Abdelhamid Sabiri’s goal set off Moroccan celebrations in the 75th minute, but Zakaria Aboukhlal put the cherry on top of a historic win in injury time.
There are also some connections between the two teams as the Morocco squad includes four players — Ilias Chair, Anass Zaroury, Selim Amallah and Bilal El Khannous — who were born in Belgium.
But just before the match, Morocco head coach Walid Regragui had urged those with connections to Belgium to remain focused on the task at hand.
“For any dual national … they have a special emotion and that’s a positive energy and you have to draw on that,” Regragui told reporters, per Reuters.
“But it is a match that we need to win (irrespective) of who we are playing. We have to focus on that.
“We know that this is a special match for them, but we have to put that into context. You cannot get too emotional because that could lead you to make mistakes. And that could be very expensive for us.”
Morocco awaits the encounter between Canada and Croatia to know who would eventually top group F going into the last game of the group phase,