The Moroccans are giving them a really hard time, you think we will see a miracle today? Morocco winning?
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FIFA World Cup - Qatar 2022
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8 mins of hell and a Red card, WHAT? why? a Yellow card for that was enough, the Ref is out of his head.
Fantastic result from Morocco. Played like a team throughout.
Bye bye Ronaldo!
Bye bye Ronaldo!
Thanks Morocco for increasing my heart rate and helping me to accomplish today’s fitness goals.
Hahaha! I went to the gym this morning and burned over 1500cal, I just checked my watch, and I added another 200cal from watching this game!
Morocco is all the way for me, I really want to see them in the final, possibly face England.
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Agreed.
Very impressive (indeed, historic) achievement by Morocco, who played exceptionally well as a team.
And yes, no tears shed for Ronaldo.
Yes, will not be possible, my wishful thinking is getting ahead of me.
One thing i have noticed with Morocco playing is that they can defend very very well BUT seems strange to me that they do not get accused of 'parking the bus' (term used when a team is resolute in their defending to win the game) which is something that get's thrown out towards England national team, English football teams and a number of European football teams. Are people afraid of calling out Morocco for 'parking the bus'?
With that said they played a very good game against Portugal. What this game proved, especially from Portugal's perspective is how extremely embarrassing the football press should feel with regards to how they have behaved towards Ronaldo after the exploits of the teams hat-trick player in their previous game with the media saying how Portugal did not need Ronaldo because they had this wonder player in their team and when Ronaldo starts the team does badly etc etc. Well look at this game, the wonder player started, Ronaldo on the bench again and the new wonder player had a dreadful game. The press are trying to make all out to be Ronaldo even when he does nothing they still make it out to be him. Just look at the press now, many many articles about Ronaldo in tears and walking off the pitch without congratulating any of the Moroccan players. Again the press are making it to all be about Ronaldo. Even when the guy does nothing wrong the press give him a hard time.
With that said they played a very good game against Portugal. What this game proved, especially from Portugal's perspective is how extremely embarrassing the football press should feel with regards to how they have behaved towards Ronaldo after the exploits of the teams hat-trick player in their previous game with the media saying how Portugal did not need Ronaldo because they had this wonder player in their team and when Ronaldo starts the team does badly etc etc. Well look at this game, the wonder player started, Ronaldo on the bench again and the new wonder player had a dreadful game. The press are trying to make all out to be Ronaldo even when he does nothing they still make it out to be him. Just look at the press now, many many articles about Ronaldo in tears and walking off the pitch without congratulating any of the Moroccan players. Again the press are making it to all be about Ronaldo. Even when the guy does nothing wrong the press give him a hard time.
Well Ronaldo is arrogant, egotistical, etc. but he is an excellent player and should of been in the game from the start. The media in all forms is a cesspool of negative and biased views and their approval rating is about on par with genital herpes.. Oh yeah, congratulations to Morocco! They deserved the win!
Because he’s such a nasty self centred piece of work.
But for me the win is about Morocco and the way they played, not about Portugal or any of their players.
I so wanted to say this about Ronaldo, but I had to hold myself not to sound so negative and biased, Thank you! 👏
I call it like I see it. If people don’t like that, that’s fine. But I’d rather talk about Morocco. Their defence was superb today. They played to their strengths as a single unit.
Question though. Where on earth did 8 minutes of stoppage time come from?
The Moroccans showed the other teams what real 1 united team play should be, others should take pointers and learn from them.
That's a good question, I don't know how they end up with 8 mins of extra time, from what I saw, they should have been 2 ~ 4 mins max, and also that Red card, why? he didn't deserve that, a yellow card would have sufficed.