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Morocco faces Canada Thursday, in a game without suspense, but the team of the kingdom intends to win hands down.
If it would take a cataclysm for Morocco not to qualify for the eighth, Thursday, December 1, the team of coach Walid Regragui intends to cross the course through the front door, against Canada beaten twice and already eliminated.
“Making calculations would be a big mistake. We want to be masters of our own destiny without depending on the results of others,” insisted the coach of a team that impressed with its defensive solidity. “If we play to draw, we will make a big mistake,” he warned.
Few people saw her arrive in such a favorable position, with four points and zero goals conceded against Croatia (0-0) and the Belgians (2-0).
The two goals at the end of the match against the Red Devils were a nice bonus, but any excess of confidence will be prohibited.
“Have no regrets”
“We must forget Croatia and Belgium,” said Walid Regragui, who also does not expect to see Canadians demotivated by their two setbacks. “We must not leave what we have been able to do since the start of the competition, so as not to have any regrets, to play our football. Our results did not come out of nowhere, we worked, but we must forget the Croatia and Belgium. If you had told me that we would have 4 points after two games with everything to play for in the next game, I would have accepted it with pleasure. Insha’Allah, we will qualify.”
“We come across a team that has nothing to lose, it is eliminated, it will have the pride of putting on a good face and taking its first points (in the World Cup),” he assured.
In fact, after scoring the first World Cup goal in their history when they opened the scoring against Croatia in a 4-1 final defeat, Canada will approach the game as “another chance to write (their) history”. .
The Canadian record in the World Cup (1986 and 2022) is currently five defeats in as many matches.
“The football world was wondering how Canada was going to approach this competition. We approached it by being offensive and that will remain our approach”, explained coach John Herdman, at the head of a team which wants to take a date before the 2026 edition which it will co-organize with the United States and Mexico.
With AFP
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