On Tuesday, Morocco and Senegal became the first teams to reach the African play-offs for next year’s World Cup in Qatar, making it through with two group games left.
The two-legged play-offs in March will determine the continent’s five representatives in Qatar, but which eight teams will join the Moroccans and Senegalese?
BBC Sport Africa has been taking a closer look.
Already through
Morocco, captained by Wolverhampton’s Romain Saiss, and Sadio Mane’s Senegal can breathe easy ahead of the last round of group matches between 11 and 16 November.
Only the eight other group winners will join them in the play-offs.
Almost there
Mohamed Salah’s Egypt have a four-point cushion over nearest challengers Libya after this week’s back-to-back victories over their north African neighbours.
The Pharaohs know three points from their final two matches against Angola and Gabon to progress to the next stage of qualifying as they bid to
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