Overview

• Cape Verde lead Group D by four points with two matches remaining after last month’s 1-0 win over Cameroon.
• Qualification will be secured with a victory either away to Libya on Wednesday in Tripoli or at home to Eswatini next Monday.
• Cameroon can still advance only if they win in Mauritius and then at home to Angola while Cape Verde drop points.
• Libya remain in contention if they defeat Cape Verde and then win in Mauritius, depending on other results in the group.
• The resurgence has been powered by diaspora players, including six Dutch-born footballers, and qualification would make the nation of roughly 600,000 the second-smallest ever to reach a World Cup.