Morocco’s World Cup Hero Taarabt Criticizes Team’s Tactics and Coach Regragui

At the outset, Adel Taarabt, in a live with the specialized Twitter account Soccer 212, hailed the brilliant run of the Moroccan team at the 2022 World Cup, which became the first African and Arab nation to reach the semi-finals of the competition. "With this World Cup, they proved everyone wrong. The whole world no longer sees Morocco the same way. The guys, they gave it their all." Then, he criticized the playing style of the Atlas Lions and their coach, Walid Regragui. In his eyes, their playing style is too restrictive. "It was practically playing with a bus. You were waiting for a counterattack. I didn’t see a dominant Moroccan team," analyzes the one who was not selected for the last World Cup.

Taarabt acknowledges that they were (very well) organized, that they did an exceptional job, but he "thinks they can play much more." "Hakimi, I’d like to see him play like at PSG when he bursts forward, takes the whole flank. At the World Cup, he was practically playing as a right-back," regretted the 33-year-old player playing for Al-Nasr in the United Arab Emirates.

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The one who last appeared for the national team on June 2, 2022, in a friendly match lost in the United States (3-0), under the management of coach Vahid Halilhodzic, does not despair of the national team. "Within a year, a year and a half, I think Morocco will play much better again. [...] I think you can have more of an identity. When you see the match against Spain, it was