The second semi-final of this year's World Cup brings us a duel between one of the favorites to win and the team that showed the most consistent play throughout the tournament, France, and the team that won the hearts of all neutral fans around the world, Morocco. These two teams reached this stage of the competition in a completely different way, and as in all games so far, two completely different approaches to the game should be expected in this one. France has a fantastic offensive part of the team and they constantly attack and are very dangerous, while Morocco primarily relies on an incredibly well-organized defense and looking for chances after free kicks or quick counterattacks. Despite numerous injuries to very important players, France still has a team to respect. In the absence of the great Benzema, Giroud came to the fore. According to various information coming from France, many players are also satisfied that Benzema is not in the team, because some stories can be heard that his behavior is disrupting the atmosphere in the team. In order not to waste time on these non-football stories, we will turn to the game that France showed at this World Cup. They passed the group relatively easily, not counting the loss against Tunisia, who played in a mixed lineup and it was a game that had no significance for the French. In the first elimination game, they had Poland as a rival, which was not a difficult task for them and they won very easily with 3-1. In the match with England, France showed a very good game in which the English were not allowed a large number of possible chances. The defense of the French will not be under such a test today, because Morocco is much weaker than England in the offensive part of the game and they are simply not a team that can prevent the very well organized defense of the French through coordinated actions. I expect that France will try to organize most of its attacks through the great Mbappe, who will not have an easy task because he will be guarded by clubmate Hakimi, who can match his speed to a certain extent, and I must say that he has very good defensive qualities. If there is no success on that side, France can transfer the ball to the other side, where Dembele can have a slightly easier task in the form of Mazraoui, who is somewhat weaker defensively compared to Hakimi. One of the key players, who doesn't stand out that much, but does a great job for France, is Griezmann. In the match against England, he had two assists, and in addition, he was noticed in every part of the field and equally participates in the defense of his goal as well as in creating chances for his team. Certainly no team lacks motivation in such matches, but despite the highly motivated Morocco, I think that the quality possessed by the French players will still be a much more important aspect of this game and that it will turn the tide in favor of the French.

As was the case in all previous elimination matches, Morocco will enter this match with the desire to defend, without too much desire for risky exits into the opponent's half. I don't want to diminish the quality that both Spain and Portugal certainly possess, at this moment I think that France is by far the most serious rival that Morocco will face. They will be under enormous pressure from the French attack and their physical fitness must be above 100% if they want to defend themselves. Like Morocco, Croatia played these games as defensively as possible, and what we could see yesterday in the match between Croatia and Argentina, can happen to Morocco as well. A moment of inattention in the middle of the pitch or a bad defensive placement that the French can use to take the lead will force Morocco to play more offensively, which will automatically leave the fast French players more space to create dangerous attacks. Morocco also has a fantastic goalkeeper in their ranks, who have a very good height for that position and it is very difficult to overcome him, but I believe that the French have players who will be able to solve even that last obstacle in the defensive wall of the Moroccans.