Gab Marcotti
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Podcast Appearances
You talk as if it was obvious.
but going into the tournament, Morocco were heavy favorites.
All right, let's go now to the incidents for which this is going to be remembered.
People will focus on the walk-off.
I want to start before with Ismail Assar's disallowable.
Okay, so in the context to this, Morocco closely aligned with FIFA.
They're getting the 2030 World Cup.
There were complaints from Cameroon and Nigeria, who Morocco beat in the quarterfinals and semifinals, semifinals on penalties.
So this was the context.
So there's already, and we always get this in tournaments, right?
There's always conspiracy.
They're favoring the host nation, blah, blah.
This happens everywhere in the world.
This goal gets disallowed because...
The referee sees a foul on Abdulai Seca on Hakimi.
He blows the whistle straight away.
The ball then goes into the net.
Because he blew the whistle straight away, VAR can't review it.
And you and I know this.
We've seen incidents of this.