Morocco vs Angola: missed chance ?

: 01/20/13

Otman Affaya

Washington / Morocco Board News-- Morocco is a rebuilding process after the Gerets era. But at start of the African tournament, they had chance to top their group, following a draw between the country host South Africa and Cape Verde. However, they squandered a great chance, they did give the opponent too much respect.

They dominated the first half in possession, chances, set pieces that they did not know how to take advantage of. The defensive tactic approach of the team was not needed; defending deep while the ball was in the opponent 's half just incited the opponent to attack. Angola did not cause any threat at that time.
The second half of the game shifted to The Angolan team, the good news is that Morroco did not concede any goal regardless of Angola's pressure attack and chances created.
Morocco should have lost the game and no other team in the group collected any points, so we are back to the starting line. The bad news is that Morocco should have taken its chances and closed the game on the first half.

The team needs to attack quicker in transition, the rhythm of the player when they get the ball was better in the first half , They suddenly became slow and sloppy in the second half. The team needs to learn to attack quickly, and to try to engineer penetration, not shooting from outside the box. Free kicks, corners, need more work and practice for players to sync and take advantage of set pieces.
During possession of the ball in midfield there is no shifting of the players and take the ball from side to side. Wingers used the line to attack more than drifting to the center and delivering the ball. Work is still needed to be done to rectify those fundamentals of play.
The revelation of the match to me was Achchakir. A promising player. Morocco's need to do better in the creative side collectively and individually...

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+1 #1 RE: Morocco vs Angola: what a chance missed? — Qnitri 2013-01-21 11:37

Thanks for the analysis!

For how long are we going to be rebuilding when we can't even beat a weak Angolan team? as a matter of fact, we should count our blessing we did not lose.
As I said in my previous posts, we simply do not have good enough players as we used to and also Africa has developed its soccer because most of their national team players play in Europe.

Morocco no longer has the luxury of playing inexperienced local African teams. In order to fix this embarrassment, Morocco needs to start from scratch and starts grooming very young local players are they do in Barcelona.
Taking shortcuts and hoping millionaire6BB1 0P18199781 players will bring you the trophy is wishful and lazy thinking.

I watched the other game and they will probably beat Cape Verde because they were nonexistent against south Africa, still that does not make them a team that we have grown to love.

I am excited to watch Tunisia-Algeria tomorrow , that's more promising game.

And may the best men win!

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+1 #2 Replay — Affayao 2013-01-22 09:56

Dear Qnitri you need to know that Spain or Barcelona success started taking off in late 80s early 90s thanks to Johan Cruyff philosophy known as total football. Barcelona adopted that philosophy and started winning Europeans trophies, their first one was 1991-1992 in extra time versus Sampdoria, and then it took them two years to win the second one during Ronaldhino time. For Spain they waited half century to be crown the World Cup Champion for 2010 in South Africa. It took a lot of work, a lot of change mentality to get the right formula for success. In took them thirteen out of nineteen FIFA World Cup participation, and nine out fourteen Europeans championships to get where they are,meanwhile Morocco's national football team participated four times in the FIFA World Cup, and fifteen out of twenty nine in Africa Cup. Not too bad about half expect we won only once in 1976, so for the last fifteen years we missed the tournament only once. In conclusion for Spain they needed 15-16 years to start collecting the fruit of their work. Morocco might need double that amount. I totally agree with you we need strong youth academy of football in Morocco, but in the past only the clubs and street tournament was the pipeline for talent in Morocco. Now we do have Mohammed VI academia of football, Barcelona, Arsenal football schools in Morocco with the objective to challenge Africans and Europeans schools and scout for little Moroccan gem in football. Let’s just give them few years then we will see what happened hopefully they will help push Moroccan football to the front, but it will take years. Remember it takes years to change a traditional, slow, reactive and corruptible mentality in all facet before we start producing special, out of ordinary, winning players like Spain. As an African proverb quote “It takes a village to raise a child.”

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