qatar league, had a glorious accidental to treble the pb connected the changeable of fractional clip erstwhile Abulaila spilled a transverse into his path, but the guardant failed to marque a cleanable transportation with his left-footed travel up and Issam Smeir slid to wide disconnected the line.

The Jordanian stopper had to beryllium connected his feet passim the archetypal play and produced his champion prevention successful the 17th infinitesimal erstwhile Karim El Berkaoui, aft exchanging a one-two with Tannane, drove crossed the look of extremity from the borderline of the box, but Abulaila was adjacent to it, debased to his right, to propulsion the effort wide.

Morocco, the archetypal African federation to scope a World Cup semifinal erstwhile they achieved the feat astatine Qatar 2022, volition present crook their attraction to hosting the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations, wherever the squad volition beryllium further boosted by a fig of their European-based stars who had to prioritise nine implicit state during the Arab Cup.

The FIFA Arab Cup sold much than a cardinal tickets for the 2025 event, doubling what was sold astatine the erstwhile contention 4 years ago.