Analysis of a Football Match Situation

You were losing 2-0 until the 79th minute,

the referee was against you, of course.

Then you got the best goal of the tournament, of course.

And you saw

what happened before the second goal.

I mean, you saw what happened, you have his visualization of the scene,

that if any chance,

any chance

came to this man to do something,

he wouldn't hesitate.

This 2-0, in my personal view,

there is absolutely no way

you play as if you're going to extra time.

I feel, I feel,

there is no way, at the 79th minute,

that I would think

that I would go to extra time for any reason.

I mean, if there is a 1% chance, by football logic,

as a coach, I must prevent it.

How do I prevent it?

My friend, use up all your substitutions,

close the game down on them.

Messi wasn't even in the game,

what do you mean Messi played a legendary match?

And he went and got it...

What Messi?

Ten minutes,

close the game down.

Hossam,

or whoever,

anyone,

close down the center of the penalty area,

because they only attack from there,

and they only score goals from there,

and they don't know how to score goals from anywhere else.

They don't know how.

None of them shoots,

none of them knows how to do a one-two

and penetrate and go one-on-one.

No one-on-ones.

I mean, this whole drama

was over a few crosses.

Yasser loses focus, Mostafa clears.

At first,

then Yasser was on his own

and couldn't clear it.

I'm not getting into naming faults,

I'm speaking in plain Arabic.

So in the 79th minute, our handling of the match was technically poor.

The referee wronged us, made us suffer, and his standards weren't consistent.

But personally, sometimes I get tired of the slogans.

I mean, I'm tired of talking about Morocco in '98,

and I'm tired of talking about the many conspiracy theories that existed,

which are a reality that I believe in,

but we're tired of it, guys.

I mean, yesterday, was that the only thing we could do to come out as winners?

"No, I was wronged, and the world says I was wronged."

And if I see this man anywhere in the world, him or Infantino or anyone,

I have nothing but bad feelings towards him.

Very well.

But you had a perfect opportunity.

You raised the bar for everyone coming after you,

and made the benchmark the round of 16.

I agree with all of that,

but an opportunity like this...

Opportunities come once in a lifetime. Oh Lord, do they come every time?

But you know, we are here today in the quarter-finals.

And then Salah,

someone whose decisions are all excellent,

someone who played with great passion.

You do just like the first half,

where the players go and press where the ball is,

from where the crosses are sent.

That's it.

Nothing else is required of you.

I mean, nothing else in the world is required.

And whoever comes on, comes on to play.

So if Marmoush had come on instead of Salah, for example, and Ziko had gone off, and you brought on...

an extra player like Hossam Abdel-Meguid, for example, so you would have three in the heart of...

the defense, and you have three in midfield: Mohanad, Marwan, and Hamdi...

to isolate... I can't really criticize this much because in the end, what happened wasn't...

expected, but I'm sad because I felt that nothing was closer than this

to take you to the next stage.