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00:0080,000 fans are packed inside of us.
00:02And for a very experienced coach in Colorado Ancelotti,
00:05this is his first World Cup line-up that he rolled out,
00:09very anticipating who he was going to go with.
00:11One of the question marks was at the full-back position,
00:13with Leslie going down, and is Roger Ibanez.
00:17He gets just his eighth appearance after being called back by Ancelotti
00:21after a two-and-a-half-year absence.
00:23The centre-backs speak for themselves.
00:25Marquinhos and Gabriel 2.4 is frightening.
00:28And something that Morocco are going to have to deal with.
00:30Bono, very experienced goalkeeper.
00:32Four of these players were starters in 2022.
00:35Onahi, the only starting player in this line-up that was born in Morocco.
00:40And now he is a player that I'm looking for in the middle.
00:43Coming off a very good season in Roma.
00:4524 years old, ball tempo.
00:47But Ashraf Hakimi, that right full-back,
00:49he will be up and down that right-hand side.
00:52The headliner from day three in North America
00:55between Brazil and Morocco is underway.
01:00He was the coach of the last World Cup.
01:05As he said, this team needs a new face, a new voice, a new energy.
01:11And Roby has had probably three games before this one
01:14to try to figure that out.
01:15Great move, Masraoui on the outside.
01:17Into the middle.
01:18It comes.
01:18First chance of the game.
01:19And it was blocked and cleared away.
01:21Bruno Guimarães there.
01:23Got his body in front of it.
01:24Driving late at the top of the box.
01:26They're really picking on Ibanez down that left-hand side.
01:29Good work.
01:36Oh, he nice ball in.
01:38Hakimi, tight angle across the face of goal.
01:41And when he picks this ball up in a nice spot,
01:43he gets turned, has a look.
01:44There's nobody in the box.
01:46No options for him to try to square this last-minute.
01:48Decides, I've got to shoot this.
01:50Trying to aim for that far post.
01:52Just pulled it across the goal.
01:54But right now, some of the movement...
01:55Cuts it back inside.
01:56Had Saibari.
01:57Rolls it in the middle instead.
01:58El Canoos.
01:59Moves it along.
02:00Brahim Diaz, that pinball's around.
02:02Hakimi trying to get there.
02:04Big collision with Gabriel.
02:05And the whistle goes for a foul.
02:08And a free kick for Brazil.
02:09Well, it's a strong challenge in the box from Gabriel.
02:12But the first strong challenge we've really seen
02:14is what I call fly-bys.
02:16Where you're just kind of running at an attacking player
02:18but not getting your feet set.
02:20Not getting low.
02:21And the Moroccan players right now
02:23just skipping past the Brazilian defenders.
02:26And produce pressure.
02:28Makita gets it away.
02:29Rafinha, that's a great touch.
02:31In front of Hakimi to control.
02:32Vinicius Jr., maybe for the first time all game.
02:35Now on the ball.
02:36Running it out.
02:36Shot for Hakimi.
02:37Getting to the byline.
02:38Into the middle.
02:39Igor Tiago has skipped off in front of his forehead.
02:46Well, if helping up,
02:48if not for just amazing skill from Rafinha
02:51in the middle of the field,
02:52they get it out to Vinny Jr.
02:54And Igor Tiago just misses this one on the doorstep.
02:58That's why he's there.
02:59Sometimes a team's ability to ride through the momentum
03:02when they don't have the ball
03:04and suffer a little bit
03:05or be the teams that can go far in the tournament.
03:08Heat.
03:08Travel.
03:09The amount of games.
03:10The workload.
03:11The intensity of the game these days.
03:13That's a very underrated part of the game.
03:15Hakimi is running open on the far side.
03:16Instead of comes to Siberian!
03:17Sibiri!
03:22Sibiri!
03:25Sibiri!
