Still led by Yassine Bounou, Nayef Aguerd, Achraf Hakimi, Noussair Mazraoui, Azzedine Ounahi, Abde Ezzalzouli and Youssef En-Nesyri as in Qatar and since reinforced by Neil El Aynaoui, Ismael Saibari, Brahim Diaz or Ayoub El Kaabi, the Morocco team is even stronger as the 2026 World Cup in South America approaches. North. The Atlas Lions begin with a shock against Brazil on June 13, before challenging Scotland and Haiti in Group C.
Sofiane Boufal, 32, still believes in a call-up for the World Cup even though he has performed well since his return to Ligue 1, in the Le Havre jersey. Questioned by Foot Mercato, the dribbler who passed through Losc returned to the great adventure of the team then led by Walid Regragui at the World Cup in Qatar.
A forgotten penalty for Morocco?
Before the half hour mark, while Didier Deschamps’ Blues had opened the scoring through Théo Hernandez (5th), the left back, sliding with the ball, swept past Sofiane Boufal in Hugo Lloris’ area but the referee of the match called a foul against the Franco-Moroccan and sent him a yellow card. The Moroccan players had demanded a penalty and Rio Ferdinand, for example, had considered that there was an obvious fault and therefore a penalty forgotten by the referees.
Boufal, for his part, did not flinch at the moment and does not believe that there was a real fault: “The action with Théo Hernandez is a little confusing. At that moment there is contact and it touches me. But at that moment, I was so focused on the match and the desire to win that when there was this action, I didn’t even have the feeling that it was him who made the mistake. I even thought it was me and I moved back. We did not have this defect which could have meant that perhaps we would have put pressure on the referee to go and see the VAR. But with all the cameras, it wouldn’t have changed anything. But there is the action that we see on TV and what we see on the pitch. It goes too fast, it happens in just one second. » Fair play.
