Cristiano opened the scoring already in the fourth minute of the fight (1: 0).
Although the second round of the World Cup-2018 began yesterday, but the first full-fledged day was to be held only today. To warm up interest in fans of football were called for the national teams of Portugal and Morocco. Since this is the second game for both teams in the tournament, we can already talk about some intermediate results. Recall that he heads group B, quite unexpectedly, the Iranian team, which thanks to the victory over the representative of the African continent in the first round, climbed so high. The Portuguese, in turn, "painted" a fighting draw against Spain.
Obviously, the position different from the first in the group clearly can not please the current owners of the European trophy among the teams. So their attitude and game solely to win already from the first minutes for anybody did not become a revelation. And already in 4 minutes the account was opened! There was even a certain "magic of the fours" in this episode. Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 4 goal, hitting the ball into the net with his head after filing from the flank of Moutinho.
It seemed that after such a frisky start, the Portuguese obviously will not be going to stop on the achieved success, but also the guests from Africa were clearly not going to act as whipping boys.
The first duel at the tournament was also held by nominal guests, but they missed at the end of the match. This time there was a similar situation. The Portuguese again resorted to their favorite tactics and gave the ball to the opponent, hoping for a game on the counterattack, but their scoring margin for today was exhausted. From the opposite half of the field, the threat was constantly coming from, who would have thought, the central defender of Juventus and the captain of the Moroccan team - Mehdi Benatya. Even difficult to imagine, but he had at least four (!) Great episodes to compare the score in a duel. Not bad, as for the player of the line of defense. Only if in the first half luck simply turned away from him, and the ball flew behind his back after the discount from the partner's head, then in the second half he simply did not hit the target.
Ronaldo and his team mates also tried to answer as sharply as possible, but neither exact penalties from the "Seven" nor the long-awaited manifestation of the scoring qualities of Gedesh, the fans of the Portuguese did not wait.
The combination of excellent game Rui Patriciu on the line of his own goal, and early success Cristiano brought the maximum points in the standings to the representatives of Europe. The defeat in this match has re-emphasized the chances of the Moroccan team to pass further into the playoffs - this is the first team that lost the chances of further advancement in the tournament grid.
Portugal - Morocco 1: 0
Goal: Ronaldo, 4.
Portugal: Patricio - Suarez, Pepe, Fonte, Guerreiro - Mariou (B. Fernandes, 69), Moutinho (A. Silva, 87), Carvalho, B. Silva (Martins, 59) - Ronaldo, Gedesh.
Morocco: Mohammedi-Dirar, Benatya, Da Costa, Hakimi-Zieh, El Ahmadi (Fajr, 87) -N. Amrabat, Bussufa, Belhanda (Karsela Gonzalez, 75)-Butaib (El Ka'bi, 68).
Warnings: A. Silva - Benatya.
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