France vs Morocco live today: Next Bayern star falls out of the semi-finals
Created: 12/14/2022, 7:35 p.m
By: Antonio Jose Riether
While Moroccan Bayern pro Noussair Mazraoui is fit again, FCB defender Dayot Upamecano is absent.
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Who will follow Argentina to the World Cup final?
France and Morocco meet in the second semi-final.
The live ticker for the game.
World Cup 2022, semi-finals: France - Morocco -:- (-:-), 8 p.m
After their sensational entry into the semi-finals, the Moroccans now meet the
defending champions
.
France could reach the
final
for the second time in a row .
Final opponent would be Argentina.
Will there be another
sensation
or will the favorite win?
From 8 p.m., both teams will provide the answer.
>>UPDATE<<
Update, 7.35 p.m .: Just under
half an hour until the semifinals between France and Morocco.
A special focus today is the duel between France's Kylian Mbappé and Morocco's Achraf Hakimi, both play at Paris Saint-Germain and are good friends.
But the good relationship between the two will take a back seat for at least ninety minutes today.
World Cup 2022: France - Morocco -:- (-:-)
Lineup France: Lloris - Kounde, Varane, Konaté, Hernández - Tchouaméni, Fofana - Griezmann - Dembélé, Giroud, Mbappé |
Lineup Morocco: Bono - Hakimi, El Yamiq, Aguerd, Saiss, Mazraoui - Ziyech, Ounache, Amrabat, Boufal - En-Nesyri |
Gates: |
Update, 7:15 p.m .:
Three quarters of an hour until the second semi-final kicks off.
Will France follow the Argentines into the final today or will underdog Morocco create the next sensation and make it into the final?
France vs Morocco live today: only one Bayern player on the pitch from the start
Update, 6:56 p.m .:
Now the lists of the two semi-finalists are out!
Although the French have four Bayern pros in their squad, including the injured Lucas Hernández, the only Bayern player is playing for the Moroccans today.
Noussair Mazraoui reported fit before the final and will work on the left defensive flank of the North Africans.
Update, 6:38 p.m .:
The impartial of today’s game is César Arturo Ramos.
The Mexican was in charge of the second group game for the Moroccans, who beat Belgium 2-0 and the 0-0 draw between Denmark and Tunisia.
The 38-year-old referee also played in Portugal's 6-1 win over Switzerland.
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France vs Morocco live today: Upamecano is out of the semifinals
Update from December 14, 6:10 p.m .:
Around two hours before the second semi-final of the World Cup in Qatar, there is bad news from defending champion France.
According to the specialist newspaper L'Équipe, national coach Didier Deschamps will have to do without two players against Morocco.
Both midfielder Adrien Rabiot and FC Bayern defender Dayot Upamecano are out due to illness, with Ibrahima Konate and Youssouf Fofana likely to replace them.
Upamecano's Munich team-mate Lucas Hernández was out early on with a cruciate ligament rupture, and Benjamin Pavard's only place at this tournament is currently on the bench.
Kingsley Coman also has to cope with his role as a reservist.
The only Bayern professional on the Moroccan side, Noussair Mazraoui, reported himself fit for the semi-finals.
Will Kylian Mbapé (left) make it to his second World Cup final?
Morocco and striker Youssef En-Nesyri will do everything to prevent that from happening.
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France vs Morocco live today: will the favorite make it to the final again?
First report from December 14:
Doha - For the first time in 22 World Cup finals, an African team advanced to the semi-finals in Qatar.
Morocco first beat Spain in the round of 16 in the knockout stages and then eliminated Portugal a round later as the North Africans face another crucial clash against European giants.
However, the reigning world champion France is in an extremely good mood and is going into the second semi-final as the clear favorite.
France vs Morocco live today: Équipe Tricolore last eliminated England
France faced Poland as well as England en route to the semi-finals, and the quarter-final against the Three Lions was particularly tense.
In the end, the Équipe Tricolore won 2-1 against last year's European Championship finalists and showed themselves to be in world champion form, especially in terms of callousness.
Although the lightning-fast superstar Kylian Mbappé was kept in check by England throughout the game, France made it through to the semi-finals.
Ultimately, it was the 36-year-old veteran striker Olivier Giroud who opened the gate in the last four.
The mix of young and old, of carefree and experienced, could also be decisive against the poisonous Moroccans.
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The game is very special for the North Africans, Morocco was a French colony for more than forty years.
Some national players of the
Lions de l'Atlas
as well as their head coach Walid Regragui were born in France and partly spent their entire lives in Europe.
The French also have an actor of Moroccan descent in Mattéo Guendouzi.
Emotions are hardly avoidable today.
Should France prevail against the underdog, that would mean the second World Cup final in a row.
(ajr)