03:44and it just comes right through the spine of this brazilian team directs the ball
03:51finds saibari who runs in behind and has the composure but also the two center backs marquinhos
03:56and gabriel no pressure on the ball in the midfield just everybody backing off when there was an
04:01opportunity there for the santos to come and make the challenge it said he backs off and gives the
04:07space for that pass and then saibari just beats gabriel for speed he had the momentum already
04:12pass was played in front of him then he didn't have to slow down but how about that finish
04:18just the confidence for a little scoop over allison and he already knows it's in the back of the net
04:24oh celebrating in the corner and you have to say morocco the deserved winning team at the moment
04:31in this match they've been excellent through 20 minutes
04:37ismael saibari a great example of the players morocco has gone out and found born in spain
04:43raised in belgium playing in the netherlands since he was a teenager
04:48the last time brazil lost their opening game at a world cup was back in 1934
04:54that was back when it was a straight knockout tournament so they lost to spain and
04:58that was it they were done they were sailing back home
05:01great work there by mozzarella to come away with the ball it's open up to the far side
05:05off track hakimi now you see it backing off hakimi options hakimi pulls it wide
05:14lightning quick counter attack and hakimi's hard to catch once he gets going driving at the back
05:20line as we get a look at the ref cap here he has a great look at it why they
05:24made the coaching change
05:25was the idea that the moroccan fans and the moroccan media yes we're winning but we're not winning well
05:31we want to win in a more artistic way we want to evolve the style of play that's certainly what
05:36they
05:36have done much more they don't have been as brahim diaz is fouled another dangerous free kick coming
05:44here in east rutherford almost the entire field is in shed shade now
05:49so i'm sure if hakimi stands over the free kick everyone back to defend it in the box for brazil
05:55wadi's got some space here if they want to pull this one back for a direct strike they've got a
05:59couple
05:59lining up at the top of the box
06:03and he drives it at the near post instead it's flicked along it's going to be sent out by gabrielle
06:09it's a good open look there diaz saibari already with one that one was blocked one right back rahim diaz
06:19caught from behind as he was looking to shoot
06:22pocket has been struggling in this game some really
06:25and as we said a moroccan team they were the hunters at the last world cup they were not
06:30expected to make that run of the semi-final now they're the hunted now they're expected to succeed
06:35they're not sneaking up on anybody but they have talked about embracing and understanding that
06:39pressure here's vinicius jr trying to counterpunch for brazil
06:51that's what that man can do that's what this team can do and brazil tie the game
07:19the great brazilian teams of the past have always had a player and in the biggest moments can deliver and
07:26even when the team isn't playing no
07:28against the run of play moroccan domination individual that is vinny jr two guys on it
07:36and the ball comes back out to it they find a little bit of space he looks across doesn't have
07:41options says i'm going by myself cuts onto that right foot drops a little shoulder
07:46doesn't even look at the goal he knows where it is what a strike that is so much power
07:54and nothing bono can do to save it and with brazil's first real effort in the game
08:01and vinny jr has delivered for carlo ancelotti and got them back in this game one one
08:10it is game number five
08:12lisa giop 29 years old but just made the switch to play for morocco and that's going to be a
08:19foul
08:19it's going to be a game's first yellow card
08:22because morocco are all of a sudden flying forward in transition it's casemiro that takes it yeah he was
08:27involved in the action it's actually great anticipation from a line now who reads that
08:33little touch from breng diaz that would have been a foul on the first one and it was certainly a
08:38foul on the second one because casemiro was not there's a remarkable stat of how rarely casemiro
08:42loses competitive games a large part the combination there for a winner from the byline block knocked down
08:50gets it back as well with a tangle poked away
08:56the game is trying to get back in for rafinha
09:00and he trying to get out he's under pressure he gives it away though falls kindly to brahim diaz
09:05and roger obani is not going to allow to happen there what happened in the opening goal which was
09:09diaz running through the center this should be a yellow this should be a yellow will be yeah
09:14because it's a tactical fat opportunity he had a good run on this near side from saibari the goal
