Spain's inaugural 7-0 against Costa Rica will go down as a flash in the pan at this 2022 World Cup. This Tuesday, in the round of 16, the Furia Roja collapsed during a penalty shootout at the nightmarish goal against Morocco (0-0, 3 successes to 0).
In turn Pablo Sarabia, Carlos Soler and Busquets missed their attempt, before Hakimi sent Morocco to the quarter-finals for the first time in their history, against the winner of Portugal-Switzerland who will compete tonight (8:00 p.m.) .
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For 120 minutes, the selection of Luis Enrique will have stumbled on the Moroccan defensive wall.
Including at the very last minute of extra time, when Paris SG player Pablo Sarabia found the post, for what was his team's clearest chance at the end of a rather dull and caricatural round of 16, between Spaniards monopolizing the ball to do nothing with it and Moroccans too focused on defending well to develop offensive actions worthy of the name.