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[Rruchi man]

This is without a doubt the weirdest of all world cups,it had the biggest number of upsets where a lot of people lost a lot of money and yes football is unpredictable,

And yet I have still heard some people say that the world cup is rigged to favor Lionel Messi, I keep wondering how people can nurse this kind of thinking when the games have been clearly contested.

The strategy of France when they play Morocco will be almost the same as what Portugal tried to do at the remaining minutes of the game where they were crossing the ball into the Moroccan half, we know how good France are in the air with Giroud who is still on scoring form, If Morocco cannot defend properly and not give a chance to France to cross the ball in and for Mbappe to run in behind them, they will have a chance at eliminating the defending champions. An early goal for Morocco as well will also be an advantage.

[waseem000786]

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Morocco win the semifial

[KTChampions]

France is a more balanced team when compared with Portugal. They have a well balanced attack, with Kylian Mbappé, Olivier Giroud, Antoine Griezmann and Ousmane Dembélé sharing the workload among themselves. On the other hand, Portugal was heavily dependent on Ronaldo (and the coach Fernando Santos made the mistake by benching him for most of the time). Younger players such as João Félix and Rafael Leão were unable to relieve the pressure on Cristiano Ronaldo, and this allowed the Moroccan team to tie down the Portuguese attack. The same tactic won't work against France.

In the game with Morocco, Joao Felix showed himself especially badly. Even in previous games, it was clear that he misses a lot of chances and he has low efficiency, and in the game with Morocco, he also missed a few chances. I don’t think that Portugal is very dependent on Ronaldo, but in any case, he is always able to score a goal, and all those who replaced him could not do anything against Morocco, even with some chances.

[Marykeller]

Morocco really surprised me
he has beaten teams with a history superior to him and I was also amazed by how he plays, very clean and flawless
Certainly thanks to the international experiences of the players who do amazing things when they return home

This is really true because Morocco has amazed everybody since this world cup started,they have been playing really well and are actually making Africans proud with their playing pattern and the way they've been able to knock out big teams like Portugal and the rest.It is indeed a thing of Joy to see an African country reach this far in the world cup,and they might end up surprising everybody the more by winning France.If they are able to win France,it will take them to the final and one might just begin to imagine them win the world cup. I wish them the best of luck.

I like how you guys are happy that Morocco, actually went through being one of the underdogs coming into the competition, fighting all their way to the semi-final being the first African country to achieve it. I think this alone has given Africa 11 slots in the next world cup if I got it correctly. If they get knocked out at this stage it's already a big win for them. Beating France will not be very easy but anything can happen.

Some people are not in for sizing or talking of Morocco because of Morocco is from African country is based on the people who they found in Portugal team but after which Portugal still use the match so is something that made people to be surprised and being interested in Morocco because no one expected Morocco to perform such a way that miracle will be the people that will send c Ronaldo group home or not to qualify to go to final so it is unbelievable

Morocco has the support of the entire continent of Africa, but regrettably, one of their most important plays claims that their victory in the world cup thus far belongs to the Arab world.

Having said that, Morocco has performed admirably; nobody anticipated that they would be the only African team left standing after other teams had left. If I were to assess Morocco's global performance thus far, I would predict that they will defeat France tomorrow. If they can triumph over Spain, Belgium, and Portugal,  they can also defeat France tomorrow

[rby]

Argentina win today has made the chances of Morroco and Africa winning the World Cup smaller. If Crotia would have gone to the finals and Morroco eventually survives France, it will not be a difficult task for Morroco.
But as it stands now, even if Morroco tries to win France, the final will still be very difficult for them.
But I sincerely wish them well butbi didn't think this will be the World Cup of the underdogs

[Fivestar4everMVP]

Argentina win today has made the chances of Morroco and Africa winning the World Cup smaller. If Crotia would have gone to the finals and Morroco eventually survives France, it will not be a difficult task for Morroco.
But as it stands now, even if Morroco tries to win France, the final will still be very difficult for them.
But I sincerely wish them well butbi didn't think this will be the World Cup of the underdogs

Well, if achieving greatness was ever easy. I guess a greater number of the world population would all be great individuals, and maybe greatest wouldn't be as great as we see it today, it would be seen as a common thing like we see other common things, greatness wouldn't be celebrated like we celebrate today.

