Penalties and Highlights: Morocco 0(3)-(0)0 Spain in FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022

Morocco advances to the Quarterfinals at Qatar 2022 after beating Spain in a penalty shootout 3-0. 

Morocco scores the penalty.

Spain misses the penalty kick.

Morocco misses the penalty.

Spain missed the penaltie

Morocco scores the penalty.

Spain misses the penalty kick.

Morocco takes the penalty.

The match is over. Morocco and Spain go to penalties to define the qualifier for the quarterfinals of Qatar 2022. 

3 minutes are added to the match. If no goal is scored, the game will be extended to penalties. 

Chaddara again missed another clear scoring opportunity. Morocco and Spain are now playing without tactics, everything is played back and forth.

Spain has started to lay siege to Morocco through the penalty area... Morocco retreats looking for the penalty shootout.

The second extra time begins, Spain and Morocco are getting closer and closer to going to penalties. 

A GREAT SAVE BY UNAI SIMON! Cheddira headed alone towards the Spanish goal and Unai Simon made a great save to keep the score 0.

Miscommunication between the central defender and Bono, Spain almost scored the first of the night.

Alejandro Balde and Ansu Fati came on as substitutes to freshen up the Spanish team.

The first 15 minutes of extra time kick off as Spain and Morocco look to win the match before penalties. 

At the end of 90 minutes, Spain and Morocco go to extra time to determine a winner. 

5 minutes are added to the match. 

The game breaks up and everything starts to go back and forth. Both teams want to win at the end of the match.

There was a tremor in Unai Simon's area. Morocco had a chance inside the box but Hakimi shot very weakly with a half turn and everything remains at 0.

Laporte gets a yellow card and is warned for the remainder of the match. Extra time is getting closer and closer.

The game has slowed down in intensity and the spectre of overtime is beginning to creep onto the pitch.

CHANGE IN MOROCCO! Boufal comes off and Ezzalzouli comes on.

CHANGES IN SPAIN. Gavi comes off for Carlos Soler and Marco Asensio for Álvaro Morata. 

Great Bono! Dani Olmo hits the ball straight at goal and Bono sends the ball to the corner.

Foul on Gavi. Hakimi draws a free-kick near the area for Spain and La Furia Roja have a chance to take the lead.

The referee blows the whistle for the start of the second half, 45 minutes left for Morocco and Spain to look for the victory. 

First half ends, Spain and Morocco remain tied 0-0. 

Boufal made a fantastic move down the left flank, crossed to the far post and Hakimi sent the ball over the top.

The duel is very marked by the left sectors of both teams, both are very well planted on the lawn and the battle is in the hand to hand overflows.

Morocco scored! Mazraoui shoots from distance looking for Unai Simon's far post, the Spanish goalkeeper makes a two-time save to keep the score level.

An offside that made more than one Moroccan shudder. Gavi hits it with all the freedom in the world and Bono intervenes to send the ball to the crossbar.

The duel of strategies is clear on the field, Spain betting on ball possession and Morocco on counterattacks at speed through the lanes of the field.  

Hakimi hit a free kick and the shot went over the goal defended by Unai Simón.

Ferran Torres was getting rid of rivals until he got into the penalty area but was stopped by Hakimi, Morocco is well planted on the sidelines. 

The match started with a strong Spanish pressure in the Moroccan area, Luis Enrique's players are playing for possession of the ball.

Morocco and Spain kick off the match, both teams are competing for a place in the quarterfinals. 

In a couple of moments we will start broadcasting the match between Morocco vs Spain, a duel corresponding to the round of 16 of the World Cup Qatar 2022. 

This is the starting eleven that the Moroccan team is sending to the pitch, looking to remain the dark horse of the World Cup and give a harder blow on the table by beating another top European team. 

This is the lineup that sends the Spanish national team to the field in the quest to get the qualifying ticket to the quarterfinals. A whole nation goes with the red fury! 

