MoroccovsFrance
MAR 0/FRA 2
Things to say
France beat Morocco 2-0 at Gillette Stadium to move on.
01
opener
France handled Morocco 2-nil. Never really in doubt once they settled. Clean sheet, job done.
02
key player
Dembélé was the difference. Four shots, kept driving at them all night. Morocco had no answer for him.
03
hot take
Scoreline flatters France a bit. Bounou made six saves back there, or that's four or five easy.
04
deep cut
Rabiot quietly ran the middle. Nine defensive interventions, just breaking everything up before it started.
05
exit
Big test coming next round though. We'll see if that back line holds against someone who actually shoots.
The recap
France handled Morocco 2-nil at Gillette and never really looked troubled, controlling the game and pressing when they needed to. Dembélé led the line and kept peppering the goal, and while Bounou stood on his head with six saves to keep it respectable, Morocco simply couldn't muster anything going forward with a single shot all night.
Maignan barely broke a sweat for his clean sheet at the other end. Comfortable stuff from France, and a bit of a paddling for a Morocco side that never got out of second gear.