Ilias Akhomach: Spain is biting its fingers

The Moroccan team will play its semi-final of the Paris Olympic Games, this Monday, August 5 at the Stade de Vélodrome in Marseille against Spain. Already beaten at the World Cup by the senior team, does the latter fear the Atlas Lions, especially Ilias Akhomach?

For the first time in its history, Morocco qualified for the quarter-finals of the World Cup in Qatar on December 6, 2022, by eliminating Spain on penalties (0/0 3 on penalties to 0). Two years after the 2022 World Cup, Moroccan and Spanish players will face each other again on Monday, August 5 at the Stade de Vélodrome in Marseille in the semi-final of the Paris Olympics football tournament. A decisive match that could end in penalty shootouts. A few hours before the match, the coach of the Spanish men’s national football team, Santi Denia, seems to fear that Morocco will win. “Training for penalty shootouts, I know it’s a debate, I think it’s very difficult. (…) Anyone who has ever taken a penalty knows what it’s like to be in the semi-final or the final. You have to be psychologically ready to take a penalty. “It’s more psychological than physical,” he said at a press conference on Sunday.