The Morocco national team qualifies for history at the expense of Spain

Penalty shootout:

Morocco advanced to the quarter-finals by winning the penalty shoot-out 3-0.

Morocco: 1- Abdelhamid Sabiri scores, 2- Ziyech scores, 3- Bannoun misses with a save by Simon, 4- Hakimi scores.

Spain: 1- Sarabia misses the post, 2- Soler misses due to Bono’s skill, 3- Busquets misses due to Bono’s skill.

Special cover (second extra time):

– The end of the second extra time draws 0-0 and goes to a penalty shootout.

-D 120+3 Sarabia hits the post with a very dangerous ball.
– Dr. 118 Sarabia enters and Williams exits.
-115° D. Sherida, once again, fails to deflect his dangerous ball into the net, and Laporte and Rodrigo precede him by closing it.
Moroccan Constance for more than 110 minutes, preventing the Spanish national team from playing in the last third.
The whistle kicks off the second overtime.

Special coverage (first half of extra time):

The end of the first half of extra time in a draw. 16 minutes is very beautiful.

-104′ Shadira is unique for Spain goalkeeper Simon, but the latter clears him with his foot.
-D 100 Enrique renews the team with Valdi and Ansu Fati, and the Spanish team depends on the raised times.
– 5 minutes of “sterile” Spanish check.

The third whistle blows during the match (beginning of the first overtime)

Special coverage (second half):

The ninety minutes ended with a 0-0 draw and it went to extra time.

-D90+5 Bono makes the most powerful save of this game, from Olmo’s ball.
– The plan itself was Moroccan pressure, with the support of the Teaching City Stadium fans, in the final minutes.
– D90 +1 header from Jeddah to Morata.
Dr. 85 Substitute Walid Chedira tried a very dangerous ball, which passed without problems in Spain’s eyes.

P 84 – Nayef Akrad out due to injury.

-D 81 Morata hits a powerful ball that passes from Bono, but continues towards the sideline. You don’t find anyone watching him and you don’t go to goal.
– D 80, dangerous cross, removed by Nayef Akrad.
P 75 The Spanish national team is still in control, but is completely unable to endanger the Moroccan goal.
– Enrique pumps new blood involving Morata and Soler. He wants Al-Rarakhi to join Al-Zalzouli.

D 54 – Olmo hits hard and Bono is in the right position.
– 7 minutes of equal performance, now the Spanish lead is no longer clear, and the Moroccan team has given us signs that they can score a goal. The most important thing is that there is solidity of the defense and the goalkeeper

– start of second half.

No.: Ashraf Hakimi and Hakim Ziyech participate in the seventh match of the World Cup, the most Moroccan players representing the national team in the tournament.

Special coverage (first semester):

– The end of a good first half from Morocco and expected from Spain.

– It seems to be a plan for the Moroccan national team to attack in the last minutes of the half.

– P 42 Nayef Akrad’s dangerous header nearly hit the Spanish goal.
– Five minutes from the end of the half the Spaniards are still in control, but without danger.

– D33, the strongest chances for Morocco thanks to Naseer Mazraoui, who hit hard, but Simon was punctual.

– P 26 The most dangerous chances of the half came from Asensio, who shot from a difficult angle and hit the Moroccan’s goal from outside.
P 25 Excellent test for Morocco’s defenses who put the ball carrier under pressure, Murabit stops Fran Torres’ shot, but the assistant referee raises the flag announcing the Barcelona attacker is offside.

The number: at 18 years and 123 days, Xavi is the youngest player to start a World Cup knockout stage since Pelé (17 years and 249 days) in the 1958 final.

– D20, the Moroccan national team has absorbed the pressure from the Spaniards at the start and has started to take the initiative more.

– P12 Asensio pressed Bono with a replay, but the Sevilla goalkeeper came out of harm’s way with confidence.

– P11, direct free kick, by Hakimi, over the Spanish goal.

– D 10 Al-Ritm one way is Spanish possession with no full attack so far.
D 05 The Spanish national team tries to impose its style in the middle of the Moroccan stadium by controlling the passes.

– D01 Argentine referee Fernando Rapallini blows his whistle at the start of the match at Education City Stadium, knowing Rapallini took charge of Morocco’s first group stage match against Croatia.

Morocco and Spain team

The numbers before the game:

– This is the second meeting between Morocco and Spain at the World Cup: the first was in the group stage of the 2018 edition, where Morocco took the lead twice before the match ended in a 2-2 draw, with Iago Aspas who scored the equalizer in the final moments of the match.

– Spain have not lost in their three previous ties in Morocco (F2, D1), and the two victories came during the play-offs for the 1962 World Cup, where Spain won (1-0 first leg, 3 – 2 in the second leg) in November 1961.

– Walid Al-Rakraki becomes the first Arab manager to play a match in the qualifying stages of the World Cup

Spain had been eliminated from the last 16 of the previous edition by hosts Russia, on penalties, after a 1-1 draw. The last time Spain progressed beyond this round, they won the tournament, in 2010.