FIFA World Cup 2022 France vs Morocco match highlights: The French team has entered the final of the FIFA World Cup 2022. In the semi-finals of this World Cup being hosted by Qatar, defending champion France defeated Morocco 2-0 late on Wednesday night. In the final for the title, France will face Argentina. This title match will be played on December 18.
France vs Morocco final score
| 1st half | 2nd half | Final score | |
| France | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Morocco | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Goals scored in the match like this
- 1st Goal: 1st goal was scored by Theo Hernandez in the fifth minute.
- 2nd Goal: Substitute Randall Kolo Muani scored second goal in the 79th minute.
French team in the second consecutive final
By winning this match, the French team has entered the final for the second time in a row and overall for the fourth time. Prior to this, France played the final three times, winning the title twice in 1998 and 2018. Whereas in 2006, she was the runner-up. The French team has also been at number three twice and once at number four. This time the French team has reached the top-4 for the seventh time in total.
Moroccan team’s dream of creating history shattered
On the other hand, the Moroccan team reached the semi-finals for the first time. They are also the first African team to reach the semi-finals. If the Moroccan team had won the semi-finals, they could have created history by becoming the first African team to play the final in a major upset. However, this dream of his has been shattered with the defeat.
France vs Morocco match highlights
Morocco’s team entered the field with five defenders. Their whole plan was to stop France from scoring. It remains to be seen how the French stars like Kylian Mbappe, Olivier Giroud, Antoine Griezmann and Ousmane Dembele break through the Moroccan defence.
France scored the first goal
France took the lead in the fifth minute itself. Theo Hernandez scored the first goal for the team. Hernandez fired past Moroccan goalkeeper Bunou from close range. Morocco’s team has been behind 0-1 in a match for the first time in this World Cup.
30th minute
Half an hour has passed in the match between France and Morocco. France’s team is ahead 1-0 till 30 minutes. Morocco looking for their first goal. He has had three shots on goal so far. One of them has been on target. If Morocco want to equalize, they will have to step up their attack.
Half time
On the first half of the game Defending champions France was leading 1-0. Morocco made a tremendous comeback after conceding a goal in the fifth minute. They had made frequent attacks against France. However, they had not got success. Morocco have had five shots on goal so far, with two on target. At the same time, France made two shots on target in nine. The Moroccan team is ahead in ball possession. After that the possession has been 56 per cent. At the same time, Morocco has passed 261 and France has passed 204.
Second half
Embappe’s shoe broke in the 57th minute. Because of this the shoes had to be changed.
In the 52nd minute, Sofyan Amrabat of Morocco collided with the star player of France, Killian Embappé. Embappe got hurt in this and he was treated on the field itself. Then Embappé came down to play the match again.
In the 66th minute, France made Olivier Giraud sit out. In his place, Thuram was called as a substitute.
Morocco took two substitutes in the 67th minute. He made Youssef N Nesri and Bufal sit outside. Hamdullah and Aboukhlal were fielded in their place.
France scored their 2nd goal
In the 79th minute, France scored the second goal and pushed the Moroccan team completely on the backfoot. This goal was scored by Randal Kolo Muani. With this, France took a 2-0 lead in the match.
Full time
In the second half, the Moroccan team looked very aggressive, but could not take advantage of it. France broke the dream of the Moroccan team by scoring the second goal. The same score remained in full time and then in extra time as well and France won the match and entered the final.
France vs Morocco man of the match
Antoine Griezmann named man of the match for his influencing performance.
Match stats
| France | Morocco | |
| 14 | Shots | 13 |
| 3 | Shots on target | 3 |
| 38% | Possession | 62% |
| 364 | Passes | 572 |
| 80% | Pass accuracy | 86% |
| 10 | Fouls | 11 |
| 0 | Yellow cards | 1 |
| 0 | Red cards | 0 |
| 4 | Offsides | 3 |
| 2 | Corners | 3 |
Starting 11 of France vs Morocco match
France squad: Hugo Lloris (c), Jules Conde, Raphael Varane, Theo Hernandez, Aurelien Tchoumeni, Youssouf Fofana, Ibrahima Konate, Ousmane Dembele, Antoine Griezmann, Kylian Mbappé and Olivier Giroud.
Morocco squad: Yassine Bounou, Achraf Hakimi, Jawad El Yamiq, Nayef Aguerd, Noussair Mazraoui, Azzedine Ounahi, Sofyan Amrabat, Hakim Ziyech, Youssef El Nesyri, Romain Saiss (c) and Sofiane Boufal.
