However, they were not needed in four of the five matches as Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon all qualified by a clear aggregate-goal win.
Tarik Tissoudali scored a brilliant equaliser as Morocco moved closer to a sixth World Cup appearance by drawing 1-1 with the Democratic Republic of Congo DRC in Kinshasa.
Third round Main article: CONCACAF initially announced on 10 July 2019 a for the qualifiers of the 2022 FIFA World Cup.