Brentford's Yoane Wissa gave the hosts the lead in the eleventh moment following a redirection off the head of Morocco chief Romain Saiss.

In the final part, the Atlas Lions' Ryan Mmaee - who has a Moroccan mother and Cameroonian dad - terminated the ball over the bar from the punishment spot, before Tarik Tissoudali saved his blushes with a late balancer.

DR Congo completed the game with 10 men after Glody Ngonda, who will presently be suspended for Tuesday's second leg in Casablanca, was excused subsequent to getting a subsequent yellow card a short ways from time.

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The Leopards had started to lead the pack to some degree contrary to the rules through Wissa, who cut inside on the left and made an effort from the edge of the area that brushed Saiss' head prior to looking past Sevilla goalkeeper Yassine Bounou.

Three minutes after the break, Wissa - who has two objectives from only three covers - verged on multiplying the lead for DR Congo as he crashed into the area prior to twisting only wide of the post.

Morocco had an amazing chance to adjust in the 53rd moment when they were granted a punishment after the ball struck forward Cedric Bakumbu's outstretched arm as it fell off the top of a Moroccan.

Nonetheless, Mmaee blasted the ball over the bar following a faltering run-up for a miss that might be lamented.

A last-ditch jump by Mmaee's sibling Samy Mmaee obstructed Dieumerci Mbokani at the opposite end as he looked set to track down an unfilled net at the far post, before Paris St-Germain star Achraf Hakimi headed barely wide.

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Saiss offered to set things straight in the 75th moment while his sliding tackle denied Bakambu, with the striker through one-on-one with Bounou, before the Moroccan skipper set up the counter-assault for the adjuster.

The ball was sent off forward towards Ayoub El Kaabi, who gestured it into the way of his kindred substitute Tissoudali to collide with the net.

Only four minutes after the fact, DR Congo might have reestablished their lead just for Bakambu's header to be very much saved by Bounou.

The subsequent leg will be played on Tuesday 29 March with Morocco focusing on a second successive World Cup finals appearance, and 6th in general.

Double cross African bosses DR Congo have not qualified for the competition beginning around 1974, when the nation was known as Zaire, as they turned into the principal sub-Saharan country to fit the bill for a World Cup.

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