Los thousand penalties what Luis Enrique asked to its players as a requirement before concentrating for the 2022 World Cup they didn’t work tonight on the field of Education City Stadium, where this Tuesday the Spain national team said bye to Qatar 2022, after fall in penalty shootout ante Moroccowhich already became the great surprise of the tournament.
Achrafi Hakimia player born in Madrid, but who defends the colors of the Moroccan team, was in charge of to crown a series of penalty shootout that starred the archer of the SevillaYassin Bounouwho stopped the three shots What did Paul do to him? SarabiaCarlos Soler and captain Sergio Busquets.
The defense of the African team was around perfection. Only one play in an error at the start caused the arrival of greater danger from the Spanish peoplewho had the control from ballbut they did not generate danger. The most talented men lacked creativity and intelligence to overcome the well-planted Moroccan defense.
Driven by her fans, who tonight were the majority in the stands at Education City, in the first 45 minutes the Morocco national team It was better and the clearest move to open the scoring was at the head of Nayef Aguerd. The central defender, alone in front of the frame, finished off a cross from Sofiane Boufal, with good power but with the wrong direction. The ball went over the side of Unai Simón’s goal.
In the complementary part the game turned rough, with many interruptions, many faults, claims and very little game idea. The Spaniards were faithful to his idea and kept control of the ball, but always well protected by the African defense, which left little to be done to the offensive of the team led by Luis Enrique.
Los Best moments of spain lived them in the first overtimeand when they played their best and it seemed that they could open up the rival defense, Morocco in a drop made the Spanish bench tremble.
Azzedine anahi he took three rivals off him in three quarters of the field. Already over the edge the large area played for Walid Cheddirawho just in front of the frame he took a loose shot, without much placement, which could tackle the archer unai simon stretching out his right leg. At minute 103, the Basque goalkeeper saved his goal from a possible elimination in overtime.
And the elimination whether concrete but it had to be in the series penalty shootoutwhere he goalkeeper of Sevilla from LaLiga spainimpeccable, stopped los three shots that they did to him, closing the batch the player born in Madrid Achraf Hakimi, with a slow shot, to the center of the goal of Unai Simón, with which the Moroccans classified to the Quarterfinals in Qatar 2022.
This was the penalty shootout
- Morocco-Abdelhamid Sabiri SCORED
- Spain-Pablo Sarabia FAILED
- Morocco-Hakim Ziyech SCORED
- Spain-Carlos Soler FAILED
- Morocco-Badr Banoun FAILED
- Spain-Sergio Busquets FAILED
- Marruecos-Achraf Hakimi