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MANCHESTER UNITED star Donny van de Beek reckons former team-mate Hakim Ziyech looks like a random DARTS player. The Dutch midfielder trolled his ex-Ajax colleague with a cheeky post on Instagram during the international break. Van de Beek posted a picture of a darts player to his Instagram story and wrote with a laughing emoji: "Hakim Ziyech [is]…

DOHA, Qatar: Morocco goalkeeper Yassine Bounou leaned back in his chair, shook his head and said: "Pinch me, I'm dreaming." Yes, Morocco really are in the World Cup semifinals. Before arriving in Qatar, the north African nation had only ever won two of its previous 16 matches at the World Cup. The team's coach had been in position for just four…

Will it be Croatian redemption, a picture-perfect end for Lionel Messi and Argentina, a Moroccan miracle or back-to-back for Les Bleus? We're down to the final four at the Qatar World Cup and Sunday's final is already looming large. Here, Sportsmail's DAVID COVERDALE casts his eye over the semi-finalists to see how they all compare. ARGENTINA -…

Can red-hot Portugal find a way past Yassine Bounou and Morocco when the World Cup quarterfinals hit Qatar on Saturday? Match 60 of the tournament will see Bounou riding high after stopping three of four penalties faced in the Round of 16 versus Spain, but Portugal won't be thinking about going more than 90 minutes after scoring a half-dozen goals…

Opening match winners Brazil and Switzerland meet Monday at Stadium 974 in Doha. FIFA world No. 1 Brazil broke through pesky Serbia for a 2-0 win In Lusail to start the tournament as Richarlison scored two goals - one a ridiculous bit of technique - to get the Brazilians off on the right (and left) foot. Switzerland meanwhile used a 1-0 defeat of…

Tournament dark horses Senegal will have to do their dark-horsing without Sadio Mane when they meet the Netherlands in a tasty World Cup Group A match on Monday in Al Khor. Mane requires surgery after suffering an injury with club Bayern Munich, leaving Kalidou Koulibaly, Idrissa Gana Gueye, and Senegal to seek a knockout round berth without the…

Three months before the finals in Qatar, the Moroccan FA took the decision to replace Vahid Halilhodzic with Walid Regragui after months of tension between the former manager and star player, Hakim Ziyech. In part, that change looks to be paying off. Unbeaten in their last four games, Ziyech is stepping up to the plate, while Achraf Hakimi and…

For Belgium and Croatia, the 2022 FIFA World Cup is the last chance for their golden generations to deliver glory, while Canada and Morocco enter the scene as underdogs and are ready to show that they can cause trouble for the two powerhouses. Croatia were runners-up in 2018, losing to France 4-2 in Moscow, and Belgium won the third-place playoff -…

All eyes are now on the World Cup for Morocco after they completed their warm-up matches with a goalless draw with Paraguay in Spain. Morocco will have to bypass tournament giants Croatia and Belgium, who came second and third in Russia 2018, to have a hope of progressing out of Group G. They go into the tournament as the 22nd-ranked team in the…

Group F of the FIFA World Cup 2022 is a very tough draw which has teams such as Morocco, Croatia, Canada, and Belgium. Thibaut Courtois, a club teammate to Luka Modrić, will be opponents, and Canada will try to get past the difficult group to improve its tournament record. Belgium is no longer the world's finest footballing nation, despite spending…