On December 9, the match of the 1/4 finals of the World Cup will take place, in which the national team of Morocco will play with the national team of Portugal. The forecast for this match is given by the well-known commentator of Match TV Roman Naguchev.The national team of Morocco can be considered the main sensation of the current World Cup.
In their group, they first finished in the first match, ahead of the Croatian national team, and also left the Belgian national team out of the playoffs altogether. And in the 1/8 finals, the Atlas Lions got the better of the Spanish national team, reducing the game time of the match to a 0-0 draw, after which they won 3-0 in a penalty shootout. In four matches, the Africans missed only 1 goal in their own goal, and even that scored themselves in their own goal. The Spaniards managed to hit their goal in 120 minutes only once.The Portuguese also took first place in their quartet at the group stage, but there were still rivals below the class of the Fernando Santos team, so there is no surprise in this.
But in the 1/8 finals, the Portuguese national team really broke through that it literally tore apart the Swiss national team with a score of 6:1. Thus, along with the English national team, the Portuguese became the most productive team of the tournament. Bruno Fernandes stands out in this team, who scored 2 goals and also scored 3 assists in four matches. Specifically, in the match with the Swiss, the young forward of Benfica, Gonzalo Ramos, shone.Roman Naguchev does not believe that the Portuguese national team will arrange the same scoring extravaganza as in the duel with the Swiss, given that the Moroccans at this tournament stand out for their defensive play.
But at the same time, he expects that the Portuguese will still score, and they are able to do it in each of the halves, given that Fernando Santos' team is more diverse than the Spanish national team, which could not do anything with this defense. And there is a feeling that the Moroccan national team has already reached its ceiling at this tournament.