Oliseh backs Morocco to win Qatar World Cup

Nigerian football legend, Sunday Oliseh, has tipped Morocco to go all the way and win the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar on Sunday. The FIFA technical expert further described this tournament as the best tournament Africa has ever experienced after Morocco became the first-ever African nation to reach the semi-finals of a World Cup. […]

Nigerian football legend, Sunday Oliseh, has tipped Morocco to go all the way and win the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar on Sunday.

The FIFA technical expert further described this tournament as the best tournament Africa has ever experienced after Morocco became the first-ever African nation to reach the semi-finals of a World Cup.

Speaking ahead of Morocco’s semi-final clash against defending champions France, Oliseh called this the greatest tournament for his continent.

“This is the greatest tournament my continent has ever experienced, not only because we are experiencing for the first time an African and an Arab nation in the semi-finals. But because every African team that came here won one game at least.

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“My prayer is that Morocco wins the World Cup. I will party the whole night. They are compact. They have conceded only one goal and they counter effectively,” Oliseh said during a FIFA Study Group meeting held at Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha.

Morocco topped Group F, finishing ahead of Belgium, Croatia and Canada, to qualify for the knockout stages of the 2022 FIFA World Cup and further overcame 2010 champions Spain in the round of 16 stage, beating them 3-0 in a penalty shootout. The Atlas Lions then knocked out Cristiano Ronaldo’s Portugal in the quarter-finals, beating them 1-0.

The North African country has not conceded a goal from an opposition player in this World Cup, with the only goal against them coming through an own goal from Nayef Aguerd.