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Saved: Morocco 2-0 Spain
Benoun, who came on so late as a sub, misses and Simon guesses right.
Saved! Morocco 2-0 Spain
Carlos Soler takes, and Bono saves down and low. It was the right height, and Bono reads it well.
Scores! Morocco 2-0 Spain
Ziyech smashes down the centre!
Missed! Morocco 1-0 Spain
Sarabia, on to take a penalty, drags his shot on to the post. Advantage Morocco
Penalties: Morocco 1-0 Spain
Sabiri sents Simon the wrong way with a coolly slotted kick
The toss done, and the goalies pal up, with Morocco to throw first, and towards fans clad in Moroccan red.
That chance for Pablo Sarabia was the one. Spain pushed and pushed for their chance, and it came, only for their sub to miss the target. Remember, Spain have taken a thousand penalties in practice, according to Luis Enrique.
Full-time in extra time: Morocco 0-0 Spain
That’s it, here come the penalties. A test of frayed nerves and tired legs.
120+3 min: Hurried defending by Morocco, now playing nine at the back. Spain continue to pass the ball around to that shrill soundtrack. Sarabia gets another touch, and El Yamiq comes across to clear. It briefly looked as it might be going in. Morocco continue to hold on. Sarabia arrives at the back post, and hits the far post! Might he have come on before? He’s been very dangerous…and that’s it. To the shootout we go.
120 min: The corner is taken by Sarabia, who does get a touch. The ball comes out, and Fati is tackled. Three minutes added on, and Busquets steps up. Spain continue to be so patient.
119 min: A sub for a sub: Sarabia on for Nico Williams. That’s one of the penalty takers, then. Will he get a touch before the shootout? Spain get another corner.
118 min: Williams has at least added a dimension and gets the ball back from the byline. It’s ruled out, though there are shades of what we saw in the Japan game. Was the curvature of the….etc etc.
117 min: Spain find space – at last – and it’s Morata’s turn to get caught in two minds. He spins his pass out wide to Fati and out. Oh Spain, we’ve seen this before, mostly before 2008.
116 min: Williams is the latest Spain player to chase down a ball and find that he can’t get through. Morocco have been outstanding in defence, truly.
114 min: Spain continue to paint the Forth Bridge in constructing the perfect attack, and then Cheddira sets off on one of his sorties, only to get crowded out by Rodri.
113 min: Balde and Fati try to link up but again it’s Amrabat back to clear the danger.
111 min: Saiss feels his hamstring – or cramp – go, and he leaves the field. The captain goes off, and is patched up, given the spray. That’s two centre-backs down. Amrabat steps back into defence.
109 min: The Moroccan fans barrack Spain as they hold possession. The sterile domination continues. When does patience become pig-headedness?
107 min: Hakimi shows off his muscle for holding off Fati’s run down the left. He’s been the man of the match for me. He’ll expect to take a penalty, too. And that fate lingers for all on the field. Amrabat has been good, too.
106 min: Spain go on the attack immediately, and the ball is played to Fati by Soler and the control by the Barca youngster is poor. The final touch has been lacking all night.
105+1 min: Spain get a corner, and actually pump it in. The ball comes back to Llorente, after Bono makes a good fist of clearing the ball. Corners have all been dealt with superbly by Morocco. And that’s the end of the first half of extra time.
104 min: Cheddira – again – has a big chance. He storms through and Simon, to be fair, makes a good save with his legs. That was a big chance and Cheddira is causing problems for Spain.
102 min: Fati again finding a glimmer as Bono and El Yamiq get in a tangle. Then Rodri, in a change in tack, steps forward and attempts a long ranger.
101 min: Spain looking for a goal, Morocco looking for a counterattack. The game is more ragged than before but that’s the pattern of play.
99 min: Morata does well, gets to the byline, and his ball is aimed for Williams, only for the ball to be headed away by some more exemplary Moroccan defending.
97 min: For Spain, Ansu Fati is on, as Balde, with Dani Olmo one of those making way.
95 min: Morocco on the break. Cheddira finds space and seems shocked to have such time, and then wastes it. His shot should not register as a shot.
93 min: If Morocco are to find a way into the game, then Hakimi, tireless down the right flank, seems to be the best source of it. Ziyech has given something of a Chelsea performance.
