How to watch Canada v Morocco, team news, predicted line

Canada and Morocco go head-to-head for a place in the World Cup quarter-finals as two of the tournament’s surprise packages meet in the last 16.

Both nations have impressed to reach the knockout stages and will believe they have a genuine opportunity to extend their historic World Cup campaigns.

Here’s everything you need to know ahead of the game…

Canada face Morocco on Saturday, 4 July, with kick-off scheduled for 18:00 BST at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta.

Alphonso Davies has returned from a hamstring injury and is available again after making his comeback as a substitute for Canada against South Africa. The only confirmed absentee for Jesse Marsch’s side is midfielder Ismaël Koné, who has been ruled out for the remainder of the tournament.

The only real concern for Morocco is defender Chadi Riad, who picked up a knock in the previous round, but he has returned to training and is expected to be fit to start.

Canada (4-4-2): Dayne St. Clair; Alistair Johnston, Moïse Bombito, Derek Cornelius, Alphonso Davies; Tajon Buchanan, Stephen Eustáquio, Nathan Saliba, Liam Millar, Cyle Larin; Jonathan David

Morocco (4-2-3-1): Yassine Bounou; Achraf Hakimi, Chadi Riad, Issa Diop, Noussair Mazraoui; Neil El Aynaoui, Ayoub Bouaddi; Brahim Diaz, Azzedine Ounahi, Bilal El Khannouss; Ismael Saibari

Canada have enjoyed a memorable World Cup on home soil, reaching the knockout stages for the first time in their history. Marsch’s side opened their campaign with a hard-fought 1-1 draw against Bosnia and Herzegovina before producing one of the performances of the group stage in a 6-0 thrashing of Qatar. A narrow 2-1 defeat to group winners Switzerland meant Canada progressed as runners-up, before edging past South Africa 1-0 in the round of 32 thanks to Stephen Eustáquio’s stoppage-time winner.

Morocco have enjoyed another impressive World Cup campaign, reaching the last 16 unbeaten. They began by holding Brazil to a 1-1 draw before beating Scotland 1-0 and then Haiti 4-2 to finish top of their group. In the round of 32, they produced one of the results of the tournament by knocking out the Netherlands on penalties after a 1-1 draw following extra time.

Canada boss Marsch: “This is where we expect to be and ​this is where we want to be, and we know that Morocco ⁠is going to challenge every single thing we do and this is a team that ​has literally zero weaknesses.

“We have to try to be good at the things that ​we care about and that we are good at, and we have to see if that can hold up against an opponent like this.”

Morocco manager Mohamed Ouahbi: “It is about not being tentative in our approach, and if we are not good ⁠enough, ​we are going home, regardless of who we are playing.

“I am a very honest person and I told the players it will be the most challenging game in ​the World Cup so far. I am rarely mistaken on this.”