France - Morocco: World Cup in Qatar 2022, live | The Africans come out with three central defenders against the team led by Mbappé

France and Morocco are competing tonight (8:00 p.m., on TVE1 and Gol Mundial) for a place in the Qatar 2022 World Cup final. The current champions measure the tournament's revelation team, the first African team to reach the semifinals of a World Cup.

The Moroccans will play with a formation of three center backs, with Achraf and Mazraoui as wingers.

Fofana and Konaté are the novelties in the eleven of the French, again commanded by Kylian Mbappé.

The favoritism points in principle to those of Deschamps, who beat Poland in the round of 16 and England in the quarterfinals, but it is also true that Morocco was never ahead in the pools against Spain and Portugal, and both were defeated by Walid Regragui's troops.

The top scoring duo of the tournament, Mbappé (5) and Giroud (4), faces the goalkeeper who has conceded the fewest goals,

Yassine Bono (1).

From this clash of styles will emerge Messi's rival in the final for Argentina, who yesterday defeated Croatia in the other semifinal.

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The arbitration team

Main Referee:

 César Ramos (Mexico).

First Assistant:

 Alberto Morín (Mexico).

Second Assistant:

 Miguel Hernández (Mexico).

Fourth referee:

 Jesús Valenzuela (Venezuela).

VAR Referee:

 Drew Fischer (Canada).

VAR assistant: 

Nicolás Gallo (Colombia).

Offside VAR:

 Neuza Back (Brazil).

Support VAR: 

Armando Villarreal (USA).

ACT.14 DEC 2022 - 18:27

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Regragui and Scaloni, two old acquaintances since their time as players at Racing Santander

Jesus Ruiz Mantilla

Qatar has not been the only space in which Walid Regragui and Lionel Scaloni have agreed on something.

The efficiency of their game has now brought them together to play in the World Cup semifinals as coaches of Morocco and Argentina.

But as players they also share a tiny and common past with the same shirt: Racing de Santander.

It is a stage in their careers that they have not forgotten.

Because joining the Cantabrian team marks, says the writer Marta San Miguel, as a form of permanence.

This is the title of the book that he published on Racing in 2019, to vindicate the fans of a team that never, ever, won an official title and all its triumph consists both in knowing how to lose and in fervently managing to resist.

ACT.14 DEC 2022 - 18:20

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This is how the teams reach the semifinal

Morocco adds and continues, a team that has not known defeat so far in the tournament.

It makes profitable like few goals in favor while it does not fit, a granite and solid block in which effort and solidarity are not negotiated. 

France is more interested in the ball and playing attack, full of talent from midfield forward, always subject to Griezmann's foot and Mbappé's definition.

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ACT.14 DEC 2022 - 18:07

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The World Cup in Qatar seen from Tangier

javier rioyo

As if the future and the past had been resolved in a universal ball game.

From the crusades of the Franj, from the Westerners and their fiery holy wars, from the millenary hostility between Islam and the West, we have passed to the peaceful victory of the Arab world, the Berbers or any tribe that looks to Mecca.

There are no spears on this battlefield, there is an overflowing union in the happiness of a people united behind a few heroes, the Lions of the Atlas, who have made this part of the world, where adidas and slippers mix, Nike shirts and veils, tagines and hamburgers, are capable of being installed in an illusion broadcast live by televisions that serve to colonize the West and also to witness its defeat live. 

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ACT.14 DEC 2022 - 17:57

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Fofana and Konaté, the only novelties in the France line-up

Fofana and Konaté replace Rabiot and Upamecano colds.

They are the only novelties in the lineup that Didier Deschamps brings out. 

The complete eleven: Lloris;

Koundé, Varane, Konate, Theo Hernandez;

Tchouameni, Fofana;

Dembele, Griezmann, Mbappé;

Giroud.

ACT.14 DEC 2022 - 17:44

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We already know the lineups

Morocco changes the scheme to start playing with three centrals to protect themselves behind.

The complete eleven chosen by Regragui is: Bono;

Achraf, Saiss, El Yamiq, Aguerd, Mazraoui;

Amrabat, Ounahi;

Ziyech, Boufal and En Nesyri.

ACT.14 DEC 2022 - 17:46

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Sevilla sends encouragement to his people

Bono and En Nesyri, two of the main figures in Morocco, are playing the most important game of their careers tonight and Sevilla have sent them this message of encouragement.

The goalkeeper and the striker have been key for those from Nervión to achieve various successes in recent seasons and now they are on the verge of making history with their team.

ACT.14 DEC 2022 - 17:39

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The Arab world and Africa vibrate with the feat of Morocco

Antonio PitaJuan Carlos SanzJosé Naranjo

On Saturday, when the referee whistled the end of the Portugal-Morocco game, it seemed that it was not a country, but the entire Arab world and the African continent, which had just qualified for the semifinals of the World Cup in Qatar.

From Gaza to the Ivory Coast, passing through Iraq, Tunisia, Senegal or Egypt, celebrations took place in the streets, with Moroccan flags, songs and distribution of sweets.

In the Palestinian city of Bethlehem, where an illuminated sign at an intersection displayed the Moroccan flag with the phrase “Yes we can”, drivers honked their horns relentlessly as the Atlas Lions became the first combined Arab and African in history to get so far in the competition, even more so leaving two a priori favorite teams on the road:

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ACT.14 DEC 2022 - 17:39

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Morocco arrives at the stadium

The Moroccan team is already at the Al Bayt stadium where the match will be held.

The players have taken to the field to step on the grass and shortly they will retire to the changing rooms to prepare for the warm-up.

