The Moroccan national team aims to repeat the achievement of qualification for the second round of the World Cup when they face their Canadian counterpart at the Al-Tumama Stadium on Thursday in the third and final round of the Group F competition at the 2022 Qatar World Cup. A cup.
Morocco are second in the sixth group with 4 points and a goal difference from the top team Croatia with the same balance of points, while Canada, which officially says goodbye to the competition, has no points after losing the first two rounds against Belgium (0-1) and Croatia (1-1) 4).
The Moroccan national team will meet today’s confrontation with high spirits, as it seeks to achieve its fourth victory in the history of its participation in the World Cup tournaments. Before beating Belgium last Sunday, Morocco had only won two of their last five World Cup finals, the first against Portugal (3-1) at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico and the second against Scotland (3-0) at the World Cup. France 1998.
While Canada exited the World Cup competition from the second round, the Moroccan team has a good chance of advancing to the second round and reserving one of the sixteen places in the Qatar World Cup round as they need to win or draw to qualify directly without waiting for the outcome of another showdown between Croatia and Belgium that will take place. However, Morocco can also qualify if they lose to Canada and win Croatia against Belgium or draw, as they will remain in second place in the group with 4 points, ahead of Belgium in goal difference.
The Moroccan team hopes to repeat what it did at the World Cup in Mexico in 1986 when it reached the round of 16 as the team’s greatest achievement in World Cup history. , Moroccan ambitions at the World Cup in Qatar may go beyond that, reaching the quarter-final round for the first time in Moroccan history and in the history of any Arab team.
In today’s match, the Moroccan national team is counting on a group of the most outstanding players led by Ashraf Hakimi, Hakim Ziyech, Sophian Amrabat, Roman Sayes and Yacine Bono to win and reach the seventh point, hoping to top the standings. group in the event of a draw or defeat by Croatia against Belgium.
If Morocco advances to the second round at the top of the group, they will set the date second in Group E, but if they finish second in their group, they will face the leader of Group E.
Today’s confrontation is the first between the national teams of Morocco and Canada in the World Cup final, and the third in general, since before that they had already met at the Games of the Francophone countries in 1989, and Canada won (4-1), and they also met each other. in a friendly match in 2016 defeated Morocco (4:0).
