Zimbabwe in their turn will host Liberia in the opening round of Group K matches.

In the second round of group games, Bafana will be at home to Zimbabwe, while Liberia will travel to Morocco.

Bafana coach, Hugo Broos, expects Morocco to be their biggest challenge.

“Morocco are the best in our group. There are some players who are playing in Belgium like Tarik Tissoudali and Selim Amallah so I know this team very well.

“If we want to finish first in the group, we have to beat Morocco.

“On the other side Zimbabwe, who we played against in the World Cup qualifiers. So we know them very well. We played two times against them last year. It is a tough team, but this is a team we have to beat.

“We are better than a few months ago so I think if we can beat them twice this will be very good for us.

“Liberia, for me, is really a team that I don’t know, I don’t know the players. So, it’s up to us in the next weeks to look at the games of Liberia, maybe Liberia is the weakest team in our group, but it’s always dangerous to underestimate an opponent.

“First of all, we are going to look at their games and see how good they are but if we look at this group, I think first of all Morocco is the best team, Zimbabwe our neighbours, very tough games also, and Liberia normally it has to be the weakest team in our group.”

The first round of qualifiers will be played from 30 May.

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