Nayef Aguerd’s Morocco emerged with a  famous 2-1 victory over Paquetá’s Brazil in an international friendly on Saturday evening

Morocco maintained their momentum from a semi final appearance in the World Cup vy scoring what would be a memorable victory in Tangier be it a friendly or otherwise.

Both Hammers started as the centre-back won  his 31st cap  and Paquetá made his 40th.

Morocco soon gave their home crowd plenty to cheer, with former Southampton winger Sofiane Boufal giving his side a 29th minute lead.

Brazil equalised midway through the second half through Manchester United midfielder Casemiro, but Morocco had the final say, as Sampdoria attacker Abdelhamid Sabiri notched the winner eleven minutes from time.

ElsewhereThilo Kehrer was a late substitute in Germany’s 2-0 friendly victory against Peru in Mainz and  Ben Johnson came off the bench to earn his fifth England U21 cap in a 4-0 friendly win against France.

Johnson made his entrance with 12 minutes left and the score at 2-0, with Arsenal’s Emile Smith Rowe and Chelsea’s Noni Madueke giving the Young Lions the advantage.

Divin Mubama, however, was unable to prevent England suffering a 1-0 defeat to Iceland in the UEFA U19 European Championship qualifying elite round.

England will now need a positive result in their final group game against Hungary, and hope Iceland slip up when they face Turkey, to reach this summer’s finals in Malta.

In the same tournament, Callum Marshall was on target from the spot as Northern Ireland U19 slipped to a 3-1 defeat to Romania.

With two defeats from two, Northern Ireland can no longer qualify for the finals.

At U17 level, England and Northern Ireland faced off in qualifying for the UEFA U17 European Championship finals.

Josh Briggs started for Northern Ireland, who were defeated 2-0 by a second half brace from Arsenal midfielder Ethan Nwaneri. Finlay Herrick was an unused substitute for England, who are in pole position to qualify for the finals in Estonia, holding a two-point lead over the Netherlands ahead of Tuesday’s meeting between the teams.