Rinat Bilyaletdinov on the 2022 World Cup bronze match: “The Moroccans have a stronger moral impetus. They can win medals for the first time.”

Honored coach of Russia Rinat Bilyaletdinov believes that the Moroccan team has a stronger moral incentive than the Croats to win the match for third place at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

In the match for the bronze medals, the Moroccan national team will play with the Croatian team on December 17. The match will begin at 18:00 Moscow time, watch the live broadcast on the Match TV channel and the matchtv.ru website. The final Argentina – France will be held on December 18.

– Matches for third place do not have that emotional coloring, the teams have a psychological decline. Whoever has more motivation will win.

The Moroccans did not have such a strong failure. They deservedly lost to a worthy opponent. They are not so morally nailed by the result. Croats hurt more: the score was 0:3 and a controversial penalty. It might knock them down.

Morocco has a stronger moral impetus. They can win medals for the first time. Croatians already have silver medals. Although here you can burn out and run into experienced Croats who know how to punish for a mistake. But I will bet cautiously on the Moroccans, – quotes Bilyaletdinov “Sport day after day”.

Do you think Morocco’s success at the 2022 World Cup is a single outbreak, like South Korea in 2002? Or will the team continue to achieve success in the future, like Croatia after the 2018 World Cup?

– It is more difficult for emotional teams to stay at a high emotional level for a long time. Without it, teams on the safety margin of skill turn into solid ones, but not into achieving results. They need a flash, an illumination of emotions. Then they are capable of what the Moroccans have done.

In order to achieve a long-term result, there must be a group of players ready to fill the extinguished fuse. So far, the Moroccans do not have a group of players of this level. Maybe they will, and then it will be possible to talk about the Morocco team as a serious opponent.

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