Morocco Vs Portugal: High Mountain To Climb For Last African Standing In Qatar 

Moroccans may be used to the Atlas Mountains, but they have greater mountains to climb this evening as the 60^th of the projected 64 matches of the World Cup holds this evening.

Morocco, whose fans have increased here in Qatar over the last few days and have also been the ‘adopted’ team in the Arab World not have the covering and the adventages attendant to underrated teams.

Having defeated Spain on penalties to reach the FIFA World Cup quarter-finals for the first time, Morocco are seeking to become the competition’s first African semi-finalists as they take on Portugal, who racked up the round of 16’s biggest win in overwhelming Switzerland 6-1, Gonçalo Ramos becoming the FIFA World Cup 2022’s first hat-trick scorer on his first international start.

The teams have met twice before, both in decisive FIFA World Cup group matches.

Morocco were 3-1 winners at Mexico ’86, whereas it was Portugal who emerged victorious in 2018, Cristiano Ronaldo scoring an early header in a 1-0 victory for Fernando Santos’s side.