The_jagster

Schär going for goal of the tournament

I thought Switzerland would be better than this, look poor going forward and defending atm

Oh no, 70 minutes of Pepe being Pepe incoming

Let's just say I've seen teams with more attacking intent.

Why is the mic next to about 3 noisy fans?

The only downside is every single cutaway will be to Ronaldo on the bench

Yes, it was Spain who just pass it to death but Morocco played that really well. Give them that header and those chances for the Bari (9 in 12 on wiki must be an editing error right?) striker against the Sarabbia chance late on and you take that all day long, should have won it before pens based on chances.

Sure, his coach doesn't really trust him to run and might annoy him now by taking him off before full time. His club form might not be the best either, but you can't ignore his record at major tournaments. That's enough about Shaqiri though, what about tonight's game? Created Helvetica but I think the Swiss lineup pic is a bit low-effort tbh How did they get here? Portugal: Came second to Serbia in qualifying, beat Turkey and North Macedonia in the playoff round and topped their group at the finals, beating Uruguay and Ghana before a Portugal XI lost to Korea. Switzerland: Thanks to Jorginho missing penalties they won their group that included Italy, then beat Cameroon and Serbia to qualify second behind Brazil to whom they lost 1-0. Last 16 regulars? Portugal: This will be their 4th match at this stage, and they'll be hoping to avoid a 3rd successive loss. A Maniche goal was enough to beat The Netherlands in 2006, Spain beat them 1-0 in 2010 and they lost to Uruguay 2-1 in 2018 Switzerland: Played 4 before this WC, and never even scored. They at least took Ukraine to pens in 2006 but they couldn't even convert one of those. Their last knockout game was a 1-0 loss to Sweden in 2018. Previous meetings? A qualifying match for France 1938 which the Swiss won 2-1 in Milan in the days before 'sportswashing' was a word - Hitler and Mussolini were present but at least the trains left promptly when they returned home. There have been quite a few qualifiers and a dead rubber match in Euro 2008, when Murat Yakin's brother scored both goals for Switzerland. The most recent match was in the Nations League earlier this year, a first minute Seferovic goal enough to separate the sides.

Cheered every Spanish miss, that was brilliant

Come on Morocco!

Is this guy a converted rugby player or something?

The Moroccan Maldini is down!

Shouted at the TV again, extra time is pointless isn't it

Kicking the same way has really confused me

jfc Morata

GIVE IT TO ZIYECH THERE

Why is nobody running for the hit across goal/rebound

This is what I expected England vs Senegal to be. I can remember very little from this half.

Doesn't feel like a knockout game atm, more like a group game where the big team is resting players and not that bothered, and the smaller team isn't good enough to create much either.

If Spain are just going to play like this I'm happy to see them go home. Morocco have done the right thing, compete in midfield so that you might win it back in a promising position but they haven't looked that dangerous aside from set pieces. Ref seems to wave the Spanish dives away but give the Moroccan ones too.

Not sure what was worse, Rodri's clearance or the header.

At times it's like Morocco have seen pre-match clips about Spain's last game and thought they were meant to emulate their passing round the back, not disrupt it.

Much less neutral than I anticipated, already shouted out "Come On!" twice while Morocco have been in moderately promising positions

There's going to be a lot of booing and whistling if the crowd keep this up whenever Spain pass it around.

I've only seen Morocco against Belgium so difficult to judge how good they are, Belgium weren't good and they were a bit better. I don't see this match being an upset, but I don't know if Spain are always going to be dull or if the Japan game might give them a wake up call.