Day 17: Morocco vs Spain | Portugal vs Switzerland (Last 16 7&8)

How do you miss that? That Moroccan striker is turd.
 
I like Spain, but the fawning over them seemed a tad unjustified to me. Very hard to see them beating 2-3 good sides in knockout games. Not a lot of pace or physicality, or a goal scorer, plus the style of pass, pass, pass, pass isn’t massively effective.
 
Imagine if Morocco loses on pens after defending like this? Should have at least showed a little attacking ambition
 
Spain in those light blue kits look and play like City without KDB and Haaland. So painful to watch

They don't. Man City actually have wingers that can drive with the ball, so when they get to their one on ones they can actually do something. City also have players that would at least try to penetrate the opposition,with players like Cancelo actually trying to cross.

Spain looks like their just trying to win the possession stats game. Nothing penetrative, hardly anything out wide. They don't even play through balls often. It's just Pedri and Gavi showing us how well they can keep the ball when they get it. With Busquets actually giving them the potency to squeeze possession back. Yet its the youngsters that get all the plaudits, when Busquets is the actual key to their side.
 
Portugal are going to beat either of these teams. Still think Spain would give them a harder time
 
How good is Unai Simon at stopping PK?
I really dont want to watch another match of this Spain NT
 
Imagine if Morocco loses on pens after defending like this? Should have at least showed a little attacking ambition

Aside from their fullbacks and Ziyech, Morocco don't have much quality, their midfield is very mediocre when they try to go forward.
 
The amount of hate Spain get in here is crazy.

Why dont you guys complain about Morroco not pushing up and pressing them?

Trauma inflicted by tiki taka from years past.

Seriously, the amount of people completely unwilling to acknowledge 2 sides make a football game and completely blaming Spain (the side with most of the ball) for the game being "boring" (personal opinion I personally don't get but hey)... There's no way bias isn't a factor.