The French newspaper L'Équipe has updated its list of the teams that are candidates to win the World Cup in Qatar. Brazil is still the great favorite and has not dropped from the first place, as they have remained the most consistent at the moment, Argentina and Portugal are competing for the second place. On the other hand, England, France, the Netherlands and Spain are in the next step. 

The match can be followed in Mexico on Sky Sports, Blue to go, VIX, TUDN and Azteca Deportes. In the USA you can watch it on Telemundo, Fox Sports USA, Peacock. If you do not have the possibility of watching it on any of these channels, you can follow the minute by minute of this match through the minute by minute on VAVEL. 

Luis Enrique has foreseen all the scenarios that Spain could go through in this World Cup, that is why, the Spanish coach asked his players to kick at least a thousand penalties with the aim of improving their striking. 
"More than a year ago in one of the training camps I told the players 'gentlemen, each of you have to get to the World Cup with at least a thousand penalties taken in your teams', if we wait until this training camp to think about penalties you don't have time. I imagine that most of them will have done it because surely there will be a playoff in which we will play them".

Morocco was also playing for qualification to the next round against Canada, who were only playing in the third match of the group stage to finish their participation in Qatar 2022 in a good way, since they were mathematically eliminated. Morocco started by scoring two goals against Canada and was sealing its qualification to the next round as first in the group, however, a goal by Davies in the second half made the Moroccans nervous, although the Maple Leafs could not score the second and Morocco took the victory 2-0. 

The Spanish national team faced Japan in its last match of this Qatar 2022 World Cup corresponding to the third date of the group stage to define the teams that would qualify to the round of 16 of the World Cup. The match started in favor of Spain with a goal by Alvaro Morata very early in the match, due to this, the first half only belonged to Spain. However, in the second half the Japanese team went all out in attack and in a matter of 5 minutes they put the Spaniards in fear as they turned the game around 2-1 and were almost eliminated from the World Cup, although the result between Germany vs Costa Rica favored them to stay alive. 

The wait is over, the actions of the Qatar 2022 World Cup continue, the round of 16 will continue to give all the emotions in the quest to define the countries that will advance to the quarterfinals of the World Cup in the continuation of the road towards lifting the World Cup. In this match, the Moroccan national team, which is looking to be the dark horse of the World Cup, will face off against the red fury led by Luis Enrique, who is looking to show the entire country that the new Spanish generation can make a difference. 

The Atlas Lions are the surprise package of the World Cup as they began play in Group F with a credible 0-0 draw against Croatia.

In one of the most shocking results of the entire tournament, Morocco beat Belgium 2-0 and topped Canada 2-1 to win Group F on seven points.

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The Morocco vs Spain match will be played at the Education City Stadium in Al Rayyan, Qatar with a capacity of 44,4667 people.

This is the seventh of eight matches to be played at the stadium with the quarterfinal between 2018 finalists Croatia and five-time champions Brazil being the last.
 

The player to watch for this match will be one of the goalkeepers considered as one of the best goalkeepers in the world; Yassine Bounou. Currently, if we want to talk about leaders under the three posts, we must talk about the goalkeeper born in Spain and naturalized Moroccan, Yassine Bounou, after signing for Sevilla, the goalkeeper began to demonstrate why he is in charge of defending one of the most coveted goals in the world, becoming a human wall that conquered Europe last season. Now, as the defender of the Moroccan goal, his duty will be to prevent the Moroccan goal from being breached until the final of Qatar 2022.

The player to watch in these 90 World Cup minutes will be Barcelona star and hero of the entire nation of Spain, Sergio Busquets. The Spanish midfielder became an icon after the great performance he had with his country in the World Cups of South Africa 2010, Brazil 2014 and Russia 2018, after having led them in a surprising World Cup and even to the final where they won their first World Cup championship. Currently Sergio Busquets is one of the most important players in the midfield worldwide and he proved it last season being one of the most important pieces for Barcelona to get Champions League places, now, in this World Cup he will seek to complete the feat not achieved in the last fair, to return to Spain World Champions.

