Spain beat Morocco 2-1 and will decide the title of Paris 2024 against the host France, executioner of Argentina, who in turn suffered and managed to beat Egypt 3-1, but needed extra time to defeat the worthy African team, which was eight minutes away from silencing Lyon.
The Pharaohs took the lead early in the second half with a great collective play finished by Mahmoud Saber, but Jean-Philippe Mateta equalised in the 82nd minute.
And in the 30th minute of extra time, Crystal Palace’s striker got his second goal, as Michael Olise finally completed the 3-1 scoreline and sent Thierry Henry’s Les Bleus through to the decider.
Spain also suffered, but it passed
Earlier, at the Stade Velodrome in Marseille, a penalty converted by Soufiane Rahimi had put the North Africans ahead, but in the second half Spain turned the game around with goals from Fermín López and Juanlu Sánchez, the latter five minutes from the end.
But the Olympic Games continue to offer unusual moments in every sport. Uzbek referee Ilgiz Tantashev, who officiated France-Argentina, was taken off the field and suffered an injury to his right ankle that took him off the field after just 12 minutes.
However, Morocco took centre stage again after the controversial invasion in the match against Javier Mascherano’s U-23s in the group stage.
A Moroccan fan ran onto the pitch to make the crowd celebrate, grabbed the ball and scored the goal that his country failed to score. It happened in the sixth minute of added time, 30 seconds from the final whistle, when the fan did not waste his chance to fulfil a dream and took the ball from outside the area so that the whole stadium could shout the goal, as a consolation for the final elimination.
2024-08-06 03:01:00
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