In few hours, the third place match of the FIFA World Cup 2022 between European nation, Croatia and African nation, Morocco, will kick off.
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| Croatia midfielder, Luka Modric, and Morocco attacking midfielder, Hakim Ziyech. Both teams will slug it out in the third place match of the FIFA World Cup 2022 at the Khalifa International Stadium in Qatar, on Saturday 17 December. Photos: Modric – MARCA, Ziyech – Getty via TalkSport |
The match will start at 04:00pm (Nigerian Time) at the Khalifa International Stadium, Qatar, Saturday 17 December, 2022.
Morocco “would be proud” they will play the seventh match at the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Arab nation, Qatar.
With their jaw-dropping campaign at the tournament, Morocco has made history to become the first African and Arab nation to reach the semi finals of the FIFA World Cup.
The Atlas Lions fell to defending champions, France, in the semi finals by two goals to nil on Wednesday.
Morocco will lock horns with Croatia for the third spot in the third place match of the tournament.
Head Coach of the Atlas Lions, Walid Regragui, said: “We would like things to have gone differently and played in the final.
“There is another game to play, we would like to be on the podium.
“I understand it’s important to finish third rather than fourth, but my takeaway is we didn’t reach the final. We wanted to play the final on Sunday, not play tomorrow.
“But I told my players this is our seventh World Cup game. If you told any Morocco fan we would be playing our seventh game on 17 December, they would be proud.
“Morocco played six World Cup games in 20-odd years and now we’ve played six games in a month – this is priceless. It’s as if we played two World Cups or even more, that’s beautiful from an experience point of view.”