Bono; N. Mazraoui, R Saiss, N. Aguerd, A. Hakimi; A. Sabiri, S. Amrabat, A. Ounahi; S. Boufal, Y. En-Nesyri, H. Ziyech.

Unai Simon; Alejandro Baldé, Pau Torres, Rodri, Cesar Azplicueta; P. Gonzalez, Sergio Busquets, Gavi; Dani Olmo, Alvaro Morata, Nico Williams.

The selection of Morocco and Spain have faced each other on a total of 3 occasions (2 wins for Spain and 1 draw) where the balance is totally in favor of the Spanish team. In terms of goals, the Spanish team has scored 6 goals against Morocco, while the Moroccans have scored 4 times against Spain.  Their last duel dates back to the Russia 2018 World Cup where both teams split points in a thrilling 2-2 final.

The Education Stadium is a sports venue dedicated to the practice of soccer at a professional level and is one of the architectural works in the world of sports with the most relevant technology to carry out an international sporting event. Its construction began in 2016 and ended in 2022 with the objective of being a World Cup venue, it is located in the city of Rayan in Qatar and has a capacity of 45,000 spectators. After the World Cup, the stadium will only retain 25,000 seats and will become the home of a local team.

It hosted 6 matches in the group stage, the first one between Denmark and Tunisia, and the last one between South Korea and Portugal. In addition to hosting this Round of 16 duel between Morocco vs Spain, it will host one more duel corresponding to the Quarterfinals of the Qatar 2022 World Cup.

Luis Enrique and company had a real scare at the end of the group stage because after having a good performance in the first two dates against Costa Rica and Germany, the margin of error for Spain was very wide and with high possibilities of seeing the Spaniards qualified to the next round and at the top of their group, however, everything changed when Japan gave them the comeback in their last match, sending them to the second place of the group and putting at risk their qualification because for three minutes, Costa Rica was eliminating Spain from the greatest soccer party. Fortunately, the scare remained just that and nothing more, now Spain can resume its path and clear the doubts it generated in its past performance, but to do so they will have to overcome the Morocco team that wants to make history and go far in this World Cup.

Undoubtedly, the Moroccan national team has put a hard blow on the table in the world of soccer after having qualified as first of the group and having collaborated in the elimination of Belgium in the first phase of the World Cup, also, Morocco is one of the few teams that so far remain undefeated in this World Cup. The African team had everything against them to have managed to survive the tough rivals they faced in the last phase, however, a great job by their coach and a good call where their players stand out in European elite teams, have made Morocco the dark horse of the Qatar 2022 World Cup, and they will seek to continue their journey, but to do so they must beat another world power; Spain.

The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 has arrived with the mission of bringing new emotions, many joys and above all a lot of soccer in the search to see who will be crowned as the new monarch of the world. In this second phase, the 16 teams that have qualified for the round of 16 will compete in a single match to stay in Qatar 2022, with the aim of advancing to the next round while keeping alive the hope of being crowned as the new world champions. In the round of 16, the winner could be decided in penalties or extra time, so it will be very important for the teams to follow the tactics both mentally and psychologically, since in these instances the margin for error is very little where there are so many opportunities at stake. In this match, the teams of Morocco and Spain will face each other in a totally even duel due to what both teams presented throughout the group stage, however, the squad led by Luis Enrique will have to be careful with the African team because Morocco managed to pass as first in a group where the chances and statistics placed them out of the knockout rounds of the World Cup, However, the youth of the Spanish team will try to be the determining factor that tips the balance in favor of the red fury, which seeks to silence mouths and show that this new generation promises great things for Spain.

The Morocco vs Spain match will be played at Education City Stadium, in Rayán, Qatar. The kick-off is scheduled at 10:00 am ET.

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