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Morocco coach, Mohamed Ouahbi, has explained wherefore his squad eliminated The Netherlands from the World Cup Round of 32 stage.
Ouahbi watched arsenic Morocco defeated the Dutch via punishment shoot-out contiguous pursuing a 1-1 gully aft 120 minutes.
Ismael Saibari converted the winning spot footwear for Morocco aft goalkeeper Yassine Bounou had saved Crysencio Summerville’s attempt.
Speaking to reporters aft the game, Ouahbi said that Morocco controlled the match, adding that they had much possession and shots.
“Morocco has gained everybody’s respect now,” Ouahbi said, adding: “It’s not due to the fact that of what we’ve said. We’ve present shown it.
“We wholly dominated a Netherlands team. We had 70% possession, much shots and much expected goals. We controlled the match.
“We wanted to stay calm, play our crippled and judge that if it went to penalties, we had an exceptional goalkeeper. We didn’t crook the lucifer into a chaotic battle. We controlled it.”
Morocco volition present look World Cup co-host nation, Canada successful the Round of 16 connected Saturday.
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