91 min: Back we go again, that break felt very short. Spain have to find something, Morocco seem to fancy the penalties, and have made four subs already.
Full-time: Morocco 0-0 Spain
And that’s the scoreline that’s been coming from the first minutes, pretty much. Neither team is capable of creating anything of note. Spain dominate possession, Morocco dominant in attack defence. But will anyone blink? Penalties look almost certain at this point.
90+5 min: Olmo brought down again, and a last chance for a free-kick into that packed Morocco box. Olmo skids it in and Bono claws it away as Nico Williams runs in, then the corner is hacked away, and that’s it. Full-time.
90+3 min: More Spain panic? Some Morocco panic, too, a fresh air shot from a couple of their attackers but the offside flags spares all blushes.
90+2 min: Simon almost gets caught in doing Unai Simon things. He’s a danger. Then Morata tackles – and fouls – a screaming El Yamiq.
90 min: Olmo is booked, Saiss is booked, and Spain have a free-kick they will undoubtedly overelaborate on. No…Soler whips in and Morata heads wide. Five minutes added on here.
88 min: Morocco finally starting to find space in Spain’s half, and it’s usually Hakimi at the centre. That opens space at the other end where Amrabat, outstanding, steams in to quell the danger from Morata and Williams. There was also a flag on the play.
86 min: A Morocco chance of sorts. Hakimi does Hakimi things, and his cross finds Cheddira, one of those three subs, but they can’t get a decent connection. The Morocco fans launch into song, hoping to inspire their team.
84 min: Aguerd is down, just afer Morocco make three changes. A stretcher comes on, and West Ham fans will know he’s prone to a knock. They’ve seen very little of him but he’s had a very good World Cup.
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So this second incident happened when the spectator entrance was shut. It had stayed open during first half so fans getting late tickets could still enter. When it was shut it caused chaos with an officer falling off his horse and then a pushback against the fans. https://t.co/ANijkLw8qN
— Kathryn Batte (@KathrynBatte) December 6, 2022
81 min: Spain try to push on. Morocco already looking to pens? Very probably. Morata finds space in the box but his shot is angled across the box and nobody is chasing in.
80 min: Williams escapes down the wing, and Aguerd, the lesser spotted Hammer, clears behind. Then Morata gets Llorente down the flank, an overlap and Saiss knocks behind.
78 min: Olmo swings and skews a ball wide. At least he is having a dig. Bono has had very few saves to make. Spain are being asked to pick up the momentum but are doing little to find it. Morocco have completed half their mission, now for the next, find an attack from somewhere.
76 min: Two changes for Spain: off goes Ferran Torres, on comes Nico Williams. Then Laporte picks up the first booking for launching into Hakimi. It’s not been anything like the beef expected in pre-match.
74 min: Hakimi hacks clear, the ball goes to Ziyech but Amrabat can’t keep it. Morocco have been as poor in possession as they have been excellent in attack. Spain keep patient, and Olmo is clattered. The Argentinian ref waves on play again. Let it flow are his watchwords.
72 min: The game continues in its pattern of Spain in possession and Morocco defending deep. But then Ziyech picks up the ball in space, playing it to Amallah but his colleague can’t control the pass.
70 min: Gareth Bain: “Are your sources sure? It doesn’t sound a bit like the ululation I’m used to from my fellow South African amaXhosa brethren?”
69 min: More RHCP national anthem fun, this time from Chad Smith, from Ike Proud: “Thanks for the MBM, and thanks for introducing me to Flea’s bass solo national anthem. Have you seen his Chilli Peppers bandmate Chad Smith playing the US national anthem? Not particularly remarkable, except for the fact that Chad Smith is their drummer…”
68 min: Spain win a corner, just their second of the game. They take it short, of course, and then keep the ball. They will not be getting it launched, oh no.
66 min: Off goes Boufal, and on comes Ezzalzouli, the 20-year-old. Morocco need some youthful energy.
Correction from Christophe Silvey (from Timperley?): “That’s not exactly whistling, that’s ululation, I don’t know if it’s only the women doing it, but it’s a Berber thing, seen in Battle of Algiers and old Foreign Legion films…”
64 min: Boufal signals to the bench now, and he looks done. Alba is back on, and actually jogging. Perhaps it was an impact injury. He got plenty of the magic spray from the physios.