And how do we achieve greatness?
Achieving greatness for most people simply means - doing the impossible, that is getting through successfully with something majority out there believe to be impossible to do.

Morocco beating France today appears impossible for majority of people, and if by chance together with luck and good play, they end up beating France....
Beating Argentina is another task majority think is impossible for Morocco, but if they can get through this two teams successfully, I tell you that Morocco team will automatically become one of the greatest players in the world of football, people will talk about them, celebrate them after this world cup is over and on till the next world cup, because to many, they have done the impossible.
I wish them good luck today.

[Sithara007]

Argentina win today has made the chances of Morroco and Africa winning the World Cup smaller. If Crotia would have gone to the finals and Morroco eventually survives France, it will not be a difficult task for Morroco.
But as it stands now, even if Morroco tries to win France, the final will still be very difficult for them.

I don't agree with all these permutations and combinations. If Morocco is destined to win, then they will win irrespective of whomever be their opponents. There is no guarantee that if Croatia was their opponent in the final, then they would win. Now we are talking about a team that has beaten very strong teams such as Belgium, Spain and Portugal. If they can do so much, then it is not an impossible to get two more wins against France and Argentina.

But I sincerely wish them well butbi didn't think this will be the World Cup of the underdogs

LOL.. this is a world cup of the underdogs, no matter how you want to paint it. During the hundred plus years of world cup history, we never had this many upsets in a single edition. This world cup has already created history, irrespective of what happens in the next three matches.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

Argentina win today has made the chances of Morroco and Africa winning the World Cup smaller. If Crotia would have gone to the finals and Morroco eventually survives France, it will not be a difficult task for Morroco.
But as it stands now, even if Morroco tries to win France, the final will still be very difficult for them.
But I sincerely wish them well but i didn't think this will be the World Cup of the underdogs

It's already the World Cup of the underdogs, as many underdogs showed the world that they shouldn't be overlooked as football is a game anybody can win provided there's determination and luck on their side. Morocco can beat France and Morocco can beat Argentina as well. Croatia has just been lucky this world cup and hasn't won any of their knockout games, just been hanging in until the fulltime is played and they go to penalty stages but Morocco has won games people taught were impossible to win. Don't think If Morocco somehow meet Argentina at the finals that they won't give in all they got knowing chances like this mightn't present itself again in the future.

Morocco has already defeated all odds against them, today as they play France both the African continent and the Arabic countries are all routing for them. The should go make us proud as they defeated our African brother that denied their root to go play for France. Things like this are what makes the Africa teams weak because our best exports has been bought by the foreigners to play for them while we settle for second bests.

[KTChampions]

It's already the World Cup of the underdogs, as many underdogs showed the world that they shouldn't be overlooked as football is a game anybody can win provided there's determination and luck on their side. ~

On the one hand, yes, on the other hand, if we see the final France - Argentina, it will be the final between the two favorites of the tournament. Plus, France can become world champion for the second time in a row, and Argentina can get silver for the second time in the last three championships, and Croatia can get bronze instead of silver from the last tournament. In this scenario, the distribution of rewards looks as boring and "usual" as possible. Today, Morocco has the first chance to really break the pattern (the second chance will be either in the final or in the bronze game).

[Pierre 2]

Argentina win today has made the chances of Morroco and Africa winning the World Cup smaller. If Crotia would have gone to the finals and Morroco eventually survives France, it will not be a difficult task for Morroco.
But as it stands now, even if Morroco tries to win France, the final will still be very difficult for them.
But I sincerely wish them well but i didn't think this will be the World Cup of the underdogs

It's already the World Cup of the underdogs, as many underdogs showed the world that they shouldn't be overlooked as football is a game anybody can win provided there's determination and luck on their side. Morocco can beat France and Morocco can beat Argentina as well. Croatia has just been lucky this world cup and hasn't won any of their knockout games, just been hanging in until the fulltime is played and they go to penalty stages but Morocco has won games people taught were impossible to win. Don't think If Morocco somehow meet Argentina at the finals that they won't give in all they got knowing chances like this mightn't present itself again in the future.

Morocco has already defeated all odds against them, today as they play France both the African continent and the Arabic countries are all routing for them. The should go make us proud as they defeated our African brother that denied their root to go play for France. Things like this are what makes the Africa teams weak because our best exports has been bought by the foreigners to play for them while we settle for second bests.

