Spain vs Morocco

The Moroccan national anthem is both played lustily by the band playing it (presumably on record) and the fans and players in the stadium.

It’s a moment of maximum tension, a time to show your nerve and that you can shoot the penalty in the way you have decided, if you have trained it a thousand times. It falls to Morocco, one of the best supported teams in Qatar, to add an element of the unfamiliar to the quarter-finals. It’s going to be a very difficult game against one of the best teams in the world, they’re among the top favourites. Azpilicueta has not recovered from a thigh injury suffered in Spain’s last game against Japan, and Luis Enrique opted for Llorente ahead of Dani Carvajal, who struggled a bit with the Japanese. Real Madrid and his family gave all the papers required showing he was born in a hospital in Madrid, that he studied here, that he spent all his life growing up here. The Moroccan national anthem is both played lustily by the band playing it (presumably on record) and the fans and players in the stadium. Torres gets the ball out wide, makes a dart into the box and then runs into traffic. In the good old days, of course, there would be the Band of the Coldstream Guards (or local equivalent) churning out a nearly unrecognisable version of some unfortunate visiting team’s anthem, to the amusement of the away fans. Rodri has to head the ball back out and it comes to Boufal, and that’s a free header…missed. Boufal speeds on and a cross from Mazraoui tests Simon in the air. To the consternation of the hosts, the team marched off when the Yugoslav national anthem was played. His reaction was great - stayed cool (if annoyed) and turned to the crowd and asked them reasonably to show a little respect.