Electronic Science – Hisham Al-Draydi / d. struggle
In an unexpected scenario, the Moroccan women’s national team failed to secure a ticket to the 2024 Paris Olympics, after its shocking loss with a disappointing performance to the Zambian national team, returning from afar, with two clean goals in the return match that brought them together on Tuesday night, April 9, at the Crown Prince Stadium. Moulay Hassan in the capital, Rabat.
This loss comes at home, after the Atlas Lionesses achieved victory in the first leg last Friday in Zambian territory, seizing the lead outside the rules by two goals to one.
The match started modestly from the Moroccan side, as the players missed a number of opportunities, and the defense line committed fatal errors, one of which gave the guest team the advantage, after scoring the first goal during the last breaths of the first half of the decisive match.
After the Moroccan fans, who filled the stadium’s stands, waited for a change in performance, the Zambian national team showed a strong desire to win, matched by a complete absence of scoring efficiency, despite many attempts made by the Moroccan national team’s attack line, in which the focus of the players was outside the coverage.
As the minutes passed, Al-Jaradi’s companions entered a spiral of disorientation, and the conflict was resolved in a draw with two goals for their equal from the aggregate of the two matches, so that the two teams decided to go to extra time, which smiled at the brass bullets, when the referee of the match blew her deadly whistle, announcing the draft of the second goal for the Zambian women by awarding a penalty kick, which the Zambian player translated into… A goal that ended the dreams of a national team that had only 110 minutes earlier placed its right foot on the plane heading to Paris in the summer of 2024.