Roberto Martinez, the coach of Belgium, talked about the difficult victory that the team achieved at the expense of Canada 1-0, in the match that was held between them on Wednesday evening at the “Ahmed bin Ali Al-Maldalia” stadium, in the first round of the sixth round of the 2022 World Cup. Currently established in Qatar and will continue until the eighteenth of next December, with the participation of 32 teams from various continents.
“It was a difficult match, we must be realistic, we did not play well, the Canadians were better than what they did, they knew very well what they wanted to do, they played very directly, and very quickly,” Roberto Martinez said in statements to the Belgian network “HLN”. .
Roberto Martinez stressed: “I am happy that we won anyway, because we believe in that.
We won on the basis of talent and experience, thanks to our experience and thanks to the quality of the goalkeeper of Marmana Courtois, we kept in the match with this confrontation. ”
“This victory is actually more important than winning good play, we had only 5 days for the tournament, and some major countries have already lost. ”
“By winning, you can grow, it is clear that the performance is not good, but if you are still able to win, you can build on it,” said Roberto Martinez.
Belgium against Canada
Belgium leads the ranking table of the sixth group of the 2022 World Cup with 3 points collected from the only victory and goal and maintaining its score free of goals.
The Croatia team booked second in the Group F table with a negative tie against Morocco, which divided the meeting points in the match that was held between them at the beginning of Wednesday in the current World Cup.
While Canada is in the last Group VIly table of the 2022 World Cup with zero points after the defeat against Belgium.
According to Opta International, Canada tried to pay 12 times in the first 32 minutes, more than any of its three matches in the 1986 World Cup, achieving a distinctive offensive number in the current tournament.
Thibaut Courtois tackled a penalty kick in the 11th minute, wasted by Alfonso Davis, as he became the first goalkeeper to save a penalty for Belgium in the World Cup since the global “Opta” network specialized in football statistics and numbers got this data in (1966).
On the level of historical confrontations, the two teams met before in one match, which ended with Belgium’s 2-0 victory, making today the second meeting between them.
Belgium is marketing in a large difference from its Canadian rival, as the first value of 563 million euros, compared to 187 million in favor of Canadians.
The Belgian international, Kevin de Bruyne, is the English player of Manchester City, the list of the most expensive players in the match by 80 million euros, while Bayern Munich player Alfonso Davis is in the most expensive players in the Canada squad by 70 million..
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