On their faces you can see the illusion for a historic night.

ACT.14 DEC 2022 - 17:30

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All set at Al Bayt

With less than two hours to go before the semi-finals kick off, everything is ready at the Al Bayt stadium in the city of Khor, with a capacity for almost 70,000 spectators.

The stands slowly begin to fill with fans as the teams make their way to the stadium.

The changing rooms are already prepared and all that remains is for the players to arrive for the party to begin.

ACT.14 DEC 2022 - 17:23

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Sofyan Amrabat, the tunnel boring machine that 'signed' Morocco

Lorenzo Calonge

The life and football of Sofyan Amrabat (Huizen, The Netherlands; 26 years old), one of the impacts of the World Cup, well illustrate the great success story of Morocco: for its rattling and Stakhanovist football in a cholista-inspired selection, and for how he was recruited by the North African federation when he was a teenager, an important factor in a team in which 14 of the 26 called up were not born on that side of the Strait, the highest proportion of the tournament.

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ACT.14 DEC 2022 - 17:22

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bromance

Achraf Hakimi and Kylian Mbappé are the two stars who lead their teams and are also great friends.

The two players have exchanged various messages of support throughout the tournament, respectively congratulating each other as the rounds progressed.

Today they will meet face to face in the band for which the Frenchman attacks, which the Moroccan must defend.

ACT.14 DEC 2022 - 17:02

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Diaspora Football Club: the most global Morocco

Jose Samano

There is no more migrant team in Qatar than the amazing Morocco.

Fourteen of his 26 called up were born outside the African country, a record among the participants in the World Cup.

The Diaspora Football Club has strengthened ties to the point of flying like nobody expected.

And it goes from record to record.

They are not only the first team from their continent to reach the level of the semifinals.

It is the third non-European or South American team to achieve it in 21 editions, after the United States in 1930 and South Korea in 2002. There is more: since the German tournament in 2006, when Italy reached the semifinals with a single goal against (from United States in the group stage) no one had armored themselves in the same way.

To add to the astonishment, the only goal conceded by Walid Regragui's team was unintentional, since Aguerd scored it at his own goal. 

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ACT.14 DEC 2022 - 16:57

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clash of styles

France and Morocco represent very different visions of facing the matches.

Deschamps's men lavished offensive exuberance with Mbappé and Dembélé on the wings and Griezmann a few meters behind.

No team in the World Cup attacks so much and gets so many shots on goal per game.

The rest of the team focuses on closing spaces well and at many times during the tournament they have used a line of three center backs and two wingers.

With Tchouameni as the anchor, they sometimes suffer when the ball is released, but they have rarely been caught off guard with the most placed defense.

Morocco has no complexes in leaving their rivals in control of possession and seeks maximum efficiency in their attacks.

The weight of the game usually falls on the right wing, where Hakimi and Ziyech form the team's star duo.

Most of the centers arrive from that side in the direction of En Nesyri, the goal man.

Meanwhile, the whole team is very well trained to close the spaces inside, keep the lines together and not fall into the traps of the rivals that incite them to press up.

Even if they don't have the ball, Regragui's team is capable of controlling games as they did against Spain and Portugal.

It is to be hoped that France will be the one that monopolizes the ball the most, but that is not something that particularly benefits Deschamps' men, whose real potential awakens with the spaces.

The Moroccans' plan will consist of taking the game to their ground, where the opponent cannot progress at ease despite touching and touching the ball, and taking advantage of his opportunity to strike.

ACT.14 DEC 2022 - 16:50

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L´Équipe advances the eleven of France against Morocco

Upamecano and Rabiot are dropped from the semifinal and are replaced in the French starting eleven by Konaté and Fofana, according to

​​​​​​​The rest, Deschamps' regulars, with Giroud, Mbappé and Dembelé leading the attack and Griezmann as inside.

ACT.14 DEC 2022 - 16:37

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France does not know defeat against Morocco

Tonight's will be the first confrontation between the French and Moroccans in an official match.

ACT.14 DEC 2022 - 16:30

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Giroud, a cannon without Benzema

David Alvarez

Olivier Giroud did not expect the World Cup he is having, but he woke up one morning in the Al Messila hotel where the French team lives, and Benzema was no longer there.

So when France opened against Australia, Giroud (Chambéry; 36 years old) started and after 32 minutes he had already scored the first of his four goals.

The striker, who is playing his second semifinal against Morocco today, is always ready for the unexpected.

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ACT.14 DEC 2022 - 16:22

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Morocco, a mission against the champion

David Alvarez

Like many at this point, tonight's France-Morocco match (8:00 p.m., La1) is just a game and it is also much more than a game.

For the Africans, the semifinal against the last world champion contains a transcendental mission that was described yesterday by their coach, Walid Regragui, born on the outskirts of Paris: “We have come to change the mentality of our continent.

If we were happy to get here, we would say that this is enough, but no.

We are one of the top four teams and we want to reach the final,” he said.

"We want to rewrite the history books for all of Africa."

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ACT.14 DIC 2022 - 16:08

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¡Vamos con la semifinal!

Buenas tardes a todos. Hoy conoceremos cuál será el rival de Argentina en la final del Mundial de Qatar 2022. Francia, los vigentes campeones, se enfrentan al equipo revelación, Marruecos. El favoritismo apunta a los de Deschamps, pero la tropa de Walid Regragui ya ha dado unas cuantas sorpresas y sueña con dar la última y más grande.

¡Preparémonos para el partido!

ACT.14 DIC 2022 - 15:59

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