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Morocco's historic victory over Belgium  The secret is in the "bench"

At a time when the Moroccan team needed to be decisive, the strength of the "bench" appeared, which gave it a historic victory over Belgium with two clean goals, in the second round of Group F of the World Cup.

 Morocco deservedly topped the group with 4 points, one point ahead of the second Belgium team, and 3 points from Croatia, which will conclude the second round of the group by facing the bottomless team of Canada without points.

 Morocco's superiority

• Morocco had strong names on the bench, as the two goals were scored by two players who participated in the second half, the first by Abdelhamid Sabiri and the second by Zakaria Abu Khalil.

• Substitute goalkeeper Mounir El-Mohammadi was out of the starting line-up, but Seville goalkeeper Yassin Bounous suffered a muscle injury before the start of the match.

• The elements of the Moroccan team are entirely professional players in Europe, which made playing matches such as facing the second-ranked team in the world with its big stars is not a matter of fear and confusion.

• Al Thumama Stadium in Qatar witnessed a large crowd, estimated at 44,000 fans, as Moroccan and Arab fans in Qatar crowded the stands to support the Atlas Lions against the Belgian giant, so that Walid Regragui's men received a huge boost in the match.

• Young coach Walid Regragui proved that he is as much as the confidence he got from the Moroccan Football Federation and confirmed that he is a great coach who can deal with the pressures in the biggest global events such as the World Cup, and his closeness to the players helped him create a wonderful state of understanding and harmony within the team.

• Regragui brought back many stars such as Hamdallah and Ziyech, who were far from the Moroccan national team in previous periods, and the impact of the duo with the team appeared, as they gave great depth to the list.

 • Belgium suffers offensively due to the absence of its first striker, Romelu Lukaku, due to injury, and despite the Inter player's participation in the last minutes of the match, he was not ready for the physical struggle in the match to appear as an ineffective guest of honor in the events of the meeting.

Historic achievement

• Morocco did not cross in its previous five participations to the second round in the World Cup except in the 1986 World Cup, although it was very close to repeating the achievement in the 1998 World Cup after its historic victory at the time over Scotland in the group stage, before dreams evaporated in the last round.

• Morocco may need to score only one point against Canada in the final match in the group in order to qualify for the round of 16, and the current four points may suffice it to qualify.

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 • Morocco's victory over Canada in the final match will make it an extraordinary candidate to lead the group and thus face less force in the round of sixteen in order to search for an unprecedented achievement in the history of the Arabs by reaching the quarter-finals