At 23:00 on December 6, Beijing time, the Qatar World Cup 18th final will stage a focus battle. The Spanish team of the Bullfighters Army met with the Atles Lions Morocco. In the group stage, the Moroccan team performed very well. They drew with Croatia , defeated Belgian and Canada, and qualified as the first in the group, showing their strong strength. However, when encountering the Spanish team of the Bullfighters Legion, their dark horse path may end there.
Spain has a very beautiful start to this World Cup. They beat Costa Rica 7-0 in the first round of the group stage, showing their super strength. It was this big victory that allowed them to control points calmly in the next two games, and finally successfully avoided Croatia as the second in the group. Judging from their willingness to fight against the Moroccan team, the Bullfighters obviously did not take this African powerhouse seriously.
The Spanish team led by Enrique has basically completed the replacement of new and old. The age structure of the three generations of old, middle-aged and young people is very reasonable. The 34-year-old veteran Busquets is still the offensive and defensive hub of this team. His outstanding state allows Enrique to only allow Manchester City general Rodri to play as a central defender, which indirectly shows that the Spanish team is full of talents today. It is also worth mentioning that as a representative coach of the concept of passing and controlling football, Enrique has very detailed tactical details. Busquets, Gavey and Pedri Barcelona three midfielders performed much better in the national team than in the club, which made Barcelona fans itchy and wanted to settle the score with Xavi immediately.
In fact, it can be seen from the three rounds of the group stage that apart from the battle with Costa Rica, Spain did not use all its strength in the following two games. Drawing with Germany 1-1, he took off the Morata and Garvey early after breaking the deadlock, and Ferrantors only played for half. In the match against , the Spanish team made a big rotation, and after Morata scored, he first removed Azpilicueta who assisted him, and after the Japanese team scored two goals in a row, Morata simply let Morata get off the court to rest. Finally, he won the second place in the group as he wished, under the angry look of the Germans.
At the pre-match press conference with Morocco, Spanish coach Enrique responded to the criticism he received about the loss to Japan. He admitted that he wanted to avoid the early encounter with Brazil and praised Morocco for its extraordinary strength, but this kind of praise does not see much sincerity.
Morocco's problem is that they have players with excellent skills under their feet, as well as players like Ashraf and Ziyech who play in European giants, and they play very beautifully on the scene. However, this tactical style of play will often be infinitely magnified when encountering the Spanish team, the originator of passing and controlling football. In the 1998 World Cup in France, Morocco was in the same group as Brazil, Norway and Scotland, and they were in the match against Norway. They were led twice and finally tied 2-2, against Scotland , Morocco won 3-0. But when they met the Brazilian team with the same delicate skills, although Morocco also played a lot of wonderful cooperation, which made the game very pleasing to the eye, they eventually lost 0-3 and missed the goal.
Of course, in this game, many people were still very optimistic about Morocco and believed that they had the strength to be upset. But unfortunately, it's difficult. Spain is likely to win more than 3 goals in this game to advance to the quarterfinals. However, it is hard to say whether they will meet Switzerland or Portugal by then.