I think I agree with your arguments. Many teams which were known as best lost easy matches in this tournament. Who could have guessed Japan was gonna take over Spain and eliminate Germany. Noone. Who guessed Morocco finishing tournament group as leader. And even beat Portugal later on. Noone in my opinion. I think Senegal especially deserved to go more in this tournament. But they had unlucky draw and lost to England.

[swogerino]

Argentina win today has made the chances of Morroco and Africa winning the World Cup smaller. If Crotia would have gone to the finals and Morroco eventually survives France, it will not be a difficult task for Morroco.
But as it stands now, even if Morroco tries to win France, the final will still be very difficult for them.
But I sincerely wish them well but i didn't think this will be the World Cup of the underdogs

It's already the World Cup of the underdogs, as many underdogs showed the world that they shouldn't be overlooked as football is a game anybody can win provided there's determination and luck on their side. Morocco can beat France and Morocco can beat Argentina as well. Croatia has just been lucky this world cup and hasn't won any of their knockout games, just been hanging in until the fulltime is played and they go to penalty stages but Morocco has won games people taught were impossible to win. Don't think If Morocco somehow meet Argentina at the finals that they won't give in all they got knowing chances like this mightn't present itself again in the future.

Morocco has already defeated all odds against them, today as they play France both the African continent and the Arabic countries are all routing for them. The should go make us proud as they defeated our African brother that denied their root to go play for France. Things like this are what makes the Africa teams weak because our best exports has been bought by the foreigners to play for them while we settle for second bests.

I think I agree with your arguments. Many teams which were known as best lost easy matches in this tournament. Who could have guessed Japan was gonna take over Spain and eliminate Germany. Noone. Who guessed Morocco finishing tournament group as leader. And even beat Portugal later on. Noone in my opinion. I think Senegal especially deserved to go more in this tournament. But they had unlucky draw and lost to England.

Even if Senegal would have faced any of the other teams at the time when they clashed with England they would most probably been also eliminated,in fact England was one of the easier teams that they lost the game by themselves when they missed so many goal occasions in the first half but could not score and then second half England scored 3 goals.

Tonight I expect a tight game with goals and I don't know how it will end but I know for sure it is going to be most probably under 2.5 goals and not over 2.5 goals because Morocco has the best defense and they will try to defend very hard tonight trying to get the game to penalties.

[Ondekinecakabilirim]

I think France will not find an easy opponent tonight. They will play with a team that eliminated Spain and Portugal from the tournament. Actually, I always saw France as my favourite. But the Moroccan national team have a very different football style. We saw that they defended very well and counterattacked very well against Spain and Portugal. They will definitely continue their good game in the France match. I was going to bet on the victory of France. But I will place a bet based on goal predictions. Because I think it will be a more secure choice. The Moroccan national team have defended very well so far. I think the defensive aspects will come to the fore in this game as well. Also, goalkeeper Bono is a very good goalkeeper. If he manages to show a little good performance in this match, he can affect the match. He made very successful saves in previous matches.

[Oluwa-btc]

This is without a doubt the weirdest of all world cups,it had the biggest number of upsets where a lot of people lost a lot of money and yes football is unpredictable,

And yet I have still heard some people say that the world cup is rigged to favor Lionel Messi, I keep wondering how people can nurse this kind of thinking when the games have been clearly contested.

The strategy of France when they play Morocco will be almost the same as what Portugal tried to do at the remaining minutes of the game where they were crossing the ball into the Moroccan half, we know how good France are in the air with Giroud who is still on scoring form, If Morocco cannot defend properly and not give a chance to France to cross the ball in and for Mbappe to run in behind them, they will have a chance at eliminating the defending champions. An early goal for Morocco as well will also be an advantage.

Did you in anyway watch the game Portugal played against Morocco ?! How can they appoint five Argentines for that game. ?! Though the game wasn't biased in anyway way but that doesn't seem right and good.
The Penalty last night wasn't worth it and if it was Ronaldo scoring penalties they're already making bunch of noise bout it all.

If Morocco scores before France, believe me you, that the game has already been settled as I don't think France will get a single goal if they don't score before Morocco, same goes to Morocco as they will he won mercilessly by france.
Let thr best side win and take the trophies.

