The Moroccan national team cut the bar for the opening of its participation in the Qatar World Cup 2022, with a draw against Croatia, without goals, in Group F of the first round, to snatch a valuable point in the race to qualify for the final price round, before meeting on Sunday the Belgium national team, which achieved a difficult victory over Canada with a goal without a response.
On the fourth day of the World Cup, the Japan national team blew up the second surprises of the 2022 World Cup, after Saudi Arabia, when it achieved an exciting and valuable victory over Germany, the 2014 world champion, while the Spaniards were the champions of the World Cup night by sweeping the Costa Rica team with 7 clean goals, in the opening of the fifth group competitions, which witnessed the achievement of the Spanish youth, Gavi. FC Barcelona talent, a remarkable personal achievement.
A continuous Arab awakening
After a first defeat for the Qatari national team, the host of the tournament, in the first Arab appearance in the World Cup, the Arab teams participating in the current version succeeded in confirming their awakening, and after a Saudi victory over Argentina, and a Tunisian tie against Denmark, the Moroccan national team, in turn, achieved a valuable draw against Croatia 0-0.
The Moroccan national team snatched a valuable point from its Croatian counterpart, the runner-up of the last edition, when it forced it to share the points on Wednesday at Al-Bayt Stadium in Al-Khor in the first round of Group F competitions.
Morocco stood as a strong match against Croatia and its stars Luka Modric, Mateo Kovacic, Marcelo Brozovic and Ivan Perisic, in a monotonous match that did not witness many opportunities, knowing that the Moroccan squad witnessed in the last 10 minutes the participation of the Saudi Jeddah Ittihad striker Abdul Razzaq Hamdallah, who returned to the Atlas Lions squad after being excluded for 3 years.
The point is considered valuable in a strong group that includes them alongside Belgium, the third World Cup 2018, which will be the competition of the Atlas Lions in the second round next Sunday at Al-Thumama Stadium, while Croatia will meet Canada on the same day at Khalifa International Stadium.
Canada's goal is postponed and a difficult victory for the Devils
Within the same group, the Belgian national team achieved a difficult victory over its Canadian counterpart, who waited 36 full years to renew his appearance in the World Cup, but failed to score his first goal in the World Cup after his player Alphonso Davies missed a penalty kick in the 11th minute of the match.
In its first and only participation in the World Cup, in the 1986 edition, Canada suffered 3 defeats and conceded 3 goals without being able to score, before continuing its inability to score so far in 4 matches played for the World Cup.
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On the other hand, Michy Batshuayi scored a goal in the last minute of the first half, which was enough for Belgium to achieve its first victory and lead Group F with 3 points.
Massive celebrations in Japan
Japan witnessed crazy celebrations after the historic victory over the German national team 2-1, at the start of the Samurai national team's journey in the Qatar 2022 World Cup.
The Japanese national team achieved the second surprise in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, after Saudi Arabia beat Argentina 2-1 on Tuesday, and in turn snatched a valuable and exciting victory, with the same result against Germany, in the opening matches of Group E, which includes Spain and Costa Rica.
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A video clip documented hundreds of Japanese going out to celebrate in the street, as they seemed to disbelieve what happened during the match, while adhering to traffic rules to avoid traffic jams.
Germany bites from the same hole
On the other hand, Germany lost its opening match in the World Cup for the second time in a row, after it was in the World Cup Russia 2018, which suffered a similar disappointment by defeating Mexico with a goal without a response.
Also, Germany’s loss is the second in a row for the Manchafts in the World Cup finals, against one of the Asian continent’s teams, after he concluded his career in the 2018 edition, with a 2-0 loss against South Korea, which caused him to leave empty-handed from the competition at the time.
Spain shows off its offensive power
Spain, the 2010 World Cup holders, issued an explicit warning to the teams competing for the World Cup title when it displayed its scoring power in the Costa Rica match, achieving 7 full goals, the highest score recorded by one team in the World Cup Qatar so far, and the second in terms of scoring rate in one match after The confrontation between England and Iran, which witnessed the scoring of 8 full goals in an English victory over Iran (6-2).
The eldest and the youngest
The fourth day of the Qatar World Cup witnessed the achievement of two unique numbers in the matches between Spain and Costa Rica on the one hand, and Canada and Belgium on the other.
In a one-way match, within the opening of Group E, the Spanish national team crushed its Costa Rican counterpart, with 7 clean goals, but the privilege was for the rising talent of Spanish football, “Gavi”, who scored the fifth goal for La Roja, becoming the youngest Spanish player to score in the World Cup at the age of 18 years. And 110 days, breaking the record of former player Raul.
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At the same time, Gavi became the second youngest scorer in the history of the finals, after legend Pele, who is still the youngest to score a goal in the World Cup at the age of 17.
For his part, Canadian Atiba Hutchinson recorded his name in the World Cup records after he became the oldest field player to participate in the World Cup, at the age of 39 years, 9 months and 15 days, in the Canada-Belgium match.
Controversial Sikazwe appears in the World Cup
The Canada-Belgium match was refereed by Zambian referee Jani Sikazwe, who was the hero of a famous incident in the African Cup of Nations (Cameroon 2022), when he announced the end of the Tunisia-Mali match for the first round 5 minutes before its end in an incident that is still one of the most prominent arbitration and football controversial events. In Africa.
On January 12, the match between Tunisia and Mali witnessed an "arbitral disaster", whose champion was Sikazoy, when he announced the end of the match in the 85th minute, amid the players' astonishment and the protest of the Tunisian national team, which was defeated in the match, before deciding to complete the match after the Tunisian technical staff objected. .
Sikazoy repeated the same thing again, after he finished the match 10 seconds before the end of the normal time, announcing a Mali victory with a clean goal, without announcing the calculated time instead of lost, despite the meeting stopping for several minutes to review the video assistant referee (VAR) technique and the two teams making many substitutions and benefiting from them. From time out to drink water due to high temperature.