“I expected the Spaniards to play so badly in the 1/8 finals of the 2022 World Cup” – Mostovoy

Former Celta football player Alexander Mostovoy noted that he expected a bad game for the Spanish national team in the 1/8 finals against the Moroccan team at the World Cup in Qatar.

The meeting was held at the stadium “Education City” in Doha. In regular and extra time, the teams did not score goals, and in the penalty shoot-out, the Moroccans won with a score of 3:0.

– I expected the Spaniards to play so badly in the 1/8 finals. Even during the match with the German national team, problems were visible, the Spaniards “rebounded” from the Germans. Then I said that today in regular time there would most likely be a draw, and then they could score. Here you are, I justified everything with my examples.

It’s good that it came to a penalty. During the game, the Moroccan went one on one and could score. It was impossible for the Spaniards to continue playing the game “you to me, I to you”, this is no longer the same tiki-taka that we saw before. The Moroccan national team defended well, calmly knocked out their balls and ran into counterattacks, they used this.

The Spaniards beat the penalty shootout in the same way as they played. The blows were barely, boom boom, a feeling that they did not have enough strength. Even in the match with Germany, he said that Spain lacks athleticism, arrogance, strength. Even today, when the Moroccans went to fight, the Spaniards flew away from them. I also do not understand what they find in Pedri, they have Busquets, which performs its functions. Just awful.

One of my favorites took off. Now I will root for France, Argentina, Brazil and Portugal. I will single out the Brazilians and the French from this list, but they can only meet in the final, – Metaratings.ru quotes Mostovoy.

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