[Strongkored]

I vote for Hakim Ziyech, and many agree that he can be one of the best African players in this World Cup, their success in reaching the semifinals is truly extraordinary and no one predicted that a team outside Europe and America could do it and they made history, don't want to comment on the match later where they will play against France, whether this will be France's second consecutive Final or will there be a new history where Morocco will go to the Final.

[EarnOnVictor]

I think France will not find an easy opponent tonight. They will play with a team that eliminated Spain and Portugal from the tournament. Actually, I always saw France as my favourite. But the Moroccan national team have a very different football style. We saw that they defended very well and counterattacked very well against Spain and Portugal. They will definitely continue their good game in the France match. I was going to bet on the victory of France. But I will place a bet based on goal predictions. Because I think it will be a more secure choice. The Moroccan national team have defended very well so far. I think the defensive aspects will come to the fore in this game as well. Also, goalkeeper Bono is a very good goalkeeper. If he manages to show a little good performance in this match, he can affect the match. He made very successful saves in previous matches.

I believe many are overrating Morocco, yes, they are the team that eliminated Spain and Portugal. But never forget that they eliminated Spain at the lesser stage as the team underestimated them. And as for Portugal, I believe it's the coach's error, how could you not use your most-star player in such a match? I'm just narrating this so that you will douse the tempo you have for Morocco. They might win or lose, but with what I expect, France would have it easy against them. Do you know why? They will not take the team lightly to avoid the mistakes of Spain and Portugal.

[Anguwa]

I vote for Hakim Ziyech, and many agree that he can be one of the best African players in this World Cup, their success in reaching the semifinals is truly extraordinary and no one predicted that a team outside Europe and America could do it and they made history, don't want to comment on the match later where they will play against France, whether this will be France's second consecutive Final or will there be a new history where Morocco will go to the Final.

Due to his personal efforts on behalf of his team, which helped them reach their first World Cup Semifinal, Hakim Ziyech is the only player from the list of players above who will undoubtedly win the vote. I hope Morocco wins today to create the best history ever because the entire African continent is behind them. Morocco has already made history, made Africans proud, and improved the value of African teams in the world of football.

[Rruchi man]

Morocco has already made history, made Africans proud, and improved the value of African teams in the world of football.

Whatever the result from the game is whether it is in favor of Morocco or France, I will still be proud of Morocco and how far they have taken the African name. It will be great if they can shock us more, it is not impossible, they have been underrated and have done the unbelievable. Many people say the game is a game between two African countries, but me I want the the real African country in the finals. I hope they have not settled already that they have come far enough and there is no need to fight extra as they can fight for the third place if they loose this game, they have not conceded any goal yet in the world cup, they should try not to concede an early goal to ruin that record.

[Woodie]

I really don't know how Morocco are feeling right now going  close to the end of the first half a goal down after been labeled the team with the best defense in the competition. Can they dig themselves out of this, I don't think so, their game plan was to defend and push the game to penalties looking at the 5 defenders they used.... But sorry to say but it's pretty much end of the road for the Arab nation but history has been written for them which should be a big plus for them.

[Anguwa]

I really don't know how Morocco are feeling right now going  close to the end of the first half a goal down after been labeled the team with the best defense in the competition. Can they dig themselves out of this, I don't think so, their game plan was to defend and push the game to penalties looking at the 5 defenders they used.... But sorry to say but it's pretty much end of the road for the Arab nation but history has been written for them which should be a big plus for them.

Morocco played a very good football, they have team work and have more chance than France. They played France on the first half but were not too good in their attack which is why they were not able to level the score yet. With this performance, Morocco may level the score early second half unless if France improved their defense and midfield.
I am impressed with Morocco performance in this first half of the match.

[Ulven]

I really don't know how Morocco are feeling right now going  close to the end of the first half a goal down after been labeled the team with the best defense in the competition. Can they dig themselves out of this, I don't think so, their game plan was to defend and push the game to penalties looking at the 5 defenders they used.... But sorry to say but it's pretty much end of the road for the Arab nation but history has been written for them which should be a big plus for them.

The Moroccan national team will not remain idly by, but will try to create opportunities to reach the French goal net. The Moroccan national team has some elements that feel tired and exhausted, so the coach must make some changes from facing France.
Now Morocco is behind by a goal and has nothing to lose. It must advance more and surprise the opponent.