About the Moroccan national team – by / Badr Al-Din Al-Idrisi
What were we expecting from the national team in its match against the Red Devils?
To expel them from the house and they did it, to take advantage of their winds in the most beautiful way and they did it, to write for us in front of the whole world a new football epic and they wrote it, to show the true metal of the Moroccans and they have already shown that the impossible was never Moroccan, and this impossible will never be Moroccan until God will inherit the earth and those on it.
We said after the Croatia match that the point obtained would not be of value unless we invested it intelligently in the Belgium match, despite the technical value of the Belgian national team. Walid thought about that, so he settled on the same formation with which he faced Croatia, and even started The match with the same strategy, to apply the same defensive system, but to be more offensively daring this time, and it was helped by the fact that the medical team of the national team succeeded in qualifying the two wonderful full-backs, Ashraf Hakimi and Naseer Mazraoui.
And if Walid thought first of all about installing the defensive system, and then about pushing the elements of the middle to install bridges of supply, then the Spanish coach Roberto Martinez, the Belgian national team coach, who was well aware of the danger of the national team, changed his traditional form, by giving up 3-5-2, To settle in the form of 4-2-3-1, not only that, but he directed his players to apply high pressure to prevent the ball from being removed from his areas intact.
Thanks to this, the Belgian national team succeeded in possession and in the current pressure, although this did not produce clear opportunities to score, and this dominance quickly faded, and the national team pushed the advanced Belgian line, as the right side formed by Hakimi and Ziyech was our balcony from which we overlook the giant Thibaut Courtois. And it was possible for Al-Aswad to come out ahead in the first round with Ziyach’s goal, had it not been for the Mexican referee canceling the goal on the pretext of an infiltration of Brigadier General Ghanem Sayes, and that was the first warning signal.
And when Walid felt that the physical level of the Belgian game keys had begun to run out, as a result of what we call passive possession, he directed his players to move a little to skirmish, as the national team seemed to improve offensively in the second round that a knockout was possible.
And because Walid Al-Rakraki has so far won his tactical fight with Roberto Martinez, he will add something else to that, when his substitutions succeeded in changing the face of the match, as Abdel-Hamdi Sabiri succeeded with his entry with Abdel-Razzak Hamdallah within the 70th minute of defeating the giants Thibaut Crotois, and when he started The Blajka play all for all. Our national team will start designing deadly rebounds, and from one of them the ball reaches the wonderful Hakim Ziyech, who maneuvered inside the box and put the ball in front of the other substitute, Zakaria Abu Khalil, who wrapped the mulberry leaf in this historic victory by signing for the second goal, so that the national team achieved its third victory in The history of his participation in the World Cup, the victory with which he rose to the top of Group Six, and in all cases he became one point away from repeating a new historic achievement, the completion of the passage to the second round that we waited for 36 years ago.
Certainly, there is still something to work on, but let us rejoice today in our great achievement, and tomorrow God will bless us.