Despite satisfactory
content in the game, Morocco lacked efficiency and the Atlas Lions were
surprised by Finland (0-1) on Monday in friendly match. With a number decimated
before the Gabonese AFCON, Herve Renard conceded his first defeat since his
arrival.
In search of certainty
after a complicated preparation and marked by a canceled match against Iran and
especially the absence of Younès Belhanda, Osama Tannane, Nordin Amrabat and
lately Sofiane Boufal, Morocco did not manage to reassure this Monday. The
Atlas Lions were down 1-0 against Finland in Al Ain (United Arab Emirates) in a
friendly match less than a week before the kicked off.of AFCON 2017. Hervé
Renard says, the Moroccans made the game but they lacked efficiency and Ojala
took advantage of a mistake of scoring the defense on corner to open the score
of an unstoppable head just before halftime (0- 1, 45 + 1).
After the break and
Scandinavian goal, Renard launched Carcela-Gonzalez, El Kaddouri and Boutaib
with a result not more satisfactory: the Lions did the game in the opposing
camp, but with more difficulty to penetrate the surface. When that was the
case, Boutaib failed to straighten out two heads that could have been
dangerous. And Finland almost punished the Moroccan ineffectiveness a second
time, but the Nordiques missed the frame again five minutes to the end.
Inevitable because of the absentees, the deficit in the creation will have been
visible, especially at the end, but the major problem does not change for
Renard: it lacks a finisher.
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