09:19score just a no attempt really making getting the ball there just smashed right into those absolutely
09:26was few players ever believe that they committed
09:32they've slowly been working their way back into this game getting numbers for the switch tomorrow
09:37four three three getting getting a rise higher as well as pocket towers there now but with santos on the
09:42overhead it's saved by bono that was lucas pocket top and now he's urging the fans to make noise bono
09:48he's first yeah he drifts late run something he does really well also not afraid of the spectacular
09:54effort and that might have been just sneaking in at that far post get a better look at this one
09:59bono
09:59have to be aware gets a good push off feet were set comfortable save but it's led to another corner
10:08swinger to the near post flicked alone he gets you out there again that might have had a chance at
10:13that one there marquinhos got the first touch and the call on the field is goal kick
10:19times is fabino the former liverpool player now playing in saudi arabia was going through an extensive
10:23individual warm-up he and danilo are both on the field it is roger abania so i think there's two
10:31sides of that and i always like to think if you have trust and you trust your confidence in your
10:36own
10:37team don't leave it in somebody else's hands go and win the game and that's why when i look down
10:42to
10:42our left down here you've got the young 19 year old endrick in a pink vest to change the game
10:48in this
10:48second half as the game goes on second time today ashraf akimi is late there there's actually a
10:55similar ish tackle to the one that was played in the united states in 1994 and win that one's taken
11:00quickly ingor tiago saved by bono half of the moroccans were not aware that that throwing had been taken
11:08as you put the ball out of bounds just watch it bottom left of your screen just kind of meandering
11:13back into position possession right in the middle of the field right now you've got three moroccan players
11:18including hakimi their captain coming together having a conversation about trying to fix some of
11:24these little situations so let's ask kuni and louis enrique are both on the field talking about some of these
11:38high high level high performance games with these teams isn't it this is as you know nahi will come
11:44off as well this is the moroccan diaspora they've done a terrific job finding these players getting
11:49them involved toby's born in belgium he was a belgian youth international before making a switch
11:54change who's coming off because in the end they put up brahim diaz's number
12:02with all this stoppage it's end up serving as a version of a hydration break before
12:07a hydration break much more animated muhammad wabi on the other side
12:15let's play dangerously into the middle of the field and murabette who is one of the subs for
12:19morocco and then he miscontrols it and gives it away
12:27this is jr takes the late bump as he just kind of lifts at it in the middle of the
12:31field
12:33and a chaotically bouncing ball that morocco control what are you looking for here as we
12:38enter this i mean again these games are now four quarter games as we enter the fourth quarter what
12:42are you looking for zilla on the hunt i've been impressed with the way even as the game has gone
12:47on and players are fatiguing that they're still chasing pressing they've recognized that that has
12:52given them success it's put pressure on morocco not allowed them to really play with the ball and
12:57then they've been able to force them into long direct balls which gabrielle and marquinhos have
13:02dealt well with for morocco this is the challenge can they use the ball can they have possession can
13:07they get going forward here they come now first opportunity some good passing out of that initial
13:12pressure has now put them in the attacking part of the field as raoui gonna roll that one through
13:17saibari gets there saibari tie it away recovery blocked by marquinhos and the flag does come up for
13:23offside it'll be a free kick for brazil yeah they're looking for the run of the goal that is close
13:32saibari does look like he's just a shoulder he's trying to weave his way through hakemi
13:39trying to turn and forgot to take the ball with him
13:45they might are coming up next here on fox up the road in foxborough massachusetts haiti and scotland
13:49and what a significant game because that and that's the difference the big teams yes can feel
13:55comfortable they can get enough to get through for everyone else the fact that third place finishers
13:59advance that opens the door wide open like that the first world cup appearance at 18 against brazil
14:07hasn't looked out of place at all he's looked like one of the best players on the field
14:10he's too young to know any different he's too young you know he's scared he should be saibari
