Africans and transalpines qualify for the quarter-finals and will compete on 9 July. Brahim Diaz great protagonist, Kylian does the bare minimum
Attention to Morocco and the quality of its players. The African champion team and fourth in the last World Cup is perhaps one of the most beautiful teams in the world championship currently underway in the USA, Mexico and Canada. AND he also demonstrated it in the round of 16 with Canada: a difficult match with the Canadians pressing obsessively but resolved in the final with a very clear 3-0. Quality and concreteness: four shots on target, three goals and a crossbar. Morocco knows how to suffer, they always keep the ball in the game and when they verticalize it hurts. Brahim Diaz he is now a player of absolute level (and to think that when he played at Milan someone said he wasn’t ready…) but around him there is a compact and organized team that when it starts at speed is irresistible. Hakimi impregnable, Ounahi relentless even in the construction phase, Rahimi the discovery of the match against Canada. The only negative note was the injury of Saibiriwho left after about twenty minutes due to a muscular problem. His absence against France on 9 July in a quarter-final that promises great things may have an impact. Canada based the match on physicality, but also from this point of view Morocco demonstrated that it can play matches in a thousand ways: with the sword when needed and then taking out the foil to score. Brahim Diaz came up with two more assists, he is Morocco’s extra man.
Nervous France
On July 9th there is a very tough test for France, the great favorites of this World Cup, and Deschamps’ team doesn’t get there very well. The victory against Paraguay it reached the end thanks to a penalty won by Douis and transformed by Mbappe but the French team did little during the match, slow ball possession with Paraguay stuck in their area and the impression that France is focusing more on personal ideas than on the game. Of course, the immense squad that Deschamps has at his disposal helps to solve the problem: against Paraguay Mbappe and Dembele did very littleo, but the arrival of Douè in place of Barcola midway through the second half changed the match. The PSG winger invented a slalom in the area and was put down: Mbappè converted the penalty then the nervousness at the end only confirmed the tense nerves in the French home.
