After a fierce 123 minutes of game time at the Education City Stadium in Qatar, Morocco did the impossible to defeat 2010 World Cup winners Spain 3-0 on penalties.
In a fabulous performance, Morocco goalkeeper, Yassine Bounou saved all three penalties from the Spanish side.
Morocco for the first time advance to the a World Cup quarter final
Achraf Hakimi – ice in his veins. He’s booked Morocco a place in the quarter-finals of the World Cup with the deftest of penalties. Little dink down the centre of the goal. He and his team-mates bowing in front of the fans who’ve been magnificent all night.
They cheered every kick. The noise at full-time as loud as for that winning spot-kick. Africa will have a team in the last eight.
Morocco is in the quarter-finals for the first time ever. Only the fourth African team to reach that stage after Cameroon in 1990, Senegal in 2002 and Ghana in 2010.
None of those three made it further.
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