14:19from akimi
14:23and now he returns for saibari all the way wide
14:29to make that move inside it works tommy now for the byline into a great spot noah there in a
14:33red shirt
14:36quick acceleration moments that we get where there's almost a low is that when
14:40because these teams have exhausted themselves in many different ways as marquinhos almost misplays that one
14:47seeing both teams were very comfortable with the ball trying to to use the ball to unbalance their opponent but
14:53when they feel like the chance is there they have that quickness to go like that he's going to get
14:57there jump didn't know that or didn't care it's going to go back in it's right at bono that was
15:01rafinha there bono's third save it looked like it was going to be nothing and jump just kind of
15:07he came up on the ball now guys the speed bono was a little shaken up after that save and
15:11he cuts
15:12it back but because of the angle rafinha has to come back around to try to give himself a chance
15:17to go far post what he's really trying to do is come all the way around that ball to the
15:23far corner
15:25well canoes who we thought was going to come off earlier is indeed going to come off now
15:30well as rally will make way as well the solid dean
15:39two more younger players
15:42making their world cup debut
15:48the real Santos is up and ready
15:53twenty five years old but just debuted in march
15:59they were working on his right hamstring quite a lot during the last hydration break
16:06he will come off
16:09and it's a collision off the ball and two players are shaking up one from each team
16:35and it has been changed he's been changed to a goal kick
16:40so he came off his right leg on the follow-through so this is making that decision do i reach
16:45out a leg here do i not
16:52wins the header flipped along but he's the only man there
16:55and then he under hits the pass bono is there just in front of rafinha
17:00and then bono is holding his shoulder and he goes down
17:13jump is just thinking it's an easy pass back and as this
17:16game has gone on the field's dried up a little bit the grass is slower it's bobbling back
17:21and he's still down in pain
17:38top goes long in between options
17:42he's going to defend vinicius jr it's knocked away the key me first to the loose ball
17:49wadi
17:50my money now cutting it back inside hooks a dangerous looking cross in
17:55genius was there to head it out good pressure there
17:58my money thought he wanted to throw he did not
18:04he committed to it just
18:07finessed it over the top of the non-rushing allison that was
18:10the goal that gave the rock from the world cup roster four years ago and he's had a
18:15monster four season sense in the united arab emirates
18:19he's the last substitute to be made here this evening
18:24quality turn of the traffic and it's going to be a foul free kick morocco
18:28sent the big bodies forward here 30 seconds plus stoppage time to go
18:34and more bet didn't hit that quite the way he wanted to be brought down though on the far side
18:40he wants it and has it now
18:44it's a little spin inside there
18:46it's really on the center back
18:48and then toby loses out now can brasil go in transition
18:51materials kunya
18:53and he's just going to be fouled there in the transition
18:58minutes to get us to playing a full match we'll do that
19:04but 40 rafinha slipping in behind rafinha narrow angle
19:08elects to cycle it around back into the middle and it was actually a teammate that steered that away
19:13from venisius jr
19:33the entire brazilian bench were up they thought they were going to be celebrating a winner there
19:42that's great job by brazil recycling this one while the
19:45was still pressure morocco late to step
19:59jump it's a good angle to find rahimi there takes the shoulder from gabriel they both go down to the
20:04heap the ball rolls out of play it'll be a morocco corner
20:09that's not the key
20:10my money running off the ball can't get it away clean comes to the middle of the field
20:14jump through traffic
20:15alison knocks it down and makes the follow-up save as well
20:19my moody there closing and quick and alison alert off of the deck to make the play
20:26and line now we from distance it takes an awkward bounce across
20:31i actually think alison is trying to keep this one in play it was going wide
20:34but by trying to keep it in play ends up spilling it
20:37you see here yeah this ball's going wide and it almost results in just a pure rebound
20:50it's been a fun game though
20:53well body there money got a little bit bailed out by the referee's whistle but time
20:58was up it was a fun game it ends even it opens the door for scotland or haiti to end
21:05the day
21:05leading this group let's send you to the other side of the stadium to rob stone as it finishes
21:11here in new jersey brazil one morocco one
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