The team of Walid Regragui played this Wednesday a Match Morocco Vs Croatia at the Al-Bayt stadium of Al-Khor as the first match of the group F of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 which still contains Canada and Belgium, and snatched a precious draw against (0-0) a very well experienced team of the Croatian Luka Modric. Bad step for the finalists of da last tournament of Russia 2018 against the dark horse of the group F.
The Friends of Hakim Zayach played a game with perseverance and resistance against the attacks of Croatia that were close to the goal in two or three times with a very good performance of the Moroccan keeper Yassin Bounou, on the other side The Atlas Lion came close to scoring in three times too but without positive result after an attack of Zayach and En- Nesyri in the first half, and a spectacular shot of Hakimi in the second half.
Morocco and Croatia made changes in the second half to rectify the situation, coach Walid Regragui brought in Ezzalzouli, Hamdallah and Sabiri while Boufal En-Nesyri and Ounahi returned to the bench; and due to injury Attiyat-Allah replaced Mazraoui which gave a new lease of life but in vein.
The composition of the Moroccan team
Bounou – Aguerd – Mazraoui – Saïss (c) – Ounahi – Hakimi – Amrabat – Amallah – En-Nesyri – Boufal – Ziyech
The composition of the Croatia team
Livakovic – Lovren – Stanisic– Gvardiol – Modric – Barisic– Brozovic -Vlasic – Kovacic – Petkovic – Perisic.