Morocco-Croatia, the first match of this Wednesday’s World Cup ends 0-0. Few emotions. And Africans smiling for the final result.
World Cup Wednesday in Qatar begins with the third zero-zero in three days. Not the best. Morocco and Croatia are not hurting and it is obviously the Africans who come out of this challenge with a smile. The vice-World Champions lacked the pace to trouble Hakimi and his team-mates, who took very little risk during the match: only at the end of the first half did Vlasic try with a back-heel, but Bounou responded.
It was a very tactical match, with the Moroccan 4-1-4-1 never losing its measures, closing all spaces to the Croatians and clogging up the passing lines. Croatia, in the second half, never made themselves dangerous in the Moroccan penalty area. At the Al Bayt stadium, in short, there were few emotions. And nil-nil in the end even.
- MAROCCO: Bounou 6; Hakimi 6.5, Aguerd 6.5, Sassi 6.5, Mazraoui 6 (60′ Attial-Allal 6); Amrabat 7, Ounahi 5.5 (Sabiri sv), Amallah 6 ; Ziyech 6, Boufal 5.5 (65′ Ez Abde 6); En Nesyri 6 (81′ Hamdallah sv).
- CROATIA: Livakovic 6; Juranovic 5.5, Sutalo 6, Lovren 6, Sosa 5.5; Kovacic 5.5 (80′ Majer sv), Brozovic 5.5, Modric 6; Perisic 6.5 (90′ Orsic sv), Kramaric 5.5 (71′ Livaja sv), Vlasic 5 (46′ Pasalic 6).
- Denied: Amrabat.
Note: Corners: 0-5. Recovery: 2′ pt; 6’st.
Morocco-Croatia, highlights
The images of the Morocco-Croatia match will be available on the RAI website in a few minutes. The public service, as we know, has the rights to all the matches of this World Cup in Qatar and in the minutes after the final match, it puts the highlights of the challenges online. Here is the link to see them.
