France and Morocco will fight for the second place in the final of the World Cup in Qatar 2022. The current world champion is measured against the revelation of the tournament, a team led by Walid Regragui that has made history for African football by being the first to reach the penultimate round of the World Cup.
The French star, Kylian Mbappé, who alone embodies the offensive dynamite of France in 2022, challenges the Moroccan defense, one of the sensations of the competition, on the way to becoming legendary by breaking down historical milestones.
The semifinal between France and Morocco will be played this Wednesday, December 14 at 8:00 p.m. in Spain and will be broadcast by RTVE's La 1 and the Gol Mundial channel. The La Vanguardia website will also offer live what happens during the qualifying round that will allow them to fight for the title in Doha.
They face the best defense against the most renowned attack, the defense that no one has been able to break -the only goal against Morocco was scored at their own goal- against a devastating device made up of four renowned attackers: the aforementioned Mbappé, Ousmane Dembele, Olivier Giroud and Antoine Griezmann.
With them France seeks to overcome the fort against which Belgium and Croatia crashed in the group stage, Spain in the round of 16 and Portugal in the quarterfinals, all of them frustrated at not being able to break the Moroccan line.
The champion arrives on notice. She also knows that the resistance on the field will be compounded by the hostile climate in the stands, because Morocco has been able to capitalize on the popular support of the first World Cup organized on Arab soil. The Atlas Lions are already the people's team that challenges the soccer aristocracy, which they have already put in check. Never had an African team come so far. Never has an Arab nation risen so high.
"We are the example of developing countries," says his coach, Regragui, elevated to the category of revolutionary, determined to show that hierarchies are no longer useful. But, for this, he repeats over and over again, it is not enough to settle: "We have to put Africa at the top of football."
He has managed to form a family, with men from within but also with the diaspora, players born, raised and trained in Europe who, in the image and likeness of Achraff Hakimi, give everything for a country in which they have never lived but where they sink their estate.
France has shown no signs of exhaustion. Didier Deschamps has managed to give a new verve to the generation that he won in 2018 reinforced with fresh air, a mixture that works. The blues do not excite for their game but for their efficiency. It is not the most solid, nor the most offensive, but it has achieved a balance that has no cracks. "Collective force", Deschamps has baptized it.
With this spirit they face the seventh semifinal in their history, three losses, three wins, the last three, in a kind of positive dynamic that has them on the verge of opting to renew their title and place themselves at the level of Italy in the 30s. , of the Brazil of the 60s, of the nations that have entered the legend.
Deschamps praised "Morocco's defensive capacity "against which so far no adversary has found a solution." "They have a good organization, very rational, in which they feel comfortable and that is where their strength is based. We have analyzed it and we are going to try to create a problem for them," he assured.
