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Ziyech posing some actual hazard from the precise for Morocco. He whips in one other cross and Vertonghen needed to keep sharp to clear it. Belgium wins a few corners, however nothing a lot from it.
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And the sport kicks off. Morocco thunders by the precise with Ziyech main the cost, however his cross is near Courtois.
PLAYING 11
Belgium: Thibaut Courtois, Timothy Castagne, Jan Vertonghen, Toby Alderweireld, Thomas Meunier, Axel Witsel, Amadou Onana, Thorgan Hazard, Kevin De Bruyne, Eden Hazard (captain), Michy Batshuayi
Morocco: Yassine Bounou, Achraf Hakimi, Noussair Mazraoui, Sofyan Amrabat, Nayef Aguerd, Romain Saiss (captain), Hakim Ziyech, Azzedine Ounahi, Selim Amallah, Soufiane Boufal, Youssef En-Nesyri
PREVIEW
Belgium midfielder Kevin De Bruyne knew he didn’t play nicely in his group’s opening World Cup sport. He stated as a lot when he accepted the person of the match award.
“I don’t know why I got the trophy,” De Bruyne stated. “Maybe it’s because of my name.”
With De Bruyne trying to enhance after the unimpressive 1-0 win over Canada, Belgium has a second likelihood in opposition to Morocco on Sunday to indicate why it’s the No. 2-ranked group on this planet behind Brazil .
This may be the final World Cup likelihood for a lot of on the highly-rated Belgian squad, because the “golden generation” has usually been reminded within the runup to Qatar. The backbone of the group — De Bruyne, Eden Hazard, Axel Witsel, Jan Vertonghen, Toby Alderweireld and goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois — are all of their 30s.
PREDICTED 11
Belgium: Courtois; Alderweireld, Vertonghen, Dendoncker; Meunier, Onana, Witsel, Carrasco; De Bruyne, E. Hazard; Batshuayi
Morocco: Bounou; Hakimi, Aguerd, Saiss, Mazraoui; Ounahi, Amrabat, Amallah; Ziyech, En-Nesyri, Boufal
Hazard acknowledged that Belgium’s possibilities have been higher on the 2018 World Cup in Russia. But he’s not writing off this event.
“The team was better four years ago. Still we have the quality to win games, to win competitions,” he stated. “We have a few guys — they are a bit older now, but we have experience. We have the best goalkeeper in the world. We have one of the best midfields in the world. We have the strikers. We are a complete team.”
Hazard stated first video games are robust, and the Canada opener was typical.
“There’s always a lot of stress around it and you don’t want to lose the ball so you tend to hide a little bit,” he stated. “I’m not worried. We need to work together. We need to start getting to know each other again.”
Coach Roberto Martinez, who stated the efficiency in opposition to Canada was one among Belgium’s worst since he’s been in cost, is perhaps tempted to usher in contemporary faces in opposition to Morocco.
“Our first half against Canada, we didn’t play at our top level,” Martinez stated. “But we reacted very well during the second half.”
Martinez would dearly like to deliver again highly effective striker Romelu Lukaku, who missed the Canada opener with a left thigh harm and is uncertain for your complete group stage. Some Belgian media has been reporting that Belgium’s document goal-scorer might make an earlier-than-expected return in opposition to the Moroccans at Al Thumama Stadium in Doha.
Morocco might be much less fazed on the prospect of making an attempt to comprise De Bruyne having already succeeded at subduing one other of the world’s finest midfielders in Luka Modric.
A 0-0 draw with 2018 World Cup finalist Croatia of their first Group F sport was a promising begin to the World Cup for Morocco and particularly for coach Walid Regragui, who had lower than three months to organize his group having solely been employed on the finish of August.
He had coached Morocco in simply three pleasant video games earlier than getting into the World Cup. Compare that to Zlatko Dalic’s 5 years answerable for Croatia. Or Martinez’s six years with Belgium.
The World Cup schedule gave Morocco a frightening begin with 2018 runners-up Modric and Croatia adopted by De Bruyne and Belgium, who completed third in that final World Cup. But the purpose in opposition to Croatia offered an actual confidence-booster.
“Arriving in these conditions is not easy, but I accepted the challenge,” Regragui stated. And the Croatia end result “made us believe,” he added.
When is the FIFA World Cup match between Belgium vs Morocco?
The FIFA World Cup Group C match between Belgium and Morocco will begin at 6:30pm IST on the Al Thumama stadium.
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