About the Moroccan national team – by / Badr Al-Din Al-Idrisi
There was nothing calling Walid Al-Rakraki to take risks or move away from what he saw at the level of formation matching the circumstances and circumstances of the opening match, and with the peculiarity of the Croatian competitor who, like the big teams nominated to compete for the World Cup title, received a stern warning and the Argentine national team fell in front of the Saudi national team in Match is one of the oddities of the World Cup.
There was no need for the national team to face a team runner-up to the world champion, and the owner of one of the most beautiful midfields on the globe, to venture or create a different form for the national team, so we found Walid, reassuring the readiness of Salim Amlah, entering the Croatia match with the same formation he played in the first A match for him as a national voter, and you remember it well, against the Chilean national team in the friendly that the Lions played against Chile. There was a need for the midfield trio formed of cleats, sides and salts to be in harmony and harmony, and even a great preparation to oppose the Croatian trinity formed by Modric, Brozovic and Kovacic, to close Corridors and also to block the view of three creators who are good at reviving dead balls with magic touches.
Other than this, the national team should not give the impression that it is playing with low blocks, be organized in defensive situations and effective in offensive build-ups, and we will find that the same defensive reservation that the national team had while scrutinizing not to multiply lost balls and costly appendages, was present with the team. The Croatian, who did not start from the start of the match pressing, because he was well aware that the intense pressure from the beginning would cost him physically, and might trap him in counterattacks, and he knows the speed of the two full-backs Hakimi and Mazraoui, who are framed and supported in their travel through the papers from Ziyech and Boufal.
Of course, none of the two teams, especially the Croatian team, accepted leaving the match empty-handed, just as none of the teams exaggerated their defensive duties, as evidenced by the fact that the Moroccan and Croatian teams carried out 7 direct offensive operations for each of them, and Yassin Bounou excelled in defending his own goal. The Croatian goalkeeper, Levakovic, also did when he saved the balls of Ashraf Hakimi, Youssef Al-Nusayri, and Nasir Mazraoui.
And when the two teams realized together that the point in this match would not be bad, as long as the doors remain open to the dream of crossing into the second round, especially for the Moroccan national team, Walid Al-Rakraki and Dalic, the Croatian coach, imposed a kind of discipline in managing the last third of the match time, if there was a desire To snatch a goal that kills the match, this cannot be at the expense of defensive rigor, so the Croatian team did not succeed in breaking the good defensive organization of the national team, and the national team could not be present with a numerical density in offensive counterattacks.
Certainly, the point that the national team gets against Croatia seems expensive and valuable in view of the nature of the opponent and also in view of the nature of the match itself, and it is a point that we must be optimistic about because whenever it attended the openings of the Lions in the World Cup, the national team qualified for the second round, as happened in the World Cup. Mexico 1986, or about to qualify, as was the case in the 1998 World Cup in France.
A point taken from the mouth of the Sabaa, with a manly performance, the defensive side was beautiful (except for some mistakes in passing that were almost costly) and the offensive side was the least glowing for the reasons mentioned that nullify all wonder, so we must invest the point when planning for Sunday’s match against The Belgian national team, although this match will also put us again in front of a terrible midfield formed by Kevin De Bruyne and Vetsillotelmans.
Good luck to our national team, the Croatian point will make it more confident in turning the scales in the group of death.