Morocco boss Regragui: "Keep statistics for Europeans!"
Against all of the odds, Morocco became the first African team to play in the World Cup semi-finals this winter as they will face France on Wednesday. Facing a lot of criticism over their defensive style of play, Walid Regragui insists he doesn't care about statistics.
Beating Belgium, Spain, and Portugal to reach Qatar 2022 semi-finals,
Morocco
has often faced criticism for its defensive style of play. However, their head coach
Walid Regragui
offers no apologies.
“
A lot of Europeans have criticized our style of play but that is because they don’t like to see an African team play cleverly,"
he said at a press conference. "
They think African teams used to be fun but get knocked out. But those days are over now. There isn’t just one way of winning.
“Look at France against England, they didn’t create 40 opportunities, they were just effective. I don’t really care about expected goals or possession. We had 0.01 percent chance of winning the World Cup at the outset, now we have 0.03 but we are going to try and destroy statistics.”
Morocco will face
France
on Wednesday on the semi-finals of the Qatar 2022.
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