Rakraki: We will try our best again to create a new surprise

Moroccan national football coach Walid Rekragui confirmed on Friday that his players will do their best once again to create a new surprise and continue the dream in the World Cup in Qatar.

"The more we advance in the rounds, the more difficult and important the task becomes," Rekraki said in a press conference on the eve of facing Portugal at Al-Thumama Stadium in the quarter-finals. ".

He added, "We know that the task will not be as easy as it was against Croatia, Belgium and Spain. In any case, all these matches are at the same level of difficulty, and we will do our best again to create another surprise, as long as no one expected us to go to the final price or the quarter-finals." We still have one more match to go into history and we are very excited to succeed in the new challenge that lies ahead of us."

He continued, "We respect Portugal a lot, and we watched many matches for it. They are at their level and have high-level strikers, and I think they also know that we are a good team. It is an equal match and will be decided in small details, such as the final price match."

Regragui expressed his hope that Ronaldo would not participate in the match.

And he added, "The match is decided in the small details. Portugal will try to speed up the pace of play from the start to take advantage of the fact that we played 120 minutes against Spain and score quickly, and if you do not score in the first half or we succeed in advancing the result, it will be difficult for them and therefore we will have our plan. We know our quality." And our strengths and weaknesses. It is difficult to score goals against us, and we have offensive qualifications that enable us to score goals.”

Regarding injuries, Al-Rakraki reiterated that he has been suffering from them since the beginning of the championship, and there is the case of the driving pole, Nayef Akrad, who will take the decision.

He added, "Because of injuries and illnesses that we suffer from from the beginning, we did not play at our level 100%, but we must find a solution. We have 26 players, and if there is a player who can occupy this position, he will give everything he has. Akrad is an important player in defense, but we have (Jawad) Al-Yamiq." And (Badr) Bannon and (Ashraf) Dari can get the job done."

He continued, "If you want to compete for the title, you must count on everyone, and everyone must be ready."

He concluded, "We should not stop here. We did not come (to Qatar) to play three matches. This does not mean that our minds are in the clouds. We know that the dream will end, but we want to win matches and go to the farthest rounds. No one expected us to pass the first round and we did it, then the price The final and we did it, today we have the opportunity to reach the semi-finals and we will do everything in our power to reach it so that we do not regret after that.

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