Two days after their elimination in the semi-finals of the World Cup, the Moroccan selection has not yet digested the defeat against France. The Royal Moroccan Football Federation lodged an appeal to protest against the refereeing during the match.
With our correspondent in Rabat, Victor Mauriat
It is on two specific actions that the Federation bases itself to justify its request to the authorities of world football.
The first is a clash in the surface between the French Théo Hernandez and the Moroccan Sofiane Boufal, an action on which the Moroccan winger is sanctioned with a yellow card. But for the Royal Federation, the fault should have been whistled against the Frenchman, thus giving a penalty to the Atlas Lions.
A few minutes later, a second clash took place in the French surface, this time between Aurélien Tchouaméni and Selim Amallah. The Moroccans denounce a tackle committed by the French player not whistled by the referee, and there again they believe that they should have benefited from a penalty.
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A vain complaint
Since Wednesday 14, these two actions have been the subject of much debate in Morocco. If the FMRF speaks of “flagrant penalties”, the debates are less settled among the supporters who believe that the arbitration of the Mexican César Ramos was rather lax overall, very few faults having been whistled throughout the match.
The Federation claims to want to defend the interests of Moroccan football with this claim, but it has little chance of succeeding because the result of the match can no longer evolve.
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