Portugal vs Morocco World Cup Prediction
After a draw on the opening day against Spain, Portugal are a very confident team to continue to add to this group.
From the day of the draw it was known that the Portuguese need to beat Iran and Morocco to reach first place in the round of 16.
This reality has not changed. Before the African set, will have a complex challenge but, possibly, more to the measure of the qualities of the Portuguese team.
Morocco lost on the opening day and perhaps it was the team that fed more contradictory reads about their showing.
After 20 minutes of enormous offensive aggression, which made the Moroccans one of the teams with more thirst to reach the goal in this edition of the World Cup, the spaces provided by the fragile organization of the team of Hervé Renard began to come to the top.
Since then, the team has been losing cohesion, often departed and, to the individual initiatives of its creatives, have not been added good decisions, neither in finalization nor in construction. A problem that Renard will feel more evident when he has to face a stronger team, as will be the case with Portugal.
Fernando Santos is expected to make some changes to this game, thinking of being a team with more possession, while Morocco will align with the same pitch, this time being a team with more needs for precaution.
Still, after having lost the first game in the rebates, some anxiety on the Moroccan side will be there to score.
Portugal vs Morocco Prediction
To Portugal, this context seems to please, since stronger, with more solutions and more confident, the Portuguese approach this game with the focus on taking advantage of the opponents’ mistakes.
João Mário and André Silva should be in the eleven starter, to give the team greater presence in the last third, while Cristiano Ronaldo, even in an eventual context of three central and some kind of almost individual marking, will look for the possibility of scoring more goals.
Prediction of the Day: Portugal
Odds: 1.66
