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Ramos, hat-trick and demonstration
We expected Cristiano Ronaldo, we had Gonçalo Ramos. Hired in place of the Portuguese captain, the young Benfica striker lived up to the trust placed in him by his manager. Ramos scored a hat-trick and provided an assist on Raphaël Guerreiro’s goal during his side’s victory against Switzerland (6-1) on Tuesday at the Lusail stadium.
“Everything Happened Very Fast”, did he react after the meeting?. As for the start against Morocco in Saturday’s quarter-final, the hero of the day preferred to kick into touch. “It’s none of my business. I have to work as hard as I can and then we’ll see what happens. »
It was only Gonçalo Ramos’ fourth appearance and his first departure. Prior to this round of 16, he only had thirty-three minutes to play with the national team and had scored only one goal. It was November 17, against Nigeria, during a preparation match before the start of the World Cup, his first with the Portugal shirt on his shoulders. “A dream start”he then had she wrote on Instagram.
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“I was pleasantly surprised by the Noor 8, sorry, I don’t remember his name. Mamamia, where is this guy from? »
So, wouldn’t Luis Enrique watch SCO Angers matches every weekend? The Spanish coach was very surprised by the performance of Azzedine Ounahi, the Moroccan midfielder who plays for Angers. “He plays very well! I think he’s the only one who surprised me, because Hakimi is obvious, Ziyech, En-Nesyri too we know him very well, we know Amrabat too, but he… He didn’t stop racing, he was really impressive. Morocco is very lucky to have him.”he added at the press conference.
The Angevins, currently last in Ligue 1, hope that the Moroccan, who was still playing in the national team (3And division) two years ago, he will repeat his performances on the lawns of the French championship.
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Walid Regragui is a man in a hurry. The Moroccan coach, appointed at the end of August only to lead the Atlas Lions, following Vahid Halilhodzic, can already boast of having been the first African coach to reach the quarter-finals of the FIFA World Cup, on the occasion of the Morocco match. qualification, the first in the history of the country in this stage of the competition.
The Moroccan selection is only the fourth African team to qualify for the top 8 of a World Cup, after Cameroon in 1990, Senegal in 2002 and Ghana in 2010, all three then formed by non-African coaches.
1 – Morocco coach Walid Regragui became the first African coach to reach the quarterfinals… https://t.co/Tz0Z3Enlyf
A glimpse of blue sky
Giroud and the “very nice photo” with Mbappé
This is the story of an already iconic celebration, a French version after all, of Pelé’s leap into Jairzinho’s arms during Brazil’s title in 1970. The 2022 Azzurri are not there yet (it wasn’t Italy in the final, but Poland in eighth), but since Sunday the cliché of a radiant Kylian Mbappé and the sinking of the gaze into that of Olivier Giroud has delighted the Internet with its inevitable distractions.
Find someone who looks at you like Mbappé looks at Giroud 😍 https://t.co/hV1bRPODuA
Present at the press conference on Tuesday, the top scorer in the history of France was entitled to his own question on the matter. “There was nothing calculated, I assure youjoked Giroud. We met there, it makes a great picture. I laughed a lot about montages. But it’s just natural, spontaneity. Top-level sport, and football in particular, gives us magical moments like this. »
Look no further for the coolest bromance of this World Cup, it’s here and it’s French. Even if complicity and style are also on the Portuguese side with the duo Bernardo Silva-Joao Felix.
Our selection of articles on the 2022 World Cup
Find all our content on the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, from 20 November to 18 December.
- Know all : The calendar, the results, the standings, the “unofficial” guide to the 2022 World Cup
- Investigations: France-Qatar, a resourceful friendship; Assignment of the World Cup to Qatar: Sarkozy, Platini and the acquisition of the PSG at the center of the investigation by the French justice; For the environment, an event in a critical phase
- Report, report : To the Mbappé-Giroud couple, France is very grateful against Poland
- Editorials: The World Cup of excesses; FIFA in the stage of blindness
- Decryption: The delicate speech of footballers on human rights; The reasons for the discomfort; A very political “World Cup”.
- Relationships: In the “engine room” of Qatar, where immigrant workers live that Doha does not want to see; In Qatar, a pan-Arab festival atmosphere; At the University of Dakar, “when Senegal play we forget all our problems”
- grandstand (Agnès Callamard, Amnesty International) : “By urging people to ‘focus on football’, Gianni Infantino seeks to relieve FIFA of any responsibility”
- Portraits : Walid Regragui, the new signing of the Atlas Lions; Harry Maguire, a certain idea of English football
- Chronicle: “Changing the method of calculating extra time in a match runs the risk of interrupting the game”; “With video refereeing goals are conditional, emotions too”
- Podcasts: Ecology, human rights, corruption: why the 2022 World Cup in Qatar is a problem
- Video : A “carbon neutral” World Cup? What is behind Qatar’s unsustainable promises; For the first time, a match will be refereed by women
